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by chugger 15y ago
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Being Considered for HP CEO Job to Replace Apotheker. http://allthingsd.com/20110921/former-ebay-ceo-meg-whitman-b...
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by chugger 15y ago
HP and Yahoo have the worst board ever. Both of these companies should hire a young product-oriented visionary as their next CEO.
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Apple Is Almost Worth As Much As Google And Microsoft Combined(businessinsider.com)
2 points by chugger 15y ago|0 comments
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by chugger 15y ago
you nailed it. Plus iOS have better documentation and there's a ton of books and online docs, support, etc. This is Google we're talking about. Support is virtually non-existent.
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FORTUNE: The antitrust case against Google(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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by chugger 15y ago
lighten up
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by chugger 15y ago
Van Halen = The greatest rock and roll band EVER. Let me just say that Panama is the greatest stoner music of all time. Also, Eddie Van Halen > Joe Satriani
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by chugger 15y ago
iOS is anti-Unix and anti-programmer? It must be why Android's trying so hard to copy it.
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by chugger 15y ago
"nothing wrong with throwing their weight around" there's a term in business for that. I believe the word is "anti-competitive".
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by chugger 15y ago
Google is a copy cat. Yelp, Groupon, Facebook, Twitter, Skyhook, Flipboard. See any pattern? Does it make sense now?
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by chugger 15y ago
At the time, sources said, Google told Flipboard execs that if it did not buy the start-up, it planned to do a version of its own. This kind of 90's era Microsoft-style predatory tactics from Google is hurting innovation in the Valley mor
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USATODAY: Android apps less profitable than iPhone apps(content.usatoday.com)
3 points by chugger 15y ago|0 comments
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Oracle Pres. Safra Catz to talk settlement w/ Google. Google to send Andy Rubin(fosspatents.blogspot.com)
2 points by chugger 15y ago|0 comments
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by chugger 15y ago
@danmaz74 there were very little innovation that came out of Japan in the last 20 years. They were overtaken by their Korean counterparts (LG/Samsung > Sony/Panasonic/Toshiba/etc.) and American (HP/Dell/Apple/etc.). Ok you have Toyota/N
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by chugger 15y ago
What's happening now is nothing like what's happening in Japan.
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by chugger 15y ago
Yahoo needs a young visionary product guy who understands the web, mobile, etc. The last thing Yahoo needs right now is an "experienced" executive from another company.
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by chugger 15y ago
And look at Japan now. They're currently in 2 decade-long recessions and they're in even worse shape than us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10...
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by chugger 15y ago
That is exactly the issue, and it's already happening. Why Factories Are Leaving China http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_21/b4179011 Fan is expanding his factory in Vietnam, where wages are $100 a month, one-third what he p
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by chugger 15y ago
I think this strengthen's Oracle's case against Google. and it shows willful infringement on the part of Google. if you consider this admission together with the other evidence against Google, it's pretty damning. an October 2005 email wri
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by chugger 15y ago
cherry picked or not and regardless of your opinion of Florian Mueller, that admission is important and pretty damning. Considering this guy used to work at Sun and is supposed to be Google's Chief Java Architect.
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by chugger 15y ago
I found this. Why Factories Are Leaving China http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_21/b41790110... Fan is expanding his factory in Vietnam, where wages are $100 a month, one-third what he pays in China. $100 a month. that's a
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by chugger 15y ago
This was copied/pasted verbatim from the court documents. The Google "engineer" used work at Sun and is currently Google's Chief Java Architect. "Q. BY MR. JACOBS: Do you have a recollection of accessing Sun code while you were working on T
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Top of Chinese wealthy's wish list? To leave China(msnbc.msn.com)
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Jack Welch: China losing competitiveness. Must Create '10,000 Apples'(bloomberg.com)
29 points by chugger 15y ago|32 comments
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by chugger 15y ago
wait for ThisIsMyNextCrunch to launch in the next few months.
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by chugger 15y ago
why am i getting down voted?
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by chugger 15y ago
and this is the most interesting part of the story. From the article: "The Justice Department contends that Google knew it was potentially violating U.S. law since at least 2003 , but didn't take effective action to ban the ads until it mo
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by chugger 15y ago
Doesn't mean the shareholders knew about every detail or management decisions inside Google. There's no denying the fact that Google handled this one poorly. Google broke the law and they knew it. Justice Dept. says Larry Page knew about r
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by chugger 15y ago
I absolutely agree with you but unfortunately, none of those you mentioned are currently creating "value" for shareholders, which is what these short-sighted Wall Street analysts are looking for. In fact, two things that "destroyed" value (
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by chugger 15y ago
I think it's worth explaining exactly why Wall street is not so excited about Google right now. A company's Return on Invested Capital is the ultimate measure of a company's valuation. Basically, ROIC is a measure of how efficient a comp

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