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Apple and Adobe: Who needs whom?
Adobe has tipped its hand, and it now seems clear that it needs Apple's iPhone more than Apple (AAPL) needs Adobe's Flash. But it's not at all clear that Adobe (ADBE) will get the foothold on the device it seems to want so badly.
Two weeks ago Adobe turned the other cheek when Steve Jobs' publicly slighted Flash and Flash Lite, describing the first as "too slow to be useful" on MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 19, 2008 5:26 PM ET -
Alibaba wants to buy out Yahoo's shares
By Yi-Wyn Yen
Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet giant that is part-owned by Yahoo, is reportedly in advanced talks with investors to buy back the shares owned by Yahoo, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Concerns of a Microsoft (MSFT) takeover have prompted Alibaba to look for possible buyers as the company prepares to maintain its independence. While Alibaba is not pushing for a Microsoft sale, the company believes it can MORE
yiwyn - Mar 19, 2008 3:38 PM ET -
Google see rise in mobile web use
By Michal Lev-Ram
Long before it unveiled its Android operating platform, Google had its eye on the mobile market, an industry that reaches an estimated three billion people worldwide. The company's main strategy? Pushing search, maps and e-mail onto cell phones in the hope of becoming the leading source of information -- and ads -- on the tiny screen.
Now Google (GOOG) says its efforts to make mobile services faster and MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Mar 19, 2008 12:00 PM ET -
Why would Steve Jobs rent music on iTunes?
It's all the talk on tech and music blogs: The report in Wednesday's Financial Times that Apple (AAPL) is negotiating with the big music companies for a deal that would give customers free access to the entire iTunes music library. (link)
In exchange for what? There are several answers to that question in the FT account, and that's the problem.
In one model, customers would pay a premium -- up to $100 extra -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 19, 2008 11:33 AM ET -
Warner Music's new digital czar
By Paul Sloan
Michael Nash, a longtime digital music executive, takes over Warner Music's (WMG) digital division in June, reporting directly to CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. Since Bronfman and a group of private equity investors bought Warner Music from Time Warner (TWX) in 2004 for $2.6 billion, the company has made headway adapting to the digital marketplace. Digital sales accounted for 14% of the company's total revenues of $989 MORE
pjs21 - Mar 19, 2008 6:44 AM ETPosted in: Time Warner
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