In 2008, Microsoft tried to marry Yahoo! but was forced to settle instead for a long engagement-type thing (sort of). Is it time now for something different again?
Leave it to Seth Godin to create as he destroys. Content owners should be paying close attention to the things he’s doing in his latest offering, The Domino Project.
Amazon and Google are moving towards a fight with the record labels over licensing for cloud-based music services. Is content still king? We’ll see.
Netflix has a new competitor. A big, scary competitor. A big, scary competitor to whom it currently outsources a key part of its strategic operations.
Will “The Daily” do what News Corporation wants it to do when it’s launched this week? Or will it be an indulgent and expensive failure? It all depends on who you ask.
The Comcast-NBCU merger has just received conditional approval to proceed. The conditions appear strong. So why do consumers (and shareholders) feel strange about this?
Is there any future – at all – for the physical storage media market?
Here it is – your definitive list of things to watch out for in 2011. Technology, environmental awareness, Ukraine and boy band revivals, to name but a few things.
It’s exciting and, at the same time, a little confronting: Twitter’s latest round of funding values it at almost twice the value of the New York Times. Where to from here?
Enough denial. Logic, anecdotes and now data indicate that tablet PCs are eating into sales of notebooks and netbooks. There is no reason for this to be a surprise to anyone.


