Microsoft (MSFT) Make Take Another Run At Yahoo! (YHOO), This One To Be Successful
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Microsoft (MSFT) is lining up partners to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) and this time it is very likely t...

Squawk Box - July 1, 2008 - Jonathan Zittrain interview, author of The Future of the Internet And How To Stop It
On today s Squawk Box we had a fascinating discussion with noted academic Jonathan Zittrain about his new book, The Future of The Inter...

Diversion: Cycle Climbing, the McMurdo-South Pole Highway, etc.
Many moons ago I wrote a piece for Men's Journal -- yes, that's just the kind of renaissance guy I am -- on the joys of cycle-climbing. I h...

Squawk Box - June 30, 2008
On today s SquawkBox (June 30), we talked a lot about the changes at Microsoft and what may be next for the company.With Bill Gates formal...

Where My Stupid Mistake Came From
CNN makes a spelling mistake. Mine mostly have to do with numbers. This morning, on an earlier blog post, I mistook $2,100,000 for $2.1 bill...

Microsoft Buys Natural Language Search Technology
This morning Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] confirmed rumors that it will be acquring Powerset, a Bay Area-based company specializing in natural la...

Write-Offs: 07.01.08
$$$ You blew my mind too, Kevin Rose-- Barry Diller [NewsGroper]$$$ How to Increase the Value of Yahoo! (YHOO), Revisited [LoSC]$$$ Winners...

The VC Asset Class Crisis Thing
So, the venture capital asset class is in crisis. Or at least that's what the NVCA is saying today as it rings the alarm bell asking for p...

Oh Canada not too bad, eh?
I don t want to get all patriotic on you or anything, but I came across a couple of tributes to our home and native land (okay my home...