Still Searching For A Video Business Model, Google Introduces The YouTubevertorial (2)
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It wasn’t so long ago that we wondered if YouTube would ever start to flex its marketing muscles. Now it is trying to squeeze more money out of the ads on its homepage and just today it introduced the YouTubevertorial. Starting with music and videogame partners, YouTube will begin inserting click-to-buy links below select videos. Right now, these affiliate links connect to iTunes and Amazon (see them at the bottom of the screenshot above?), but ...
How Low Can You Go? Google Drops Another 5 Percent to $350 Territory. (5)
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Tech stocks continue to get creamed this morning, led by Google, whose stock is now officially a dropping knife (i.e., good luck catching it). Shares are down 5 percent so far today to about $353 (at one point they dipped as low as $350. That’s more than a $50 drop since Friday and the lowest the stock has traded since March, 2006. The question on investor’s minds: How low can it go? Even though Google ...
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I never believed the Google stock price originally. Bring it back down to $100 and it's about accurate.
Forget The Blackberry “Application Center.” The BerryStore Will Have Better Apps. (8)
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As Research in Motion prepares to open its Blackberry Application Center to answer the iPhone’s App Store, an unaffiliated startup called the BerryStore has already launched a competing app store for Blackberry Apps. What makes it better than the official BlackBerry App Center (besides the name), is that apps in the BerryStore work across both old and new BlackBerries alike (not just the upcoming BlackBerry Storm), and across carriers. The BlackBerry App center, in contrast, ...
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用黑莓的童鞋可以去试试～
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hehe yeah right!, T-Mobile G1 FTW!!!
Granting Credit On The Fly. Is Bill Me Later Part Of the Problem Or Part Of The Solution? (4)
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On the same day the public markets are tanking because of the spreading credit crisis, we see one of the biggest M&A exits of the year with eBay acquiring Bill Me Later for $945 million ($820 million in cash, plus an extra $125 million in options). The only other tech exits of this size in 2008 were Sun buying MYSQL for $1 billion (which involved less cash and more options), AOL buying Bebo for $850 ...
Tech Stocks Take It On The Chin As Market Continues To Freefall (2)
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It’s a blood bath out there this morning. The S&P 500 is at a four-year low as the credit crisis keeps getting worse, despite the passage of the government’s $700 billion bailout plan. The market is taking tech stocks down with it. Google is down 4 percent to $368, its lowest point since 2006. Apple is down 6 percent to $91. Microsoft is down nearly 5 percent to $25. Amazon, Yahoo, eBay—all down. Fears of ...
BlackArrow Raises $20 Million For On-Demand TV Advertising (3)
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TV advertising doesn’t have to be just on TV. That’s the premise behind BlackArrow, a startup that caters to the cable industry by offering a way to place ads on broadband Web video, on-demand TV, and digital-video recorders (with unskippable ads). The company is announcing a new $20 million round of funding from existing investors Cisco Systems., Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners. BlackArrow lets cable companies and TV networks ...
Bad Karma At contentSutra. Site Sputters After Being Bought By The Guardian. (2)
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Only three months after the British newspaper publisher The Guardian Group bought Rafat Ali’s ContentNext Media and his collection of blogs for a reported $30 million, one of those blogs is sputtering badly. The blog in question is contentSutra, the Indian counterpart to its bigger and better known brother, paidContent (both cover the business of digital media). Until recently, contentSutra was ContentNext’s second biggest blog, even beating out mocoNews. But if you look at it ...
If Sales Of Halloween Masks Could Predict The Election (17)
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Everyone has their favorite way to predict who will win the Presidential election. Amazon likes to keep track of Halloween mask sales. Supporters of either candidate can buy rubber masks of each to wear for Halloween. So far, 57 percent of the masks Amazon has sold have been Obama masks, versus 43 percent for McCain masks. The weird thing is that is right around the same number that McCain is getting in the latest tracking ...
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this is how i measure all things, because that is the promise of capitalism
The Crunchie: It’s Not Just An Award, It’s A Weapon (1)
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When we commissioned the statuettes for the Crunchies Awards last year, we hoped to create something a little more memorable than the typical plastic tombstone. We opted for a plastic monkey holding a bone aloft instead. While it does have a certain menacing quality to it, we never expected anyone to turn it into weapon. But now you can find “The Crunchie” in the online game Duels. Our award has been re-stylized as a deadly ...
ジョブズ心臓発作の誤報でアップル株一時急落、出元は市民“ジャーナリスト” (1)
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スティーブ・ジョブズが心臓発作に見舞われたとの誤報がCNNのiReportに流れたのを受け、アップル株が今朝（米国時間10/3）一時10ポイント下がった。 問題の記事は削除されたが、削除はSilicon Alley Insider（SAI）ほか各所がアップルに問い合わせてジョブズ心臓発作の事実がない点を確かめた後だった。株価はすぐ取引き開始時の水準まで戻った。 SAIに元記事の転載がある。: スティーブ・ジョブズが重度の心臓発作に見舞われ、急ぎ緊急治療室（ER）に担ぎこまれた。内部関係者の話によると、スティーブが胸の激しい痛みと息切れを訴えた後、電話で救急救命士に通報が入ったという。情報提供者は匿名を希望しているが、彼は信頼できる筋の人間だ。この件に関してはここ以外まだどこにも出ていないと思う。現時点ではこれ以上の情報は持ってないので、最初出すのはここが良いと判断した。誰かほかに情報持ってる方がいたら是非教えてください。 これは即金目当ての空売り目的？ それとも根も葉もない噂を流して、どれぐらいの速さで、どこまで広がるか、確かめたかった者の仕業だろうか？ こんなことがあると市民ジャーナリストの価値もこの程度と言われかねない、そちらの影響が心配だ。 市民ジャーナリズムの興隆に無闇に対抗するのではなく、CNNはこれを抱き込むことに方針を固め、iReportという市民がつくるニュース枠を設けた。CNNのiReportサイトでは、市民が誰でもニュースに関する記事や動画を発信できる。“編集抜き、フィルター抜きの、ニュース”が旗印。ここに出た報道の中からCNNの本サイトに出る場合もある（建前上は厳密に吟味した上で、ということになっている）。 が、この事件では、検査を通さないレポートでも「CNNのサイトに出ているから」という理由だけで、Twitterとかその辺に転がってる適当なブログに出す場合より重視されてしまうことが分かった。それは単に、より広い範囲に配信しているせいかもしれないし、一般にCNNブランドのサイトで読むものは信じる傾向があるせいかもしれない。 しかし、虫食い林檎1個混じってたぐらいで実験が丸ごと台無しなんて事態にならないようにしよう。言うまでもなく、世の中には一般ニュースの収集に貢献できる頭の良い人が大勢いる。匿名のニュース報道を許可しているiReportその他のサイトは、もっと良い事実チェックのフィルターを備えなくてはダメだ。ニュースを発表する人の評判が見えるような、もっと良いシステムの導入も一助になる。報道には実名の利用を推奨すべき。その上で、サイトの一番上の目立つところには免責事項も大書しなくては。「Read At Your Own Risk（自責でお読みください=報道内容に一切責任は負いません）」と。 アップルも本件は教訓になっただろう。 予めスティーブ・ジョブズの健康に対する深い懸念がなかったら、万が一の緊急時に誰が実権を引き継ぐのか市場に共通認識があったら、あそこまで株は落ちなかったはずだ。 [原文へ] （翻訳：satomi） タグ: Apple, CNN 【関連記事】 何故オンライン楽曲業界は収益分配モデルに切り換えるべきなのか 企業の評判ランキングでGoogleがアメリカで1位、世界でも2位。Tech Crunchでも調査してみよう 今日はスティーブ・ジョブズがiCEOに復帰した日 今週注目のイベント―「Dカンファレンス」でSteve JobsとBill Gatesが同じ壇上に 人生最高のものは無料でも、ビートルズをiTunesで売る契約は$400Mかかる
RealNetworks Versus Hollywood Case Will Be Heard In Silicon Valley Court (2)
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Often, the court that hears your case can determine whether you win or lose. RealNetworks just improved its chances in a lawsuit against Hollywood studios over its recently launched RealDVD software. The software lets you rip DVDs to your computer so you can play movies from your hard drive or turn your PC into a digital media server. The suit was originally going to be heard in the Central District Court of California (Los Angeles), ...
It’s Going To Be A Grinch Christmas: Slowdown Forecast For Online Holiday Sales (7)
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With credit tightening and consumer confidence shaky, you know this is going to be a tough year for holiday sales. A forecast that came out this morning from Lehman Brothers (now Barclays Capital), puts Internet sales over the upcoming holiday season growing at just 8 percent, compared to 19 percent growth last year (and 26 percent in 2006). That’s still better than the one percent growth in holiday ales expected at physical department stores, but ...
What’s Your Tweet Worth? Um, . . . Nothing. (14)
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A month ago, I wrote about a company called TwittAd that lets you auction off ads on your Twitter page. Now, the company is sponsoring WhatsYourTweetWorth?, a vanity site where you enter your Twitter name, and it tells you how much your Tweets are worth based on how many followers you have. (Try it later, the site is down—probably being overwhelmed by people who are already Twittering about it). Before it went down, it said ...
Citizen “Journalist” Hits Apple Stock With False (Steve Jobs) Heart Attack Rumor (33)
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Apple’s stock took a temporary 10-point hit this morning after a false report surfaced on CNN’s iReport that Steve Jobs had a heart attack. The report has been removed, but only after Silicon Alley Insider and others confirmed with Apple that Jobs did not have a heart attack. And the stock jumped right back up to its opening levels. SIA captured the original report: Steve Jobs was rushed to the ER just a few hours ...
Does Google Need To Spend More On Traditional Brand Advertising? (8)
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Google has always been more an adversary to traditional Madison Avenue advertisers than a friend. But with economic woes looming, there aren’t too many companies with growing advertising budgets. Google is on track to spend nearly $2 billion this year on sales and marketing, yet it’s offline advertising budget is estimated to be only $20 million a year. A story in today’s Wall Street Journal suggests that Google might be overcoming its distaste for traditional ...
The Copyright Royalty Board Does Nothing. iTunes’ Rates Remain The Same (3)
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The Copyright Royalty Board has set rates that companies like Apple and Amazon must pay music publishers for each digital track they sell. And the rates, drum roll please, . . are the same as they were before: 9 cents per song. So everyone can breathe easy. iTunes won’t shut down! (Not that it ever was going to shut down, but it was a good story). Faced with an industry in transition, with new rules ...
Deadpool: Eyespot Closes Its Eyes (2)
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For startups without a warchest full of cash, times are about to get very tough. The latest to hit the deadpool is Eyespot, which announced its demise not with a press release, but with a Twitter from co-founder David Dudas stating simply: Eyespot has shut down. Lots of great peeps available: engr, product mgmt, HR, content, bizdev, account mgmt. Let me know if u need anyone. Eyespot raised $3.7 million way back in October, 2006 ...
What Will Happen to Lehman’s Startup Orphans? (8)
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As Lehman Brothers sells off its assets following its bankruptcy, there is still a big question as to what will happen to its venture arm and, more importantly, how any change in ownership will affect the companies in which Lehman Brothers Venture Partners holds a stake. Like many investment banks, Lehman got into venture investing in the mid-1990s to try to capture some of those venture returns. The investment management group that it was a ...
From The Makers Of iGolf, Comes iBowl. Just Don’t Drop That iPhone. (10)
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Who needs a Nintendo Wii when you’ve got an iPhone? The Social Gaming Network, which released a Wii-like golfing game for the iPhone two weeks ago, has now followed up with a bowling game. As with iGolf (which has already been downloaded more than 900,000 times), iBowl uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to detect a player’s swing. You can twist your wrist to give the ball spin or direct it to the pins. SGN is better ...
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Pankaj said:
iPhone just gets better. Developers are taking it to the new heights.
