Archive for July, 2007
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Anything that gets you that giddy comes with a hangover
Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field and a masterful marketing campaign were enough to carry iPhone fever through launch and the initial run of largely loving reviews, but it looks like […]
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ITunes: Over 3 billion served
Apple announced today that its iTunes Store has now sold more than 3 billion songs since it opened just over four years ago, the last billion coming in the past […]
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And the winner is … wait, is this right?
Among the news releases that came over the transom today was one on a survey of IT professionals asked to pick the most influential tech product of the last 25 […]
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Quoted
“We wanted to have a freeform space for students to be able to say what they think is important, not always having the school run that dialogue. To me this […]
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Off Topic
A short reel of some Tom Snyder highlights, and the greatest Ingmar Bergman spoof ever, “De Düva”
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Hi, you don’t know me, but could you please sell your company?
According to a Schedule 13-D filed on Monday, Packeteer chief executive David Cote got a call on Monday from Robert L. Chapman, of Chapman Capital, a private investment firm based […]
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Speaking of bonuses…
The ones at Intuit, the Mountain View financial software company, are coming at Internet speed. Their fiscal year ended today, but the board has already voted to award bonuses based on performances, […]
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The fat lady hasn’t sung yet, but…
CV Therapeutics, the biopharmaceutical company based in Palo Alto, disclosed in an 8-K filed on Monday that it had hired an investment banker to advise “the company on a range […]
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It’s called a bonus bonus…
The board at Trident Microsystems of Santa Clara is so pleased with the work of president Jun-Herng Chang and chief financial officer John Edmunds over the past year that they […]
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Sony workaround puts the blue back in Blu-ray
In the high-definition DVD format war early this year, it looked like the all-important porn industry endorsement might be captured by the backers of HD DVD, reportedly because Sony, creator […]
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