The problems that Google faced while establishing its foothold in China would shake the very foundations of the company and its "Don't be evil" operating ethos. A look at Google's past five years in China -- and where it went wrong along the way.
By Steven Levy, guest contributorViewing the July 22, 2009, solar eclipse with Google goggles
FORTUNE -- Plans for Google.cn were well under way by May 7, 2005, when an unexpected e-mail arrived MORE
Apr 15, 2011 5:00 AM ET
The founding partner of Elevation Partners has changed his tune about Apple
Source: CNBC
Remember Roger McNamee? He's the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners -- a major investor in the Palm Pre -- who predicted on the two-year anniversary of the original iPhone that nobody who bought it would be using an iPhone a month later.
"Think about it," he said, in a remark I suspect he immediately MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 14, 2011 6:08 PM ET
Drivers Ed for Copyright violations.
In a move to thwart copyright violations on its YouTube Subsidiary, Google (GOOG) has instituted a new Copyright Violations Schooling program along with new policies for users who are found to have violated YouTube's copyright rules.
It is probably exactly what you expect: When YouTube gets a report of a copyright violation, the video is removed and the uploader has to watch the "school" video below, which goes into detail MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 14, 2011 5:53 PM ET
Gartner's picture of the computer industry would look very different if it included the iPad
Source: Asymco
The blue line is the PC market as Gartner defines it with the iPad's growth thrown in. The green line is PCs running Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows. The red line is Apple's (AAPL) Macintosh. The orange line is the Mac plus the iPad.
Want more? Read Horace Dediu's analysis at Asymco.com.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 14, 2011 5:10 PM ET
Larry Page's first as Google (GOOG) CEO. We're on hand live.
Investors not liking the lowered earnings
Revenues of $8.58 billion a 27% increase over first quarter 2010 revenues of $6.77 billion. Paid Clicks Up 18%; Cost Per Click Up 8%:
4:35PM: Larry Page dropped in to say everything is going as planned, specifically the Executive switchover. Also thanks Jonathan Rosenberg who is usually on these calls but announced his resignation last week..
4:40: CFO MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 14, 2011 3:09 PM ET
With Q2 earnings due next week, the two groups of analysts are once again miles apart
Click to enlarge. Source: Alexis W. Cabot
The amateur analysts who follow Apple (AAPL) can afford to be more bullish than the professionals who do it for banks and brokerage houses. After all, unlike the sell-side analysts who are telling investors to buy the stock, they don't have clients who will be angry if the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 14, 2011 11:08 AM ET
iPhone ad impressions grew 17% from February thanks to the Verizon launch
Source: Millennial Media Mobile Mix
Google's (GOOG) Android still represents the biggest slice of the smartphone pie in the monthly report issued Thursday by Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile ad network.
But for the first time since 2010, when Android began dominating Millennial's Mobile Mix reports, Apple's (AAPL) share of smartphone ad impressions grew a bit in March (from MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 14, 2011 7:08 AM ET
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Research in Motion's PlayBook tablet gets reviewed.
Early reviews of Research in Motion's 7-inch PlayBook tablet are in, and while both publications found features to like -- a fast, intuitive operating system and user interface courtesy of QNX, understated and solid hardware -- Engadget found the PlayBook's inability MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 14, 2011 5:05 AM ETBoardroom power plays, disgruntled founders, and CEO switcheroos are clipping the wings of this tech high flier.
By Jessi Hempel, senior writer
FORTUNE -- In March, shortly after Jack Dorsey went back to work for Twitter, the company he co-founded four years ago, he did a Q&A session with an entrepreneurship class at Columbia Business School. As students tapped away on their laptops (were they sending tweets?), Dorsey, 34, answered questions about MORE
Apr 14, 2011 5:00 AM ET
The global PC market shrank 3.2% year over year in Q1 2011 as iPad sales surged
iPad demand exceeding supply in NYC. Photo: Computerworld
It's a pity IDC doesn't include tablets in its quarterly surveys of computer shipments. If it did, the inflection point in the first quarter of 2011 would be even clearer.
[UPDATE: Asymco's Horace Dediu has done us the favor of drawing an extraordinary graph that includes the iPad. MORE
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