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| Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
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 When Will Comcast Need To Worry About Hulu?Comcast, the biggest U.S. cable company, is losing TV subscribers. Last quarter, for instance, it lost 233,000. Why? Two big reasons: The housing market stinks and competition is heating up from phone companies like AT&T and Verizon. But Comcast has another problem, too. Read >  Hulu Cuts Off CBS's TV.com, Rivalry Heats UpComcast Beats Street, But Growth Hits The WallCBS Slashes Dividends, Blames Ad Market | |
| Yahoo Search Share Rises Again... And Google Falls! Last month we reported a potentially important change in search-market share trends: After years of steady decline, Yahoo's domestic share numbers had increased for five months in a row. Well, the good news continued in January, with Yahoo's share jumping a half-point to 21%, per comScore. Google's share, meanwhile, dropped a half-point, to 63%. You don't see that every day. Read > | |
| Will Obama Break Up Google? Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's antitrust unit, Christine Varney, believes that Google has a monopoly in search and will soon have a monopoly in cloud computing and that the government should act aggressively to prevent monopolies. So will she try to break Google up? Read > | |
| Tumblr Ditches Anonyblogger Ban Amidst User Revolt That was fast. Tuesday, blogging service Tumblr moved to ban five accounts the site's admins judged were "harassing" users -- the so called "anonybloggers." But after receiving "several hundred responses from users who are upset," Tumblr founder David Karp is backstepping: The banned accounts have returned. Read > | |
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Following user protests and a media blow-up over a change that went through weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social network will revert to its old terms of service. Read > Schumer Vows To Overturn Ban On TARP-Takers Hiring H-1B Workers A provision in the just-passed $787 billion stimulus package may put new roadblocks in the way of any bank taking TARP money from hiring H-1B immigrant workers, but the debate isn't over yet. Read > HP Misses Revenue By Over $3 Billion, Slashes Guidance A rough quarter for HP, but profit inline. In earnings released yesterday, the company reported every one of its divisions declined year over year, with the exception of its services group, buoyed by the acquisition of EDS. Read > Gates Foundation Assets Plummet 20% No surprise that Bill Gates, along with everyone else, is getting hammered by the recession. But Dealbook breaks down the numbers: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is down 19%, and Bill's Cascade Investment is down another 18%. Read > Google Wins Street View vs Privacy Case There's just no hiding from Google. Read > | |
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