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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Take on Silicon Valley Wannabes

Jessica E. Vascellaro

Eric Schmidt is brimming with Bay Area pride.

In the 33 years that the Google CEO has lived in the Bay Area, Schmidt says he has watched a long list of regions try–and fail–to create technology capitals of Silicon Valley’s scale.

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

How Far Will Google Wave Go?

Dan Woods

Google Wave, the Internet giant’s new online collaboration tool, has generated much buzz among developers, and now it has a large geeky fan following doing strange and relatively useless things.

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Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model

Bill Gurley

I like to think of myself as an aficionado of business disruption.

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Monday, November 2, 2009

App Watch: A Matchmaker in a Sea of Apps

Andrew LaVallee

One of the frequently heard complaints about iPhone applications is that with more than 85,000 options, finding good ones can be tricky and time-consuming. Could the answer be yet another app?

Envio Networks on Tuesday is launching Chorus, a free app that shows users the ones their friends are trying out and suggests ones that might interest them. The Andover, Mass.-based company, which has received funding from Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, specializes in social-networking technology and saw the Apple device as a good showcase for what it can do.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

After Net Neutrality, Will We Need “Google Neutrality”?

Nate Anderson

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mounted a recent push to turn network neutrality “principles” into official regulations–and in doing so has stirred up the net neutrality hornet’s nest once again.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Facebook Helps Developers Plan Ahead

Jessica E. Vascellaro

Facebook Wednesday threw its software developers a bone, releasing a “roadmap” of forthcoming features to help them plan their products. They include new ways for software applications, like games, to messages Facebook users when their friends want to play Scrabble, for instance.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Lifting the Veil on Pricing for Health Care

Anna Wilde Mathews

It’s long been hard for health-care consumers to learn how much doctor visits or hospital stays will cost them. That’s now beginning to change, as a growing array of Web sites try to lift the veil on pricing.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

People’s Daily Site Accuses Google of “Malicious Revenge”

Sky Canaves

Google has seen its fair share of troubles in China, from having its flagship search engine blocked to being scolded for peddling pornography. Last week, the Chinese Written Works Copyright Society accused the company of infringing the rights of Chinese authors through its Google Books project.

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Crowdsourcing Your Candy This Halloween

Geoffrey A. Fowler

Geeks and ghouls rejoice: the Internet has come up with a way to boost your Halloween haul.

The folks at Zillow.com have created their first Trick or Treat Housing Index, which draws on the site’s real estate data to determine the top-five neighborhoods in Seattle and Los Angeles to maximize candy intake this Saturday.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Google Says It Will Limit Call Blocking

Amy Schatz

Google Inc. said it will limit the number of phone numbers its Internet phone service blocks, in a partial bow to federal regulators’ concerns that it was skirting rules designed to ensure that consumers phone calls are connected seamlessly.

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Swap Yahoo! for Google

Tiernan Ray

YAHOO! is using every power at its disposal to improve its fortunes.

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Google Founder: A “Shame” That Yahoo Abandoned Search

Jessica Hodgson

Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Thursday that he believes it’s a “shame” that Yahoo had decreased its focus on Internet search, through its recently announced partnership with Microsoft.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Google on Search: Size Doesn’t Matter That Much

Michael Learmonth

You didn’t think Google was going to take the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal lying down, did you?

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Why Email No Longer Rules…

Jessica E. Vascellaro

Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold–services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world.

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What the Associated Press Is saying to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo

Zachary M. Seward

“I’m not saying Google’s an enemy, all right?” the chief executive of The Associated Press, Tom Curley, was telling a few people in Hong Kong on Tuesday.

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