Google Already Making Microsoft Mistakes It Wants To Avoid
Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants to avoid repeating Microsoft's mistakes. Bad news, Eric: you already did.
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Skype Saga Turns Out To Be Clever Negotiation
For some time it's been clear that eBay needed to dump Skype, the VoIP service for which it paid $2.75 billion in an acquisition that made no sense then and seemed even crazier as time went on. So little surprise when eBay announced a deal in September. But there was a fly in the ointment: the origi...
Jobs CEO of Decade Says Fortune: Give Me a Break
I can understand why people on balance admire Steve Jobs as a CEO. I can understand why Fortune might want to feature Jobs and Apple as a winning combination to feature. But CEO of the entire decade? Oh, please.
Microsoft Announces More Layoffs as October Tech Job Cuts Take Huge Leap
The monthly Challenger, Gray & Christmas numbers on announced job cuts are in. Although in general cuts dropped by 16 percent, high tech fared far worse as Microsoft plans additional layoffs past the 5,000 anticipated earlier this year.
Intel Antitrust Chickens Home to Roost, Though Not Completely Fairly
It's been tough for Intel (INTL) on the governance and compliance front as New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday filed an antitrust lawsuit against the company. The topic is kickbacks rebates that the chip maker provided to Dell -- to the tune of $6 billion over 5 years. But is the criticism fair?
How to Disrupt Microsoft
Microsoft has been the notorious personal computing powerhouse for decades and often the target of Those Who Would Dethrone the King. Speculation on how has become a popular sport over the years, but the plans have never been successful, except in niche areas. Yet it would be possible -- if companies could achieve a certain number of objectives, because coming up with an equivalent mouse trap ain't gonna do it.
Gresham's Law of the Web: Crap Content Quashes Quality
Last week, Daniel Roth at Wired wrote about Demand Media, a company that has created what is essentially the first content factory. There is a large issue at hand. Demand, and other companies that want to emulate it, are creating the Internet's implementation of the economic theory that bad money drives out good. And the ones who will pay the price are most who depend on the Internet as a source of information and marketing.
Google Drains Brains To Google Ventures
Joe Kraus move from Google Sites to Google Venture is a way for Google to fight an ongoing brain drain to rivals like Facebook.
Tech Law: FairPoint Files, Apple Sued, DOJ to Investigate Optical Drive Industry, More
FairPoint files Chapter 11; DOJ to investigate antitrust in optical drive industry; Apple sued three times, but AT&T only once; and spammer told to pay Facebook $711 million.
PC Industry Excited Over Old, Boring All-In-One PCs
Is the moon full? Have the planets aligned? Are we once again seeing the rebirth of that tech innovation, the Deflated Megaproduct? You've seen it before. In the 1980s, it was Office Automation that was going to drive all paper from business. In the early 90s, Pen Computing would be the new design for user interfaces, as we'd all drop keyboards to rush for styli. And with Microsoft in full Windows 7.0 swing, hardware manufacturers and some analysts have apparently come up with the Next New Old Thing: all-in-one PCs.
Apple Will Drop AT&T Exclusive. It Has To.
Many have been predicting that Apple would end its exclusive deal North American deal with AT&T for selling the iPhone in the near future. And although that could have some financial repercussions, the company has no choice.
Nokia Should Dump U.S. Smartphone Business, Sell Netbooks Instead
The Nokia N900 is more a computer with cell phone capabilities than a smartphone.
Yahoo's Bartz: When Things Are Bleak, Build a Monument
There are times that ego can drive greatness in a company because someone at the helm simply can't stand to be second best. And then there is the corporate ego that leads into pretty silly undertakings -- like Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz planning a massive new campus.
Microsoft, Apple, Others Smack Themselves with Sunk Costs, Bad Decisions
Just as it killed off its Money product this last summer, Microsoft is now putting the axe to Office Accounting. It only took, what, four years for this to happen? That's certainly better than the decade for Money. But it's far better than some decisions to keep marching because of all a company has...
Pay for Content Is Not Suicide, It's Experimentation
In the last couple of weeks, a number of media companies have all declared their readiness to make people pay for what they get. The wagging fingers predicting dire consequences don't seem to get the business issues in play, because they treat every decision as though it had life-or-death finality. But it doesn't, because this is business as it should be: experimental and practical.
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