The Truth Behind Facebook's Android Apathy
Google's "open Web" push will disenfranchise Android developers of all sizes.
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Google Tries To Prove Its Economic Value, but Fails
Google tries to charm regulators, the public, and potential advertisers through a report and estimate that the company provides a $54 billion economic benefit to the country. Some short analysis makes the number seem like wishful thinking.
MasterCard's Risky Gamble To Entice App Developers
MasterCard is gambling that the rewards of opening up to outside developers outweigh the risks.
Microsoft Reorganizes the Wrong Part of Its Organization
Microsoft hopes that a reorganization of its entertinament and devices division will ignite mobile success. It's wrong because it's changing the wrong group.
Blindsided: Adobe Gaming Deal Shows the True Cost of Apple's Control Freak Needs
Apple (APPL) head Steve Jobs may consider Flash an inefficient software, but independent video game developers have been using it as a low-cost way to create and distribute in-browser titles. Adobe's (ADBE) new agreement with major Flash gaming hub Kongregate underlines the size of the audience Appl...
Facebook's Rich Valuation Based On E-Payments That May Never Come
Is Facebook's valuation based on an e-payments service that can't succeed?
In Google Versus Apple, the FTC Makes Microsoft a Clear Winner
The FTC increasingly sees Google and Apple as counterbalancing forces. That gives Microsoft more room to maneuver unhindered.
How Google is Taking on iTunes in the Cloud
The race is on to give users access to their entire music collections online. Apple's (APPL) shutdown of Lala this month was a precursor to a cloud-based iTunes. Then last week Google (GOOG) announced it will launch its own online music service. Details about both projects remain sketchy, because bo...
Facebook: The Six-Year-Old Fuddy Duddy
Facebook may be a young company, but when it comes to agile strategic planning and execution, it is stiff, unyielding, and ultimately self-damaging. Without learning a more adaptive strategic approach, Facebook could wind up flat on its code base.
Don't Count on 3D Gimmicks to Revive Video-Game Sales
Corporations are 3D crazy in Hollywood and TV Land -- and now also in the video-game industry. Nintendo (NTO) has its upcoming portable 3DS system, Sony (SNE) included 3D support in its latest PlayStation 3 software update, and now one of the leading third-party companies is claiming that half of al...
Content Mill Demand Media Expands Its Reach -- To More Newspapers! [Exclusive]
Demand Media has expanded its move into traditional newspapers with a publicly unannounced deal to provide articles and video to web sites owned by Hearst's San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle.
Google's Pac-Man Homage Shows the Power of Old Tech
Google understands the power of low tech and how it can work for a cutting-edge company. Just look at how it used an homage to the 30-year-old video game Pac-Man.
Microsoft's Well-Timed Entry into Smart TV May Herald a Turnaround
Microsoft may have timed its entry into home theater uncharacteristically well.
Facebook and MySpace Are Begging Congress to Regulate Them on Privacy
In yet another privacy fiasco, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites have been delivering user identities to advertisers, even when they claim not to. These companies are putting all businesses that use online advertising onto the fast tract for regulation.
How Google's A-Team Will Finally Make Web TV Work
The marriage of television and the Internet has been a dream in the technology industry since 1996, when WebTV first appeared. But to date no one has combined the intelligence of the net with the sublime stupidity of television in a way that broke through to the mass market. The introduction of Go...
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