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Mobile Ad Networks – Big Three Google, Apple, & Millennial Media And More and More Developing
UPDATE: Reuters is reporting that the FTC is about to blog the AdMob acquisition by Google. FTC is crazy. AllThingsD Mediamemo blog has a post speculating on two things: 1) Apple announcing a ad network dubbed the iAd and 2) FTC decision to approve the Google AdMob acquisition. With Google and Apple having proprietary ad ...
Yahoo Buying Foursquare: Sure Yahoo Would Benefit
Yahoo is rumored to be looking hard at Foursquare at a price of around $100 million according to Nicholas Carlson of BI. Last week I wrote a post on Foursquare when the venture capitalists started circling. Foursquare is a great example of Silicon Valley in action. Hot deals get pimped big time. Foursquare is no ...
HP Riding iPad Hype With Their Answer Called Slate – Casual Consumption
HP is riding the iPad hype by putting out information on their answer to the iPad called HP Slate. Not sure HP gains much by putting this out at this time. I think that HP would gain more by waiting til the iPad hype noise fads. Anyway HP is in the consumer business and needs ...
Social Media Myths – A Must Watch If In Social Media Marketing – Not Just PR But Branding Applications
Michael Brito who is now a VP at Edelman Digital caught up with Adweek’s social media analyst/write Brian Morrissey who is covering social media ad models like a blanket – he’s the digital editor of Adweek. Michael Brito grabbed his video camera and filmed the content below. I’ve been following Brian for long time now ...
First Look At Unpacking The Apple iPad – Video – Apple iPad Review
iPad hype is pumping on all cylinders days before the big launch on Saturday April 3rd. Here is a first look at the iPad from opening up the box to looking at the product. According to Walt Mossberg “Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop. ...
iFund Is Already Changing the Game – Silicon Valley In Action
KPCB announced they are doubling the iFund to handle the massive flow of new innovation that will emerge from the iPad launch on Saturday. Folks this is Silicon Valley in action. Big money making big bets on big markets. I love it. It’s good for all entrepreneurs and anyone creative who gets what is happening. ...
Juniper Networks $50 Million Venture Fund – Convergence & Innovation
Update: This post I tweeted and highlighted the fact that AT&T and Apple had “signal bar” issues. See the section below In this new networking paradigm or Infrastructure 2.0 market (smart networks) the trend as highlighted by Apple iPhone and Google Android is putting massive pressure on service providers to deliver capacity and growth in ...
Marc Benioff Sees The Future – It’s Cloud Highlighted By The IPad
Marc Benioff sees the future and it’s the IPad powered by the cloud. Marc is pushing all time hype into the IPad mainly because the IPad is nothing more than a lightning rod for this new distributed computing model called cloud. He’s right about that for sure – I mean cloud. Is the future “the ...
Tim O’Reilly 2008 Interview on Internet Operating System
After reading the very good updated state of the internet operating system published by Tim O’Reilly yesterday I felt it was appropriate to share an older interview that I did with Tim. Here is a podcast that I did with Tim O’Reilly back in June 2008 – this was part of a series that I ...
Cisco Gets Antitrust Approvals for Pending Acquisition of TANDBERG – Promises Open Approach
Cisco got US Department of Justice (DOJ) and European Commision approval of their acquisition of Tandberg. Today’s announcement is due to the fact that the US DOJ will not challenge the proposed acquisition in light of the commitments Cisco has made to the European Commission. The transaction remains subject to ongoing regulatory review in Brazil; ...