In what I must admit is a shocking turn of events, the Associated Press has moved beyond attacking Google and others it has branded as content “thieves” to embrace a page from its opponents’ playbook.
“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.
He dances. He romances operating systems. He crushes iPhones (not really).
And, it turns out, he speaks the language of love.
Steve Ballmer charmed a crowd of executives and government ministers in Issy-Lex-Moulineaux, France, Tuesday, with a 10-minute speech in their language, the Associated Press reported.
So, the latest theory seems to be that Comcast is in talks to buy 20-50 percent of NBC Universal, the TV/movie studio/cable/theme park company owned 80 percent by General Electric and 20 percent by Vivendi.
People who “get the web” will explain to you that the economics of the web have everything to do with linking and getting linked to.
Arnon Mishkin says he has found the fallacy of the link economy but I think his argument is itself built on some fallacies, among them:
Yesterday we revealed plans by The Associated Press to hold back some content from member websites.
Ryan Tracy thought he’d entered the Dark Ages when he graduated college and arrived in the working world.
For the business traveler (and the traveler in general, really), Wi-Fi is important–crucial, even.
As Mark Gimein noted last week in The Big Money, the media giants have put the Web’s journalistic “parasites”–blogs, aggregators, Google–on notice that they will no longer allow them to pinch their copy without reimbursement.
The Associated Press said yesterday that it will more aggressively police its content online, a move seen as a possible precursor to newspapers pushing Google and other popular Web aggregators to pay directly for news stories. In Google’s public-policy blog, a company attorney today defended the search giant’s stance on content from the AP, a cooperative owned by newspapers.
GoDaddy’s famously risque Super Bowl ads always pull lots of eyeballs, but the company’s latest spots may have resulted in a little too much attention of the wrong kind. Entrepreneur Brian Harrell, who manages hosting services for dozens of Christian churches and faith-based organizations and uses GoDaddy to host over 160 domains, says he’s pulled several of his clients off of GoDaddy’s servers after receiving numerous complaints about the company’s racy ads that aired during Sunday’s game.
Have things gotten that bad in the solar industry? Something has prompted Germany’s SolarWorld to state its intention of offering one billion Euros to acquire four production plants and one headquarters currently owned and operated by the Opel division of General Motors. The goal? To create Europe’s first “green” car company and–presumably–sell enough electric and hybrid cars to offset the dismal margins of the company’s core solar business. One would think there’d be other fish to fry.
The stock market is getting whacked today by a Commerce Department report that shows retail sales were down 1.2 percent in September, the biggest decline in three years. The AP notes that retail sales have fallen for three straight months–the first time that has occurred since the government began tracking the measure in 1992.
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