Archive for August, 2006
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Fascinating. eBay does a deal with Google for international advertising, plus click-to-call services through Skype. This, only months after eBay announced a broad strategic partnership with Yahoo!, which is still in place.
The leading Web-based companies are developing the co-opetition matrix for the next phase of the Internet economy. ...
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Two of the most exciting technology companies these days are Amazon.com and Sun. They're interesting because they've identified an impending sea-change in the computing landscape, and positioned themselves to take advantage of it. That makes Wall Street and the public skeptical. They much prefer a narrow focus ...
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Steve Rubel perceptively points out a risk factor in the burgeoning Web 2.0 economy: Startups are depending on advertising from other startups. As he notes, this was one cause of the dotcom crash in 2001. When one set of startups failed, the impact cascaded onto other companies ...
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Sony Pictures is buying Grouper for $65 million in cash. This should open the floodgates for online video sharing startup acquisitions, following similar patterns in social networking and Web-based office productivity tools.
Google and Yahoo! will be acquirers in this area, but as the Grouper deal shows, so will traditional ...
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
At the Progress and Freedom Foundation annual conference, FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras asserted that her agency has the authority to address discriminatory actions by broadband providers. The implication was that Congress and the FCC need not adopt new rules to protect network neutrality. Majoras' remarks were clearly ...
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
JP Rangaswami: "I've said before that it's all about Trust. Now I think it's more than that, it's also all about Losing Control. Gracefully."
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