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Grading the Top 25 Newspaper Web Sites
via Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget on June 02, 2008
The newspaper industry is desperately trying to migrate its business online before fleeing print advertisers consign it to history. Most newspapers, unfortunately, are doing a piss-poor job of this, and even the best ones, such as the New York Times (NYT), still generate only a fraction of their revenue online.But still, you have to try. So how are the respective newspaper companies doing? 24/7...
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Apple And Google's Awkward Mobile Marriage (AAPL, GOOG)
via Silicon Alley Insider by Hank Williams on June 02, 2008
The relationship between Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt and Apple Inc., on whose board he sits, must, at times be incredibly awkward.Google is developing Android, an open source operating system for mobile phones, which is directly competitive with Apple's iPhone. One would think that Apple (AAPL) would not be happy with this, and would ask Schmidt to step down. Yes, I know Schmidt leaves the...
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Billionaire Broadcom (BCOM) Founder Indicted For Drugging Customers and "Warehousing" Ecstasy, Meth, and Cocaine. And Stock-Option Backdating
via Silicon Alley Insider by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
Shared by Jonathan The Dennis Leary song, "Cause I'm an Asshole" comes to mind ...Broadcom's founder is in a heapload of trouble. AP:A founder of the Broadcom Corporation, Henry T. Nicholas III, was indicted Thursday on fraud, conspiracy and drug charges - including accusations that he spiked the drinks of colleagues and customers with ecstasy and maintained a warehouse for ecstasy,...
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The Real Story: Facebook About to Pass MySpace in Traffic
via Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget on January 16, 2008
Lots of headlines yesterday about how News Corp's MySpace (NWS) is walloping Facebook in pageviews, even as MySpace's pageviews dropped year over year (caused in part by the adoption of a Facebook-like "feed" system that lets users stay on one page -- Peter Kafka explains). But TechCrunch cuts through the spin and ge
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Slayer Of Old Media Gives $1.6M For 'New Media' Chair At Berkeley
via Silicon Alley Insider by Michael Learmonth on January 17, 2008
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is often blamed for hastening the destruction of the backboneof old media -- daily newspapers -- by siphoning off theironce-lucrative classified advertising business. But he's made a few philanthro
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Yahoo (YHOO): More Details on Potential Mass Firings*
via Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget on January 19, 2008
Last night we reported a tip that Yahoo has created a list of 1,500-2,500 jobs that may be cut within two weeks
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Yahoo (YHOO) Going Forward With "Drastic" Layoffs--Source
via Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget on January 26, 2008
A source close to Yahoo reports that Jerry Yang has decided to go forward with aggressive layoffs. The source believes the layoffs will be announced on the company's conference call this week and that the final number will be likely be in the 1,500-2,500 range we reported last weekend, rather than the "hundreds" reported in the NYT and elsewhere. The source believes that the list of names...
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Are Facebook Apps Played Out Or Growing Up?
via Silicon Alley Insider by Peter Kafka on January 29, 2008
As MySpace gets ready to launch its version of a Facebook-like app platform, there's a growing debate about the future of Facebook apps themselves. Facebook's decision to open the site up to third-party developers last spring was brilliant, but less than a year later, there's already talk of app burnout.Data from Adonomics shows that the top Facebook apps ("Funwall", "Movies", "iLike"...
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Tumblr Dude's New Site: Antisocial Bookmarking
via Silicon Alley Insider by Dan Frommer on January 29, 2008
By day, Marco Arment works for popular microblogging site Tumblr. In his spare time, though, Marco has cooked up a great little site, Instapaper, which launched this week.The concept: Find a news story or Web site that you don't have time to read right away? Your previous options were to bookmark it in your Web browser -- which only stores the site on one computer -- or add it to one of...
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Amazon's Amazing Kindle Sales: Really?
via Silicon Alley Insider by Peter Kafka on January 29, 2008
SAI's Jonathan Kennedy, reporting on Amazon's Q4 earnings call, says that AMZN execs are over the moon about the Kindle, the much-hyped e-book reader they launched last fall. Jon's paraphrase:Kindle is outpacing our expectations, working hard to increase numberof units we can supply. Super excited by strong demand.This is the second time Amazon execs have said Kindle demand has caught...
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