Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 — and 20
and 20 — She is not nearly as famous as celebrity founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But, in many ways, Marissa Mayer has become the public face of Google, which was incorporated 10 years ago toda...
Everyone Needs To Calm Down
I haven't had a lot of time to jump into the big fracas this weekend emerging about TechCrunch50 because the team has been busy organizing the conference, working with the Expert Panelists on scheduli...
All systems go for Wilmington, N.C., digital TV test
They're hearty folks along North Carolina's hurricane alley. So although Tropical Storm Hanna hit the Wilmington area with heavy rain and wind Saturday, knocking down some trees and causing scattered...
Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal
Update at 3:03 p.m. PDT, with comments from the Attorney General from the state of Connecticut, which is one of the lead states in the multi-state antitrust review of the Yahoo-Google deal. — The As...
One Bad Apple
Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors. — From the magazine issue dated Sep 15, 2008 — A former lieutenant of Steve Jobs's once told me s...
Google Chrome Receives Heavy Criticism in Germany
It doesn't get any more “official” than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany's oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news Tagesschau announced the following under the headline “War...
The “Feedization” Of The Web (continued)
Back in March 2006 I wrote a post about the “feedization of the web UI” where I observed that I was seeing more and more web UIs that reminded me of the news feeds that are common in the financial mar...
Roku: We Ain't Afraid of No Caps
Sure, most of us can get pretty fired up over the thought of a monthly 250 GB bandwidth cap, but what about the companies that provide online video services? After all, as Om pointed out, the cap isn...
Google at 10: Larry, Sergey & Me
It is not clear how old Google is - some argue that world's largest search engine operator is 13 - after all it operated in stealth for about 3 years before launching in September 1998. Many major ne...
NBC Drops Silverlight, Runs Back to Adobe for Flash
NBC seems to be having a change of heart this week. The network recently wrapped up their streaming of the Olympics using Microsoft's Silverlight technology. However if you tuned in for this week's ...
How Many Reviewers Should Be in the Kitchen?
FOR polar or lunar exploration, we are an intrepid species, eagerly vying with one another to be first. But we're not so brave when it comes to being the first to buy a particular product or service....
CIA, FBI push ‘Facebook for spies’
WASHINGTON (CNN) — When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook and MySpace, you might suspect those workers are slacking off. — But that's not the case at the CIA, the FB...