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The real problem with Google TV

November 11, 2011

It looks like Logitech is out of the Google TV market: The mistake, plus “operational miscues in EMEA” cost the company “well over $100M in operating profits.” De Luca did throw Google a bone by saying that he believes Google TV will have a chance sometime in the future, but it would be a “grandchild [...]

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Google desperately looks for way to get more cash from YouTube

May 3, 2010

Image via CrunchBase New Role – YouTube as Outlet for Live Sports – NYTimes.com: “Until now, YouTube has concentrated mainly on amateur user-created content, professional music videos and short promotional clips from television shows. The only major international event it carried live before the I.P.L. was a U2 concert from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena [...]

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Guess again

March 5, 2010

Another YouTube Revenue Guess: $1 Billion in 2011: Since Google releases almost no information about YouTube’s financial performance, the best we can do is make educated guesses. Here’s another one: The word’s biggest video site will be generating more than $1.1 billion in revenue by 2011, and Google will keep about $700 million of that.That [...]

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Translating Google

January 30, 2010

Jeff Jarvis fires off a couple of questions in an apartment in Davos to the Googlers. Here are Eric Schmidt’s answers, with some handy translations from Google-speak. Schmidt: Phones: Will they have a tablet? “You might want to tell me what the difference is between a large phone and a tablet,” Schmidt said. Translation: You [...]

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Idiot post of the day – The Roundup

January 6, 2010

I’ll keep updating this one as and when they come in. And boy, are they coming in. With the honourable exception of David Pogue, everyone seems to have lost all their critical faculties, journalistic skills, and in some cases basic ability to write English sentences which parse. First up, Max Tatton-Brown, in his post entitled [...]

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“What would Google do?” Charge for content, of course

December 1, 2009

So much for not charging for content. According to Peter Kafka, Google wants to erect a paywall around part of YouTube, charging on a per-view basis to watch TV shows: “Google’s video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows for a fee, multiple sources tell me. YouTube [...]

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Is YouTube the biggest loss-making machine in history?

April 16, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Michael Hickens of Google Watch puts a positive spin on how YouTube is doing: “Google’s YouTube acquisition is looking less and less like a financial boondoggle every day. YouTube is now selling ads against 9% of its content, versus 6% a year ago (and remember, this is a market in serious recession).” [...]

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The new economic reality: business model first, build traffic second

April 16, 2009

Farhad Manjoo at Slate offers a timely reminder of one of the underlying realities of online business: “Everyone knows that print newspapers are our generation’s horse-and-buggy; in the most wired cities, they’ve been pummeled by competition from the Web. But it might surprise you to learn that one of the largest and most-celebrated new-media ventures [...]

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