July 2011
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April 2011
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Yahoo Mulls Spinoff for Hadoop Software Unit →
March 2011
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70% of iPad 2 Buyers Are New →
February 2011
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Per employee, Valve is more profitable than Google and Apple
– Gabe Newell, Valve Founder
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Selling ads requires that we demonstrate to advertisers that our service has...
– Interesting note from the risks section of Pandora’s IPO Prospectus
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There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them.
– Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
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I think this is going to be a situation where 1 plus 1 equals 11.
– Tim Armstrong, CEO AOL. Source: Betting on News, AOL Is Buying The Huffington Post, NYTimes
January 2011
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Trulia's Q1 2011 Rent vs. Buy Index →
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Kno eReader Student Ambassador Program →
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Apple has created a prototype of a payment terminal that small businesses, such...
– Richard Doherty, Director, Envisioneering Group (via Bloomberg)
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NYTimes Paywall Pricing →
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Internet Penetration Around The World... →
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The Mayor's Office of New York Selects Spigit to... →
Spigit, the leader in purpose-built innovation management, announced today that it has been chosen by the mayor’s office of New York City to drive employee collaboration and ideation. This will be the city’s first internal innovation community and will target more than 15,000 of the city’s government workforce in its first rollout. Upon the success of the pilot, the city plans to...
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Make no mistake, mobile / cardless payments are coming in a huge way
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80% of AOL’s revenue comes from subscriptions, and, according to an ex-AOL...
– The New Yorker (via Consumerist)
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New highs! Yahoo! stock closes at an all time high, $475.00 (pre-split price) a...
– From a Focus.com infographic on the Rise and Fall of Yahoo
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Even though fewer than 6% of US social gamers spend money on virtual items,...
– Paul Verna, Senior Analyst at eMarketer
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The paradox in business, especially at a public company, is, ‘When do you...
– Chris DeWolfe, Co-founder, MySpace
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The iPhone is built for speed, but that’s not what you get with a CDMA...
– Larry Solomon, AT&T PR
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… discouraging paid applications on the Android platform is in Google’s...
– Interesting perspective from Kyle Baxter
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What is valuable is filtering and curation. Restricting access to content...
– Fred Wilson on the mobile web
December 2010
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Amazon Sells 158 Items Per Second On Black Monday →
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Microsoft Said to Be Unveiling Windows for ARM... →
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In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers he identifies 10,000 hours as the amount of...
– Why Your Social Media Initiatives Will Fail In 2011, Adam Kmiec
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Words To Avoid →
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What I find weird is that we’re all using Flash on our PCs, on our Macs...
– Mike Lazaridis, Founder, RIM
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I think that marketers like “cloud computing” because it is devoid...
– Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
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The biggest challenge is to start a business based on an open-source project...
– Matt Mullenweg, Wordpress founder, at LeWeb
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Google Instant, which makes searching more efficient by displaying search...
– Scott Devitt, Morgan Stanley
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While iPad has gained successful sales performance and good market response,...
– Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci
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To be in the News business now means you must run your business as Digital...
– John Paton, CEO Journal Register
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Our work has also demonstrated the importance of business innovation to promote...
– Key words, “usage-based pricing” …. uh-oh
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (PDF, Page 3)
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I believe Apple’s iPhone is rapidly becoming a niche device. Its...
– PCWorld’s Katherine Noyes
November 2010
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Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling... →
A bit sensationalized, but a good read by George Ou over at Digital Society
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One scenario under consideration by Microsoft is to create a new TV service on...
– Reuters
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Novell Sold for $2.2B →
But the most interesting part ….
Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation.
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Baidu answers more search queries in China than any other search engine in any...
– Robin Li, CEO Baidu