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Back in 1997, Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he were running Apple. He answered:
And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could be done to fix the Mac maker. His solution was a drastic […]
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | May 11th
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I’m no developer, but from vantage point, Microsoft scores one today against Apple for embracing Adobe’s flash. In fact, if the game was football, this would be a touchdown. How so?
1- As Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt is lobbying that a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! would break the Web, Microsoft shows that it can embrace another […]
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Odd how a couple of stories fit together: from CNET’s Rafe Needleman
SoftTech venture capitalist Jeff Clavier is trying to convince start-up companies that their income, if it’s in the $300,000 a month range–a range that most companies made up of three guys and a credit-card funded Amazon S3 account would kill for–is “noise” that distracts […]
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Reading more and more about Yahoo!’s latest foray in video, I could not help but think about Google’s challenges at its YouTube unit.
I attended YouTube’s Videocracy shindig this week. Entering Terminal 5, I had no idea what to expect. I’ll spare all of the details; walking away from the event, however, I wondered:
Will […]
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From September 2006 to June 2007, Google ranged between $400 and $500 per share. Then, it took command of the psychological $500 threshold and then catapulted past $600 in September 2007 and $700 in October 2007!
That was crazy. It was driven by heightened analyst targets (and non-analyst targets alike).
Yesterday morning, after the Dow fell 400 […]
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We updated our Annual Internet company of the year list. The winner for 2007 was Facebook, who was both the editor’s and readers’ choice. Facebook joins the 13 other companies we had selected from 1994-2006, see the entire list.
Who will be the Web’s company of the year in 2008?
It depends on many […]
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Yesterday I read the following off Business Week:
Ten Likely Events in 2008:
Finally, Internet TV
For years, gearheads have dreamed of getting all that video from the Internet onto the big 52-inch screen in the den. But it’s a pain. Look for that to change in 2008. While Apple TV has been a dud, Steve Jobs & […]
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This question requires a far longer post and what not, but if you like nice, fat, juicy round numbers, it’s worth noting that as of today’s market close, the sum of Apple and Google’s market capitalization yielded $400 Billion.
With Apple flirting with $200 per share, that gave it a value of $175B, and Google came […]
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The late 1990s brought us Jeff Bezos, who pioneered a new e-commerce model and changed the dynamics of book sales for good. What Bezos failed to do, however, was change the dynamics of book publishing itself.
The 2000s brought us Steve Jobs (again), who pioneered music sales and changed the dynamics of the music industry for […]
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Regardless of what you think about Apple’s Steve Jobs dropping the price of an iPhone by $200 two months after its launch and two months before Christmas… the reaction by Nokia was swift and suggests what to expect from advertising in years to come.
TV, historically the best medium to reach the masses, is slow. Case […]
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