Google Poised to Invest $1 Billion in AOL
Google plans to invest $1 billion in Time Warner's America Online in a deal that, if completed, would deepen the ties between two Internet advertising giants and leave rival suitor Microsoft in the co...
The NY Times does it again...
This is a previous interview experience with the Times. — This is the column Randall Stross wrote for this Sunday.
Selling your start-up to GYMA
Dare Obasanjo has an interesting post titled Flipping Your Startup 101. Dare references my earlier post Microsoft Will Acquire My Company which explains the logic the big players use when considering...
Typepad goes titsup
Dilbert falls silent, thousands of posts missing — Users of Six Apart's TypePad platform have suffered their worst outage yet, with bloggers left stranded since the early hours. The past week's blo...
Flipping Your Startup 101
A friend of mine called me yesterday to ask for my opinions on the fact that Meebo just got a few million dollars in funding. For those not in the know, Meebo is an AJAX version of Trillian. And wha...
Is Mark Cuban Missing the Big Picture?
MARK CUBAN is known to many in the sports world as the madcap-billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, the one who relishes every opportunity to defy propriety. Less well known is Mr. Cuban's day j...
WITH AOL DEAL, GOOGLE MAY GET TO GO PUBLIC AGAIN
Consider: AOL and Yahoo made hay when Google went public. Both owned substantial stakes in Google due to earlier traffic deals, and both cashed out major paydays after GOOG's IPO. — Consider also: ...
Microsoft patch jams up IE
Last Tuesday's "critical" security fix for Internet Explorer is causing trouble for users who have been testing the new IE 7 browser. — Microsoft has received "scattered reports of users experiencin...
Firefox Moves Farther Ahead of the Hunt
The browser that finally broke Microsoft's monopoly just got its first major update. If you haven't switched from Internet Explorer yet, consider Firefox 1.5 your invitation to do so. — Most import...
More artists take a stand against DRM
The battle between artists and Sony BMG over the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection on audio CDs just got even more interesting as some more artists have decided to act. This time...
jkOnTheRun exclusive- details emerge about the DualCor cPC
The DualCor cPC has captured the imagination of technophiles and geeks since word of this unusual device was given by CNET this past week. The idea of having a handheld that can run Windows XP for no...
Apple "sold out" of 1GB iPod shuffle till January
Apple Computer has sold out of its higher-capcity iPod digital music player and doesn't plan to restock until next year, according to a message on its Web site. — The $129 iPod is "Sold out for holi...
Wikipedia founder 'shot by friend of Siegenthaler'
World mourns Lazarus for the Web 2.0 generation — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been shot dead, according to Wikipedia, the online, up-to-the-minute encyclopedia. — Apparently, the assassin wa...
Another $250 million for Vonage
By now Vonage was supposed to be on track for an IPO, that would have helped the company raise $400 to $600 million from public markets, and help fight a good fight with cable providers, phone compani...
How Google woos the best and brightest
Free cafeteria food, annual ski trips to the Sierra and free laundry are just some of the fringe benefits of working at Google. Getting hired is the trick. — Every month, aspiring workers deluge th...
Motion Le 1600 - second impressions
I posted up my first impressions a while back of my new Motion LE 1600. They were written within hours of receiving the device and understandably had a certain 'new-gadget' excitement factor influenc...
Interop between blogging tools
I've been reading lots of reports about the current TypePad outage, but while the outage is still going on, I don't want to appear to interfere. I remember how awful it was to have popular bloggers j...
"Flipping Startups 101" Gets a Failing Grade
There is a silly discussion underway out in the blog-o-sphere, one that purports to be rational noodling about how best to set up your startup company to be flipped to Google/Yahoo/Microsoft. The nut...