Fri, 25 May 2012
On this week’s show, Andrew Sorcini & Christopher Burnor discuss: Facebook goes public! Google officially makes things, Microsoft goes social, Zuckerberg gets hitched, and private enterprise launches into space... Here's the headlines...Pinterest joins the $1 BN club, Microsoft launches social network So.cl, Comcast tests tiered pricing, SpaceX launches first commercial rocket into space,
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Fri, 18 May 2012
This week, we look at some new Facebook-related changes on the cusp of their Initial Public Offering, and whether those changes are enough to keep advertisers interested after Facebook goes public. Then, to code or not to code...that is the question. But first, the headlines...Yahoo's fibbing CEO Scott Thompson gets his comeuppance, and Yahoo gets an interim CEO, Pebble breaks all Kickstarter records at $10 in pledges, Apple moves away from Google Maps, Apple may offer an iPhone with a larger screen and a thinner MacBook, How Yahoo killed Flickr, Google introduces a knowledge graph, and Aaron Sorkin will script Steve Jobs' life.
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Fri, 11 May 2012
This week, we look into a scandal involving Scott Thompson, Yahoo's CEO, wherein he allegedly lied on his resume about having a CS degree. Later, we’ll poke into a couple of exciting rumors of Apple lowering the price of their Macbook Air to $799, plus their upcoming HDTV offering. But first, the headlines...Facebook sets its IPO price, Discovery buys Revision3, Draw Something loses 5M users/Mo. after Zynga purchase, AT&T CEO regrets offering unlimited data, Google loses copyright infringement case to Oracle over Java, Google's Hangouts on Air rolls out to everyone, & Google's Autonomous cars get an official nod from Nevada.
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Fri, 4 May 2012
This week, The Drill Down team (and Techmeme's Lidija Davis) discusses Barnes & Noble's new partnership with Microsoft to compete with Amazon's Kindle & Apple's iPad, and later we discuss a development which could spell the end for Digg.com, one of the most venerated social news sites on the internet. But first the headlines...CISPA passes the House (and how that will affect you), Apple sidesteps billions in taxes, The Pirate Bay must be blocked in the UK, Blackberry launches version 10 OS, Facebook adds organ donor status to profiles. Headlines
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