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Google's Ad Partners Suffer As It Pursues An Apple-like Business, And Cuts...
Revenue growth for Google's ad partners slowed sharply for a second consecutive quarter as the search giant reported quarterly results that missed Wall Street estimates.[Please see full Q2 earnings...
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Are Tech Blogs Exempt From Journalism?!
Kevin Roose, writing in New York Magazine, defends "tech blogs" Techcrunch and PandoDaily from critics saying they should be considered "trade publications" instead of impartial publications.Let Tech...
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Amazon AWS - An Unbeatable Cloud Competitor?
When Amazon cuts prices on its cloud services everyone else follows – and sometimes their share price also gets cut.David Linthicum in his Cloud Computing column writes: The proof is in: Amazon fully...
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Shipping Giant Maersk Explains 'Every Company Is A Media Company'
Building the World's Largest Ship (in 76 seconds) from Maersk Line. Thanks go to Jeremiah Owyang at Altimeter Group, for pointing me to this excellent article by Jonathan Wichmann, Head of Social at...
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Silicon Valley Neighborhoods: Google's Free Food Hurting Local Businesses
Google is in the midst of a large expansion in Mountain View and much of North Bayshore – east of highway 101 is becoming one giant campus. It's developing a 1.1 million square foot campus at NASA...
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MG Siegler Tells Tech News Sites: 'Don't Write Something Because You Can'
MG Siegler, a former reporter with Techcrunch and now a partner at Google Ventures, is unhappy about the quality of tech news. He says that most of it – 75% is inaccurate and only 5% is right. And no...
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Bad Neighbor: Communities Living In The Shadow Of The Googleplex
I wanted to highlight this fact:Last week at a Commonwealth Club event, Todd Carlisle, Director of Staffing at Google said lavish work perks such as free food were not a factor in recruiting top...
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A Taxing Time For Google's Chairman As UK Tabloid Lists His 'Exotic Lovers'
Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, recently made a flip comment in the UK in response to news that the tech giant paid just $16m in taxes on $18.5 billion in UK revenues.Google's Eric Schmidt: change...
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Will Software Developers Be Able To Keep Moore's Law Alive?
I disagree with this article from Intel Free Press, here is my argument: Hardware Is King, Software Is A Spoilt Brat Grown Fat Suckling On The Teats Of Chip Industry Innovation. By Intel Free...
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Blueprints Reveal NSA's Utah Mega Storage Center Is Not Quite So Mega
Forbes obtained the blueprints (above) for the NSA's one million square foot data storage facility being build in Utah, and due to open in September.Kashmir Hill reports that experts have said it's...
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Amazon's Extraordinary Competitive Advantage As It Misses Q2 Earnings: It's...
Amazon [$AMZN] reported revenue up 22 per cent in its most recent quarter and a net loss of 2 cents a share compared with a profit of one cent a year ago. It missed Wall Street estimates of 5 cents...
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Cultivating A Smarter Crowd: Norwest's Startups Move Beyond Crowdsourcing
I recently attended an interesting media dinner hosted by VC firm Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and featuring three of its startups: ModCloth, Motif, and Quirky.NVP has done well lately, with the...
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'#SoMe - Who Killed Loren Feldman?' When Sock Puppets Roamed Free In Silicon...
From left: Loren Feldman with Mike Arrington, Loic LeMeur, and Robert Scoble during happier times - photo by Loic LeMeur."#SoMe" is video maker Loren Feldman's long, funny, witty, insightful, and...
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Google Glass And 3D Printers … Living In The Blended Reality Of The Future
It was great to catch up with Aarti Shah from The Holmes Report, and Matthew Greeley, CEO of BrightIdea. Matt had a great take on 3D printers. He pointed out that when the time between thinking...
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OMG! Omnicom And Publicis To Merge Into Global Ad Giant POG – Bad News For...
This is a huge deal, not only in size: $35 billion, but also in its impact on global markets; it topples Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP; and it's bad news for Silicon Valley companies such as Google [$GOOG]...
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Analysis: The Empire Strikes Back – Giant $35bn Omnicom, Publicis Merger Aims...
Foremski's Take: Yesterday's announcement of the Omnicom and Publicis $35bn merger to create the world's largest advertising company, is all about gaining the upper hand in the disruption of their...
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The Sweetly Toxic Center Of Silicon Valley
Superfund sites, Silicon Valley on DotspottingAlexis Madrigal, senior editor at The Atlantic, tried to find the center of Silicon Valley and compare it to what was there before. It starts off as a...
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Could Bill Gates Save Microsoft?
I watched Charlie Rose interviewing Bill Gates, on "60 Minutes" on Sunday, about his charity work, his war on diseases, his nuclear reactor, and his low cost toilet.It seemed that Charlie Rose forgot...
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10-Year Study Erases VC 'Smart Money' Claims
Marc Andreessen, Bill Maris, and John Doerr, are some of the smartest investors in tech, says Wired.The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Cambridge Associates recently released a study...
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Media Disruption Continues: New York Times Reports 2 Years Of Declining Print...
The New York Times Company [$NYT] reported second quarter 2013 earnings 48% below last year's quarter due to severance and other "special" items but digital paid subscriptions rose 40%.The full results...
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