Earnings: BSkyB Profit Drops Nine Percent On Broadband Costs; Revenues Rise 10 Percent
BSkyB's (NYSE:BSY) profit fell 10 percent to £815 million ($1.7 billion) from £877 million ($1.8 billion) for the first half of 2007 due to the cost of building out a broadband network …
HBO comedy site shut down
This Just In offered celebrity riffs, comic videos — This Just In, the comedy site HBO envisioned as both a brand extension and a potential development pipeline, is being shut down just six months a...
Google 'the most improved brand'
Google is the brand that has gained the most in value over the past year, according a survey of global brands. — The report from Interbrand found that Google's brand value had risen 44% in the past ...
Is Google on Crack?
This week I was supposed to explain why U.S. broadband prices are so much higher and U.S. broadband speeds are so much lower than in most other developed countries, but then Google made an unexpected ...
How Much Is A Facebook User Worth? At Least $0.30
People aren't wasting any time trying to figure out how to monetize all those thousands of Facebook apps that have sprung up over the last couple of months. At least three advertising experiments hav...
VMware lands Cisco as investor
Cisco Systems said Friday it will invest $150 million in VMware, joining Intel as a strategic investor. — After the investment Cisco will own 1.6 percent of VMware's outstanding shares. VMware will...
Think You Might Be Addicted to Email? You're Not Alone
New AOL Survey Reveals that More Americans are Using Portable Devices to Email Around the Clock from Virtually Anywhere - in the Bathroom, While Driving and Even in Church — 83% of Email Users Check...
Now We're Not Talking: Telstra Bans Facebook
Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company, has banned its approximately 49,000 employees from using Facebook. — As Cameron Reilly at G'Day World puts it, "This would be a retarded move...
Google plans YouTube Antipiracy Tool for September
Long-awaited and much-promised technology to combat piracy in Google's YouTube video sharing site should be ready by September. — Recommend this story? — Google Inc. aims to deliver in September a...
BBC online video service launches
The BBC's flagship online TV service is being launched, offering viewers the chance to download their favourite programmes from the last seven days. — For director general Mark Thompson, the launch ...
Pownce: Social Networks aren't Identity Networks
Interesting. Someone just told me that I was on Pownce - which is odd, because I never signed up for an account. Lo and behold, here "I" am. I'm not terribly upset about it at this point, but that'...
Is this the new iMac keyboard?
See that? That's the rumored, "super slim," brushed aluminum keyboard said to be accompanying Apple's new iMac computer. It certainly appears to share the key design of the MacBook like we heard but...
Apple Co-Founder Backs Internet Video Venture
NEW YORK (Reuters)—An Internet video brainchild of three twentysomething former University of California grad students has won big backers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Red McCombs, co...
EU Says Intel Tried to Squeeze Out Advanced Micro
BRUSSELS (Reuters)—The European Union's top antitrust regulator has charged that Intel tried to use its huge market share to push smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices out of the central processing uni...
Rodale's Options: Strategic Money For Digital Bulk
That's the import of the speculative stories in both NYP and Folio this week: the lifestyle books and magazine publisher Rodale (publisher of Runner's World, Men's Health and Prevention) has retained ...
How Microsoft Clubs to Search Gains
Kevin Johnson, President of Microsoft's Platforms & Services Division in his keynote at Microsoft's financial analyst meeting boasted about Microsoft's search gains and how they were going to pummel c...