On my last visit to Yahoo at the end of July, it was as if a dark cloud had been lifted. Employees enthuastically lined up to enter the cafeteria in the first week of “Free Lunch”. URL’s, Yahoo’s main cafeteria, was more packed than a typical Tuesday. Many expressed how excited they were about...
Hong Kong has plenty of things going for it, but a glut of startup resources is not one of them. Paul Orlando’s Startup Bootcamp is on a mission to change that. The program started its first 3-month class in July and just recently opened up applications for a second batch of startups. The second class will...
Michael Bayle, Senior VP of ESPN Mobile, says mobile advertising is a highly effective way to reach male consumers. And Bayle would know, since his audience at ESPN is 85% male. We spoke with him last month at our Mobile Advertising Conference and he told us why advertisers like auto companies are seeing a...
In a report on CNet, an analyst, Bob O’Donnell of IDC, informed them that Microsoft is expected to build slightly more than 3 million Surface tablets in calendar 2012. Microsoft’s formal statement on the matter, put into the public knowledge in early July, was that it intends to sell “a few million Surface PCs” in the...
Kixeye Kixeye CEO Will Harbin Will Harbin is Mark Pincus’s worst nightmare. Here’s why the CEO of upstart gaming studio Kixeye is such a threat to Zynga, the giant of social games. Zynga is having a lot of trouble trying to find a new business as its Facebook games stagnate or decline. One direction...
Apigee’s Sam Ramji pointed out to me today that Twitter did a first when communicating with developers yesterday about its new platform policies. For the first time in recent memory Twitter has used a graphic to actually illustrate what it sees as the acceptable and not so acceptable ways to use its API. The...
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According to Bloomberg, Google’s Motorola unit just filed a new patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington. According to this report, Motorola’s complaint seeks to block Apple from importing the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and “various Apple computers.” Today’s lawsuit is only the latest in a long series...
It’s Friday, so you deserve a new toy to play with. Now, assuming that you use Chrome (after all you did click through to this piece), your new tab page is mostly a waste of space. It’s faster to type ‘ctrl+t – g – enter’ than it is to open a new tab, and...