What Happened in 2010–and Didn’t

Posted on December 30, 2010 by robhof

Somehow I persuaded myself a year ago to offer up predictions for what would happen in 2010–and what wouldn’t happen. Now it’s time to take my medicine and see how I fared. What I said would happen: * Merger mania will accelerate in technology, especially acquisitions of smaller firms. OK, so it was a bit [...]

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Eric Schmidt: Google’s Next Big Business Is Display Ads

Posted on May 13, 2010 by robhof

Annual shareholder meetings can be anticlimactic snoozers, but often enough, Google’s are not. There was the time in 2008 when cofounder Sergey Brin abstained from a motion for Google to end its activities in China, on which the rest of the board voted no–providing a clue to Google’s recent decision to stop censoring search results [...]

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Peter Norvig: An Insider’s Look at Google Research

Posted on March 3, 2010 by robhof

Google is such a business powerhouse that people sometimes forget that every single penny depends on the research of thousands of engineers toiling in the bowels of the Googleplex. That’s why I always like to hear what Google’s rocket scientists have to say. This morning, at the Search Marketing Expo, Pete Norvig, Google’s director of [...]

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Another Round of Privacy Changes From Facebook–Can’t It Stop Chasing Twitter?

Posted on December 9, 2009 by robhof

Like millions of other Facebook members today, I was asked by the social utility to check my privacy settings. Changes in these settings had been announced last week by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but they started rolling out today. Members will be able–actually, are required–to choose whether to share updates, photos, and other items on Facebook [...]

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