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| Thursday, February 5, 2009 |
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 Google Demands Time Warner Buy Back AOL StakeIn December 2005, when Google agreed to invest $1 billion for 5% of AOL, it received the right to force Time Warner to conduct an AOL IPO or buy AOL's stake back at "fair market value" as of July 1, 2008. That was six months ago. Now Google wants its money. What does this mean? It might just be a ploy in the renegotiation of the AOL-Google search deal. AOL cuts Google a sweeter revenue share, Google backs off. Read > | |
| Bill Gates Unleashes Mosquitoes On Rich TED Conference Crowd At the TED technology conference in California, Microsoft's Chairman let a bunch of live mosquitoes go into the audience. From Twitter, we gather that Bill did it to raise malaria prevention awareness, one of the causes his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is pushing. Read > | |
| Hulu Still Growing, YouTube Still Boss Google's YouTube is still dominating the U.S. Web video market, taking half of the industry's incremental growth in December, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Web TV site Hulu is still growing, but slower than the overall market. And some of the site's impressive viewership metrics are slipping. Read > | |
| New York Times: Subscriptions Are A Great Idea! Two weeks ago, we detailed our plan to save the New York Times, including 40% cost cuts by 2010, increased print subscription price, implement online subscription fee. For the last, we were roundly blasted by socialist digerati, who regard subscriptions as heresy. Well, we're glad to see there is intelligent life where it counts at the New York Times. Read > | |
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Bandwidth hogs, beware: Time Warner Cable is rolling out bandwidth caps and overage charges to more cities. Read > Cisco Beats The Street, Guidance Weak Times are tough for Cisco Systems, but things could have been worse. In reporting earnings, the company beat analyst expectations despite a 7.5% y/y slump in sales. Read > Why AOL's Ad Revenue Collapsed Yesterday, we took AOL's replacement of Platform A head Lynda Clarizio with Yahoo's Greg Coleman as a sign that AOL's emphasis on third-party ad networks had failed and that the company was tacking back toward to its premium-display roots. Since yesterday, we have heard from many folks close to the company, some of whom have more nuanced (and sometimes conflicting) views. Read >Akamai Beats Q4, Guidance In Line Big fourth quarter for content delivery network Akamai: The company reported Q4 sales of $212.6 million, beating the Street's $205.46 consensus. EPS came in at $0.44, beating the Street's $0.40 consensus. Akamai got a boost from its acquisition of ad targeting firm Acerno. The company added $6.9 million to Akamai's Q4. Without that revenue, Akamai would have reported $205.7 million of revenue, just above consensus. Read >Windows 7 Security Savaged Some days it seems like Microsoft just can't win. Windows XP was generally well-liked for its user interface, but was criticized for being highly vulnerable to malware, viruses, and other cyberattacks. Microsoft responded by making Vista the most secure -- and most annoying -- Windows ever, with the problems that plagued XP solved with constant security pop-ups. Read > | |
 Time Warner Cable Subscriber Growth TanksIAC Display Ads May Be Down 50% This MonthObama's Commerce Secretary Pick Loves The H-1B ProgramWill Bloomberg Take Back Its Fired Employees? | |
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