Archive for the ‘Business News’ Category
LIVE: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2.0 Summit
Mark Zuckerberg, the still impossibly young CEO of social network phenom Facebook, is onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, interviewing the conference leader John Battelle. Here’s what he has to say (keep refreshing). (As he talks, he…
Yang Says Microsoft Buyout Still ‘Not a Bad Idea’
“It’s been a pretty amazing year,” Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said at the outset of an on-stage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Nov. 5. Chalk one up for understatement. During a repartee with conference chair and…
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White Spaces: The Wait for Devices
The FCC’s decision to open up more spectrum for mobile wireless, reported yesterday by my colleague Olga Kharif, is a big step forward. But it’s going to be some time before products emerge to take advantage of “white spaces.” I…
What the Failure of the Google-Yahoo Deal Means
So the Google-Yahoo search deal finally fell apart. It’s not terribly surprising. From the beginning, I said that this deal was very problematic, probably anti-competitive, and would raise the ire of government regulators. Google read the handwriting on the wall…
Google Ends Search Advertising Deal with Yahoo
After four months of wrangling with the Justice Department, Google has ditched its search advertising deal with Yahoo. The move, announced unilaterally by Google, had been widely expected in recent days, despite last-minute concessions by the two companies this week…
Election Night Twitter: Good News, Bad News
It looks like Twitter, which has had a tendency to collapse under heavy loads, has really got its infrastructure in order. As of 11 pm Eastern, the service was holding up beautifully under the flood of election night tweets–not a…
Why You Can’t Vote Online
The question arises every two years, especially after an election in which voters had to stand in line for hours and faced a variety of problems with electronic voting machines: If we can bank online and buy just about anything…
FCC Makes White Spaces Free for All
On Nov. 4, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved to allocate a swatch of wireless spectrum for public uses similar to Wi-Fi.
What Linux Needs To Win on Desktops
The Register, a snarky British online tech publication, has a great example of the challenges facing Linux if it is ever to make real progress displacing Windows or Mac OX X on desktops. The problem is that an extremely solid…
Searching for a New President: Obama Wins on Search Engine Optimization
If Barack Obama wins the election today, will it be because his Web geeks know how to do search engine optimization, commonly known as SEO? Of course not, but apparently Obama’s Web braintrust has done a much better job of…
Election Day Plays Out on the Social Web
Social media revolutionized the way campaigns were carried out online. How will the new, user-generated Web cover—and influence—Election Day? BusinessWeek bloggers will be monitoring the gamut of social sites and blogs throughout the day to provide a roundup of how Nov. 4 plays out online.
White Spaces Vote Still On… For Now
A news story is going around, claiming that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has decided to cancel its vote on white spaces tomorrow. Well, I just checked with the FCC, and was told, “That is not true.” So the vote, which could provide more wireless spectrum for free public use, is still on, for now.
