Browse by Tags

Facebook: Lawsuits, IPOs, and Acquisitions

ConnectU is suing Facebook for, among other things, copyright infringement, breach of contract, theft of trade secret. (It should be noted that Facebook is counter-suing for business torts and unfair business practices). ConnectU (which started at Harvard Connection) alleges that Mark Zuckerberg was...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-24-2007
Looking at Google's acquisition of Postini

Last week, Google (GOOG) purchased Postini for $625m . Jason calls this Google's most enterprisey acquisition yet - and despite all the other acquisitions, it's "the first evidence . . . that Google is ready to take the kid gloves off outside of the ad-driven model." Cote says that...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-17-2007
Refocusing Net Neutrality

Awhile back, I echoed the electricity analogy : the problem is that the "telecoms are threatening to charge a premium for how the utility is used, instead of how much of it is used." Someone from the Hands Off the Internet Coalition commented on that post. Tim, the analogy is flawed and doesn't make...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-04-2007
The real reason for Google's free 411 service

Tim O'Reilly speculated why Google is really doing a free 411 service . In short, I'm speculating that the 1-800-GOOG-411 service is designed to harvest voice data to build Google's own speech database, rather than licensing from Nuance or another player. Charlie confirmed this at the recent Google Developer...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-04-2007
Aloha, Mahalo.com

I found this arrangement in my feed reader mildly amusing this morning: Fred Wilson's post on Mahalo.com directly above a post by Brad Feld entitled "The Computer Should Be Doing the Work for Us". (They are unrelated entries). Mahalo.com is, of course, a people-powered search engine that Jason Calacanis...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-31-2007
How Microsoft can crush Google

Dare points to this insightful, if nefarious, post on how Microsoft could crush Google in one easy step . I've long made the argument that Google is not a technology company, but rather an advertising / media company. Clearly, the distinction between technology and media is at least blurring. In fact...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-10-2007
Google launches Google Apps Premier Edition

As rumored yesterday , Google made a major announcement : a subscription package of premium, hosted business applications. (Man, Arrington's sources are scary good). The service combines GMail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Google Docs & Spreadsheets for $50 per user annually. I still insist that...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-22-2007
Google bought the brand, not the technology

Scoble says Google bought YouTube because it "realized it couldn’t make its own video service look as cool as YouTube." As I said before, Google was buying YouTube's audience and/or employees, not the technology . After listening to the Google-YouTube conference call, it definitely sounds like Chad and...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-12-2006
Google has indeed acquired YouTube

Google has indeed bought YouTube , beating the " $1.5 billion reserve price " with a $1.65 billion stock deal. Jim Cramer ( via Fred ) says he was concerned with the $1.5 billion price - or rather, "concerned that someone else will come in and pay $2 billion." YouTube and Google could be game, set, match...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-09-2006
Google adds news archives

Google announced today that it has "added the ability to search through more than 200 years of historical newspaper archives alongside the latest contemporary information." As with its current News service, Google will merely index the content and will not handle content delivery. They will also not...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-06-2006

Page 1 of 2 (11 items) 1 2 Next >