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Jason Calacanis to Arthur Sulzberger: “You’re a Fool”
Jason Calacanis gave us a peek into what he calls his latest neurosis on This Week in Startups that I caught from a clip featured this afternoon on PaidContent. Jason is upset about the prospect of the New York Times taking themselves into an Apple-only distribution model. From Jason’s rant: If you are a ...
Jason Calacanis to Arthur Sulzberger: “You’re a Fool”
Jason Calacanis gave us a peek into what he calls his latest neurosis on This Week in Startups that I caught from a clip featured this afternoon on PaidContent. Jason is upset about the prospect of the New York Times taking themselves into an Apple-only distribution model. From Jason’s rant: If you are a ...
Is Hulu Coming to the iPad?
Om Malik thinks so. I’m not so sure. Om talked to Hulu CEO, Jason Kilar at the DLD conference in Munich this week and talked specifically about the iPad plans for the popular destination site for Heritage Media video. Of course, Jason, who graduated from the Jeff Bezos School of Management, and like his former ...
Do We Simply Give Up on Google as a Social Entity?
Back in 2006-2007, when Facebook was performing their final ascent, Twitter was a twinkle in everyone’s eye and no one was yet talking about the gPhone, there was a company named Google. Google was king of the heap in all things. Google Reader was my primary jumping off point for the web, GMail ran my ...
What You’re Not Hearing (Yet) About the #iPad
Apple iPad hands-on demonstration. “iPad is pretty amazing — there, I said it.” – Ryan Block The magic hour has passed, and those that have had a chance to play with the Apple Tablet have played with it and those who have their opinions out about it have started to trickle in. I’ve been in ...
#iPad: First Impressions [notable quotes]
There’s been a lot of gushing the last several weeks around the just announced iPad. Some of the best quotes I’ve seen today, both positive, negative and otherwise have come out this morning. Here’s an illustrated list of quotes I’ve come across today worth sharing. “It works pretty well and does what you expect it ...
Factsheet: The Bare Essentials on What We Know about the iPad
The iPad is here and it’s a really big iPhone. Yeah, that’s right, John Furrier called it last month. We’re about halfway through the announcement right now, and Steve Jobs has spent most of his time during the keynote on the couch demonstrating a variety of apps from the App Store, which falls in line ...
What Do You Mean By Mobile Internet?
A blog post over at ReadWriteWeb and a study by UK-based Essential Research say that “only 76% don’t access the mobile Internet.” Mike Melanson at RWW calls this “combating the hype.” The problem is not in the data – I believe that when you ask most people if they surf the web primarily on their ...
Booth Babes Revisited: Just Plain Stupid or Universally Appealing? [#CES2010 Leftovers]
We’ve seen a number of interesting videos come out of #CES, including the video that our friends Robert Scoble, Michael Sean Wright and Marc Ostrick put together as a part of their Spark Series as well as Art Fewell’s tireless efforts to bring us a mountain of video from the show. I was recently going ...
Google Q4 Earnings
Post on Google Earning Q4 from SiliconAngle Here is the post. Google reported revenues of $6.67 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, up 17% vs the fourth quarter of 2008. Earnings for the quarter came in at $1.97 billion, up from $348 million for the same quarter of 2008. Earnings per share were ...
