I had a small, Twitter-hosted dustup recently with Trevor Loy, a pleasant fellow who, when he is not Twittering, brings truth and justice to the world via the agency of venture capital. Loy was hot and bothered over some turn of events in Congress having to do with immigration policy. Many entrepreneurs are immigrants, you see. And because venture capital equals entrepreneurialism, the proposed congressional action might harm VCs, which, MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Dec 22, 2009 6:00 AM ET
Howard (right) and Prince (below) say online peace can only come when corporations achieve "cyberbalance." Photos: Perimeter
On the Internet, the good guys and the bad guys are inextricably connected. But what happens when one side gets the upper hand?
By Doug Howard, chief strategy officer, and Kevin Prince, chief technology officer, Perimeter E-Security
(The following is an edited excerpt of the forthcoming book, Security 2020, scheduled to be published next MORE
Dec 21, 2009 10:00 AM ET
Laughter and applause greet a dig at the iPhone on Saturday Night Live
SNL's Seth Meyers. Image: NBC
You know you've got a public relations problem when you're a punchline on SNL's Weekend Update.
The host, Seth Meyers, doesn't make a lot of Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL) and AT&T (T) jokes, but this one worked.
"It was reported this week that Google would soon launch its own cellphone as a challenge to the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 21, 2009 6:09 AM ET
To promote democracy, the United States is working to get Eastern Europe connected to the 'net. The results are more practical.
By Julia Ioffe, Contributor
When the village of Syn'kiv in Western Ukraine first got a computer with web access in 2003, the local priest encouraged people to come out for the grand opening of the library's Internet center. It had been paid for by the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, and MORE
Dec 21, 2009 6:00 AM ET
Jason Schwarz's "Seven Reasons the Shorts Love Apple" is an investor's must-read
Source: TheStreet
"If you can keep a good stock down," writes Jason Schwarz, "then you are able to load up for the ride back up. It's like a slingshot -- the harder you pull, the more propulsion you generate."
Schwarz, an investment analyst with a knack for self promotion -- through a newsletter, an e-book, and a new hardcover -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 20, 2009 6:41 AM ET
Lily Sussman is back from Egypt with the laptop that got "blown up" at the Israeli border
Photo: Lily Sussman
Three weeks ago, an American student working in Cairo was questioned for two hours at the Israeli border before security officials confiscated her Apple (AAPL) MacBook, called in a sapper, and shot it full of holes.
Lily Sussman, 21, told the story on her blog, where it drew more than a thousand MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 19, 2009 8:55 AM ET
Ma Bell's wireless network is still standing after Friday's grassroots iPhone attack
The appointed hour -- Friday, from 12 noon to 1 p.m. PST -- came and went and AT&T's (T) 3G cellular network had not been brought to its knees, despite the best efforts of thousands of Apple (AAPL) iPhone users.
"As far as I can tell, there's been no impact at all," wrote Dan Lyons in The Secret Diary of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 18, 2009 4:24 PM ET
By 35% a month lately, according to the ad requests pouring into AdMob's network
Click to enlarge. Other includes HTC Desire, Samsung Moment, Samsung Galaxy and HTC Tatoo. Source: AdMob.
"Traffic from Android devices has increased dramatically over the last year," according to a report issued Friday morning by AdMob, the world's largest purveyor of mobile ads.
In November alone, Android devices accounted for 27% of the hits on AdMob's U.S. ad MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 18, 2009 10:24 AM ET
Mostly in the U.S., but Japan, France, Australia and China are coming on fast, says AdMob
Click to enlarge. Source: AdMob
By the end of December, according to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, Apple (AAPL) will have sold nearly 78 million iPhones and iPod touches worldwide.
So where, exactly, are those devices?
A report issued Friday by AdMob, the world's leading supplier of mobile ads, tries to map the location of Apple's handsets country MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 18, 2009 8:00 AM ET
The Beautiful Life will air five episodes on YouTube – and if it's popular enough, it could live on. Photo: Jan Thijs / The CW.
We know that the Internet can build a TV show's buzz, and sometimes even keep it from getting canceled. But can it bring one back from the dead?
We'll soon find out: A recently canceled show has come to YouTube.
The Beautiful Life, a drama about the MORE
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