It Takes Money to Get Facebook Fans
What?!?! You have to BUY Facebook Fans? That’s preposterous. No it’s not. Consumers are lazy and often don’t care about you. You give them service, they give you money. The transaction has ended. They…
Cloud Wars Get Stormy with Takeover Resistance from Oracle Customers and Employees
The cloud war is brewing up some choppy seas this week, with Oracle’s OpenWorld revealing long-planned plots towards world domination. Between Oracle’s Fusion release and massive acquisitions like Sun Microsystems, the storage and software…
Comcast in Holding Pattern with Clearwire Investments
By Kyt Dotson
Wednesday, Comcast’s Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis said that the cable giant is not likely to increase its stake in the wireless broadband provider. While Comcast has invested in Clearwire in the past and…
The new Zune Marketplace is still a stupid mess
One of the things that I have been looking forward to as part of the launch of Windows Phone 7 is the move to increase the number of countries that the Zune Marketplace is…
Animoto.com: Making Slideshow Music Videos Easy for Three Years and Counting
By Kyt Dotson
In the news today, Animoto.com just had a birthday bash and a cake with three candles. Animoto is an online resource and application set that allows users to collage together their photos and video…
Oracle Stacks the Deck with Integrated Hardware and Software: Convenience, Lock-in and Higher Prices
Each year, Oracle takes over San Francisco for a week and showcases its enormity to the world. At 40,000+ attendees, this year’s OpenWorld is bigger than ever and includes the JavaOne developer conference. Indeed,…
Zynga Supports Over 215 Million Monthly Visitors and Keeps Growing
By Kyt Dotson
The popularity of Zynga’s online gaming market has been explosive, almost exponential. They have marched virtually unopposed into near dominance of the social gaming market through deals with Google and Facebook. They’re the innovation…
Confirmed: Not First SuperAngels Collusion Meeting; Limited Partners Backing Out; Entrepreneurs Getting Screwed
By John Furrier
Mike Arrington broke a story about a secret meeting of some of the big names of new super angels trying to figure out how to create "buddy networks" around early stage deals. My immediate…
RIM Tablet to be Announced Next Week
An unknown source revealed to The Wall Street Journal that RIM is expected to formally announce the existence of its much-rumored tablet next week at the developer conference in San Francisco starting Monday.
The Problem With Aggregators, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly…
By Tom Foremski
Frédéric Filloux over at "Monday Note" has written a good analysis looking at news aggregators: Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters He likes Techmeme, run by Gabe Rivera, which he dubs one of…