Greg Nelson, who has had the thankless job of running MSN for Microsoft, has left that job and been given the even more thankless task of running the integration of the complex search and online advertising partnership struck by the software giant and Yahoo. Nelson's counterpart at Yahoo, according to sources, will be Mark Morrissey, who is currently SVP of Products at the Internet giant. The pair--pictured above, with Morrissey on left, Nelson on right--will have their hands full in what will ultimately be a two-year effort. BoomTown's title for the relationship: A Couple of White Geek Guys Sitting Around Arguing! Full story...
Apple’s recent reiteration of support for AT&T and its decision to debut the iPad on the carrier's network are fueling speculation that AT&T may hold on to its iPhone exclusive far longer than anyone is expecting.
After years of complaints, last year the music labels finally got what they wanted from Apple — the ability to raise prices on their songs.
Yesterday, the day after after Google aired its first national commercial on the Super Bowl, an exec at a rival Internet company marveled at what high favorable scores the "Parisian Love" advertisement got, adding that the possibilities of spoofs of it were also endless.
Intel loves to talk about Moore’s Law, its co-founder’s famed maxim about how rapidly miniaturization improves semiconductors.
Here’s a metric to consider in advance of The Mobile World Congress next week and the likely debut of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Mobile 7 operating system: As widely maligned as it is, Windows Mobile was still running on 18 percent of U.
A former Universal Music executive, now headed to Yahoo, explains concisely why his former employer and the other big guys are just playing out the string: CD sales are wasting away, and the digital boost they were counting on simply isn't big enough.
Redpoint Ventures announced that it had closed a new $400 million fund to invest in early-stage start-ups in the "social and mobile Internet, cloud computing and clean technology spaces.
On the flip side of the debate about whether Flash is ill, in rude health, or simply untroubled by Apple's wilful refusal to countenance it on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, we have an analysis from Peter-Paul Koch, a "mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer" who says (with plenty of swearing to boot, if you're in filter territory) that the iPhone is the Internet Explorer 6 de nos jours.
The company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.
Last week, a reader tipped me to an instance of potential plagiarism by Gerald Posner in the Daily Beast, for which Posner is chief investigative reporter.