Yahoo to Spend $3B on Stock Buy-Back -- and Management Is Nuts.
Yahoo wants to buy back $3 billion in stock when for years it's never had over $4 billion in cash and short-term investments. How crazy is that?
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Microsoft Kills the Kin and Won't Learn Anything Useful from It
Microsoft kills the Kin three-month-old social networking phone. It could learn some good lessons from the experience, but won't, because Microsoft doesn't want to change.
Why Microsoft's Kin Phone Was Destined To Fail
Microsoft's Kin phone was doomed to failure by bad pricing, poor features and lame marketing.
iPhone 4 Snafu Is the Latest Sign That Apple's Dysfunctional Customer Relations Will Be Its Downfall [Update]
Apple tries to pretend that there are no inherent iPhone 4 reception problems. That attitude is the company's Achilles' heel.
Dis-Kinect: Leaked Specs, Bad Strategy Show Microsoft Doesn't Know the XBox 360 Market Anymore
Microsoft (MSFT) was off to a great start with a nice XBox 360 Kinect showing at the E3 video game conference, but leaked specs and a contradictory strategy show that, come November, Microsoft may end up losing both the hardcore and the casual gamer. First, the leaked Kinect specs courtesy of Luke ...
Amidst Confusion Over Web Video, the Porn Industry Emerges as Canary in the Coalmine
Google's multi-pronged Web video strategy seems confused and inefficient compared to the agile movements of the porn industry.
Google Flash Internet Race Game Crashes Into a Brick Wall
Google celebrates adding Adobe Flash to its Chrome browser by hosting a Flash game that repeatedly crashes.
Microsoft Chases Apple iPad with a Tablet ... Due in 2012
Microsoft plans Windows for tablets, but not until 2012. Most of the features are available today on portable devices, so the company will put itself at the rear of the pack.
Strategy Flip Out: iPhone 4, Other Smartphones Are Going to Swallow the Flipcam Market
As point-and-shoot cameras fall to smartphones, the Apple (APPL) iPhone 4 and its brethren seem to be cannibalizing another category: the Flip cam. Cisco's (CSCO) popular brand is now synonymous with handheld video cameras (think Kleenex to tissue), but the increasingly powerful smartphones mean the...
Hulu Blows Its Chance at Paid Subscriptions
Hulu starts its long-awaited pay service and proves that old television attitudes can damage new television business models.
Windows 8: Microsoft's Strategy Still Wears Blinders
Leaked slides show Microsoft's thoughts about Windows 8, which is supposed to come out in 2012. But more important than the potential product features are the company's strategic assumptions, and some of them are corporate blinders.
Google and China Both Looking for a Way to Save Face and Stay Together
Google and China want to stay in business together, but neither can back down on censorship.
Dell's Refusal to Admit Hardware Problems Could Spell Big Trouble
Dell's famously tight supply chain left the company with little wiggle room when components went bad.
FaceTime Video Sex Services Put the Lie to Steve Jobs' "Virtuous" iPhone
Steve Jobs must be morally mortified. Less than a week after the Apple (APPL) iPhone 4 launch, there are already some FaceTime video-sex services on the horizon. Just over a month ago, Jobs said that, unlike the Google (GOOG) Android platform, the Apple infrastructure "protected" users from pornogra...
Supreme Court Says No to Bilski Decision, Yes to Software Patents
Software patents remain roughly as they did before after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Bilski case.
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