According to WSJ, Kodak is weighing a bankruptcy filing. Its stock is down 26% 50% 60% Jones Day has reportedly been hired for a possible restructuring. Like many companies, it had hoped to cash in on its patent portfolio — and indeed Google is reportedly considering an offer — but the cash won’t be...
In the months leading up to the press conference earlier this week, speculation about the prospects for Amazon’s new tablet reached a crescendo. Would the new tablet be a worthy competitor? Might it even dethrone the iPad? Even before details were leaked to the press, Forrester predicted that Amazon would sell 3-5 million tablets...
In the ideal world, I want Amazon’s recommendation engine and cloud Google’s transparency and identity tools, and Facebook’s content well all mashed up, to give me the best of all possible worlds. Sadly, we are stuck with the wrong kind of mashup: Facebook’s privacy controls coupled with Google’s poor API documentation and Amazon’s scatter-shot...
Yesterday we took a look at the history of Facebook mobile and how the company has taken a browser based approach since almost the beginning of its mobile Web development. Keep that in mind with the announcements that Facebook is reportedly ready to make next week concerning its HTML5-based Web apps platform, the so-called...
Facebook’s recent launch of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “frictionless sharing” — in which apps from services like Spotify and publishers like The Washington Post can post a user’s activity to their wall, without asking for permission for every item — has caused a lot of controversy over whether the feature is a worthwhile addition...
In a ‘no way, that is too ironic to be true’ moment, Microsoft’s Security Essentials software appears to be, in certain instances, marking Chrome as malware and removing it. Oh dear. The best part? Security Essentials, when the problem occurs, deems Chrome to be trojan infection that steals passwords. The identity overtones are too...
A report by VentureBeat overnight quotes an anonymous source saying that Amazon.com is “in serious negotiations” to buy Palm from HP, acquiring assets including the well-regarded webOS software for smartphones and tablets. It’s getting a lot of attention in the tech media this morning. The logic? ”By purchasing the remnants of Palm, Amazon would have...
Who Needs All This Stuff? Homes are full of excess stuff. Not everybody has excess stuff, of course. Not everybody has homes. But an economy driven by consumption generates, in the aggregate, lots of discarded stuff. Clothes, plates, CDs, books we’ll never read again, loose leaf paper, the wrong brand of something or other...
50% of people remembered a brand they saw in TV ads. That’s nice, but 74% of people remembered the same brand after they saw in TV and online ads, reports Nielsen. See Also: The One Huge Reason Why Amazon Will Not Beat Apple The Plan To Make iPads In Brazil Is Falling Apart THE...
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