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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Weekend Favs May Twenty Eight
Weekend Favs May Twenty Eight
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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on Women in Workplace: "Don't Leave Before You Leave"
In her second major speech focused on women in the workplace, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the graduates at Barnard College's 119th commencement ceremony in New York yesterday not to "leave before you leave."
Her message--a version of which she also delivered last year to an audience at the Ted Women conference in Washington, D.C., in a speech titled "Why We Have So Few Women Leaders"--should be paid attention to in Silicon Valley, where Sandberg is one of the few high-ranking and high-profile women execs.
Her message--a version of which she also delivered last year to an audience at the Ted Women conference in Washington, D.C., in a speech titled "Why We Have So Few Women Leaders"--should be paid attention to in Silicon Valley, where Sandberg is one of the few high-ranking and high-profile women execs.
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Viral Video: Kids React to "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two" Trailer
The next "Harry Potter" movie comes out later this summer, but there is already some excited Internet reaction to the last in the movie series.
Tara Reed Avril Lavigne Bridget Moynahan Noureen DeWulf Nicollette Sheridan
Real Estate Reality
CNBC’s Gary Kaminsky discusses the poor housing data and the idea that things in the industry continue to get worse, despite the government’s best efforts. In short, there’s a sea change in attitudes toward buying vs. renting. Tue 31 May 11 | 12:00 PM ET Double Dip House Prices CNBC’s Diana Olick breaks down the [...]
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WIPP Small Business Roundup Edition
Women Impacting Public Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan group advocating for women-owned small businesses. WIPP regularly puts out updates for the benefit of small businesses owned and operated by women. In this roundup, we look at some of the latest�issues being�focused on�by�WIPP�hopefully helpful to any small business owner. Enjoy!
Outlook
Cautious optimism for 2011. You’ve heard some polls both positive and negative about the future of small business growth throughout the rest of 2011. While hereRead More
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WIPP Small Business Roundup Edition
Charisma Carpenter Hilarie Burton Kelly Carlson Sara Foster Natassia Malthe
Three Things I Learned On The Internet This Morning
1) Ron Wyden put a hold on Protect IP (Ars Technica) - I blogged about Protect IP a week or so ago. Ron Wyden is my favorite Senator for many reasons, this included. He said: I understand and agree with...
Estella Warren Cinthia Moura Monica Potter Brittany Snow Lauren German
Three Things I Learned On The Internet This Morning
1) Ron Wyden put a hold on Protect IP (Ars Technica) - I blogged about Protect IP a week or so ago. Ron Wyden is my favorite Senator for many reasons, this included. He said: I understand and agree with...
Nicole Scherzinger Jill Arrington Tami Donaldson Padma Lakshmi Sarah Mutch
Survivors of Domestic Violence Get a Shot at Entrepreneurship
Verizon just announced its Domestic Violence Entrepreneurship Program, which will award grants of $1,000 to $5,000 to survivors of domestic violence in New York state who want to start their lives over by launching a small business. A total of $45,000 will be awarded.
According to the press release put out on this program, “The successful development of a home or small business can bring women increased control over their working lives, create important financial and social opportunitiesRead More
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Survivors of Domestic Violence Get a Shot at Entrepreneurship
Amerie Rachel Bilson Karen Carreno Bijou Phillips Marika Dominczyk
CafeMom Nabs Top Yahoo Sales Exec in New York
Ann Lundberg, a top sales exec at Yahoo's New York office, is joining CafeMom as head of sales. The five-year Yahoo veteran will focus on building the marketplace profile of the social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, which has recently expanded its offerings to daily deals, as well as announcing an anticipated launch of a site aimed at Hispanic moms.
Kelly Hu Michelle Rodriguez Mena Suvari Georgina Grenville Michelle Trachtenberg
Monday, May 30, 2011
10 Infuriatingly Greedy Charities
Not all charities are created equally; at least, not all of them spend equally. The ways in which a charity spends its donors? dollars have been coming under increasing scrutiny in the past few years, as wave upon wave of scandals has rocked... Read more
Rose Byrne Willa Ford Desiree Dymond Teri Polo Summer Altice
Fresh List of Small Business Awards and Contests
This list of contests, competitions and awards for small businesses is brought to you every other week as a community service by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com.
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Verisign Small Business Contest
Deadline extended to May 31, 2011
Verisign is hosting an international contest for small businesses to compete for a chance to win $25,000 (USD). The contest asks small businesses to addressRead More
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Fresh List of Small Business Awards and Contests
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Geoff Ralston Talks About Education Incubator, Imagine K12
Instead of heading to another company or starting one, longtime Silicon Valley Geoff Ralston is about to welcome a new crop of start-ups to Imagine K12, a new education incubator.
Ralston explains it all in the video after the jump.
Ralston explains it all in the video after the jump.
Sara Foster Natassia Malthe Victoria Silvstedt Hilary Swank Whitney Port
VC Firm Jobs Page
VC firms typically don't hire very many people. But our portfolio companies sure do. So what you typically see when you go to a VC firm's website is a jobs page that showcases jobs from their portfolio companies. USV's jobs...
Tara Conner Drea de Matteo Trista Rehn Moon Bloodgood Kristin Kreuk
14 Public Apologies for Private Lives
We the people of the United States of America are a very fickle people. We like to worship our celebrities. But we also like to tear down those celebrities and harshly judge them when they mess up. We also like to forgive them? if they... Read more
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Video: Om Talks About $6 Million Giga-Funding
Yesterday, I slogged through the rain to the downtown San Francisco HQ of the GigaOM Network to visit with tech blogging pioneer Om Malik and talk about the latest $6 million in funding for the tech news and analysis site.
Julie Berry Lori Heuring Nicole Scherzinger Jill Arrington Tami Donaldson
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Nvidia launches $99 3D Vision wired glasses
Trying to jumpstart a new market, Nvidia is introducing a pair of wired stereoscopic 3D glasses today for $99.
The company charges $199 for the wireless version of its 3D Vision glasses, which allow users to view computer games and movies in stereoscopic 3D. At $99, the wired version is aimed at making 3D more affordable for mass market gamers.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based graphics chip maker introduced the new wired model at the Computex 2011 trade show in Taipei. ?The glasses use Nvidia’s active-shutter technology, which offers higher quality 3D than ordinary 3D glasses, allowing users to watch in 1080p, or high-definition. But the wireless glasses need to be charged and the wired version can be produced more cheaply. So the wired version may help the technology take off better.
Today, there are 525 full-HD 3D games that use Nvidia’s technology. Users can also watch Blu-ray 3D movies and view streaming 3D video from YouTube and 3DVisionLive.com with the glasses. The wired glasses support 65 different 3D Vision computers. Phil Eisler, general manager of 3D Vision at Nvidia, said the company has built the largest ecosystem of 3D products around 3D Vision.
Users connect the glasses to a PC via a 10-foot-long universal serial bus 2.0 cable. The wired glasses are expected to be available in late June from the Nvidia store, retailers, and web sites.
Companies: Nvidia
People: Phil Eisler
Jill Arrington Tami Donaldson Padma Lakshmi Sarah Mutch Gabrielle Union
Geoff Ralston Talks About Education Incubator, Imagine K12
Instead of heading to another company or starting one, longtime Silicon Valley Geoff Ralston is about to welcome a new crop of start-ups to Imagine K12, a new education incubator.
Ralston explains it all in the video after the jump.
Ralston explains it all in the video after the jump.
Melissa Joan Hart Bianca Kajlich Giulianna Ramirez Ashley Greene April Scott
Bad Share Day: Yahoo Stock Limp After Investor Day (and Google's Swiping of Its Ad Title)
Apparently, reassurances about its relationship with Chinese partner Alibaba Group and some lively presentations by top execs at a six-hour investor day yesterday did almost nothing for Yahoo shares.
Neither did a report showing Google unseating Yahoo as the display ad market leader.
Neither did a report showing Google unseating Yahoo as the display ad market leader.
Kelly Brook Robin Tunney Kate Groombridge Dania Ramirez Lucy Liu
Where Does Spam Come From ?
> Crazy giant study on spam where authors disable spam filters and bought everything offfered to them: Abstract?Spam-based advertising is a business. While it has engendered both widespread antipathy and a multi-billion dollar anti-spam industry, it continues to exist because it fuels a pro?table enterprise. We lack, however, a solid understanding of this enterprise?s full [...]
Krista Allen Hayden Panettiere Jules Asner Whitney Able Kelly Clarkson
14 Public Apologies for Private Lives
We the people of the United States of America are a very fickle people. We like to worship our celebrities. But we also like to tear down those celebrities and harshly judge them when they mess up. We also like to forgive them? if they... Read more
Amber Valletta Paris Hilton Victoria Pratt Shakara Ledard Vanessa Marcil
10 Celebrities Who Got Burned By Identity Thieves
The scariest thing about identity theft is how easy it can be for someone to be impersonated. A quick root through the weekly garbage can sometimes be all that a con artist needs to take on the identity of an innocent victim and rack up debt in... Read more
Anne Marie Kortright Paige Butcher Amanda Peet Xenia Seeberg The Avatars of Second Life
Some Thoughts On InvestorRank
Chris Farmer, a VC with General Catalyst, presented some interesting data yesterday at Disrupt. He ranked VC firms on the basis of what companies they invested in as the first VC investor. If you invested in a highly successful company...
Shanna Moakler Portia de Rossi Jolene Blalock Nichole Robinson Monet Mazur
Now Appearing @ D9: Microsoft's Windows President Steven Sinofsky
Microsoft's Windows kingpin Steven Sinofsky will be onstage at D9 next week to talk about the future of the flagship franchise in the era of all kinds of new devices and the cloud.
Get ready for him and a range of other top tech and media speakers, all coming to the famous red hot seat at the ninth D: All Things Digital conference.
Get ready for him and a range of other top tech and media speakers, all coming to the famous red hot seat at the ninth D: All Things Digital conference.
Rozonda Thomas Rachel Weisz Miranda Kerr Sarah Shahi Anna Paquin
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Protect IP (fka COICA)
There's a legislative effort underway in the US Congress to pass a bill that attempts to "counter the illegal online sale of counterfeit goods." In its earlier incarnation, it was called COICA. Now it is called Protect IP. Regardless of...
Jamie Chung Alicia Witt Radha Mitchell Melissa Rycroft Chloë Sevigny
Citigroup: Microsoft not too late with tablets
Microsoft’s decision to base its tablets on the upcoming Windows 8 instead of a leaner mobile OS may seem downright insane, but Citigroup still has some faith in the company.
Citigroup believes that Microsoft may not be too late to jump into the tablet fray, and that it has a chance to snag some tablet market share starting in 2013, Reuters reports.
Citigroup’s findings don’t appear to be based on much insider knowledge, and it didn’t give a source for its information. What it said is pretty much what anyone paying attention to Windows 8 news already knows: Microsoft is expected to release a Windows 8 beta later this year and to officially launch the new OS sometime in 2012 or 2013.
However, Citigroup did come up with one interesting theory: that Microsoft would release Windows 8 tablets before the OS hits desktops. Given just how far behind Microsoft already is in the tablet arena, it certainly would make sense for it to get tablets out as soon as possible. Apple has already released a second-generation tablet with the iPad 2, and Android tablets are improving significantly thanks to the release of Android 3.0.
But it remains to be seen if Microsoft can deliver both a good tablet and desktop experience with Windows 8. The company has been trying to shoehorn desktop operating systems into tablets since Windows XP, and it has never turned out well. (There’s a good reason we haven’t seen many Windows 7 tablets following the HP Slate’s failed launch.)
As we reported yesterday, Microsoft may show off prototype tablets running Windows 8 at the D9 conference next week.
We’ll be exploring the most disruptive mobile trends at our fourth annual MobileBeat 2011 conference, on July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. It will focus on the rise of 4G and how it delivers the promise of true mobile computing. We’re also accepting entries for our mobile startup competition at the show. MobileBeat is co-located with our GamesBeat 2011 conference this year. To register, click on this link. Sponsors can message us at sponsors@venturebeat.com.
Companies: Microsoft
Lucy Liu LeAnn Rimes Adrianne Curry Jennifer Gimenez Katie Cassidy
Viral Video: Motion Capture Magic in Jackson and Spielberg Movie "Tintin"
It will be interesting to see how moviegoers will react to the motion capture technology in this movie--"The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn"--being produced by film legends Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.
Paula Garcés Genelle Frenoy Shania Twain Gwen Stefani Sunny Mabrey
Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Another Top Exec?Mike Gupta?to Zynga
Zynga has nabbed another top exec from Yahoo--this time, Mike Gupta, one of its key strategy and corporate finance execs, sources say.
He will have a similar role at Zynga, in charge of areas such as investor relations.
He will have a similar role at Zynga, in charge of areas such as investor relations.
Rachel McAdams Kristin Cavallari Brittany Murphy Britney Spears Amanda Swisten
France Brings in Tout Le Web Before the G8 Summit
Bonjour! Tout le Web heads for Paris tomorrow for a big Internet confab ahead of the annual G8 summit.
Can its organizer, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, sell Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on his idea that we all need a "civilized Internet"?
Can its organizer, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, sell Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on his idea that we all need a "civilized Internet"?
Victoria Silvstedt Hilary Swank Whitney Port Minka Kelly Carol Grow
Intel to steer its center of gravity into low-power microprocessors (exclusive)
Sean Maloney, Intel’s newly appointed president of Intel China, plans to deliver a keynote speech at the Computex trade show in Taiwan next week where he will unveil a heavy-duty effort to steer Intel into the production of low-power microprocessors.
Maloney is expected to say that Intel will accelerate its efforts to make chips that are more appropriate for tablet computers, smartphones, laptops, and low-power desktops. Intel has been doing that for some time. But Maloney, a well-respected executive who recovered from a stroke that kept him sidelined last year, is expected to push that even farther, according to a source familiar with the matter.
This shift within Intel is similar to the shift that occurred when it launched its Centrino laptop processors in 2003 — which Intel referred to as a right-hand turn. This is another right-hand turn, since the current roadmap isn’t as ambitious when it comes to low power consumption.
Most of Intel’s mainstream desktop chips target power consumption of about 40 watts or so. That allows for very fast microprocessor performance, but such a chip generates enough heat that it can’t be so easily used in a laptop and has no chance of making it into a tablet or smartphone. Now, Intel plans to target mainstream chips that consume about 15 watts.
That’s a big difference, but it doesn’t mean Intel will cancel a bunch of chips in development. Rather, the company will modify the roadmap over the next couple of years so that the center of its efforts focuses on 15 watt or lower wattage chips.
The company has already been moving in this direction for a number of years. Intel recently announced a new manufacturing innovation dubbed Tri-Gate transistors that will allow it to use lower power and smaller circuits in its 22 nanometer microprocessors. (Intel’s current Sandy Bridge chips use 32-nanometer manufacturing; the smaller the number, the faster, lower power, and lower cost.) �At its recent annual investor meeting, Intel showed a working 22-nanometer microprocessor code-named Ivy Bridge that is one of the flagship chips for this new low-power strategy. The Tri-Gate transistors take advantage of three dimensions and allow for a 50 percent power reduction at a given level of performance with only a 2 to 3 percent increase in costs. Ivy Bridge will be followed by a chip code-named Haswell that will represent the fruition of Intel’s efforts to reduce the average wattage of its mainstream chips.
Intel is also accelerating development of its lowest-power Atom microprocessors, which are targeted at smartphones, tablets and ultrathin laptops. The Atom chips have been shipping for a number of years, but Intel will turn up the treadmill now. It will shift from 45 nanometer Atom chips this year to 32 nanometer chips and then 22-nanometer chips in 2012. With every manufacturing shift, Intel can make its chips cheaper, faster, smaller and lower power. That pace of innovation is faster than the pace of Moore’s Law (observed in 1965 by Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore), which says the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.
Intel is also designing a brand new Atom single-chip computer architecture, code-named Silvermont, from the ground up. Those chips are also going to be designed for low power, and the cadence for introducing new chips will become increasingly faster. The 22-nanometer Silvermont chips are expected to be introduced around 2013.
“Intel will completely focus a huge percentage of consumer microprocessors toward mainstream, low-power, ultra-thin, no-compromise computers,” said the source. “The center point of the roadmap will be all about ultra-mobility.”
By the end of 2012, a large percentage of consumer laptops will be in the ultrathin category — think MacBook Air laptops that cost a lot less than they do today and have a lot more performance and all-day battery life. That’s the kind of machine that will use the chips that Intel is placing at the center of its efforts.
Asia is a good place to make the announcement since China is expected to be the largest PC market in the world starting next year. Maloney’s assignment to that region is significant. Maloney was considered the heir apparent to Intel chief executive Paul Otellini. But a stroke threw him off that path. He returned to work in January and is regaining control of his motor skills.
Intel’s Atom processors are beginning to appear in tablet computers and about 10 of them will be shown off at the Computex show in Taiwan.
Companies: Intel
People: Paul Otellini, Sean Maloney
NASE Succeed Scholarship Helps Self Employed Further Their Education
In this economy, whatever you can do to get a leg up makes all the difference. For the self employed, it’s hard to compete on price or offerings, so sometimes it’s just being a little smarter than the competition that wins the business.
The National Association for the Self Employed (NASE) recognizes the importance that continuing education plays for small business owners, and to that effect, the organization is offering its Succeed Scholarship to members.
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NASE Succeed Scholarship Helps Self Employed Further Their Education
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PayPal slaps Google with lawsuit over mobile secrets
Online financial transaction service PayPal filed a California state lawsuit yesterday against Google claiming the search giant stole trade secrets from its mobile-payment business.
The suit claims former PayPal and current Google executive Stephanie Tilenius violated contractual obligations by recruiting former PayPal employee Osama Bedier, who is now leading Google’s efforts to bring point of sale technologies and services to retailers on its behalf, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The lawsuit comes just as Google has unveiled two new services that will allow consumers to pay business owners and redeem coupons using a smartphone, which would allow the company to expand into traditional brick and mortar stores.
PayPal�is also hard at work on a new point of sale system that would allow it to expand its services beyond an online marketplace. The company is said to be working with major retailers on new equipment that would accept PayPal transactions in addition to swiping credit cards.
While a violation of contract may be easy for PayPal to prove against its former employees, I’m skeptical that the company would succeed in suing Google on the grounds that it stole trade secrets.
It will be interesting to see if PayPal can bring additional evidence against Google that might add weight to the company’s claim.
Companies: Google, paypal
Teri Polo Summer Altice Rose McGowan Bar Refaeli Jessica White
NASE Succeed Scholarship Helps Self Employed Further Their Education
In this economy, whatever you can do to get a leg up makes all the difference. For the self employed, it’s hard to compete on price or offerings, so sometimes it’s just being a little smarter than the competition that wins the business.
The National Association for the Self Employed (NASE) recognizes the importance that continuing education plays for small business owners, and to that effect, the organization is offering its Succeed Scholarship to members.
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NASE Succeed Scholarship Helps Self Employed Further Their Education
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Welcome to the AllThingsD Redesign!
No, you're not on the wrong site.
And, yes, this is All Things D.
A whole new redesign of All Things D, that is.
Here's a guide to make the transition easier.
And, yes, this is All Things D.
A whole new redesign of All Things D, that is.
Here's a guide to make the transition easier.
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Friday Guest Stars
Friday Guest Stars
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Welcome to the AllThingsD Redesign!
No, you're not on the wrong site.
And, yes, this is All Things D.
A whole new redesign of All Things D, that is.
Here's a guide to make the transition easier.
And, yes, this is All Things D.
A whole new redesign of All Things D, that is.
Here's a guide to make the transition easier.
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The Complete Small Business Marketer?s SEO Toolkit
The Complete Small Business Marketer?s SEO Toolkit
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Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the “Wilderness Downtown” video that customizes for the user, his [...]
My New Setup
cloud, productivity applications, mobile
Christina DaRe Malin Akerman Melissa Joan Hart Bianca Kajlich Giulianna Ramirez
The Complete Small Business Marketer?s SEO Toolkit
The Complete Small Business Marketer?s SEO Toolkit
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2011 College Graduates: Are you Ready for Life?
The 2011 graduates have just walked the stage and are preparing themselves for the great adventure to follow. Mixed emotions are flooding through them; "Am I ready? Will I find a job related to my degree?" There are many paths a graduate can... Read more
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How Corporations Get Out of Paying Taxes
There's been a lot of media-driven furor this year around the issue of humongous corporations weaseling their way out of paying taxes, with GE taking a brunt of the public assault. While with each passing month we hear of some new offender, one... Read more
Monika Kramlik Lacey Chabert Amber Brkich Gretha Cavazzoni Marla Sokoloff
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Small Business Blogging And Social Media Memes
Blogging and social media are the backbone of small business online marketing today. Here are some nuggets of wisdom to pass on about the best use of these tools including how they can boost your brand and transform your SMB. Enjoy!
Blogging
5 reasons your business needs a blog. You’ve heard it all before in a dozen different places, but maybe never as succinctly. Here are the basic reasons a blog solves all of your major online marketing needs inRead More
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Small Business Blogging And Social Media Memes
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ATD Invades Groupon's Chicago HQ (Video)
Last week, my partner-in-crime-and-bloggery, Walt Mossberg, and I were in Chicago for a Wall Street Journal event, so we took the opportunity to visit the global HQ of Groupon there.
The social buying company has been going like gangbusters over the last year, both in terms of valuation and growth.
The social buying company has been going like gangbusters over the last year, both in terms of valuation and growth.
Hilarie Burton Kelly Carlson Sara Foster Natassia Malthe Victoria Silvstedt
S&P500 Cap Weight versus Equal Weight
The S&P500 is one of the most widely held indices in the US. And yet, the Market Cap weighted version has a tendency to become dominated by a handful of big caps. This is especially likely towards the end of a major run, when a handful of megacaps dominate the trading action. One possible solution? [...]
Anna Paquin Diane Kruger Magdalena Wróbel Connie Nielsen Melissa George
Are YOU Taking a Vacation This Year?
As summer draws near, thoughts turn to lazy vacations. But not for more than half of small business owners. According to the 2011 American Express OPEN Small Business Vacation Monitor, only 46% of U.S. small biz owners plan to take a summer vacation this year.
That’s pathetic.
Consider, though, that in 2010 just 40% took a one-week vacation.� So it’s an improvement of 6%, at least.
So what about you? Will you leaveRead More
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Are YOU Taking a Vacation This Year?
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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on Women in Workplace: "Don't Leave Before You Leave"
In her second major speech focused on women in the workplace, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the graduates at Barnard College's 119th commencement ceremony in New York yesterday not to "leave before you leave."
Her message--a version of which she also delivered last year to an audience at the Ted Women conference in Washington, D.C., in a speech titled "Why We Have So Few Women Leaders"--should be paid attention to in Silicon Valley, where Sandberg is one of the few high-ranking and high-profile women execs.
Her message--a version of which she also delivered last year to an audience at the Ted Women conference in Washington, D.C., in a speech titled "Why We Have So Few Women Leaders"--should be paid attention to in Silicon Valley, where Sandberg is one of the few high-ranking and high-profile women execs.
Sunny Mabrey Karolína Kurková Laura Harring Naomi Watts Leonor Varela
Some Thoughts On InvestorRank
Chris Farmer, a VC with General Catalyst, presented some interesting data yesterday at Disrupt. He ranked VC firms on the basis of what companies they invested in as the first VC investor. If you invested in a highly successful company...
Willa Ford Desiree Dymond Teri Polo Summer Altice Rose McGowan
Viral Video: Team Coco Explains What Happened to Myspace
This is very funny--except not to the folks at Myspace (who could actually use a good laugh right about now).
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Haines on CNBC?s 20th Anniversary
Faber, Kernen & Haines Memories, CNBC 20th Anniversary Apr 18, 2009
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Weekend Favs May Twenty One
Weekend Favs May Twenty One
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How Twitter 2.0 will make money
This is the second of two articles on likely changes to Twitter. The first article focused on consumer-facing changes to Twitter and this one focuses on monetization.
Twitter has experienced tremendous traffic growth, and more importantly has permeated into the collective consciousness with constant Twitter quotes by news organizations and entertainers. Twitter’s valuation has gone up as people expect it to monetize its traction with both consumers and brands. Here are a few of the features that would seriously inflect the Twitter revenue curve.
Bring on the banners
Twitter has struggled to scale advertising revenue, because like most social sites it tries to inflict strange ad units on both its users and advertisers. From the users’ perspective, things like promoted tweets or Facebook’s social ads are intrusive to their content experience. From the advertisers’ perspective, they can’t use their normal ad units and track results the normal way.
This is easily addressed by supporting normal ad units such as right rail skyscraper banners. As Myspace proved early in the social years, banner advertising works on social networks, especially social networks where a lot of people are following celebrities and media. In addition, to be frank, a lot of the former Myspace userbase is using Twitter to follow celebrities and sports figures, and these are the types of users that respond to banners. It will be a long time before Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg can convince Mark Zuckerberg to go after banner ad buys less than a year-and-a-half after he pulled Microsoft’s static units from Facebook, so Twitter will have an advantage going after large-scale media spend.
Special care should be taken to ensure that when banners are introduced, they are placed similarly to other top sites. For example, the infamous “dickbar” mobile banner that caused user uproar was placed at the top of the Twitter app. Most mobile banners such as AdMob units are placed at the bottom of an app. Adding banners will always bring on complaints, but adding banners that look like everyone else’s banners will achieve begrudging acceptance and will make the complainers look like trolls.
To add a social flare, the units can include tweets relevant to the brand or whatever is being promoted. Put the social into the ad unit, not the ad unit into the social. Acquiring the self-service dynamic ad creator Flite, which lets advertisers create and deliver ad units similar to Aol’s Project Devil units, would make dynamic ad units that integrate tweets available to the Twitter.com as Flash units and mobile as HTML5 units.
Twitter should let Facebook experiment with social ad units, and focus on soaking up a bunch of brand banner ad spend.
Monetize (rather than cannibalize) third-party apps
Over the past few months Twitter has been going after third party Twitter apps by blocking some apps’ access to its API and arbitrarily changing authentication systems. Attempting to regain control of the on-ramp with which power users use Twitter is admirable, and the TweetDeck acquisition was a very smart move in this direction.
However, a rich developer ecosystem is a rare treasure and should be nurtured. Rather than go after rollups like UberMedia and smaller Twitter clients, it would be better to exchange volume API access in exchange for placement of the banner ads (you know, the ones I just described) with a revenue share. Pissing off developers is never smart, consider how quickly iOS developers jumped onto Android after all of Apple’s various shenanigans. This is especially important considering that Facebook is nurturing a rich ecosystem of third-party apps, ad, and analytics vendors. That said, it should be expected that Twitter will add obvious features like email notifications, and Twitter should notify developers of changes like this ahead of time to circumvent upset feelings.
Developers love Twitter, and Twitter should be helping them do fun stuff and make money, too. There are a bunch of small, self-serve ad networks that could be acquired to accomplish this, as well as open source implementations such as OpenX.
Check-ins are tiresome, but location deals are useful
Twitter is one of the most used mobile apps, and it could open a great revenue stream by enabling merchants to deliver real-time deals. Check-ins are increasingly lame, but people do want to know if there are deals around. A lot of mobile units have low conversion rates, but a built-in interstitial with a map view would lead to a lot of conversions. Options for this include doing a deal with Groupon Now like Loopt’s recent implementation and Foursquare’s rumored integration, or acquiring a small mobile deals company like BeThere Deals. Replace the #dickbar with the #dealbar!
Sentiment analytics and service tools for brands
I work at Webtrends, which sells social, mobile and web analytics solutions to enterprises, and am continually amazed at the voracious appetite marketers have for analytics, and for the new breed of analytics around social interactions. No CMO on the planet is going to question a marketing budget item labeled Twitter Analytics. A lot of sentiment analysis tools such as CoTweet, ScoutLabs and Radian 6 have already been acquired. However a new breed of more powerful tools such as Crimson Hexagon are ripe for Twitter to acquire to enable social media teams to see, route and respond to Twitter conversations about their brand. Much like Facebook Pages include support for broadcasting to Twitter, it is critical to also include support for Facebook and blog conversations so that brands can have a single, Twitter driven view of what is going on with their brand.
Twitter should continue to sell access to its firehose of data, but delay access for a few hours to external entities other than a few premium partners in order to increase the value of its own offerings.
Sell lucrative sharing, trending, and tipping data
Companies like ClearSpring and RadiumOne are mining what content is being shared by consumers and selling the data at a huge premium to advertisers who want to know what topics are trending and how to better target users. Twitter has one of the best views of this type of data and should sign lucrative deals with publishers and ad networks to help them better optimize their businesses. More importantly, as I wrote back in March, Twitter’s data provides a very unique viewpoint as to how content goes viral and what types of posts, influencer retweets, and incremental advertising could tip a campaign towards a viral spread. Social scoring companies like Klout have very limited algorithms, but this type of infrastructure could be an offshoot of acquisitions such as Topsy and BackType in addition to the more immediate benefits described above. Mining the Twitter data will only become increasingly valuable as marketing campaigns become increasingly automated.
Adding enterprise features to Twitter will be much easier than consumer facing features. Enterprise features have far fewer users, can have structured release programs such as limited early access releases, and generally have a pretty forgiving audience in terms of time to add features and the occasional downtime. There is huge opportunity in for Twitter to sell to businesses; Twitter’s voluminous consumer traction, brand mindshare, and treasure trove of data offer significant monetization opportunities in the advertising and analytics segments. Acquiring companies like those described above would accelerate Twitter into every brand’s media spend.
Peter Yared is the vice president of apps at Webtrends, which acquired Transpond, a social-apps developer he founded. You can follow him on Twitter.
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U.S. government scores a discount on home-grown Chevy Volt
The U.S. government is purchasing 116 plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles for its vehicle fleet ? and it is picking up a nice discount on General Motors’ Chevy Volt, the same company it made a significant investment in to prevent the car manufacturing from failing.
The government is purchasing more than 100 Chevy Volts and is paying�$38,500 for each Chevy Volt, which is under the car’s manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $41,000. Individual car buyers get a $7,500 tax credit for purchasing a Volt because it is a plug-in electric car hybrid that has better fuel efficiency, which would bring the actual price down to $33,500 ? slightly more than the cost of the pure plug-in electric Nissan Leaf. So the U.S. government is getting a slight discount for purchasing the 100 plus Volts.
In contrast, the U.S. government is actually paying slightly more than the manufacturer’s suggested retail price for the Nissan Leaf ? which retails for $32,780. The government is paying $33,000 for each Leaf, which is also eligible for the $7,500 federal tax credit. That means individual car buyers eligible for the tax credit could pay as low as $25,280 for a Nissan Leaf. The report did not indicate how many Leafs the U.S. government is buying.
The Volt has a traditional internal combustion engine and an engine powered by a battery jammed into the same vehicle. The car can run around 35 miles off battery power before the internal combustion engine kicks in, giving the car a total range north of 300 miles on a full charge and full tank of gas. It?s one of the cheaper electric cars on the market. The Nissan Leaf ? another one of the cheapest electric cars on the market ? is a pure electric car that can travel around 100 miles before it needs to recharge.
The purchase is part of the government’s ambitious plan to have�more than 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. The U.S. government expects GM to sell around 500,000 Volts by 2015 and Nissan to sell 300,000 Leafs by 2015. GM recently increased its sales target for the Chevy Volt and Opel Ampera, an international version of the Volt, to 16,000 total cars this year.
Companies: General Motors, Nissan
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Financing Options For Startups
I got a bunch of great suggestions in my kickoff post on this topic last week. Based on that feedback, the series is going to look like this: 1) Friends and Family 2) Contests/Prizes/Accelerator Programs 3) Government Grants 4) Customer...
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Now Appearing @ D9: Microsoft's Windows President Steven Sinofsky
Microsoft's Windows kingpin Steven Sinofsky will be onstage at D9 next week to talk about the future of the flagship franchise in the era of all kinds of new devices and the cloud.
Get ready for him and a range of other top tech and media speakers, all coming to the famous red hot seat at the ninth D: All Things Digital conference.
Get ready for him and a range of other top tech and media speakers, all coming to the famous red hot seat at the ninth D: All Things Digital conference.
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A Look at Volatility Index (VIX) Since QE2 Began
Since QE2, Volatility has been falling. As the fascinating chart below from Ron Griess shows, the volatility of markets, post Flash Crash was drifiting lower until the modest sell off in March 2011 sent the VIX spiking. > click for larger chart
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Exclusive: Zynga About to File for IPO
Zynga is poised to file for its initial public offering, according to sources close to the situation, as early as this week, or next week at the latest.
The San Francisco-based online gaming company's valuation in its last round of funding was $10 billion, but it is likely to price itself higher in an offering, given the recent series of strong IPOs for Internet companies.
The San Francisco-based online gaming company's valuation in its last round of funding was $10 billion, but it is likely to price itself higher in an offering, given the recent series of strong IPOs for Internet companies.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
10 Infuriatingly Greedy Charities
Not all charities are created equally; at least, not all of them spend equally. The ways in which a charity spends its donors? dollars have been coming under increasing scrutiny in the past few years, as wave upon wave of scandals has rocked... Read more
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UK payment startups join forces in $87 million merger
2011 seems to be the year that mobile payments go mainstream with everyone from the big mobile carriers and handset manufacturers to scrappy new startups scrambling on to the payments bandwagon.
sQuid and ACT, who between them cover 85 percent of the UK’s smartcard-based, contactless payments market, announced a merger today. The new company, Smart Transactions Group is valued at $87 million and expects to generate revenue of $15 million in 2011.
ACT specializes in retail reward programmes and transit solutions for public transport. �It handles 50 million transit�transactions a month. sQuid supplies low-value, pre-paid payment cards for the�education and retail sectors.�sQuid payment cards are expected to be used in 10 million transactions this year. Neither payment system relies on existing bank or credit card infrastructure.
Smart Transactions Group payments business�is growing at a�double digit monthly rate, while transit transactions are�expected to grow 50 percent in 2011. The new company will continue to expand its deployments in the UK, as well as targeting emerging markets such as Kenya and the United Emirates. But more interestingly it also plans to launch NFC and mobile phone-based payments and ticketing.
Both companies are privately funded. ACT was formed in 2002 and sQuid in 2005.
Companies: Applied Card technologies, squid
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How Corporations Get Out of Paying Taxes
There's been a lot of media-driven furor this year around the issue of humongous corporations weaseling their way out of paying taxes, with GE taking a brunt of the public assault. While with each passing month we hear of some new offender, one... Read more
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Gmail Stop Motion Animation Video
Very cool visualization from Jess3, including how it was made:
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Protect IP (fka COICA)
There's a legislative effort underway in the US Congress to pass a bill that attempts to "counter the illegal online sale of counterfeit goods." In its earlier incarnation, it was called COICA. Now it is called Protect IP. Regardless of...
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Symantec buys e-discovery firm Clearwell for $390M
Security tech giant Symantec said today it is acquiring electronic discovery management firm Clearwell Systems for $390 million.
Symantec makes popular Norton computer protection software but it has been moving into the e-discovery market lately. Gartner says the e-discovery market — where software automatically sifts through legal documents in search of smoking guns — is generating $1.7 billion in sales and is growing 14 percent a year.
In the past two years, Symantec spent $2 billion on acquisitions, including $1.25 billion for the purchase of Verisign.
As we noted in 2009, Clearwell hit its stride as a provider of eDiscovery services, providing a way to search through terabytes of emails, company records, and other data to narrow down a legal search to whatever documents are most relevant to its case.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company first launched its service in 2006 but has released many versions. The company?s hundreds of clients are a who?s who of corporate America, including Viacom, Dow Jones, Fedex, Boeing, General Electric, Coca Cola, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.
Whenever those companies are hit with litigation or regulatory requests, they are under legal obligation to disclose relevant documents in the court discovery process. Those companies are using the Clearwell technology ? which documents and explains how a company?s document search will hold up in court ? so that they can avoid hiring an army of lawyers to read through every single document ever produced by the company. Corporations spend billions every year on this kind of work.
The product is used by thousands of lawyers and information security specialists. Its importance has increased in recent years as email has become more and more pervasive in documenting the processes that happen within enterprises. The company was headed by Aeref Hilaly, chief executive (pictured right) and Kamal Shah (left).
The company started with an idea in 2005. Venkat Rangan and Bill Korn founded the company, and Hilaly and Shah came on to run the business. They launched it as a service, which resembles the business model of pioneers like Salesforce.com.
As of 2009, the company had raised $33 million in three rounds from Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and late-stage venture funds.
Companies: Clearwell Systems, symantec
People: Aeref Hilaly, Kamal Shah
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Yahoo Addresses Alipay Mess: Forget It, Shareholders?It's China.
You're a very annoying partner for Alibaba, Yahoo. Huh? You know what happens to annoying partners in China? Huh? No? Wanna guess? Huh? No? Okay. They lose their Alipays.
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LinkedIn Will Price at $45 a Share (Yes, That Would Be a $4.5B Valuation)
According to a press release about to post, LinkedIn will price its shares at $45 each in its IPO tomorrow.
The price, at the top of its range, will give the Silicon Valley business networking company a $4.5 billion valuation.
The price, at the top of its range, will give the Silicon Valley business networking company a $4.5 billion valuation.
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From Ripe to Ready: Nurturing Leads Increases Sales Conversion
There are few ways you can increase your sales.� Spend more on advertising. �Spend more on outbound sales reps.� Spend more on partners, distributors, etc.� But sometimes spending more isn’t the smartest thing to do.
Many businesses are already doing a decent job of attracting traffic and driving leads.� Actually, most people who educate businesses on Internet marketing focus solely on traffic.� SEO, PPC, social media ? all of these tactics are about driving traffic and building an audience.� TheRead More
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From Ripe to Ready: Nurturing Leads Increases Sales Conversion
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Skype: From Conception to Acquisition
Much has been made of Microsoft's acquisition of Skype. Whether it is a good decision or bad, whether they overpaid or underpaid, and whether it was an aggressive or defensive move, all remains to be seen. Click Image to Enlarge Research and... Read more
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Alibaba to Yahoo: There Wasn't a Board Vote, But We Told You So
Could Yahoo's Asian problems get any worse?
Yes, indeed!
The situation between Yahoo and its Chinese partner got even more complicated today with a carefully worded statement from the Alibaba Group that Yahoo knew about the transfer of its Alipay online payments unit as far back as two years ago.
Yes, indeed!
The situation between Yahoo and its Chinese partner got even more complicated today with a carefully worded statement from the Alibaba Group that Yahoo knew about the transfer of its Alipay online payments unit as far back as two years ago.
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Exclusive: Groupon Pushed for IPO Filing This Week (With or Without Bankers' Help!)
According to sources close to the situation, social buying phenom Groupon was pressing to file for its expected IPO as soon as this week, even before its bankers had a chance to complexify the situation.
Sources said CEO Andrew Mason and others at the company were pushing for a filing immediately, but that the Chicago start-up has decided to wait a bit--though not long--to get all its investment banking ducks in a row.
Sources said CEO Andrew Mason and others at the company were pushing for a filing immediately, but that the Chicago start-up has decided to wait a bit--though not long--to get all its investment banking ducks in a row.
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Poll: Skyprosoft? Microsky? Pretty Lady?
BoomTown has scrambled the minions over at SurveyMonkey and commissioned this official poll to give the new Microsoft-Skype entity a snark-tastic new nickname.
Please make your choice, so we can get on with making fun of the $8.5 billion deal for the Internet telephony and voice communications service ASAP with the best possible moniker!
Please make your choice, so we can get on with making fun of the $8.5 billion deal for the Internet telephony and voice communications service ASAP with the best possible moniker!
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SMB Events You Won?t Want to Miss
Looking for events to grow your business?� The following�Small Business Events Guide is HUGE — with over 50 conferences, seminars and webinars — don’t miss these:
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America’s Small Business Summit 2011
May 23-25, 2011, Washington, DC
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce?s annual event ? America?s Small Business Summit ? unites small business owners, managers and entrepreneurs from across the country to learn, network and discuss common legislative and management concerns. Help influence our nation?s economicRead More
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SMB Events You Won’t Want to Miss
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10 Infuriatingly Greedy Charities
Not all charities are created equally; at least, not all of them spend equally. The ways in which a charity spends its donors? dollars have been coming under increasing scrutiny in the past few years, as wave upon wave of scandals has rocked... Read more
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How Corporations Get Out of Paying Taxes
There's been a lot of media-driven furor this year around the issue of humongous corporations weaseling their way out of paying taxes, with GE taking a brunt of the public assault. While with each passing month we hear of some new offender, one... Read more
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SolarReserve snags $737M loan guarantee for solar power tower
Solar power energy startup SolarReserve is now the second major solar power company to secure a high-profile investment and move forward on a large solar power plant.
The company uses a huge array of mirrors to focus heat on a point on a large tower. The heat from the focused sunlight is used to boil water, creating steam that moves conventional turbines to generate electricity. It’s an alternative to traditional solar power projects that use large arrays of photovoltaic cells to capture sunlight and convert it to electricity.�The idea is reminiscent of the�Archimedes Death Ray, an oft-used trope in popular culture.
SolarReserve was able to secure a $737 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy.�A loan guarantee helps companies attract buyers and investors for new renewable energy projects. Basically, it means the government will foot the bill if the project does not take off or is unable to get some kind of return for the investors. It?s one of the ways the U.S. government is promoting renewable energy sources.
The new project will be built around 220 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nev., and will generate 110 megawatts of power. The mirrors heat molten salt to around 1,050 degrees�Fahrenheit, which then heats up water that powers a traditional steam turbine. The salt takes a while to cool down, so the solar power tower is able to continue producing heat and electricity into the evening even after the sun has set.
BrightSource, the other major solar power tower developer, filed to go public Friday to raise up to $250 million. Search giant Google also invested $168 million in the company’s massive Ivanpah solar power tower plant. One of the largest risk factors cited was whether the company could effectively wash and clean those mirrors every two weeks. The company lists the mirror cleaning technology as ?largely unproven,? and said it may perform well below expectations.
While solar power towers are largely unproven sources of renewable energy, there are a few proof-of-concept projects. Two solar power towers deployed in California already show that the technology worked. The two towers generated 38,000 megawatt hours of electricity while they were active between 1982 and 1988. The average home in the U.S. uses around 920 kilowatt-hours of electricity each month. There are also a few active solar power towers in Spain, which generate around 50 megawatts.
Companies: BrightSource, Google, Solarreserve
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
New Dish CEO promises more acquisitions, shakes fist at Netflix
New Dish Network CEO Joe Clayton isn’t planning to sit still. After being named CEO on Monday, Clayton says Dish will continue with its somewhat unusual acquisition strategy as it pieces together a “new video model” to combat Netflix and cable/satellite competitors, the AP reports.
If this were any other company, I’d already have a headache from rolling my eyes. But after purchasing the ailing Blockbuster Video in April for $228 million, Dish is definitely in a position to combat Netflix — and perhaps even deliver something new entirely.
The company also recently purchased Hughes Communications for $2.1 billion, a satellite ISP, and DBSD North America for $1 billion, a satellite operator with some valuable wireless spectrum. Those purchases were made under the direction of previous Dish CEO Charlie Ergen, who has unsurprisingly garnered an eccentric reputation. Ergen will focus on Dish’s strategic direction as the company’s chairman.
Dish announced yesterday that new subscribers will get three months of Blockbuster’s disc rental service for free. But Clayton also admitted of the company’s strategy, “I don’t have it all figured out yet.”
Ergen two weeks ago likened the company’s acquisition strategy to an episode of Seinfeld, “where you didn’t know exactly where that show was going but it seemed to all come together in that last couple of minutes.” That’s not exactly heartening for Dish investors, but it sure does make reporting on the company fun.
Clayton reiterated that Dish aims to challenge Netflix in the realm of streaming video: “If I were them, I’d be watching what’s going on,” he said. “I’d stay tuned. Because no one’s going to have a monopoly on this, and I’m sure it’s not just our company that’s looking at trying to take a small piece of the pie from Netflix.”
Companies: Blockbuster Video, Dish Network, Netflix
People: Charlie Ergen, Joe Clayton
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