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Forget “The Conquistador”: When Is Microsoft Going to Drop the Other Shoe on Its Conquering Web Strategy?
Posted from BoomTown 44 minutes ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
There will be a lot of different reactions to the first of Microsoft's newest series of commercials, featuring Founder Bill Gates playing straight man to comic Jerry Seinfeld. Set up as a discount shoe-buying skit, Seinfeld helps Gates purchase a pair called "The Conquistador," and for some Seinf... (original story)
Why Video On Demand Is Still Cable's Game To Lose
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 46 minutes ago
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Internet video streaming services keep getting better -- but we still haven't seen one that could come close to dethroning the cable industry. New this week: A new on-demand video streaming service from Amazon.com, which is an improvement over its previous "Unbox" video store. Nice selection, and gr... (original story)
Nokia: Competitors Burning Us With Lower Prices (NOK)
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 46 minutes ago
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Nokia (NOK) shares dropped 10% today after it said cost-cutting competitors were eating its market share in Q3, and that a new phone was coming along slower than expected. AP: Nokia said it was losing share because of its "tactical decision" not to match the aggressive price cuts of some of its comp... (original story)
"Hey, Guys, Amazon's Kindle Rocks!"
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 50 minutes ago
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SAI Chairman Kevin Ryan, the globe-trotting former CEO of online ad powerhouse Doubleclick, weighs in on the Kindle debate. Also on Hulu: I bought the kindle for my 13 year old son for our trip to india - he LOVED it. He bought 13 books, read them all, did not have to carry any of them, and we saved... (original story)
Newspapers Find Way To Lose Ground On The Web, Too
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 51 minutes ago
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A new facet in the litany of troubles facing the dead-tree business: Online revenues--the newspaper's only growing business--stopped growing in the second quarter. Newspaper digital revenue slipped 2.4% in the second quarter of 2008 to $776.6 million, according to figures from the Newspaper Associat... (original story)
CBS's Moonves: We Don't Need Cable Because We Have The Internet
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 51 minutes ago
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The ad business and CBS shares are in the tank, and no one seems to care that the CNET acquisition made them the world's 8th-largest Web company. Must be time for CEO Les Moonves to go on CNBC. CNBC's trio of interviewers didn't elicit much this morning, but credit Moonves for sticking to his guns. ... (original story)
McCain-Palin Win TV Ratings Race (With Help From The NFL)
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 1 hour 58 minutes ago
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On the Web, it's Obama in a landslide. But on TV, McCain and Obama are close, very close. Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention drew 38.4 million viewers last week, according to Nielsen. But according to preliminary numbers, it looks like McCain is getting 10% more viewers ... (original story)
Twitter's Corporate Users Get A New Marketing Tool
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 2 hours 23 minutes ago
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A neat new tool for companies that are looking to use Twitter for marketing: Twittertise, which lets you schedule Twitter messages in advance to send automatically. What's the point? Twitter is a live wire, so whatever you send now is immediate. That works for individual users, or companies trying t... (original story)
Christian the Lion Online Videos to Leap to the Multiplex?
Posted from BoomTown 2 hours 31 minutes ago
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Since Sony Pictures is apparently wants to make a movie from the story of the two men who bought a lion from London's Harrods department store, it's a good time to replay one of the many online videos of their reunion with him in a year after they had released him into the wild in Africa. Althoug... (original story)
Researchers Dupe 1,000 Facebook Users Into Downloading Malicious App
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 4 hours ago
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Thinking of downloading a cool Facebook app that uploads a new picture of the day from National Geographic? Don't. The app, 'NG Photo Of The Day' is part of an experiment conducted by researchers in Singapore and Greece to demonstrate how easy it is to distribute harmful applications within Faceboo... (original story)
YouTube Exonerates Biker Brutalized By NYC Cop
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 4 hours ago
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It didn't take the gears of justice long to churn over this one: criminal charges against a biker who found himself on wrong side of a "cops gone wild" video were dismissed by a New York judge. The biker, riding in a "Critical Mass" protest in July, was leveled by a NYC cop for no apparent reason as... (original story)
Joost Killing Off The Desktop Client No One Downloaded
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 5 hours ago
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Not news: Joost will soon release a long-awaited Web-based version of its peer-to-peer TV service that works in a standard browser. Kind of news: Om Malik reports that Joost is going to dump the original desktop client altogether. If true, this is a bit of a surprise because you'd expect Joost to su... (original story)
Negative Momentum: Newspaper Ad Revenues Gaining Downhill Speed (Even Online Is Declining)
Posted from TechCrunch 7 hours ago
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Can it get any worse for the newspaper industry? The steep decline in print advertising just keeps getting steeper and, for the first time, even online ad sales have gone down. Total print ads in the U.S. were down 16 percent in the second quarter to $8.8 billion. That makes nine consecutive quar... (original story)
Replay: The D5 Interview with Sen. John McCain
Posted from BoomTown 7 hours ago
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Last night, Arizona Sen. John McCain officially accepted the GOP candidacy for President, in a speech in which he pushed himself as a change agent, even though the Republicans have been in power for eight years. Actually, the maverick image was one of the reasons we invited him to our fifth D: Al... (original story)
The Entire D6 Interview With Sony’s Sir Howard Stringer (4 of 4)
Posted from BoomTown 7 hours ago
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We're posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here's Part 3 of 4 of an interview Walt Mossberg did with Sony Chairman and CEO Sir Howard Stringer. The consumer electronics giant has been under enormous pressure to innovate and comp... (original story)
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