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  • Google is “fast becoming just another company”

    An interesting article about the backlash with Google increasing its day care costs ( via Alex ). Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who have children in Google’s day care facilities. The purpose was to gauge their reaction to the company’s plan to raise the amount...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-05-2008
  • 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
  • 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
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