When Vic Gundotra left Google, I started to make predictions about the demise of Google+ (see Surprise resignation of VP Vic Gundotra raises questions about the future of Google+, and Google has missed the… Read more »
The Re/Code team revealed last Friday that Google CEO, Larry Page, has effectively made Sundar Pichai head of core products. Pichai has been leading Android, Chrome and Google Apps, and now… Read more »
I read the buzzy stories and commentary about Google I/O with great interest this week, and wrote a piece about their new pricing on Google Drive and what that means (see Google… Read more »
Alexia Tsotsis has a gift for attention-grabbing headlines, and today’s piece on Vic Gundoltra’s hasty departure from Google after leading the push on Google+ since 2011 is no exception. She titles… Read more »
Google Glass won’t support apps that leverage facial recognition technology due to privacy concerns, the company recently said. And privacy is one of several major challenges the cutting-edge spectacles will face… Read more »
Facebook’s initial public offering has sparked a number of debates about the effectiveness of social advertising and whether the company is failing to take advantage of mobile. But investors should be… Read more »
Looking forward, Facebook’s IPO should arrive in May, possibly preventing the usual stock market summer doldrums. It will set the stage for more social consumer offerings, including some Facebook spin-offs. Connected… Read more »
Things are suddenly moving quite fast on the digital privacy front. With privacy legislation stalled in Congress, the Obama Administration on Wednesday moved to take matters into its own hands by… Read more »
Gentlemen, start your engines. Facebook filed for its initial public offering on Feb. 1. Expectations are that in May it wants to raise $5 billion, which would make it the biggest… Read more »
Google’s Eric Schmidt gets the award for testiest senior exec over Gilt Groupe’s Kevin Ryan today. Though one has to ask, why is Schmidt the one doing all the responding for… Read more »