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| Wednesday, March 4, 2009 |
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 Schmidt: Economy 'Pretty Dire', Google 'Not Immune'During a fireside chat with Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley's tech conference, Google CEO Schmidt said:
Is this particularly surprising? No. But it's a sign that the worst is perhaps still to come, especially for Google. Read > Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System'Google CEO On M&A: 'Inactive', 'Waiting For Prices To Get Better' | |
| Apple's New Macs Patch One Weak Spot, Not Another Apple introduced new Macs yesterday which could rejuvenate its desktop Mac business. But the announcement doesn't do anything for Apple in the PC industry's biggest growth market -- netbooks, or mini notebook computers -- an area where Apple will need to focus some attention this year. Read > | |
| An Ad-Supported Microsoft Office 14? That's what Microsoft Business Division Chief Stephen Elop said was coming at a presentation to analysts at the Morgan Stanley Technology conference yesterday. It's an anti-piracy initiative. Read > | |
| Palm: Business Terrible Until The Pre Goes On Sale Palm said it would report February quarter sales between $85 million and $90 million, severely below the Street's $158 million consensus. Palm also expects "declining revenues and continued margin pressure from its legacy product lines in the fiscal fourth quarter," which ends in May. Good thing the Pre is on its way. Read > | |
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The debate over the H-1B immigrant worker program -- a program under attack with new restrictions going into place -- isn't done yet. Read > Microsoft Safe From Linux Wrath Over TomTom.. For Now When news broke that Microsoft was suing Dutch GPS-maker TomTom for patent infringement, we recommended Microsoft settle the suit immediately at any cost, or face a PR backlash from geeks with a near-religious devotion to Linux and the open source movement. Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation wrote about the suit, urging Linux fans to "calm down." And they did. So Microsoft has some breathing room, for a bit. Read >5 Google Execs Get $6 Million In Bonuses CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin didn't get bonuses, but these five Google execs landed some sweet extra cash for their work in 2008. We don't expect to hear these guys talking about their take-home pay at Congressional hearing anytime soon. Read > Blockbuster: No Intent To File Bankruptcy Reports on Tuesday that Blockbuster hired a lawyer to explore a possible bankruptcy drove shares down 78% to $0.22. The company then denied it was exploring bankruptcy and the stock price lifted in after hours trading. Read > MySpace COO Kapur Leaving To Launch Startup MySpace chief operating officer Amit Kapur is stepping down, Kara Swisher reports. A memo leaked to Gawker's Owen Thomas says he's starting a new company, and taking two execs with him. Kapur has worked at MySpace since 2005. No word on whether MySpace (or News Corp.) will invest in Kapur's new venture. Read > | |
| Best Of Jimmy Fallon's First Late NightJon Stewart On Twitter: "I Have No Idea How It Works, Or Why It Is"It's Official: Julius Genachowski Nominated As FCC ChiefPoll: Should Microsoft Call Its Search Engine "Kumo," Yes Or No? | |
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