Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The Intel-AMD Settlement: A Play-by-Play
It took a mediator–and a trip to Maui–to break the biggest logjam in landmark settlement talks between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Buying Twitter Followers?
I’ve been carrying out a small experiment in one of the areas of greatest potential abuse of social media: Twitter marketing.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
M-Commerce’s Big Moment
It’s never been easy making mobile-commerce predictions.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Intel Wants You to Age Gracefully, at Home
For three months early this year, 63-year-old Ronald Lang was one of the most plugged-in patients in America.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Apps Trump Tunes at Apple
As iPod sales ease, the company is focusing more and more on software–to the dismay of the record labels
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
BusinessWeek Attracts 93 Bidders
McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw said the company has received interest from 93 potential buyers for Business Week, Bloomberg reports.
In an interview on Bloomberg Television, he said interested parties include private equity, hedge funds and strategic buyers. “Everybody’s involved,” he said.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
A Dell Smartphone Would Face Big Hurdles
Dell CEO Michael Dell has done little to dispel rumors that his company is working on a mobile computing device. In fact, he all but confirmed them while traveling in Japan on March 24 when he said: “It is true that we are exploring smaller-screen devices.” What form those devices will take remains a matter of heated debate.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Palm’s Secret Weapon for the Pre
As recently as late 2008, Pandora Networks’ Chief Technology Officer Tom Conrad still had big doubts about the prospects for smartphone maker Palm. In November, Conrad was among a coterie of software developers invited to Palm headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., to take an early, up-close look at an operating system for use in the company’s phones. “I was totally skeptical when I walked in,” says Conrad, who met Palm execs along with representatives of MySpace, Intuit, movie site Fandango, and Epocrates, a maker of mobile software for physicians.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Why Hasn’t Digg Made Any Progress? It’s Worth Only $164 Million Now
Has news site Digg really made no progress in two years? That’s what you’d have to conclude from the value investors are placing on Digg after its most recent investment: $164 million.
Monday, July 21, 2008
On-Demand Computing: A Brutal Slog
The Internet revolutionized the distribution of software–perhaps a bit too much. The Web brought a new, cheaper method for getting software into the hands of users, but in doing so may have killed one of the best models in Silicon Valley history.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Obama’s Secret Digital Weapon
Since Sen. Barack Obama announced that he would forgo public financing for his presidential bid, even more is being made of his campaign’s prowess at raising record sums on the Web. Obama seems to have an almost magical ability to generate a spontaneous upwelling of political and financial support.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Trouble at eBay
“I think [fixed prices] will disappear online, simply because it is possible–cheap and easy–to vary prices online.” That was MIT Media Lab’s Patti Maes in 1999, at a time when eBay’s business was booming and auctions were seen as the future of ecommerce. Flash forward 9 years, and BusinessWeek is today calling online auctions a dying breed, Nick Carr is wondering if auctions were a fad. Indeed, the fixed price (”Buy it Now” only) format is beginning to dominate eBay, and the company has taken recent steps push fixed price even harder. But the death knell of the online auction format is not eBay’s biggest problem–no, that would be the small exodus of sellers from the site.
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