Deal for AdMob accelerates scramble for a whopping $416 million in revenue.
As was trumpeted across the Internet Monday, Google (GOOG) is buying mobile display advertising startup AdMob for $750 million in (increasingly) precious Google stock. Wall Street digested the news and sent Google stock up almost $11.
Citi analyst Mark Mahaney says the deal "makes sense, because Google is moving aggressively to take advantage of the strong growth opportunity in mobile, MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Nov 10, 2009 7:00 AM ET
A Mad Magazine cartoonist's guide to the 111th Congress runs afoul of Cupertino's censors
Illustration: Tom Richmond
UPDATE: Apple relented. App approved. See here.
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Someone at Apple (AAPL) needs to take a refresher course in American history -- and maybe a lesson in libel law.
Last summer Tom Richmond, one of Mad Magazine's top illustrators and two-time winner of the National Caricaturist Network's "Caricaturist of the Year" award, began drawing MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 10, 2009 6:46 AM ET
The videogame fans in your company are a valuable resource. Here's how to make sure they stay engaged.
By Ted Price, CEO, Insomniac Games
If you employ videogamers, and based on statistics you probably do, it's important to remember that gamers often respond to different motivators than non-gamers.
For those of you who have been in the business world far longer than I have, I apologize if the following seems too "been there, MORE
Nov 9, 2009 11:00 AM ET
How social networking can transform the CIO into a superhero
By Alan S. Cohen, vice president enterprise, Cisco
Workers unite! Cohen says social networks can empower employees. Photo: Cisco
I recently spent a few days with 100 of Cisco's (CSCO) top customers, Chief Information Officers (CIOs), representing a range of industries – private and public and geographies. These folks are often the unsung heroes of their organizations, enabling employees to perform great MORE
Nov 9, 2009 9:30 AM ET
Touch technology help non-tech industries improve business, efficiency, and their bottom lines.
The SMART Table brings touch to masses and classes. Photo: SmartTech
We all oohed and aahed when Apple's (AAPL) iPhone came out because of how cool it was, especially its multi-touch capability that let us flick through photos and "pinch" and expand photos and websites.
Now, with Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7 specially formatted for touch capabilities, and everyone from MORE
Kim Thai, contributor - Nov 9, 2009 6:02 AM ET
Despite a hasty fix to repair the last update, reports of problems continue to pour in
Photo: Apple Inc.
Only hours after Apple (AAPL) released version 3.0 of the software that runs its Apple TV set-top box, complaints began appearing on its online discussion boards -- the company's own early warning system for detecting major bugs.
By Saturday, Nov. 7, when Apple advised owners by e-mail to immediately update to version 3.01, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 8, 2009 6:50 AM ET
The opening of a retail store near the Louvre draws huge crowds in Paris
Photo: Fabio M. Zambelli, setteB.IT
Who says Parisians are blasé? Tout Paris, it seems, turned out Saturday morning for the opening of Apple's (AAPL) first retail outlet in France. The video posted below the fold shows lines of shoppers that stretched for blocks.
Planning for the store, located in the Carrousel du Louvre, an upscale shopping mall beneath MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 7, 2009 10:40 AM ET
A rare visit with the man who designed the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone
Jonathan Ive. From Gary Hustwit's "Objectified."
"I guess it's one of the curses of what you do," says Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior vice president for industrial design, "is that you are constantly looking at something and thinking 'Why why why is it like that? Why is it like that and not like this?'"
Ive's five-minute appearance in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 7, 2009 6:33 AM ET
Few people are more delighted that Skype cofounders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis finally settled their lawsuit with eBay (EBAY) on November 6 than Marc Andreessen. The venture capital firm he cofounded last summer is one of a group of investment outfits that will now take control of the Internet communications company in a planned $2 billion deal. I caught up with him just after the settlement was announced to MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Nov 6, 2009 1:18 PM ET
The Big Apple's newest Mac store is opening on the Upper West Side next Saturday
Source: Apple Inc.
Media invitations went out Friday for a press preview of the new Apple Store in Manhattan -- the city's fourth -- scheduled to be unveiled Saturday, Nov. 14.
The store, located on a nearly triangular site at Broadway and 67th Street, is well-positioned to get attention from the crowds and TV cameras heading MORE
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