Google: Let Us Buy You A TV Ad
Google TV is finally out of beta and they’d like you to try it. How much? They’ll float you $2,000 to create an advertisement through its network of producers if you agree to spend at least that much on a four-week campaign.
The catch? These ads will only appear on Dish Network (14m subscribers), the only TV operator that has given Google any of its ad inventory to sell.
Google TV Ads: Hookers and Candidates Need Not Apply
After almost a year of private testing, Google TV Ads is now open to (almost) all U.S. advertisers. The idea behind Google TV Ads is to make the TV ad-buying process so simple that any small biz (with enough money) can do it. Just upload your commercial, select your budget and where you’d like it to run, and presto! Your ad is on TV.
Adobe Finally Takes On Apple, Google In Mobile
Adobe announced a new hugely important strategic initiative regarding the Flash Player called the Open Screen Project. The upshot: It’s finally ready to start competing with Google and Apple for mobile platform developers.
There are three keys to the announcement. First Adobe (ADBE) is removing all licensing restrictions and fees for the Flash Player and the SWF file format that the player runs. OEMs will now be able to embed Flash at no additional cost and with no restrictions.
Get a Google Help File
One of the annoying things about Google’s applications is that they use online hyperlinked help broken up into numerous small pages – which is great if you know exactly what you’re looking for. The system falls down into a nightmare of clicks, though, if you’re trying to get an overview of an application, or have to go hunting for information without knowing where it’s filed. This acts as a barrier to using the full functionality of the applications for many people.
Why Does Microsoft Owe Jerry Yang $3,008.46?
Jerry Yang can’t get a few bucks per share out of Steve Ballmer, at least he has this consolation prize: He’s got $3,008.46 in Microsoft (MSFT) dividend checks he has yet to claim.
Yahoo and Google May Announce Search Deal Within a Week
As Microsoft announces (through the WSJ) an imminent decision on Yahoo, Yahoo announces (through the WSJ) that it may sign a Google search partnership within the week. (If these two companies finally do get together, the WSJ deserves a cut of those $300 million in M&A fees.)
The search deal has also been carefully designed to reduce anti-trust concerns.
Found! Ambitious Person Eager To Work At Yahoo!
Ever wonder about the psychological makeup of people who choose to run into burning buildings for a living? Meet the tech world’s equivalent: Eran Hammer-Lahav, a New Yorker who’s about to move across the country to work for… Yahoo (YHOO).
Yahoo-Google Pact May Be Close
Yahoo Inc. could announce an agreement to carry search advertisements from Google Inc. within a week, as it braces for Microsoft Corp. to go hostile or abandon its unsolicited acquisition offer for Yahoo, say people familiar with the matter.
Yahoo was waiting for Microsoft to announce its approach this week, after the two sides failed to reach a negotiated deal amid a divide on price. But Yahoo has also been pursuing a broad agreement to carry search ads from Google, which it views as a way to boost its cash flow and bolster its claim to shareholders that it is …
Google, IBM Join Forces To Dominate ‘Cloud Computing’
and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are ramping up efforts to jointly dominate what they believe will be the dominant software delivery model in the 21st century — so called cloud computing.Much of their work until now has taken place behind the scenes under a low profile, but the companies’ close relationship was fully apparent Thursday when their CEOs made a rare joint appearance on stage at an IBM conference in Los Angeles.
Sam Palmisano of IBM and Google’s Eric Schmidt in turn complimented each other on issues ranging from leadership to technological innovation. They also insisted that their companies share lots of similarities, despite obvious differences between a consumer Web giant that calls Silicon Valley home and a suburban New York-based centenarian of business computing.
“We’re boring, they’re exciting; we’re slow, they’re fast; we’re fat, they’re skinny,” Palmisano joked. But the contrasts between IBM and Google are mostly skin deep, he said, noting that both vendors are “grounded in values” and share “a common technical alignment.”
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