Posts Tagged with ‘mountain-view’

It’s January 1st, and we’re creeping ever closer to the day of the 700MHz spectrum auction, a so far widely publicized event to be orchestrated by the FCC. Some 260 or so applicants have submitted their names as participants in the process, including Google, AT&T, Qualcomm, and Alltel. Even Chevron is on the roster.
We mention this contest once more here at Profy for the fact that Forbes, a highly-regarded publication with a primarily business-centric focus, recently put forth [...]

The subject of the Web search wars is almost entirely spent. Google is el leadero supremo. No getting around that. It is what it is. The company’s been live and kickin’ for about a decade, and in that time, it’s shown all other market participants that it’s the biggest swinging you-know-what around. It’s proven itself year after year to be an unrelenting force, achieving goals most anyone wouldn’t have predicted that it’d lay claim to. One might even wonder [...]

Here’s something to chew on: Microsoft wants to spend the next three to five years growing its online advertising market share by more than 300%.
What can you really say to such seemingly irrational ambition? Good luck, I suppose.
But really, if we’re honest, would it be right to expect any less pompous a plan to spew forth from Redmond? Considering the company’s history of public statements and prognostications, this memo seems like the kind of the thing they reflexively [...]

Just a week or so following its first official acknowledgement of plans to deliver (through the newly founded Open Handset Alliance) its much-hyped mobile platform, Google today released its Android software developer kit (SDK). The company is inviting Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu Linux users/developers alike to participate and build applications for distribution through the OHA.
Big news, eh? The cat’s now literally out of the bag.
Or something like that. Google is of course hoping to spark the [...]

Google’s finally let the cat out of the bag.
The company announced yesterday its intentions to create a project, dubbed OpenSocial (corresponding webpage is not active yet; Nov 1 is lauch day), very basically described to be a set of APIs, that will allow multiple platforms on the Web to play by a “universally” accepted common set of laws that will enable developers the option to “create applications that work on any social networks…that choose to participate.”
The reasoning for the [...]

Well, it’s happened. Microsoft has made its investment in Facebook. 240 million bucks’ worth.
That translates to about a 1.6% stake for MSFT in the popular social network – if the $15 billion valuation of the company is anything of a solid number. Yes, Redmond’s got 1.6%, and Google and Yahoo! have: 0. Booyah, Larry, Serg, and Yang! Gates’ gang so showed you guys up.
Or something like that. Today, The New York Times report on the news opened with [...]

VoIP has thus far only become a serious player in the wired telecommunications industry. When it comes to things wireless, VoIP has yet to gain much ground.
That may soon change, however. Deutsche Telekom AG, a German corporation, is now leading a group of investors of Jajah, a startup (which went live in early 2006) that promises to save users a good amount of coin, particularly in instances of international spread, by routing calls via inexpensive VoIP connections. The latest round [...]

Though Google wants to cozy up to Big Media as best it can, the monster from Mountain View is suiting up in the finest armor just in case a battle ensues between itself and its stubborn, reclusive Hollywood “partners.”
Friday, news hit Red Herring, a technology weekly, about Google’s quest for a “high-level legal eagle.” The company did the super-conventional thing and posted a help-wanted ad for a lawyer adept in wading through intellectual property and digital media law legalese. [...]