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| Friday, March 20, 2009 |
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 Ballmer: Macs Too Expensive For Broke AmericansApple's Mac business has outpaced the overall PC industry in recent years, taking market share away from Microsoft Windows-based PCs. But last month, at least, sales of Windows-based PCs grew, while Mac sales declined. Makes sense to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. "The economy is helpful," Ballmer said at a conference yesterday in New York. "Paying an extra $500 for a computer with a[n Apple] logo on it doesn't make a whole lot of sense in this economy." Read > Microsoft: We'll Never Buy The New York TimesBallmer Asks What's A Kumo?Sun Micro Nothing But A Sandbag For IBM | |
| Personal Finance Startup Mint Making Good Money In Downturn Recession winner: Silicon Valley-based personal finance Mint, which bundles your bank accounts and brokerage accounts into a free, well-designed site, and offers budgeting and spending analysis tools. Unlike many of its Web 2.0 peers, Mint is a real business, too: By our back-of-the-envelope estimates, if the company hits its 2009 growth targets, it could reach $10 million in sales this year. Read > | |
| How About An Ad-Spending Stimulus? The government's stimulus plan won't work as planned if we don't get consumers spending again. But in the nearly $800 billion package, there is one thing missing that would surely help accomplish this: advertising. To get people spending again, and the economy moving, the government needs to provide help for businesses in America to advertise their products and services. Read > | |
| Cisco Buys Flip-Maker Pure Digital For $590 Million Cisco plans to buy Pure Digital, the company that's sold 2 million Flip digital video cameras. Cisco will pay $590 million in stock for Pure Digital. It's also putting up $15 million in "retention-based equity incentives for continuing employees." Read > | |
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CBS (CBS) is streaming all of the 'March Madness' NCAA basketball tournament again this year via the Web. We don't want to jinx CBS and its streaming partner Akamai Technologies, which have quite a lot of traffic ahead of them -- but this is some of the best Web video we've ever seen. Read > Sony Freezes (Some) Employee Wages More fiscal austerity for Sony, which recently slashed its dividend 15%. The company today announced its freezing salaries for its employees. Read > Microsoft IE8 Still Eats Firefox's Dust Microsoft's temporary monopoly on browsers didn't teach it how to build a great one--even now that it is threatened by reinvigorated competition. There's some positive noises about the latest version, IE8, but not enough to get him to abandon Firefox. Read > How Does CEO Compensation Correlate With Stock Performance? Here's a chart tracking 11 digital media CEOs and how their compensation increases or decreases correlated with their companies' stock increases or decreases. Read > Google Street View Captures The UK's Decline We've been talking about the decline of the UK for awhile, but we finally have pictorial evidence thanks to Google Street View, which has a tendency to pick up some funny stuff. Read > | |
| Pirates Stealing March Madness Despite Free CBS StreamsCBS's NCAA 'Boss Button' Now A Comcast AdApple Adds HD Movie Rentals, Downloads To iTunesNot A Kindle Killer: Sony, Google Team Up For Free Old Books | |
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