GigaOM’s Om Malik yesterday posted "5 Trends That Will Separate the Strong From the Weak in 2009", where he smartly outlines technology industry trends for 2009, instead of getting into the game of making New Year’s predictions (which for just about everybody invariably turn out out to be off the mark).
Here is the one I [...]

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 [...]

In my view, Google just changed the game today regarding monetization of its massively used (but so far barely profitable) YouTube video sharing service. Get the details on what it will look like in this CNET article about it here.
In a word, Google is starting a new "sponsored videos" feature on YouTube that will follow [...]

The ups and downs of the Micro-hoo saga continue unabated, with renewed Carl Icahn intrigue being the flavor of the week. The noose that irate shareholders have been verbally tying around Jerry Yang’s neck seems to be getting tighter all the time.
But this time even usually stalwart Micro-hoo cheerleader Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is saying [...]

OK, this isn’t the post I meant to write, but the (pseudo-)developments are simply happening too fast to catch one’s breath.
Today, Microsoft apparently walked away from a Yahoo deal more thoroughly than they previously had, which in itself makes little sense and proves how much Ballmer and Co. have kept themselves in suspended animation during [...]