Microsoft’s online business lost $2.6 billion for its fiscal year, mainly due to its investment in search. Yet even with Yahoo’s outsourced search business, Microsoft barely cracks 30 percent in market… Read more »
Microsoft can’t give up on search. Though it’s been losing money forever, Microsoft needs search to defend its core platforms, compete with Google and solidify its ad business while opening emerging… Read more »
Last week, News Corp. unloaded Myspace for a pittance. Understanding why Myspace failed to maintain its early dominance in social networking is critical to determining whether Facebook is similarly vulnerable, and… Read more »
RockMelt, the social browser, raised another $30 million from blue-chip investors. I’m not sure why. Last fall, I wrote a piece on how browsers don’t matter as much as they once… Read more »
One of Myspace’s founders, Chris DeWolfe, bends BusinessWeek’s ear, and the result is a cautionary tale of the fall of Myspace. DeWolfe is the “Hollywood guy” rather than a techie, and… Read more »
There’s a little more analysis of Apple’s iOS 5 Twitter integration humming around the web today. At Betanews, Joe Wilcox thinks Apple picked Twitter over Facebook for some core social media… Read more »
By deeply integrating Twitter into its iOS 5 mobile operating system, Apple anointed the company as its key supplier of social technology infrastructure. What does this mean for social media? The… Read more »
It seems that Twitter will announce its own photo sharing service on Wednesday. Most of the commentariat mentions that at least Twitter told its ecosystem to stay away from mainstream clients… Read more »
Part of the excitement driving LinkedIn’s IPO last week comes from investors associating social media with network effects. You know, the principle that the value of a network increases dramatically with… Read more »
That popping sound you heard was no bubble, it was LinkedIn’s IPO – the biggest Internet debut since Google back in 2004. Forget the heady valuation the company set, it’s carrying… Read more »