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Who Cares If Corporate Valuations Are Crazy?
via GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham on January 23, 2008
The credit crunch may not have fazed tech startups much, but the recent turmoil in the global financial markets is worrying. Whether it’s eBay paying $4.1 billion for Skype in 2005 or, more recently, Microsoft deciding Facebook is worth $15 billion, the tail wagging the dog on outlandish valuations of Web 2.0 companies are corporate buyers and investors.Unlike the venture-fueled overvaluations...
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The MacBook Air Question
via GigaOM by Om Malik on January 23, 2008
Being a sucker for shiny new things, I ended up ordering the Macbook Air, mostly to lighten the load. But after reading the reviews by the big three — Walt Mossberg, Ed Baig and Steven Levy — I am having second thoughts about my decision. (Maybe David Pogue is going to provide a contrary point of view, accompanied by a song-and-dance routine!)Reading between the lines of the not-so-gushing...
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Are the Markets Getting Too Heavy for Google to Lift?
via GigaOM by Kevin Kelleher on January 31, 2008
Ever since Google’s stock-withering earnings report, I’ve had the Flaming Lips’ “Waiting for a Superman” stuck in my head. Things are indeed getting heavy, and everyone was waiting for Google to lift the sun into the sky. That didn’t happen, and Google’s stock was quickly shoved down 9.5 percent in after-market trading.Just as it was unrealistic to expect Google to save the tech...
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It’s 2008 — Do You Know Where Your Internet Cables Are?
via GigaOM by Alistair Croll on January 31, 2008
India lost half its Internet capacity on Wednesday when two strands of fiber as thick as a thumb snapped. While service is returning to normal, it may be weeks before the cables are repaired. The fact that a pair of central Internet paths are just 2 km apart should serve as a cautionary tale as to just how fragile the Internet can be.TeleGeography, a company that tracks cable capacity, said the...
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Data Property Rights, Not Portability
via GigaOM by Nitin Borwankar on February 05, 2008
The recent flood of activity around data portability has stirred in me two reactions: keen interest and a distinct feeling of being underwhelmed. Having been in the data business since the early 90s, it’s clear to me that data portability is a non-solution to a non-problem, a storm in a teacup, an emperor with no clothes.The real problem — and the elephant in the room – is not whether web...
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Here Comes Trouble: Telephone Number Tyranny
via GigaOM by Daniel Berninger on February 06, 2008
The Internet domain name system emerged as an overlay of meaningless IP addresses 25 years ago, and yet the wait for a mechanism that would reduce the need to keep track of meaningless telephone numbers continues. Sure, the conversion to automated switching saved the telephone company from employing operators, but it shifted the burden of switching to the public. And as Edward Tuck explained in...
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SkyGrid: Finds The Wisdom Of The Webs
via GigaOM by Carleen Hawn on February 12, 2008
If you’re like me, overwhelmed by the number of news sources you have to consume daily just to stay current (I confess to a love-hate relationship with my RSS reader), then Kevin Pomplun has a product for you: a news aggregator so clever, you don’t even have to read headlines to keep your finger on the pulse. Pomplun is the 26-year-old founder of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SkyGrid. Founded in...
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Sun Buys VirtualBox Virtualization Software
via GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham on February 12, 2008
If only it were green. That’s what I found myself thinking after Sun Microsystems paid an undisclosed amount for Innotek, the makers of open source desktop virtualization software VirtualBox Virtual Machine. With an earth-friendly spin Innoteck could have created a trifecta of buzzwords that would have really pumped up its valuation.However open source (please recall Sun just spent $1 billion...
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Is Yahoo Really Worth More Than What Microsoft Offered?
via GigaOM by Om Malik on February 12, 2008
Yahoo’s stock had been declining steadily for almost two years before Microsoft showed up with Mad Money, yet the Internet portal thinks it’s worth $40 a share. Fact, or a case of corporate delusion? I think it’s the latter. Why is it worth $40 a share? (Is it because Microsoft offered $40 a share for Yahoo earlier, and Yahoo never took the offer and now are banging their head against the...
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