TechCrunch writes in The Subplots Of The iPad Blockbuster:

As I laid out a few weeks ago, it seems pretty likely that it was Apple that leaked much of the information to The Wall Street Journal about the tablet device prior to its launch — including the bogus $1,000 price from “analysts.” Later, a former Apple [...]

Techcrunch.com today featured a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania entitled "Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet".
In the lengthy post he argues his "basic premise [...] that the internet is not replacing advertising but shattering it", which due to its [...]

As I reported yesterday, Google may have just changed the game re: monetization of its massively used (but so far barely profitable) YouTube video sharing service. Get the details on how it looks here.
But what makes Google’s new "sponsored videos" feature on YouTube even more relevant is today’s news that YouTube searches now represent the [...]

MIT Professor and behavioral economist Dan Ariely (who’s excellent book "Predictably Irrational" I have referenced or quoted a number of times on this blog in recent months) was interviewed via phone on CNBC a few days ago, and he pointed out something very significant:
When social trust is violated, as has been very broadly and shockingly [...]

Apple unveiled it’s new renditions of both the iPod Touch and the iPod Nano on Tuesday, along with several other software upgrades. And at first I was surprised by some of the price-point decisions:
1) I had thought the Nano might go to $99 from $149 in line with Apple’s new, more populist "recession pricing" ideas [...]