SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: Do you see something strange in this screenshot of Google’s homepage today? No, not Bert and Ernie (it’s Sesame Street’s 40th birthday). It’s that ad for the Verizon Droid right there under the search box (today is also Droid Day ). Although, the juxtaposition does make it seem like Bert and Ernie are trying to get you to buy a Droid....
SeekingAlpha Telecom Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: Earlier this morning, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis settled their lawsuits with eBay and a syndicate of investors in return for a 14 percent stake in the company they founded. The lawsuits were complicating the spin-off of Skype from eBay because the Skype founders still controlled the service’s underlying peer-to-peer technology. Complete Story...
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: The latest twist in the ongoing settlement talks between Google ( GOOG ) and book authors is that Wednesday, the judge in the case denied an attempt by photographers to become part of the settlement. In the decision (embedded below), Judge Denny Chin basically ruled that photographers are not authors, and that the settlement only covers “word-based material,”...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... on any portion of the share. But not before a lenghty Twitter fight with Wauters and his colleague Erick Schonfeld (see below). Maybe everyone involved in this fracas needs to take the next couple of days off. Oh, look at the calendar!(Top pic )Send an email to Ryan Tate, the author of this post, at
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: NBC is gearing up for the 2010 Winter Olympics with some changes to its mainstay site, NBCOlympics.com , scheduled to go live Wednesday. (See screenshots below). Once again, just as it did with the 2008 Summer Olympics , NBC will be using a video player based on Microsoft Silverlight technology to offer full HD videos. Except this time, the video player will...
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: There is a perception that Google’s Chrome is a rounding error when it comes to browsers. And maybe it still is, but Google ( GOOG ) is now fighting that perception in a very public way. Monday, it announced that the Chrome Team won a Founder’s Award for their achievements so far, and revealed how many people are using the Chrome browser: 30 million...
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Erick Schonfeld submits: One of the biggest sources of new searches in the coming years for Google ( GOOG ) will come from mobile devices, which is why it is attacking mobile on multiple fronts—with Android phones , mobile apps, and mobile search across multiple devices. One of its more impressive efforts lately has been around voice search. Not every phone has a touchscreen or...
