Posts Tagged with ‘NYT’

Despite it’s somewhat muted announcement some months back, Microsoft’s imminent official unveiling of a Windows Live installer (alleged to arrive for public use and critique sometime this week) still manages to leave me wondering if folks in Redmond are as “on the ball” as some of them may appear to be (Ray Ozzie, for one).
It’s one thing for the largest software company in the world to deliver new services like Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger 8.5, Windows Live Photo [...]

Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel announced he is stepping down and that Co-founder Jerry Yang will be assuming the every day duties of chief executive. Yahoo! has faced some tough times over the last couple of years and the company's investors have become increasingly restless as Yahoo!'s growth has continued to slow. Shares of Yahoo! have faltered this year from $43 a share to less than $30. Yahoo!'s battle with Google over a share in the market has not been a [...]

On Monday Apple made its Safari Web browser available for Windows based PC's. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple made the announcement at the company's World Wide Developers Conference opening up yet another venue for competition with rival Microsoft. Wall Street was not overly impressed at the news and Apple shares dropped by $4.30 after the news. The new Beta version of Safari is available at Apple's home site. Even though Wall Street does not seem to be impressed according to [...]

The 22 million users of Facebook will have access to free classified ad listings as the social networking site enters into competition with traditional newspapers and online companies like Craigslist. The company is targeting the high school and college segment of their user base to offer yet another feature that will appeal to this demographic. Users will now be able to advertise themselves to the world at perhaps the world's fastest growing social networking site.
The new service will be called Marketplace, [...]

The Daily Reel has just raised seed round funding from Boston's Prism VentureWorks, which is reported to be in the high six-figure range. The LA based startup also had over 200,000 unique sign-ups last month according to co-founder and CEO Jeff Stern. The ad supported site's function is to sort through the maze of online video and recommend sites to users. The Reel is also trying to help new talent to rise above the confusion and reach industry executives with their video creations. [...]

High overhead and falling revenues are causing many traditional businesses to refocus their targeted sales platforms. Another example, the Borders Group is discontinuing its arrangement with Amazon.com for the sale of their books. Borders plans to close half of its Waldenbooks stores and sell off most of its 73 overseas stores.
Borders reportedly lost $73.6 last year compared to a profit of $119.1 million the year before. Borders had developed a strategy of allowing Amazon to sell their wares while maintaining [...]

MySpace users are starting to feel the pain of the world's largest online community. I suppose this is only fair, it is their town after all!
MySpace has begun to limit the number and kinds of tools that users can embed in their pages. The giant community that sees over 90 million viewers a month wants to restrict users from having video players, advertising and other types of transaction tools. Evidently News Corporation, the owner or MaySpace, wants to ensure that [...]

Google just can't seem to do anything right lately. Today all the news is about Viacom's suit seeking $1 billion in damages from Google and YouTube for international copyright infringement.
Viacom has been complaining for some time about YouTube and Google posting their programming online. This suit by Viacom is the largest so far by traditional media. Viacom filed the suit in the U.S. District court of New York, and according to an article by Jeremy Peters of the NYT, accused [...]

Next New Networks is a new startup by former MTV and Nickelodeon executives Herb Scannell and Fred Seibert. The cable TV innovators are getting back together to start a series of video web sites that they have dubbed “micro-networks”. The topics of these networks are to be niche topics like fashion, comic books, car racing and cartoons.
According to a story by Brad Stone of the NYT, the company will announce that it has received $8 million in seed capital, partly [...]