MSNBC.com Renamed to NBCNews.com as Microsoft and NBC Divorce
On Sunday night, MSNBC.com did something that successful Web sites almost never do: it renamed itself. — The site became NBCNews.com, signifying the end of a relationship between NBC and Microsoft t...
In Defense Of Free
I have written so much about free here at AVC that it should be called AVFree. In fact, I've even written a post with this exact same title (almost exactly seven years ago, the summer we invested in ...
Some Thoughts on App.net
A few weeks ago Dalton Caldwell, founder of imeem and Picplz, wrote a well received blog post titled What Twitter could have been where he laments the fact that Twitter hasn't fulfilled some of the ea...
How Kate Middleton's Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia's Woman Problem
According to Wikipedia's 2011 Editor Survey, just 9 percent of Wiki editors are women. While the gender gap is better than it was—in the early '00s, it was more like 3 percent—and the proportion of n...
Goldman Sachs and a Sale Gone Horribly Awry
THE business deal from hell began to crumble even before the Champagne corks were popped. — The deal, the $580 million sale of a highflying technology company, Dragon Systems, had just been approved...
Microsoft Isn't The Only Tech Company Doing Forced Employee Ranking
Microsoft has been taking a lot of heat over its employee review process known as “forced ranking” or “stack ranking.” — But Microsoft is far from the only tech company doing it. — We've heard fro...
Don't Root for Aereo, the World's Most Ridiculous Start-up
Aereo, the controversial television streaming company backed by Barry Diller, may be the stupidest high-profile tech start-up ever launched. — In my years of covering the tech business, I certainly ...