Henry Blodget. Photo: SAI
This has been busy season for celebrity iPhone switching -- and I'm not talking about Britney, Ashton or Branjelina. No, these are tech celebrities, the kind of people who tend to dominate Techmeme's list of the most-influential pundits and bloggers.
Om Malik, the New Delhi-born founder and executive editor of GigaOm (No. 17 on the Techmeme Leaderboard), kicked things off back in February when he announced that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 31, 2009 10:02 AM ET
The video-sharing site loses money and has failed to attract quality studio programming. So why does Google continue to pump money into it?
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley (left) and product manager Salar Kamangar
You would think Google's executive triumvirate -- CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page -- would be worried about YouTube. Almost three years after they forked over $1.65 billion in stock to acquire the video-sharing MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jul 31, 2009 8:22 AM ET
Alec Baldwin promotes Hulu in traditional TV spots.
Startups Joost and Veoh try to retool while network-backed Hulu cruises.The Web video shakeout has begun. Hulu, a venture of NBC, ABC, and Fox, is growing nicely, aided in part by a slick marketing campaign using, of all things, television ads starring Alec Baldwin. But a slew of smaller sites are starting to reformulate their strategies in the hope of surviving.
Joost, which MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jul 30, 2009 12:18 PM ET
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said two months ago that Microsoft would have to cough up "boatloads of money" to get Yahoo's search business. In the end, it took nothing of the sort.
Apparently, all Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer had to do was let Yahoo (YHOO) take the lead in selling search to premium advertisers, and promise to supply Microsoft's Bing search technology on the cheap. Under the terms of a MORE
Jon Fortt - Jul 30, 2009 10:44 AM ET
Even with Yahoo deal Microsoft will continue to struggle -- and lose money -- online.
The anti-climactic deal of the year is now out. Long after the sizzle faded from Microsoft's (MSFT) failed $40-billion-plus bid for Yahoo (YHOO), the two companies announced Wednesday they'll do what sympathetic observers urged them to do two years ago. They'll stop competing on search and search-advertising technology, enabling them to combine forces against Google. MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Jul 30, 2009 10:34 AM ET
Map: CIA Factbook
Despite heavy advertising and early black market interest, Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is an expensive flop in Russia, according to a reportposted Thursday by Svetlana Gladkova.
Gladkova, Russian editor of the tech blog Profy.com, writes that Russia's three major carriers cut a deal with Apple last year that requires them to sell a total of 3.5 million iPhones over a period of two to three years.
But in the first MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 30, 2009 10:30 AM ET
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Jon Fortt - Jul 30, 2009 9:10 AM ET
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pose for the cameras after doing a search deal. Image: Yahoo
Soon after Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) announced their search deal on July 29, I spoke with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about the market's negative reaction, the benefit to the bottom line, implications for affiliates, and comparisons to Google's (GOOG) much-maligned ad deal with AOL (TWX). MORE
Jon Fortt - Jul 30, 2009 8:30 AM ET
Ive and Jobs. Photo: TMZ.com
The celebrity gossip site TMZ.com has posted what it claims is an iPhone snapshot of Steve Jobs leaving Apple's (AAPL) Cupertino, Calif., campus Wednesday afternoon with Jonathan Ive, senior vice president for industrial design.
That would make it the first photograph of Apple's CEO published since his last public appearance nine months ago -- at the unveiling of the aluminum unibody MacBooks in the company's Town MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 30, 2009 3:19 AM ET
In a note to clients issued Wednesday morning, Kaufman Bros.'s Shaw Wu reported on some interesting trends from his latest iPhone supply chain checks:
Expensive iPhones -- especially the $299 3GS -- are doing better than expected in a tough macroeconomic climate. "Customers," he writes, "have surprisingly opted for higher-end models where they are willing to pay a premium for a faster processor, video recording, more storage, voice control, and other MORE
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