wired.com - 1/21/2009
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When Google's lawyers entered the smooth marble hallways of the Department of Justice on the morning of October 17, they had reason to feel confident. Sure, they were about to face the antitrust division an experience most companies dread to defend a proposed deal with Yahoo. But they had to ...
finance.yahoo.com - 1/20/2009
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STT: Summary for State Street Corp. - Yahoo! Finance
portfolio.com - 1/29/2009
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portfolio.com —
Robert Cottrell has a provocative post about the
cloud today. Is the future of information in the...
cloud? Robert has his doubts: I'd be on the pro-cloud side, were it not for the crash of cloud banking. The message from the banking cloud is that, ...
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Is Google Too Big To Fail?
alleyinsider.com - 1/23/2009
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alleyinsider.com —
Eric Schmidt 1.jpg Google's new option exchange is
just repricing by another name. It's not "evil," per...
se, but it certainly shows where Google's priorities lie (employees first, shareholders second). It makes a mockery of the "align employee ...
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Google Option Exchange: Employees Come First! (GOOG)
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Google success does not define it as a monopolist
BloggingStocks —
... Some in the U.S. Government may be eying Google as the AT&T of 1982 (Baby Bell breakup) or the Microsoft of 1998 (operating system browser monopoly). Is Google -- even without a Yahoo! partnership and even with keeping Microsoft at bay in search -- a monopolist? It's the capitalist's best question: does a company that serves customer needs so well that it takes so much business really a monopolist? ...
Google success does not define it as a monopolist
BloggingStocks —
... Some in the U.S. Government may be eying Google as the AT&T of 1982 (Baby Bell breakup) or the Microsoft of 1998 (operating system browser monopoly). Is Google -- even without a Yahoo! partnership and even with keeping Microsoft at bay in search -- a monopolist? It's the capitalist's best question: does a company that serves customer needs so well that it takes so much business really a monopolist? ...
Raising Rivals’ Costs
Organizations and Markets —
... Klein |
Last spring, Microsoft supported bills in the New York and Connecticut legislatures to impose strict regulations on businesses that gather personal information online for marketing purposes. The bills would hurt Microsoft, too, given that it also wants to sell advertisements based on customer behavior. But the self-inflicted wound may be worth it for the damage it causes Google.
Thanks to Jesse Walker for finding the passage in Wired’s very interesting story on the political economy of digital competition. ...
Making the Rules Redmond Style
Management R&D —
According to a recent story in Wired magazine, "Microsoft supported bills in the New York and Connecticut legislatures to impose strict regulations on businesses that gather personal information online for marketing purposes." Given that this is the sort of activity that Microsoft would like to undertake, it seems strange that the company would support these bills. ...
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Google Kills Print Ads —
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