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| Friday, February 13, 2009 |
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 Microsoft Terrified Companies Won't Upgrade To Windows 7Microsoft is talking about Windows XP, Windows 7, and the enterprise again. For the moment, put aside any concerns over Microsoft's flagging online presence or the long-term threat of Office-competitors like Google Apps. The biggest problem for Microsoft over the next 12-18 months is whether enterprise customers, a whopping 71% of whom never upgraded off Windows XP, will embrace the upcoming Windows 7, or whether they'll stick it out with XP for years to come. Read >  Microsoft Poaches Another Yahoo Search VeteranMicrosoft To Open Retail StoresThe Chorus Grows: Windows 7 Coming This Year | |
| Midway Games Goes From Dying To Dead No big surprise here: After Sumner Redstone dumped his 87% stake in Midway Games, best known for the "Mortal Kombat" franchise, the move triggered bond covenants allowing Midway's creditors to demand immediate repayment of tens of millions of dollars of debt. The debt triggered widespread speculation Midway could go bust by the payment's due date, Feb 19. Turns out Midway died a week early: The company today filed for bankruptcy. Read > | |
| YouTube Video Store No Threat To iTunes... Yet Google's YouTube video site is officially getting into the video download business, including paid downloads. But for now, it's little (if any) threat to Apple's iTunes, which sells movies, TV episodes, and music videos. Read > | |
| Tina Brown: Advertising Coming To Daily Beast 'By Late Spring' Speaking at an event at the Columbia Journalism School Thursday night, Tina Brown said she thought advertising would debut on her site, The Daily Beast "by late spring." "We're getting a lot of overtures on advertising, the idea was to have a three month workshop before we went out to advertisers," Tina said. "We believe, Barry Diller believes, that the advertising model will work online." Read > | |
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Netflix's growth streak continues: The online DVD rental service says it passed the 10 million subscriber mark this week. Read > E-Commerce Slaughtered Last Year A year ago, e-commerce was growing at a healthy clip: 19% year-over year growth in Q4 2007, finishing off a strong year. A year later, the market has crashed. Read > PS3 Narrows Gap On Xbox, The Price Cuts Are Working Sony execs always say, over and over again, there's no price cuts on the PS3 coming anytime soon. The reality is little different: Over the past month we've seen virtually every major retailer out there including Wal-Mart, Dell, Amazon and Best Buy all offer some type of 'limited time only' deal on the PS3, with discounts typically in the $50 to $60 range. And it's working. Read > Garmin Not Screwed? New Nuvifone Looks Good Since late 2007, shares of GPS gadget maker Garmin have cratered, down more than 85% from their high near $124. Why? The worry that GPS built into smartphones -- like Apple's iPhone, etc. -- would destroy the GPS market the same way cellphones killed the beeper. Read > Karmazin, Ergen, and Malone Fight Over Sirius Carcass Echostar mogul Charlie Ergen bought $175 million of Sirius bonds so he could force Sirius's Mel Karmazin to hand over the company when it came time (now) for Sirius to refinance the debt. The bonds Charlie bought, however, are subordinated, which means that, if Sirius files for bankruptcy, Charlie gets nothing. Read > | |
| Is This Apple's New iPhone?Four Old Guys On PBS Solve Newspapers' Future (CLIP)Lara Croft Franchise Acquired By Legendary Gaming Co Square EnixCharter To File For Bankruptcy, Q4 Growth Stalls | |
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