The Google Scandal: Keeping $809K of $1.1M of Revenue Generated from Piracy (Allegedly)
So our friends at the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) are running multiple stories on Google today with reference to online video. At the Read More…
Category: Microsoft & Google
Google Discloses Payout to YouTube Founders: Hurley $345M & Chen $326M
When Google bought YouTube back in October for $1.65 billion, we didn’t know exactly what this meant for the founders financially. But now we know. Read More…
Tech News Roundup: Michael Dell is Back, Google & Comcast Profits Triple
Google today released figures showing fourth-quarter profits that nearly tripled, mostly from advertising revenue. The company continues to pull away Read More…
World’s Best Corporate Reputations: Apple #22, Google #4, & Microsoft #1
The results are here of the eight-annual Harris Interactive/The Wall Street Journal ranking of the world’s best and worst corporate reputations. HelRead More…
The iStock Intellectual Property Double Standard
iStock, a site that hooks up people who take pictures with people who are looking for pictures, has hit a rough patch. It appears a contributor to iRead More…
Dell Taking Orders for Vista PCs TONIGHT!
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has some unidentified sources claiming that Dell will begin selling personal computers with Vista toRead More…
Scandal 2.0: Is Microsoft the only company paying for Wikipedia edits?
Microsoft is getting some bad press for offering to pay a blogger to change a supposedly inaccurate article on Wikipedia. The blogger let it out in thRead More…
What’s Your Google / Microsoft / Yahoo Usage Breakdown?
So Yahoo released earnings info today, which was followed by mildly negative even if hopeful commentary. Google, of course, being cited as the major oRead More…
Google Diversifies… Sort of: Ads in Games & Patenting Digital Billboards
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has not one but two articles on Google’s latest plans. The first article deals with Google’s possiRead More…
Philanthropy 2.0: Kiva.org Teams Up with Google & PayPal for P2P Microfinancing
Most of us want to be more charitable, though somehow giving to a random charity often leaves us with too many unanswered questions: Where specificallRead More…