Recent Blog Posts
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Mapping Company Raises Millions
Nov 20 20094:09 pm EDT -
Facebook Valuations Are All Over the Map
Nov 20 200911:30 am EDT -
The Future of Tech, 2010 Edition
Nov 20 20099:13 am EDT -
Automatic Pancake-Making Machine Attracts $2 Million in Capital
Nov 19 20094:53 pm EDT -
Apple Talk of Microsoft's Annual Meeting
Nov 19 20091:27 pm EDT -
There Is Still Hope for the News Business
Nov 19 200911:50 am EDT -
The Google Phone May Be Near
Nov 18 20094:10 pm EDT -
Amazon Grocery Service Goes Mobile with iPhone
Nov 18 20099:13 am EDT -
How Microsoft Blew It in Mobile
Nov 17 20093:55 pm EDT -
Ten Reasons Why Startups Fail
Nov 17 20092:18 pm EDT
Links
- Engadget
- Pandora
- GigaOM
- USA TODAY Tech
- Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
- Somewhat Frank's tech conference list
- BuzzTracker Tech
- The Long Tail
- Tom Foremski
- Roger McGuinn's Folk Den
- John Battelle's SearchBlog
- Mark Cuban's blog
- SciTech Daily
- Romenesko
- Kevin Maney's site
- Steven Johnson
- Marc Andreessen
- TechCrunch
- Fred Wilson
- paidContent
- Spiedies, mmmm
First Bytes: Microsoft, Yahoo, Blockbuster...
-- Microsoft is chatting with major media companies including Time Warner and News Corp. about a joint deal to to buy Yahoo's search business-and blow the internet company out of the water. And, as it turns out, Yahoo was looking to sell itself to Microsoft after all--for 33 bucks a share just in mid-May after Steve Ballmer withdraw an offer to buy the company. [WSJ]
-- Yahoo shares dropped below $20 for the first time since Microsoft tried to buy the company. [News.com]
-- Activists are challenging Barack Obama's decision to support a bill granting telecom firms immunity from charges relating to their participation in the government's illegal wiretapping program. Related: The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Justice Dept. for records detailing how the government tracks citizens through their cellphones. [NYT]
-- Blockbuster doesn't want to buy Circuit City after all. Good idea. [WSJ]
-Sam Gustin
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