The markets have been absolutely smitten with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s performance in an interview with Michael Arrington last Tuesday. The company’s stock, left for dead in the aftermath of its May IPO, has surged 13% since the young chief took the stage at Disrupt in San Francisco. The key [...]

Two great articles on the importance of the Facebook Platform Here from David Sacks The New Portals: It’s the Bread, Not the Peanut Butter C...

This guest post is written by David Sacks, the founder and CEO of new startup Geni. Previously, he was COO of PayPal. He also produced the movie “Thank You For Smoking.” For the last several years, Yahoo, MSN and AOL have all suffered a declining share of pageviews, but that does not mean the portal […]

Google previewed Google Play services at Google I/O, and it finally just began the official launch of its new platform designed to help developers integrate Google products, such as Google+, into their apps. Google explained the platform “consists of a services component that runs on the device and a thin client library that you package with your …

What’s wrong with Google’s (GOOG) ad business? It looks like something serious, considering that reports about it in October set off a sustained share price drop and at least three downgrades on the shares, marring what had been a lovely stock chart. But perhaps this is a bit short-sighted. What [...]