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| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
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 Microsoft Should Buy Research In MotionIf Microsoft is going to make mobile a big, profitable business it needs to do better than the Windows Mobile updates that Steve Ballmer announced last week. So what's the next step? Microsoft should buy Research In Motion, the company that makes BlackBerry smartphones. Read > Microsoft To The Laid Off: Go On And Keep That Extra SeveranceMicrosoft To Web Bigwigs: Help Us Design Your New Ad PlatformWill Touch Gaming Ever Come To Windows 7? | |
| Chernin's Exit Leaves Rupe Lonely At The Top News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch thinks he can run his media giant without departing COO Peter Chernin, who's put himself out to pasture in the no-man's land of movie production. We'll see. Meantime, Rupe must defend the troubled corners of his empire without the right hand man who handled Hollywood for him. Here are the biggest challenges he's facing. Read > | |
| Is Hilary Schneider Right For The Big Yahoo Job? Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz plans to elevate ad boss Hilary Schneider to head of North American operations, the WSJ says. It's a big promotion. Is Hilary the right exec for this job? Read > | |
| How To Break Venture Capital Over the weekend, Tom Friedman published an op-ed piece in the NY Times arguing that the US government should take the bailout money it is considering handing over to the auto industry and instead give it to the top venture capital firms. It's a typical Friedman piece: boldly urging new economy innovation while getting almost everything that matters wrong. Read > | |
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There's plenty of blame to go around for the current financial crisis. But we think there are a number of people (26 to be precise) who are particularly responsible for getting us into this mess. Those 26 (all men, incidentally) are the inaugural members of our hall of shame: the most egregious abusers of public, shareholder, and investor trust in the biggest bust since the Great Depression. Read >People Watching More TV Online, On TV Americans are watching more video online, which, as we discussed last week, could someday threaten pay TV providers like cable and telco giants. But in the near term, people are still watching more television on TV than they were before, too. Read > Steve Jobs Won't Attend Apple Shareholders Meeting Apple will hold its annual shareholders meeting this Wednesday, Feb. 25. For the first time since he re-joined Apple more than 10 years ago, CEO Steve Jobs won't be in attendance, Bloomberg reports. Jobs has been on medical leave for more than a month, and isn't scheduled to return until June. Read > Big Media's New Bet To Take On Craigslist: Oodle A Silicon Valley-based classified ad startup named Oodle continues to win big deals to try to steal eyeballs away from Craigslist. The latest: Oodle is now powering AOL'snew classifieds section. Read > IBM, The Last Company To Pull Out Of Second Life? Is IBM finally done with Second Life? Could be: Ian Hughes, IBM's "Metaverse Evangelist" and point man for all things IBM and Second Life, announced on his personal blog he's leaving IBM to start his own company. Read > | |
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