Monday, May 18, 2009
Tick, Tick, Tick
The Observer’s John Koblin reports that the NY Times is considering putting a meter on usage of its site and charging once you’ve read too much.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Computers Are the Only Worthwhile Asset Banks Have Left
Every cloud has a silver lining. Ask the cybersquatters. Even as the short-selling vultures began circling Lehman Brothers, HBOS, Merrill Lynch and company, a legion of entrepreneurs began betting on domain names for hastily merged financial institutions.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Google, 10 Years In: Big Friendly Giant or a Greedy Goliath?
Ten years ago next month, in an innocuous suburban garage, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two geeky students at Stanford University, founded a company called Google. They would go on to create what is regularly voted the world’s top brand, earn accolades as the world’s best employers and become billionaires many times over. They would [...]
Monday, August 18, 2008
If You Thought the Internet Was Cool, Wait Until It Goes Space Age
The Internet is still very young. It was only November 1977 when a group of computer scientists successfully connected three networks around the world, including one at University College London.
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