Google's Move Into Music and TV Will Draw Antitrust Troubles
Google plans to move into music and television by Christmas. But these new business opportunities will create big anti-trust problems.
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HP Hunts Former CEO Hurd To Hurt Oracle Over Hire
HP sues former CEO mark Hurd, but this is about more than a CEO fired from one company landing at a competitor. Tech businesses find it necessary to turn on long-established partners.
RIM Shows Smartphone Success Might Be the Riches of Niches
RIM pushes to become indispensable to corporate users as a (large) niche strategy and a way of surviving the smartphone wars between Google and Apple.
Craigslist Shows that High Tech Is an Easy Regulatory Scapegoat
Governments are looking at many companies in high tech because they see a safe way to battle "evil" and promote themselves for office, and a way to bring in revenue.
Apple Ping Has an Unambitious Strategy: Like MySpace, Only Worse
Contrary to popular perception, Ping wasn't meant to be a social network. Instead, Apple wanted to direct customers to the most popular music choices. It's a bad strategy.
Oracle Hires Mark Hurd. Will Ellison Regret This?
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has rescued his old friend Mark Hurd, dumped by HP, by making him a co-president of his own company. But the move is a mistake.
HP's Land Grab of 3PAR Is a Big Strategic Loss
HP may have snatched storage vendor 3PAR from Dell, but only at the cost of spending way too much for far too little.
Apple Ping Can't Overcome the Facebook Zing
Apple failed to nail down a deal with Facebook to integrated its new Ping service with the world's largest social network. Don't expect things to change unless Apple backs down on what it wants.
Apple Takes on the Entertainment and Media Industries
Apple is pushing to expand and, as much as possible, control media sales. Sure, Steve Jobs is thinking of himself and his company, but maybe his approach is right.
Sony's Cloud-Based Music Service Shows What iTunes 10 Could Have Been
During the Apple music keynote hubbub, rival Sony (SNE) quietly announced Qriocity, a cloud-based subscription music service that will cross all Sony platforms. Atrocious name aside, Qriocity shows how safe Apple played it with music -- and what iTunes 10 could have been.
Why Apple and Facebook Will Make Peace Over Ping
Apple and Facebook are fighting over integration on iTunes new social service, Ping. But with so much at stake for both companies, expect them to make up soon.
Twitter Does What It Must, and That Pisses Off the Privacy World
Twitter needs to make money, and monitoring who clicks on which may offer hope. But it's tactic fraught with privacy land mines for the company.
The Steve Jobs Reality Show: Time To Dissect Numbers from Apple's Event
At the Apple music and TV event, Steve Jobs mentioned a lot of numbers. Here's some context and a look at what they meant -- and didn't mean.
Facebook Madden: No Longer the Gamechanger EA Expected It to Be
Electronic Arts finally launched its major franchise John Madden Football on Facebook, but it won't be the gamechanger many critics, including myself, assumed it would be.
Technology Export Controls Set to Loosen -- the Question Is When
Many high tech companies have been at a disadvantage in international trade because of U.S. export restrictions. There may be change on the horizon, but don't book your ship yet.
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