Tom Foremski
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Silicon Valley Is Back – Most Profitable Year Since Boom Of 2000
It’s taken a decade but Silicon Valley companies have climbed out of dotcom dotbomb recession and reported their most profitable year in history. The San Jose Mercury News reports that 2010 was a banner year for the 150 largest Silicon Valley companies. SV150 see most profitable year in history – SiliconValley.com “We’re really seeing some ...
Google’s Panda And The Insanity In The Search For Quality
Google regularly changes its algorithm and it’s a smart move because all the companies that were trying to game Google — and were succeeding in taking advantage of the some 200 rules that make up the algorithm — get shaken out of the results. It’s a quick way of finding the most egregious gamers of ...
Google Partner Sites Show Weak Growth – Bad News For Publishers
Google’s Q1 2011 financial results show a significant shift in revenues away from its partner sites in its AdSense advertising network. Google typically relies on partner sites for about 30% of total revenues but over the past year it has managed to reduce that to 28%. Many Google partner sites have been criticized for being ...
Old Habits Continue: No Links In Traditional Media…or PR
Anthony DeRosa is Media Product Manager at Reuters. He writes: Blogger ethics tend to be better than traditional journalism ethics when it comes to linking to sources. It’s actually far more likely you won’t find a single link in any articles in most mainstream news publications online. Sometimes they may even write out the source, ...
Will New Legal Claims Against Zuckerberg Harm Facebook’s Valuation?
Henry Blodget, over at Business Insider, believes that Paul Ceglia, an early co-developer of a project that became Facebook has a great legal case against Mark Zuckerberg. The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook Just Filed A Boatload Of New Evidence — And It’s Breathtaking …Paul Ceglia has refiled his lawsuit. With a ...
Bubble Boy Blodget Blasts Bubble 2.0
Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street analyst and now editor of Business Insider, knows the dotcom bubble very well. You could say he helped build Bubble 1.0 with his enthusiastic research reports, which supported lofty valuations of key dotcom stocks. When the dotcom bubble turned into a dotbomb, some of the blame landed at Mr ...
Gravity Meets Bubble? – Twitter Soars In Private Equity Valuation
Twitter is often grouped with other high flying private venture companies: Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon. The common trait among these four is high valuations. But Twitter is the odd-man out here because it appears that its valuation is far higher than the other three. All four are privately held, which means there is no public ...
Dell Boosts Cloud/Service Investments by $1 Billion
Dell this morning said it would invest $1 billion in expanding its solutions and services group especially in cloud and virtualization IT. Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell Services said that the $1 billion does not include M&A. Dell has made several acquisitions over the past year. It recently said it would consolidate its N. California ...
Pearltrees Reaches Key Milestones: Largest Curation Community
I’m proud to bring you news about Pearltrees, the company I’ve been working with the past year: this morning it announced it has reached 100,000 members and monthly traffic of 10 million pageviews — that’s about 100 page views per month per member. This makes Pearltrees the largest curation community on the web. That’s a ...
National Broadband Network Could Jam GPS Nav
Joelle Tessler, at AP, reports that a new nationwide wireless Internet service could drown out GPS signals and jam navigation systems in airplanes and cars. The problem stems from a recent government decision to let a Virginia company called LightSquared build a nationwide broadband network using airwaves next to those used for GPS. Manufacturers of ...