Jeffrey Lindsay
12 Stories
Big software plans for Amazon's Kindle?
News Amazon.com's buying and hiring signal that many more Kindle apps may be on the way and software to put Amazon books on other mobile devices.
Tags: Business applications, Development/design, Applications and tools, Business Strategies & Functions, Mobile, Smart Phone, E-book Reader, E-book, Amazon.com Inc., online retail company
Yahoo plays the field with News Corp.
News The two companies are mulling a deal that would involve mixing their Internet properties, and could spur a new offer from Microsoft.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions
Yahoo tries to heal itself--again
News The beleaguered Internet portal is reorganizing management ranks in what may be a last chance to prove it should remain independent.
Tags: Internet advertising, Search, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., venture capital, software, co-founder, job, Jerry Yang
Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture
News Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. For now we'll see who can deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers first.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Web services, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Web service, Jeffrey Lindsay
Yahoo price target cut to US$21 a share
News A Sanford Bernstein analyst also cites several reasons related to the proposed Google-Yahoo deal why a transaction between Yahoo and Time Warner's ailing AOL is unlikely.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, America Online Inc., Stock, antitrust, Advertising.com
News Corp.'s talks with Microsoft: A flawed deal?
News Confining content from The Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. publications to Microsoft's Bing will do more to hurt Rupert Murdoch than Google.
Tags: Search, Web browsers, Social Networking, Google Inc., MySpace, Arianna Huffington, Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Wall Street Journal
Skype founders pull out the stops
News The men who launched the Internet-calling service are redoubling their legal efforts after a failed last-minute bid to buy back the eBay unit.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., networking company, financial, founder, Internet, VoIP/IP telephony
At eBay, showrooms push aside yard sales
News Listing new GM cars is likely the first of several ways eBay aims to sell more brand-name products while reducing its dependence on secondhand vendors.
Tags: E-commerce, E-business, eBay Inc., General Motors Corp., Sales, retail company, Best Buy Co. Inc., analyst, manufacturer, car
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo as Ford, GM, and Chrysler
News Analyst draws parallels between tech industry titans and Detroit in the early 20th century. They're thought-provoking, but is he right?
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., venture capital, Advertisement
Amazon earnings miss a beat
News Online auction site disappoints Wall Street expectations, blaming a one-time payment to Toys "R" Us for the decline in profits.
Tags: E-commerce, Earning reports/forecasts, Video Game, eBay Inc., Video, Stock, Sales, Stephen Baker, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings
Yahoo 12-month price target cut
News Wall Street analyst trims company's 12-month price target to US$24 a share. Meanwhile, Yahoo's stock dips as low as US$17.25 in early morning trading.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Paid Search, Advertisement, antitrust, valuation, shareholder, U.S.
Making social networks profitable
News Google's new approach could offer advertisers coveted online communities.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Advertisement, social networking, Nike Inc., Facebook, network, technique, Google PageRank
