By Sean Ryan
Chairman, Meez.com
So the inevitable “offers are scams” story finally blew on to the scene last week at the Virtual Goods Summit when TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington attacked OfferPal’s Anu Shukla for having misleading offers (e.g. sign up for Netflix, get 10,000 coinz) as a core part of her business.
By Don Dodge
Blogger, The Next Big Thing
Microsoft announced more layoffs today, and I was one of them.
By Leander Kahney
Blogger, Cult of Mac
Meet Ken Segall–the man who dreamed up the name “iMac” and wrote the famous Think Different campaign.
By William M. Bulkeley
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Is a computer with no disk drive and no applications software still a computer?
Litl LLC, a small Boston company, says its eponymous Litl device is the future of personal computing. Litl is a Web computer with a full keyboard and an operating system designed for people who use online software like Google Docs and store their photos on Flickr or Shutterfly.
By Tomio Geron
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Motley Fool Holdings Inc. this week announced it raised $25 million in venture financing. Good for The Fool.
But pulling back the curtain, there’s more than just a simple round of financing here. The deal points to creative ways in which venture firms are finding liquidity other than the standard acquisitions, IPOs and secondary sales.
By James T. Areddy and Ellen Zhu
Reporters, The Wall Street Journal
Walt Disney won’t make Shanghai the happiest place in the world.
That’s the early reaction from a surprising number of netizens, or Chinese Internet users, to confirmation early Wednesday that plans for Shanghai Disneyland have the green light to proceed. Of the posts streaming into tianya.cn, a major portal, early Wednesday, the negative views were solidly outweighing positive views.
By Jeffrey Zaslow
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
A 17-year-old boy, caught sending text messages in class, was recently sent to the vice principal’s office at Millwood High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The vice principal, Steve Gallagher, told the boy he needed to focus on the teacher, not his cellphone.
By Eric Savitz
Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily
Garmin this morning reported much better-than-expected Q3 results, giving an early lift to shares of the GPS device maker.
For the quarter, Garmin posted revenue of $781 million and non-GAAP EPS of $1.02 a share; the Street had expected $704 million and 69 cents. Revenue was down 10 percent year over year, but up 17 percent sequentially.
By Marisa Taylor
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Jack Dorsey, the chairman and co-founder of the popular microblogging service Twitter, shared far more than his site’s 140-character message limit when he offered himself up to a public psychoanalysis.
As part of an exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, Mr. Dorsey subjected himself to a Jungian analyst.
By Andrew LaVallee
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Peek, a New York mobile start-up, has begun selling TwitterPeek, a new device for posting and reading Twitter updates.
TwitterPeek became available on Amazon and Peek’s Web site Tuesday. Its $100 price includes a full keyboard, always-on tweet delivery and nationwide Internet coverage, plus six months of service.
By David Brooks
Columnist, New York Times
Since April 2007, New York magazine has posted online sex diaries.
By Colin Gibbs
Contributor, GigaOm
For those who thought its email-only device targeted too broad a market, Peek Inc. has gone even more niche–and more absurd–with the first mobile device dedicated entirely to Twitter.
By Dan Woods
Writer, Forbes.com
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.
By Mark Harris
Contributor, CNET UK
It’s the most expensive single thing ever built (£92bn and counting), the quickest manned vehicle in existence (17,300mph) and the staging point for future Moon and Mars missions.
By Bill Gurley
Partner, Benchmark Capital
I like to think of myself as an aficionado of business disruption.
By Andrew LaVallee
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Verizon Wireless’s “There’s a Map For That” ads are already a fading memory for those eyeing the newer Droid campaign, but AT&T hasn’t forgotten them.
By Juliet Ye
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
The turf battle between two Chinese bureaucracies appears to be escalating, with NetEase and the World of Warcraft videogame at its center.
According to a statement, China’s General Administration of Press and Publications said it rejected NetEase’s application to operate Burning Crusades, the latest version of World of Warcraft.
By Eric Savitz
Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily
So, the race to $0 book prices continues.
As the AP notes this morning, the fierce price cutting in the book business, which until now had focused largely on pre-orders, has now spread to current works: Amazon.com is offering both John Grisham’s short-story collection Ford County and Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel The Lacuna for $9 apiece.
By Yukari Iwatani Kane
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Activision Blizzard’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,” a first-person-shooter videogame, is coming out Nov. 10, and anticipation is mounting.
Specialty retailer GameStop has been taking pre-orders since last April, much earlier than most games.
By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Jessica E. Vascellaro
Reporters, The Wall Street Journal
EBay Inc.’s PayPal plans to unveil a new system that makes it easier for software developers to integrate the online payments system right into their programs–as the company takes new steps to protect its turf.
With the new open software, called Paypal X, users won’t have to type their username and password into a separate PayPal Web site in order to complete a payment.
By Martin LaMonica
Senior Editor, CNET
Wind farms aren’t just about putting steel into the ground. A start-up is carving a business out of getting better wind-speed data to predict electricity output.
... Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. We find that the extent of social isolation has hardly changed since 1985, contrary to concerns that the prevalence of severe isolation has tripled since then.”
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