Google Is Publisher, Interest in Yelp Is Proof of Content Designs

Google is looking at Yelp because it is a media and publishing company that will continue to look for new content sources, no matter what it claims.

• Dec 18, 2009

HP EDS Acquisition Masks 2009 Troubles

HP (HPQ) released its 10-K late yesterday. And when you read between the lines of numbers, you see that the EDS acquisition last year effectively masked some significant business issues and trends for the company. The first trend is one that we've been looking at for some time: the switch from a pr...

• Dec 18, 2009

2010 Won't Be the Year Of the Mobile Phone, Either

At last week's San Francisco Music Tech conference, Motorola's Senior Director of Multimedia Dave Ulmer said "Every year we're here, and every year we say 'This is the year of the mobile'. And it hasn't been." Fresh off his company releasing the Droid, Ulmer stopped just short of say...

• Dec 17, 2009

IBM Acquisition of Lombardi Influenced by Cloud Strategy

IBM acquisition of Lombardi is all about its massive cloud computing strategy to move beyond commodity offerings and into value-added services.

• Dec 17, 2009

Microsoft Beats Google, Apple in Online Positive Mentions

An interactive marketing agency, Zeta Interactive, did an online study for Brandweek, looking at the brands mentioned most on Twitter and Facebook as well as in blogs. And the tech brands mentioned came in a bit differently than you might have expected -- except that the data also raises some questi...

• Dec 17, 2009

Apple Directors Top Pay Heap; Some Other Companies Pay Much, Get Little

Apple tops high tech in director pay, but some other companies pay far more compared to revenue

• Oct 14, 2010

Tech Law: Apple Sues Nokia, Google Gets Sued, User Sues Palm and Sprint Nextel, More

Netlist sues Google; Apple appeals patent suit loss to OPTi and countersues Nokia; FCC considers mandatory broadband pipe sharing; and a user sues Palm and Sprint Nextel.

• Dec 16, 2009

FTC Sues Intel, Another Antitrust Bomb

Intel sued for anticompetitive activity by the Federal Trade Commission, and the result will likely be painful and, ultimately, expensive in all sorts of ways.

• Dec 16, 2009

Amazon Readies an Embeddable iTunes

Recent announcements show that Amazon is essentially powering cloud-driven embeddable media delivery, whether as a download or through a streaming service.

• Dec 16, 2009

EC and Oracle Continue Tango

The dance between Oracle, which seems to badly want to buy Sun Microsystems, including its MySQL database (and, really, why else would it want the company), and the European Commission, which has appeared to be relatively hostile to the concept (largely over said MySQL), continues, with signs of mod...

• Dec 15, 2009

Craigslist-eBay Name Calling Goes On

Finger pointing in the eBay v. Craigslist suit continues.

• Dec 15, 2009

Asian Start-Up Charges Microsoft with Gross Theft [UPDATE]

Asian microblogging site Plurk claims that Microsoft stole its web design and code.

• Dec 15, 2009

Amazon Spot Market Critical Step for Cloud Computing

Much of the focus on cloud computing has been on the technology, who's offering it, and who's using it. But any time you look at new ways of doing business, you eventually get back to the perennial questions of how the business model works and what pricing will be. Amazon's (AMZN) announcement of sp...

• Dec 14, 2009

Recent Cisco Win Shows Power, Problems of Network-Centric Approach

The underlying technical concepts in Cisco's UCS product line are partly responsible for its slow acceptance by the market.

• Dec 14, 2009

Google Android Could Shake Carrier Business, Thanks To Apple

The new Google-sold Nexus One handset could fundamentally shift the balance of power in the wireless industry to hardware vendors and consumers, rocking the business of the carriers.

• Dec 14, 2009

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