In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses
The lull of my lazy, rainy weekend was broken by the news that AT&T plans to acquire T-Mobile USA for a whopping $39 billion in cash and stock. Who wins and who loses in this deal? It's hard to find...
Google accuses China of hacking Gmail
Chinese government's crackdown on activists thought to be behind what Google calls ‘politically motivated attacks’ — Google has accused the Chinese government of interfering with its popular Gmail e...
Why the Quick Bar ("dickbar") is still so offensive
Twitter's official iPhone app, formerly Loren Brichter's Tweetie and an otherwise awesome client, got a lot of negative reactions from the recent addition of the Quick Bar, a mandatory trending-topics...
Groupon CEO: We Placed Too Much Trust in Agency for Super Bowl Ads
Andrew Mason Says Group-Buying Site ‘Turned Off Part of Its Brain’ When Working With CP&B in Aim to Be ‘Edgy’ — Talk about adding insult to injury. — As if CP&B's breakup last week with one of its...
Times's Online Pay Model Was Years in the Making
The discussions played out over most of 2009 amid the hum of the third floor newsroom and in the executive suites high above Times Square, consuming what seemed like countless meetings and consultants...
We've agreed to be acquired by Facebook!
The Snaptu team is excited to announce today that we recently agreed to be acquired by Facebook. — Our goal when we founded Snaptu in 2007 was to provide useful and innovative services to the 95 per...
The Xoom Gets Flash. But Don't Get Too Excited
When Motorola's Xoom hit Verizon stores last month, it was missing some of the features that promised to make it the iPad's first formidable rival-including its much-touted support for Adobe's Flash P...
Apple's Safari Browser Gives Search Marketers Headaches
Apple's dominance on tablets and smartphones presents a threat to accurately measure and optimize the performance of paid-search marketing campaigns. — Search firm Marin Software published a white p...
Does Anne Hathaway News Drive Berkshire Hathaway's Stock?
Given the awesome correlating powers of today's stock trading computers, the idea may not be as far-fetched as you think. — A couple weeks ago, Huffington Post blogger Dan Mirvish noted a funny tren...
Google Ventures Launches $10,000 Startup Referral Program For Employees
If you're a Google employee and you know about a stealth startup that wants funding, you can pocket a cool $10,000. The Google Ventures team announced the new program at Google's weekly all-hands “TG...
Big Mobile Data Dive From SMX West
I moderated the three mobile sessions on mobile at SMX West earlier this month: Mobile Search Ads, Location Services: The New Local Search? and Mobile Apps. A ton of great advice, stats and data came...
Do not track tools push firms to crossroad
Hundreds of millions of Web surfers finally have the ability to easily tell marketers they don't want their online activities monitored. — Microsoft's updated Internet Explorer browser released on T...
Netflix Original Content Is Much More Than A Strategy Shift — It Could Shift An Industry
It Could Shift An Industry — Three years ago, if you had asked people to choose between cable television and Netflix, the vast majority would have laughed at you. A DVD-by-mail service versus thousa...