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I'm Too Sexy For Consumers: B2B Tech IPOs Are Hot
B2B Tech is hot once again thanks to a string of consumer social IPO losses and B2B successes In the fickle world of consumer purchasing behavior it is tough to predict what trends will last. Few things seem to be...
Twitter Buys Posterous: Point, Counterpoint with Peter Radizeski
Twitter just announced it has picked up blogging service Posterous and as a past user of the service I must say, did find it useful at the time I used it. Before I continue however I'd like to set up...
Will AT&T Divest in 2012?
TMC Senior Editor Peter Bernstein thinks AT&T may explore divestiture options next year and it is a conceivable thought. Moreover, what is worth thinking about is what will the Department of Justice do with other high-profile acquisition attempts next year....
Google+ Targets Facebook not Twitter
There have been numerous discussions lately regarding how Google+ could be a Twitter killer and while anything is possible, my research shows that Facebook is in the most trouble. Perhaps the most compelling argument for Google as a Twitter killer...
Google+ Becoming Serious Facebook Threat
Microsoft was known for producing winning products after its third attempt - we may be saying something similar about Google soonGoogle, a company known as the king of search - certainly has a mixed record when it comes to other...
Twitter Drops Tweets Term to Take on Facebook?
To manage my Twitter followers more effectively I have a rule which sweeps my followers into a directory allowing me to see them at my leisure. But in the last few days the rule stopped working. I looked into it...
Twitter is Best Home for MySpace
Sure Myspace is troubled, just let go of about half their staff and will likely be sold off. Obviously Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL come to mind as acquirers. Google could potentially avoid antitrust concerns because Facebook is such a...
MySpace May Layoff 550, Relies on Facebook for Traffic
Obviously most every site relies on Facebook for traffic but in the case of MySpace a whopping 18% of the traffic comes from Facebook – the top upstream site in-fact according to Alexa. The next highest referral sites are...
Cisco's Plans for Flip video
For a good look into what Cisco is trying to do with the new Flip line of video recording devices it announced it will acquire today, check out this great article written by TMC's Michael Dinan who recently interviewed Charles...
Google Gears Powers MySpace
There is a fascinating transformation always taking place in computing. Mainframe computing relied on dumb terminals and then as clients became smarter, we started to migrate to client/server environments. Over time, news ways of working appeared and disappeared and more...
UMAThought Leader Steve Shaw on TMCnet
Few people know more about UMA than Steve Shaw... He really lives and breathes this market. This is why I am thrilled Steve will be writing for TMCnet with a special focus on unwired mobile access or UMA. Here is...
The Liability of Social Networking
About a decade ago an attorney friend of mine told me that you should always delete emails that are one year old. He went on to explain from a lawsuit/discovery process, these e-mails could come back to haunt you. And...
Bebo Bought
Boy was I glad I blogged about Bebo being purchased a few months back. The rumored acquirer was supposed to be Google or MySpace but it seems like AOL is getting serious about being a web player once again and...
Social Networking Decline
While social networks are still massive and generally doing well, there are more more reports of people getting fed up with such networks because they get too many friend requests and are not happy with the new advertising methods the...
Bebo To Be Bought?
It is enough to make the average person sick. How does a company with a name like Yahoo! get a valuation in tens of billions of dollars. Sure, we all use Yahoo! so this is not such a stretch. But...
Mobile Advertising Grows to $16.5 Billion
I was perusing some articles on mobile advertising recently and was absolutely stunned at how big some analysts think this market will be. According to this TMCnet article, Strategy Analytics predicts the global market for mobile advertising is slated to...
Facebook to Compete with Digg
Some of the more popular sites to go to when voting on technology news are digg and Techmeme. Digg actually allows you to vote on more than just tech news and both are great places to go when you are...
Rumor Mill: Google Acquiring Sprint
Recent news that Sprint is not going to work with Clearwire to build out a WiMAX network only added to the rumors I have been hearing about Google acquiring Sprint Nextel. On the surface it seems like this would be...
Skype, MySpace Partner
Just a few days ago I mentioned Skype should be getting more involved in social networking. I also said the company should be streaming audio and video through its client. Interestingly, 48 hours or so after my post, Skype...
MySpace in Print
MySpace is experimenting with the print medium through a partnership with UK style magazine Marmalade. Marmalade’s March issue will feature cover-to-cover MySpace content submitted by users, who can submit their work here by Jan. 26. My take? This could...
EvokeTV has it Right
Is the future of TV watching building community around programs and having the ultimate “buddy list” as Om infers. Absolutely in my opinion. Communities will grow around all entertainment as they have done around shopping, news and everywhere else. The...
MySpace Moves to Level 3
Level 3 and MySpace have announced they will be working together and Level 3 will be providing the bandwidth for video and other service. Could VoIP be far behind? Will MySpace become the next VoIP provider?I hear more and more...
