Voyces

I realize that big companies are fairly complex and therefore sometimes make decisions that look really stupid to the outside world but in reality are good decsions for the company.  Todays decision by Microsoft I am sorry to say just looks like a bad one. Microsoft launched their “social phone” called Kin about 2 months ago. [...]

Last night I had dinner with Jay Freeman, aka Saurik.  Jay has done a ton of cool shit and currently founded and runs the very succesful alternative (for jailbroken iPhones) app store called Cydia.  He told me some really interesting things at dinner so I figured I would try and do a interview real quick [...]

On Wednesday Google announced that they would be opening up a API for Latitude, their mobile location product, so that any developer with a users permission could get location data from there. This announcement and the very positive response in the tech world just continues to show the inability of the mobile carriers to leverage their [...]

Yesterday HP confirmed that it is acquiring Palm for $1.2 billion.  No small bet for HP a company that today has a market cap of a little over $4 billion. Palm has driven itself deep into the ground.  They had the early lead in the convergence of mobile/computing but due to a number of things (my guess [...]

CenturyTel announced that it will be acquiring Qwest for $10.5 billion today.  The deal will make CentruyTel the 3rd largest landline company in the US behind ATT and Verizon. The deal might look like 2 rusty companies getting together to form one giant super-rusty behemoth and that it would have no effect on the VOIP/Telco 2.0 business, but [...]

I made up the phrase ”shaking the tree” for situations where you are in some sort of a deal and you go back to request new terms.  As a serial entrepreneur I have found myself in the situation on both sides of the table pretty frequently.  Obviously if you have a contract things can be different, this is for [...]