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Dell CEO Michael Dell mentioned the product lust mantra last year and has come back to it repeatedly in conference calls and analyst meetings. Dell's message: The company needs to improve design and inspire a few 'gotta have that' moments from technology buyers. How is Dell doing? Thereâ...
It had looked like Jerry Yang would at least get a few months to prove he could right the listing ship that is Yahoo. Perhaps it's days now. The issue: Can you really turn a company around when the talent is heading for the exits at a rapid clip? TechCrunch is reporting that executive VP Qi ...
Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney has high hopes for Google's prospects in display advertisingâ€"so much so that every 1 percent gain in the company's display ad market share will result in $200 million in additional revenue in 2009. All Google has to do now is figure out how to monetize YouTube. ...
HP will reportedly revamp its printing unit in an attempt to jump start growth. According to the Wall Street Journal, HP is looking to cut five printing divisions to three. The Idaho Statesman first reported the story. HP's plan is to make the printing unit more efficient and able to adapt t...
Aircell's Gogo, an airline Wi-Fi service, is about to go mainstream this summer and the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg gives it a good review. Why aren't I more enthusiastic? As Mossberg notes, people are about to become more productive on airplanes or lose their last refuge from the d...
Microsoft said Tuesday that it has acquired Navic Networks, which provides TV ad technologies. Navic, based in Waltham, Mass., has technology that manages campaigns, optimizes placement and delivers ads via interactive TV. In a nutshell, the acquisition of Navic gives Microsoft the ability to bun...
LinkedIn has raised another $53 million in venture capital to give the company a rough valuation of $1 billion.The social networking company said in a post that its latest round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, which joins Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Ventures. LinkedIn raised $2...
The world record download attempt for Firefox 3 is off to a rough start. Shortly after 1 p.m. EDT, 10 a.m. PDT (Mozilla's official launch time) I went to spreadfirefox.com and got the following: I'm sure Mozilla will fix this little glitch, but it's the equivalent of tripping out of ...
Another quarter and another hope that Adobe's Flash will someday make an appearance on Apple's iPhone. On Adobe's second quarter conference call, CEO Shantanu Narayen was asked about the 3G iPhone and whether Flash will be on the device. Here's what Narayen had to say following Adobe's ...
I'm having a bit of a Millennials moment. I'm sick of the coverage about Millennials, also known as Generation Y. Here's the story line: Generation Y will change the world as the first digital natives. They will change business practices and IT as we know it. You must adapt to Millennials. You...
Microsoft has $44 billion or so burning a hole in its pocket, but there's one little hitch: There are few companies that the software giant could buy to get scale quickly. Enter eBay. Enter speculation. Enter eBay as the acquisition target. Sure, eBay has opened up its platform to third party d...
So what's that water cooler conversation going to sound like at the Yahoo executive suite today? Probably something like this: Sue Decker: So Jerry how was your weekend? Jerry Yang: Not too bad. I didn't have to talk to Steve (Ballmer) so how bad could it have been. But I could have lived ...
Yahoo got its wish. Microsoft is no longer a possibility as a purchaser. The company improves short-term results by partnering on search with Google. Carl Icahn may give up on his proxy war. And the company lives to fight another dayâ€"or at least until Aug. 1 when shareholders unleash their collect...
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone shot down the concept of a paid model for the messaging service and reiterated that the company will get its infrastructure right. In an interview with Jennifer Leggio, our new addition to ZDNet, Stone dismissed the suggestion that Twitter use a pay model to bolster i...
Yahoo has made it official: It is teaming up with Google on search advertising, but the ripple effectsâ€"both short-term and long-termâ€"are just beginning. The two companies have announced a broad agreement where Yahoo uses Google's text advertising, but stops short of completely outsourcing s...
