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| Monday, March 9, 2009 |
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 Hulu Battles BoxeeHulu, the Web video site owned by Fox and NBC, has been blocking Boxee, a Web TV-specialized browser, from accessing its videos. Hulu's old media backers have big reasons to squash software like Boxee, which makes it easier to watch Web TV on your TV. Big media wants you to watch real TV on your TV, and Web TV on your computer. That's because TV ads and cable subscriber fees keep the lights on at NBC. Not the relatively tiny trickle of Internet ad revenue that Hulu generates. And as NBC renegotiates its carrier deal with Comcast, the biggest U.S. cable company, it'll probably do anything it can to show Comcast that it's fighting services like Boxee, which threaten cable. Read > | |
| Another AOL Layoff This Week? An ex-AOLer says there are rumors in Dulles that AOL is planning another layoff this week. The d-date is rumored to be Tuesday. AOL apparently likes to whack people on Tuesdays. Read > | |
| New H-1B Restrictions Will LOWER (Some) American Tech Wages New restrictions going into place on the H-1B immigrant worker program have been so extreme some right-groups in India are threatening to boycott of US goods, and American commentators are crying protectionism. But opponents of the Grassley-Sanders amendment, which puts news restrictions in place on H-1B workers, have it wrong -- tech companies like Microsoft or Cisco aren't affected by the new measures. And fans of H-1B restrictions have it wrong too, the new bill will actually lower some wages in the tech sector. Read > | |
| Cisco Buying Flip Camcorder Maker Pure Digital? Cisco, looking to move deeper into the consumer electronics industry, is buying Flip camcorder maker Pure Digital for more than $500 million, TechCrunch reports. Read > | |
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Could severance provisions at Yahoo create a billion-dollar roadblock in the way of a theoretical new takeover attempt from Microsoft? Not anymore, no. Read > AEG CEO Blasts Live Nation, Ticketmaster Merger AEG CEO Tim Leiweke slammed the proposed Live Nation, Ticketmaster merger, saying that it is "not good for the industry." Speaking at a Billboard conference, Leiweke argued that consumers would end up paying more for tickets once the merger was completed. Read > BUSTED: Mark Zuckerberg's Secret Twitter Account Blows Up Last summer, way before the idea of Facebook trying to buy Twitter came to light, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg signed up for a Twitter account, which he used to send five private messages and nothing public. Now he's back -- maybe! -- under a new name. Read > Big On YouTube: Sketchy-Looking Pyramid Schemers With the recession fully-on, Google's video-sharing site YouTube is turning into a haven for (very) mini-Madoffs. Since the economy collapsed six months ago, videos uploaded to YouTube for the purpose of expanding pyramid schemes -- sometimes callled "cash gifting residual programs" by their perpetrators -- have increased 62.9% to 22,331 clips. Read >Fortune 500 CEOs Options Drowning Fast The Washington Post tells us that the market carnage of the past year has put options held by 99 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs firmly under water. Small wonder then, that almost 100 companies have either repriced or plan to reprice options since the beginning of last year, according to Equilar, a compensation research firm. Read > | |
 Twitter's Evan Williams: Just A Poor But Honest FarmboyObama Disses Economic BlogsCNN's Sanjay Gupta Turned Down Surgeon General Post Over MoneyGoogle's Marissa Mayer Trashes Yahoo Engineers | |
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