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The Yahoo Search Revenue Disaster

Yesterday, Yahoo reported a second quarter of massive declines in its search revenue.

You Are the Ad

Three years ago 1-800-Flowers, long a pioneer in Internet marketing, became the first national florist to create a fan page on Facebook.

Why Apple Investors Shouldn't Sweat Android

It seems that almost every day I'm confronted with yet another insignificant article explaining how Google has surpassed Apple in "platform market share" and that, due to this cataclysmic state of affairs, investors should jump ship as this surely amounts to nothing short of the financial end of Apple.

Time for Google to Cut Up Its Credit Card?

Google missed its numbers in the most recent earnings report.

Is Social Media an Empty Tech Revolution?

Look past the debate about whether the social media boom is another tech bubble.

Lester Bangs' Basement

Lester Bangs, the late, great early-rock critic, once said he dreamed of having a basement with every album ever released in it.

Apple Sues Samsung: A Complete Lawsuit Analysis

Apple sued Samsung yesterday, the latest in a long line of IP lawsuits against Android device manufacturers.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

BoomTown

Viral Video: “The Hobbit” Blog

Director Peter Jackson, he of the “Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy, is now filming “The Hobbit” and he’s doing a video blog from the set. This first one is more than 10 minutes long, but the time will fly for those who love Middle-earth. Read More »

Voices

Zynga, Lady Gaga Discuss Promotional Deal

Zynga Inc. and singer Lady Gaga are in discussions about a partnership to promote the singer’s upcoming album to Zynga’s huge audience of online game players, according to people familiar with the matter. Read More »

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

eMoney

Spil Games, GSN Dominate As Most-Popular Online Game Sites, But Guess Who Ranks No. 6?

What are the largest online game properties in the world? The list may surprise you. Read More »

NewEnterprise

Analysts After Intel’s Home Run Quarter: Never Mind!

How did so many Wall Street analysts misjudge Intel’s results so badly ahead of yesterday’s earnings? Today some of them tried to explain themselves. Read More »

Paul Allen’s Idea Man, The Musical

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) Read More »

Voices

Qualcomm’s Profit Rises 29 Percent

Qualcomm Inc. provided more evidence of surging demand for smartphones and tablet-style computers, posting a 29 percent increase in fiscal second-quarter earnings on revenue that jumped 46 percent. Read More »

MediaMemo

The Most Successful Store No One Cares About: Apple’s iTunes Posts a Record $1.4 Billion Quarter

Any other retailer that saw sales jump 27 percent would be showered with praise, but analysts tend to ignore the digital storefront’s success. The media world, though, is paying very close attention. Read More »

Voices

PlayBook Gets Mixed Support From Carriers

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.’s new PlayBook tablet is running into hurdles right out of the gate, as Verizon Wireless says it hasn’t decided whether to carry the device and AT&T Inc. acknowledges it isn’t yet supporting a wireless linkup needed to get email on the tablet. Read More »

MediaMemo

“We Sold Every iPad 2 We Could Make”

No surprise that Apple posted another blowout quarter. But Apple’s earnings report did contain at least one wrinkle — an iPad sales number well below what Wall Street was looking for. What happened? “The mother of all backlogs”, says COO Tim Cook. Read More »

NetworkEffect

Stumping for Likes: Obama’s Facebook Town Hall

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook hosted President Obama for a socially networked town hall session today, but tech didn’t play much part in the conversation. The president answered questions about jobs, debt, immigration and education. Read More »

Digital Daily

Apple Blows It Out…Again

steve_moneybags_thumbApple’s March quarter saw, among other things, the iPhone’s debut on Verizon, the launch of the iPad 2 and the new Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Pro line. No wonder it was a blowout. Read More »

News Byte

Cellular South, LightSquared Decide to Roam Together

LightSquared and Cellular South said Wednesday they had signed a deal to allow their customers to roam across both networks. Cellular South is a privately owned regional phone carrier, while LightSquared is a start-up venture aiming to build out a 4G network that it can resell to others. The deal will give LightSquared customers access to Cellular South’s rural network, while expanding coverage for Cellular South customers in areas its own network doesn’t cover.

Digital Daily

PlayBook Launch Strategy Revealed: Delayed Gratification!

Despite a launch marred by lousy execution, PR gaffes and middling reviews, there’s still promise in Research in Motion’s PlayBook–particularly once the company addresses its early shortcomings. Read More »

Voices

TiVo Soars on Ruling in Dish Network Case

TiVo Inc. stock was up 35 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday after a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that would force satellite broadcaster Dish Network to shut down millions of digital video recorders because they were found to have infringed upon TiVo Inc. patents. Read More »

NetworkEffect

This Week in Goal Setting: Foursquare Aspires to Be “Clippy in Your Pocket”

Foursquare is ultimately about offline discovery and exploration, said CEO Dennis Crowley in an interview with me last night at an event in San Francisco. He said his goal is for the app to be a sort of personalized helper with personality, like Microsoft’s terrible Clippy office assistant but smarter. Read More »

BoomTown

WSJ.Com’s “Digits”: Is Wal-Mart’s Future Bright With Kosmix?

Yesterday, from the back of the official All Things Digital minivan, BoomTown donned the official ATD Ray-Ban Aviators to talk on WSJ.com’s “Digits” online news show about the $300 million acquisition of Kosmix by Wal-Mart announced earlier this week. Can the retail giant, which has tried a number of digital moves in years past (to negligible impact), get social and mobile this time? Read More »

NewEnterprise

Google Earth Builder Brings Cloud to Companies and Governments Who Make Big Maps

Google Maps is useful when you need to find the restaurant you’re headed to or to plan a trip. But the mapping business is more serious and significant than many perceive. Google plans to open up its cloud to companies and governments with huge troves of digital maps to build their own internal Google Earths. Read More »

QOTD: You Know What Sounds Cool? Another Facebook! DD Shorty

“I know it sounds crazy, but our new company, http://altly.com, is building an alternative to Facebook. More details soon :-)”

– Former Veoh CEO, and, more recently, former MySpace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro, setting some not-very modest goals for himself via Twitter.

Mobilized

My iPhone Is Tracking Me? That’s Outrageous, But Also Kind of Cool.

The initial reaction to revelations that the iPhone has been tracking all the places it has been was the predictable (and perhaps justified) one of concern. More interesting, though, is the second reaction of many an iPhone user to share that data. Read More »

News Byte

Check it Out: Amazon Will Add 11,000 U.S. Libraries to the Kindle

Amazon just eliminated one of the biggest differences between the Kindle and competing e-readers. It said today it will be rolling out the Kindle Library Lending feature later this year, allowing customers to borrow books for free from more than 11,000 libraries in the U.S. Other e-readers and e-book services have allowed books to be checked out from the library for some time. Amazon said library books will be available both on Kindle devices and through the Kindle’s mobile apps.

Earlier Posts

A Buyer’s Guide to Laptops

With the industry in flux and tablets on the rise, you'll want to take a modest approach to choosing a laptop. Walt offers advice in his twice-yearly buyer's guide. Read More »

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