Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. Major media can...
Developers: the best smart phone platform is?
I was talking with Loic Le Meur, CEO and founder of Seesmic, the other night and he was saying that he's running his business by looking at the numbers, not listening to the hype. He told me that the...
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model
I like to think of myself as an aficionado of business disruption. After all, as a venture capitalist it is imperative to understand ways in which a smaller private company can gain the upper hand on...
Sun Trades at 14% Discount to Oracle Bid as EU Probes $7.4 Billion Deal
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — Sun Microsystems Inc. is trading at 16 percent less than Oracle Corp.'s $9.50-a-share offer price for the company, signaling some investors are concerned that European regulators...
Keller's Guess: NYT “Within Weeks Of Decision” On Charging For Online
One of the longest-running guessing games for New York Times insiders and observers may be nearing an end: will the paper charge again for content online and what form would a pay program take?
Skype, Founders Settlement in the Works
The ongoing legal scuffle between Skype, a division of eBay, and its founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, may soon see a resolution, according to someone familiar with the situation. The parti...
Confused about Google Wave? Now you can read the bleeping manual.
Google Wave is an innovative new communication tool, but part of innovation is that it's not always intuitive to use. Early adopters have been jumping into Wave with little guidance on how to take ad...
uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling
ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years already. Although the true reasons for this are not always clear, some ISPs have argued that a high number of BitTorrent connections are slowing...
Illegal downloaders ‘spend the most on music’, says poll
People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study. The survey, published today, found that those who admit illegally down...