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Everyone agrees that April Fools is the best day ever. Especially if you’re a blogger because you can pretty much write anything at all and get away with it. Google wants to nuke China? Yep, you can write that. Want to accuse the next attorney general of California of assaulting you? Check. Etc.
And Google takes [...]
Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Some weeks, writing this column is easy. All it takes is for an influential person – a politician, a business person, perhaps even a fellow columnist – to say something dumb and I get to spend a thousand words or so explaining precisely why they’re wrong. The “why x is wrong about y” construction is the [...]
Mon, March 22 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Not an easy thing to conceptualize indeed, but according to eMarketer there will be more mobile Internet users in China than the entire population of the US by the end of this year.
For your reference, the 2010 estimate of the size of the United States population stands at roughly 310 million people according to Wikipedia, [...]
Thu, March 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
You know all those share buttons across the Web? They are getting more and more social. What I mean by that is initially they were used to share stories or content mostly via email on a one-to-one basis, but over the past year or so services like Facebook and Twitter have been overtaking [...]
Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The history of P2P file sharing service Kazaa (which actually started life as “KaZaA”) is known to most of us born in the eighties or before, and consists mainly of copyright related lawsuits and adware-ridden software.
The gist of the story can be found on its Wikipedia profile, but what many seem to forget in [...]
Sat, February 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as Gil Elbaz did with Applied Semantics, you don’t have any problem finding investors when you want to start a new venture. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google for $100 million in 2003, and launched his latest startup, Factual, last October. He doesn’t really [...]
Wed, February 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
French game developer Gameloft, listed on Euronext Paris, this afternoon shared its 2009 financial results with the world. The video game publisher achieved consolidated sales of €122.0 million – roughly $170 million – for 2009, up 11% compared to 2008.
The company also specified ‘iPhone revenue’, which presumably means its income from distribution of its [...]
Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
