The determination of foreign governments to protect their national technology franchises or censor information that originates outside their borders could limit the growth prospects of Skype, Facebook, and Twitter. That’s something competition…
Douglas A. McIntyre Facebook raised money at a $50 billion valuation. (NYT) Foreign commercial real estate investors ranked the US as the No.1 location to buy properties. (Reuters) Oil is unlikely to surge quickly above…
Douglas A. McIntyre Americans do not merely love their favorite and most cherished brands, they love them. Consumers love Apple. They love the Mustang. They love Starbucks, and they once loved The Dallas Cowboys. Brand…
Douglas A. McIntyre Facebook, Twitter, and Skype face an unusual challenge if they are to keep the dominance in their respective markets. It may be difficult to keep each of the services online all of…
Douglas A. McIntyre The head of the FCC said he supports the Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) plan to take a majority position in GE’s (NYSE: GE) NBCU. (Reuters) SpendingPulse reports online retail sales are up 15.4%…
Douglas A. McIntyre Most of the comScore commentary about its November review of the largest US websites and their traffic was devoted to the increase in activity at the large e-commerce destinations due to the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Hulu is no longer in the top ten video sites based on data for November from online research firm comScore. It had been on the list for months. A rise in the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Groupon, the online discount coupon company, did not sell itself to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Many media including The Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, and The New York Times reported that the deal was…
Douglas A. McIntyre Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) keeps losing its top employees to other companies. Some of its senior management and best engineers have departed for AOL, Facebook, TellApart, Cuil, DoApp, and scores of other companies–many…
Douglas A. McIntyre Online spending rose much more than expected on Black Friday. Should the trend continue, holiday 2010 sales may be stronger than expected, especially if e-commerce is a proxy for overall retail activity.…
Douglas A. McIntyre Facebook is a dominant presence on the internet and around the world, but that dominance may be greater than nearly anyone could have imagined. Traffic to the huge social network now accounts…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Federal Reserve may allow some of the nation’s strongest banks to raise their dividends. (Reuters) The S&P and DJIA hit 2 year highs. (Reuters) China attacked the US over its plans…
Facebook says it will allow local retailers to send offers to users. The “Deals” service is based on Facebook technology which allows members to share their locations via their cellphone GPS systems–something…
Douglas A. McIntyre Digg.com was once so important to web 2.0, the spread of information and social media behavior that its executives were often interviewed about the future of news on the internet. Jay Adelson,…
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated throughout the day. Facebook allows some of its partners to run applications that can allow user information to be tapped (WSJ) Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) has begun a process to…
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