This is the sort of post that is a business train wreck, and one that only becomes more painful the farther you read. Please be warned. On the 1st of February, Microsoft put forth an unsolicited bid for Yahoo at some $31 per share. That amounted to a total bid of 44.6 billion dollars....
Daily Archives: October 5, 2011
Marc Benioff: I Learned To Be Aggressive From My Friend Larry (CRM, ORCL)
Image: via Forbes See Also: This Week, Larry Ellison Owns San Francisco Larry Ellison Just Booted Marc Benioff From His Slot At Oracle’s OpenWorld Show Marc Benioff Is Upstaging Oracle With Keynote In Restaurant Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he knows what made Larry Ellison angry enough to kick him out of his keynote...
The iPhone 3GS won’t get geo-fencing in the Reminders app
As one of the new iOS 5 apps that Apple introduced at WWDC, Reminders has gotten some attention for its fancy geo-fencing technique that allows you to set reminders based on physical locations. This means that you can set up a reminder to alert you when you are leaving a location or arriving at...
CHART OF THE DAY: The Size Of A Combined Yahoo-Microsoft (YHOO, MSFT)
If Microsoft were to go for it and buy Yahoo, together they would have the most unique visitors of any company out there. We asked comScore for a look at what their combined, non-overlapping uniques would be. Using August data, the answer is 212 million in the U.S. That’s bigger, but not by much,...
Social Media Ads Will Be A $10 Billion Business In 2013
Image: Illustration: Ellis Hamburger See Also: The Future Of TV Is Coming, Slowly But Surely Should You Use a Virtual Credit Card Number? Hulu Will Allow Users To Swap Ads For More Relevant Ones Well, that is a nice round number. Social network ad revenues will reach $10 billion worldwide by 2013, according to...
Kuwait Arrests Social Media Users: This Week in Online Tyranny
Two Twitters and one YouTube user have been arrested recently in the Gulf country of Kuwait. Kuwaiti Twitterers Nasser Abul and Mubarak Al-Bathali and YouTuber Lawrence Al-Rishidi have all been arrested in the last month or two. Abul had issued “insulting tweets of the Sunni sect and severe criticism and insults to the Saudi...
Google Docs for Android Gets 3-Column Redesign
Google has just announced a redesign for Google Docs on Android. The new interface uses a three-column view displaying filters and collections on the left, the document list in the middle and document details on the right. The Google Docs Android app launched in April, enabling mobile uses of the software such as optical...
PowerInbox Raises Additional $800K In Seed Funding
PowerInbox, the new email platform that lets you run apps for Facebook, Twitter, Groupon and Google+ inside your inbox, just closed an additional $800, 000 in seed funding, bringing its total Series Seed to $1.9 million. The company had previously raised $1.1 million in August, mostly from AngelList investors. Today, PowerInbox’s investors include Atlas Venture,...
New Garmin GPS Watch Has Shed Its Girth
It’s interesting to chart the size and shape of fitness watches over the years. The first Garmins looked like protein bars melted to your wrist by this new one, the Forerunner 910XT, looks as svelte and lithe as the marathoners who will probably wear it. The 910XT costs about $400 and will be available...
Jason Kilar: Hulu Plus is becoming major money-maker
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar said today that the company’s Hulu Plus paid subscription service is going to bring in more than half of its revenue in within the next 12 months. Kilar made this estimate in a blog post about Hulu’s Q3 performance, which also included an announcement of a major content partnership with...