In April, Credit Suisse analyst Spencer Wang estimated that YouTube would cost Google $470 million in 2009. The video streaming site would bring in $240 million, he reported, but cost $710 million to upkeep ($360 million of which is bandwidth costs). The site was, and is a “cash sinkhole,” Wang now famously proclaimed.
Today, Google has [...]
Filed under: Business, Technology, Uncategorized on October 9th, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
Despite the recent moves to curtail the tech giant’s online dominance, prompting most companies to circle their wagons, Google appears to be taking the opposite approach, further diversifying its business model instead. I read this both as a sign of confidence in its current offerings and as a logical next step in order to leverage [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on September 11th, 2009 @ 9:51 am
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The recent collaboration between Microsoft and Yahoo! along with predictions that the future of the search could be the addition of “social relevancy” have pointed the lens squarely at the search engine as the most important piece of real estate in the quest for dominance online, but if we zoom out a frame, I have [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 14th, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
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Fresh off the heels of last week’s blockbuster deal with Yahoo!, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia, another attempt to go after the top player in the space. While the Yahoo! deal was about tackling Google’s dominance of the search market, this newest collaboration takes aim at Research In Motion’s [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 13th, 2009 @ 11:45 am
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The resignation today of Erik Schmidt, CEO of Google, from Apple’s board of directors came as little surprise to many in the industry, considering the “potential conflicts of interest” between them. While the two tech giants have been seen as allies for the last handful of years, Google’s emerging product offerings – the G1 smartphone [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 3rd, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.