Today Yahoo announced that it will sell its core assets to Verizon for a mere $4.8 billion. This is only slightly more than Verizon paid for AOL — another washed up dot-com-era company — last year. Yahoo’s market capitalization reached $125 billion i...
Why Verizon wants to buy an ailing Yahoo in $4.8B deal
In a single stroke, Verizon would own the biggest website in the world.
How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba
Yahoo was already a shell of its former self. Now part of the company is getting an obscure new name.
The Internet Economy
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far…
To defend the free web, you must save Mozilla
The latest version of this post, along with the blog, has moved. TL;DR: Mozilla is largely dependent on Yahoo! We must make sure it is funded by individuals’ donations and a diverse roster of…
Why Do the Biggest Companies Keep Getting Bigger? It’s How They Spend on Tech
The secret of success for Amazon, Google and Microsoft is how much they invest in their own technology.
Anthropic commits to spending $200 billion on Google's cloud and chips: Report
The commitment suggests the AI startup accounts for more than 40 per cent of the revenue backlog Google disclosed to investors last week, according to the report.
Investor money vs. public interest: did Google fail to build a non-evil platform?
Don’t be evil. That was Google’s official motto, until recently.
Investing in what moves the internet forward | The Mozilla Blog
Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build. This independence allows us to prioritize bu
Money as Message | Andreessen Horowitz
Network effects — where a product or service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it — are one of the key ways software businesses maintain a better product and more defensible market position. This is especially true of messaging apps like WeChat — which, as I’ve argued before, is not just...
The most brilliant move in corporate history?
In a bold departure from its Big Tech peers, Apple sidestepped the $650 billion AI infrastructure spending frenzy, a move likened to opting out of purchasing the US Navy annually. While Amazon, Goo…
Google just dropped a whole new Gemini pricing ladder!
The history of Yahoo, and how it went from phenom to has-been - Fast Company
For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. Then everything went to hell.
ServiceNow Stock Tumbles 50% in a Year: Good Earnings Don't Stop 'Death of SaaS' | Salesforce Ben
ServiceNow's stock has experienced an 11% decline on the day of their Q4 announcements and a 50% decline over the past year.
Amino Apps raises $19.2 million to create mobile apps for interest-based communities
Amino Apps believes that there's still a need for networks that are both community-centric and geared toward the mobile generation. Investors seem to agree, which is why they've invested $19.2 million into the company, which not only offers underserved communities a place to exist, but gives the most passionate ones a chance to grow through standalone mobile apps.
Twitter Shares Drop on Report Saying Google Won’t Make a Bid
Twitter Inc. fell the most in more than a year following a report that Alphabet Inc.’s Google isn’t interested in buying the social-networking service.
Google just scored a huge win against Amazon by landing Apple as a customer
Apple has reportedly signed a contract worth between $400 million and $600 million to use Google's Cloud Platform.