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- Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisition
- Microsoft said Friday that it will acquire Greenfield Online, which owns Ciao, a price comparison, shopping and reviews site in Europe, for $17.50 a share, or $486 million. The goal: Expand Live Search in Europe. Greenfield Online, which also owns an Internet survey business, will be split...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Salesforce quarter on target
- Salesforce quarter on targetIs Salesforce.com the new ADP ... or the next Datapoint?This headline recently appeared in several places across the Web:"Salesforce.com Passes $1 Billion Annual Revenue Mark"THIS IS NOT TRUE. I don't know whether this material misstatement arose from media manipulation or an honest mistake, but it's genesis...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-24
- Highest-paid US public company executives
- Highest-paid US public company executivesHas what to do with the price of peas in China?This is not tech news. Any of us that want to know this can read Forbes or look this up ourselves on sec dot gov. Get going on some actual tech journalism, please!RE: Highest-paid...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- SEC introduces IDEA
- Earlier today, Christopher Cox, SEC chairman introduced IDEA - Interactive Data and Electronic Applications, an XBRL framework for surfacing information used by investors. In prepared remarks, Cox said: "It will be faster, cheaper, better [than EDGAR.] Better data analysis will have a positive impact on the market as a whole....
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- More info on USB 3.0 emerges
- More info on USB 3.0 emerges4.8Gbps Huh?Not too shabby, now only if I can think of a consumer computer peripheral that can utilize that speed. With the other bottle necks in data storage devices such as hard drives I think there is a need to improve those data...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Scratch that. Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives
- Scratch that. Windows Server 2008 R2 still livesWhaaa?!? Win7 != NT 7?If Windows 7 is not based off of NT kernel 7 then why call it 7 in the first place?WinNT = kernel 4Win2k = kernel 5WinXP = kernel 5.1WinVista = kernel 6Win7 = kernel 6.1?No way.If we remember the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?
- Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Apple's former counsel settles with SEC
- Apple's former counsel settles with SECAnother classic example of the broken justice system that favors the rich..Apple executives were actively involved in theft and fraud any they are not going to prison. Who says crime does not pay? What is the lesson learned for other white collar criminals? Commit...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Apple's former counsel settles with SEC
- Nancy R. Heinen, the former general counsel of Apple and considered by some to be the sacrificial lamb in the company's options backdating scandal, has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Without admission or denial of the SEC's accusations, Heinen has agreed to a fine of $2.2 million. In...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- JDA acquires i2: Oh how the world has changed
- Catching up on other news, I see that i2, one of the dot bomb mavens has succumbed to acquisition pressure at a 12.5% premium to its share price. JDA is the lucky (or is it plucky?) acquirer of this once fascinating supply chain/demand planning provider, scooping up i2 for $346...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- The Future of the Web
- The semantic web can be quite a hard concept to grasp when discussed in an abstract way: the above video is a particularly useful, clear exposition of the enormous promise and power the future of knowledge sharing holds. Parallax, a novel browsing interface designed by David Huynh...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Google: Our AOL investment is 'impaired'
- Google in an SEC filing on Thursday said that its $1 billion investment in AOL is "impaired." That's short hand for saying Google bought a lemon. In 2005, Google bought a $1 billion stake in AOL, which was good for 5 percent of the company. Google invested...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Cisco Telepresence: Coming to a home near you (someday)
- Cisco Telepresence: Coming to a home near you somedayActually, it's rather easyA home telepresence system needs four things: A big, bidirectional pipe, a transceiver, an HD camera, and an HD display. Many homes now have an HD display, and a cable internet connection has a high-speed pipe one-way....
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Motorola names Qualcomm alum mobile CEO
- Motorola on Monday named Sanjay Jha CEO of its mobile handset division, which is in the process of being split from the rest of the company. Jha had been the chief operating officer of Qualcomm. He was responsible for overseeing Qualcomm's R&D and Flarion Technologies. Ahead of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Microsoft acknowledges the Apple threat in SEC filing
- Microsoft acknowledges the Apple threat in SEC filingAnd if Apple were honest...... they would mention Microsoft in their filing as their target market.Does this really justify its own dedicated post?I feel like there should've at least been some further information or analysis to go with it.....Just thinking aloud.Problems vs. OpportunityEvery...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-03
- Microsoft acknowledges the Apple threat in SEC filing
- In their mandatory 10-Q filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for 2008 Microsoft acknowledges Apple's success, but without mentioning them by name. A competing vertically-integrated model, in which a single firm controls both the software and hardware elements of a product, has been successful with certain consumer...
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- Schoolyard antics take Microhoo drama to new level
- Something doesn't smell quite right here. Techcrunch reports earlier today that Jonathan Miller, former AOL chief executive and one of the names that popped up as part of Team Icahn on the newly expanded Yahoo board, has been blocked from serving on that board by a non-compete...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
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