We just got off the phone with MySpace sales boss Jeff Berman, who also sent us this slide. Check it out; selling portal-like ads, MySpace revenues are quickly gaining on portals AOL and MSN.
Jeff says the success is all about MySpace being one of those rare places on the Web that’s kind of a portal [...]
On Monday, Amazon is scheduled to unveil the new version of the Kindle, its hot-selling e-book reader. We’ll be covering the event here in New York, so be sure to check FastCompany.com for details.
In the meantime, to whet your appetite, here are excerpts from my recent interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in which he [...]
Another sign that magazine heavyweight Condé Nast would eventually like to start making money from the Web: It’s appointed someone to run the sales force of its digital properties.
Condé has tapped former Wired publisher and current New Yorker publisher Drew Schutte to be Condé Nast Digital’s chief revenue officer, a newly created position. The appointment [...]
Instant message service aggregator Meebo is launching the first officially sanctioned version of Facebook’s IM service, Chat, to work on another web site. Basically, it lets you IM with friends who are logged into Chat on Facebook and chat with other friends on AIM, Gtalk, Yahoo Mail and other IM services all through a single [...]
Box.net, the popular document hosting and sharing service, announced a major redesign of its user interface today, which also puts a lot more emphasis on social features like profiles and activity streams. The new version of Box.net also focuses on collaboration and effectively turns Box.net into a social network for small to medium-sized businesses and [...]
ots of people now have multiple computers, at home and at work, and many use more than one Web browser. That makes it hard to keep bookmarks straight. If, for instance, you bookmark a Web site as a “Favorite” on your PC at work using Microsoft’s (MSFT) Internet Explorer, it doesn’t automatically show up as [...]
Microsoft founder Bill Gates today said it sees another 3-4 “very tough” years ahead for the U.S. economy, Reuters reports. Gates made the remarks at the TED conference today in Long Beach, California.
“No doubt, we’ve got three or four years here that are going to be very tough,” Gates said. “We’re going through a period [...]
Buffett is another smart value manager who has caught some falling knives lately. He joins the good company of Martin J. Whitman of Third Avenue Asset Management and Bill Miller from the Legg Mason Value Trust. Though Berkshire isn’t a mutual fund, the decline in the value of its shares is akin to the redemptions [...]
While the financial media blame everyone from greedy bankers to naive home-owners to Gordon Brown for the current economic downturn, the Scottish Dragon has another theory.
When RB caught up with Bannatyne in his Covent Garden flat last week, the Dragon was passionate about a number of subjects, but few more so than the recession.
“I’ve had [...]
Legislation moving the digital television transition from Feb. 17 to June 12 now moves to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign the bill. Democrats insist the delay is necessary and will be for one time only since public safety officials and winners of the 700 MHz spectrum auction are waiting [...]
