Presumably with a straight face Marshall Kirkpartrick over at Read/Write Web writes about Opera switching it's default search provider from Yahoo! to Google saying "Presumably there's some money changing hands."
Ya think? Search distribution is a big money game. Google pays $10 per box to Dell for pre-installing the Google Toolbar ...
My online penpal Allen Stern passes along the rumor that Fox Interactive Media is in discussions to buy the business networking behomoth LinkedIn. Bravo - I say. Linkedin would certainly offer a nice counter weight to the antics displayed within most MySpace profiles. And if identities online stay splintered (personal ...
Valleywag - one of my favorite daily tech reads (please owen start covering the scene here in seattle) - posts what I believe a lot of folks are wondering - is facebook the new microsoft? Facebook is following the Microsoft development platform playbook (as discussed here previously) with their F8 ...
Scoble's right in his feedback about the recent adhoc iPhoneDevCamp recently down in the bay area and the lack of support from Apple. Despite everything we've all grown to love to hate about Microsoft, if there is one it does right - it knows how to support independent developers. They always ...
Microsoft (Ticker: MSFT) announced that it was buying its Seattle neighbor aquantive (Ticker: AQNT) this morning for a whopping $6 billion!!!!! Aquantive is best known for its two main business units - Avenue A (media planning agency) and AtlasDMT (ad server). Congrats to all my friends who work their now ...
My friend Andy pens that Google owns the Internet in the same way Microsoft owned the PC in the 90's. I don't know if I agree that Google owns the Internet but it does currently own monetizing the Internet or at least until someone figures out how to monetize social ...
Hmmm advertisers are growing wary of Google's market position with the purchase of DoubleClick according to AdAge. Market concentration is a serious problem for competitors and customers and will be an important issue for the online ecosystem for at least the next 10 years. Whether Google plays nice or not ...
Fred Vogelstein's interview with Eric Schmidt presents an interesting story about classic DIY/NIH impulses that comes from engineers and developers - in this case Larry and Sergei desire to build a financial system themselves instead of buying one from Oracle. At every startup I have worked at this desire comes up. Developers ...
to all the apple maniacs out there who love to tout how bullet proof their os is, all i have to say now is - b.s. last night my shiny six week old macbook began crashing every time i tried to boot it up. all i got (and ...
