The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post
Huffpo Editor: Facebook Doesn’t Pay You, So Why Should We?
Call it "3G" or "4G," America's Wireless Networks are Still Slow
The Untold Story of How My Dad Helped Invent the First Mac
Mind vs. Machine
The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
Search is Amazing Compared to 10 Years Ago at AltaVista
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
President Obama’s proposal to auction wireless spectrum currently held by TV broadcasters could bring in much more than than the $28 billion he said it would, a study by the wireless industry has found. Read More »
Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman and other directors you can’t see in Imax join the video service’s catalog. Read More »
The tablet isn’t yet a standard-issue sidearm in enterprise, as I noted here Monday. But it’s well on its way to becoming one, and company-subsidized tablets may outnumber their employee-owned counterparts sooner than expected. Read More »
HTC became the latest company to “friend” Facebook, showing off a pair of Android phones that have a button for connecting directly to the social network. It also used Mobile World Congress to show off its first tablet and other Android devices. Read More »
BoomTown is still cracking up over this video, another in the faux television talk show series on Funny or Die called “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.”
His genius of an unlikely pairing this outing: Reality star Tila Tequila and Jennifer Aniston. Read More »
Remember gigahertz? That speed measure for microprocessors has been all but banished from buyers’ minds in evaluating new PCs. But gigahertz emerged as a hot topic this week in Barcelona, where the mobile device world has converged for its annual trade show. Read More »
Monday, February 14, 2011
Android App Store GetJar Raises Another $25 Million in Funding
Independent mobile app store GetJar said on Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in series C funding from investors including current backers Tiger Global Management and Accel Partners. The San Mateo, Calif. company–which has been the source of 1.5 billion downloads so far for Google’s Android mobile operating system–said it will use the new money to expand sales, marketing and its engineering ranks.
While paying by mobile phone has been around for years–with consumers charging ringtones and other mobile content to their bill–it’s been only in the past few months that it has become viable for other expenses. Now, payments for physical goods are right around the corner. Read More »
Day one of the IBM “Jeopardy” challenge ends with a human player and the computer tied, and with some interesting wrong answers from the computer. Plus: “Final Jeopardy” author Stephen Baker fills us in with some first-hand details. Read More »
Thousands of people are descending on San Francisco this week to check out the latest in computer security at the RSA Conference, and among them will be angel investors and venture capitalists looking for their next deal. Read More »
TweetDeck investors are getting some cash, and a lot of equity, in their $30 million sale to UberMedia. So if Bill Gross can build a Zynga to Twitter’s Facebook, they’ll be in great shape. If not… Read More »
Blogger starts a blog. Blogger solicits photos or texts or emails. Blogger gets a book deal. That formula has been wildly successful for the last few years, but is showing signs of market saturation. Read More »
IBM’s Watson supercomputer didn’t win that much publicized practice game after all. A human did. This according to a draft of the final chapter of a forthcoming book on the matchup. Read More »
Apple was recently accused of ignoring hazardous and unhealthy conditions at its overseas suppliers, so the company’s 2011 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report arrives at a particularly apt time. Read More »
Zynga Revenues Soar to $850 Million in 2010
Zynga, which develops popular games on Facebook, like CityVille and Mafia Wars, is considering raising up to $250 million in new funding, the WSJ reports. That transaction could value the three-year-old start-up at between $7 billion and $9 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. But sources also say its financials are sound, with Zynga earning $400 million in profit on $850 million in revenues last year.
Video: BoomTown Talks AOL-HuffPo as Web’s Condé Nast on CNN
by Kara Swisher in BoomTown at 12:15 pm PT
Here is a video of a segment I did on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” yesterday morning–in the wee hours in San Francisco, hence the bags under my eyes–about last week’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL.
“Someone has to be the Condé Nast of the Internet,” I noted in answer to a question from host Howard Kurtz, since it has not been that famous magazine company which has become the big publishing dog online. Read More »
Trulia Preps for IPO With Appointment of New COO
Trulia would not elaborate on its public offering plans, but issued a statement today saying its management team is now IPO-ready. The company, which lists properties for rent and sale online and became profitable in September, has appointed Paul Levine as COO. Co-founder and former COO Sami Inkinen will assume the new role of president. Levine most recently held positions at Current TV and Yahoo.
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) Read More »
Hewlett-Packard to Acquire Data Analytics Firm Vertica
Hewlett-Packard said today it had reached an agreement to acquire Vertica, a privately held, real-time analytics platform company based in Billerica, Mass. HP said Vertica will enhance its capabilities in real-time business analytics for large and complex sets of data. HP expects the acquisition to close in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2011. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Several of the iFund’s companies have received verbal offers during a recent six-week stretch, says Kleiner Perkins partner Matt Murphy. And all of the companies have turned them down. Read More »
Earlier Posts
- RIM Buys Contact Manager Gist on NetworkEffect
- Bill Gross’s UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million From Accel, Index and Steve Case on BoomTown
- Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Says Company Needs to Unify Its Experience Across Devices on Mobilized
- Kleiner Perkins Invests in Facebook at $52 Billion Valuation on Voices
- Apple and Samsung Hammering Out $7.8 Billion Display Deal on Digital Daily
- Microsoft to Add Multitasking, Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone Later this Year on Mobilized
- Apple Gets a Grammy (Sort Of) on MediaMemo
- Rackspace Is Not for Sale, but Thanks for Asking on NewEnterprise
- Finding the Scale of the Rest of the World Lacking, Early Designer Rejoins Facebook on NetworkEffect
- Read All About It! But Don’t Watch–The Grammys Tune Out Online on MediaMemo
Dell’s Streak 7 Is No Bargain
Dell's Streak 7 is the least expensive tablet from a major manufacturer and claims to be the first capable of 4G cellular speeds, but the compromises made to get the price down make it impossible to recommend. Read More »
