10 posts and columns on Fortune 500

Engine Yard CEO John Dillon Talks About Competing Against His Old Company, Salesforce.com

in Enterprise on February 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

When Salesforce.com acquired Heroku last year, no one was more surprised than Engine Yard’s John Dillon.

Is Larry Page the Consummate Anti-Social CEO?

in Social on January 21, 2011 at 1:00 am PT

Google’s new CEO isn’t much for the social Web. If he has a presence on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn it was created with deep privacy settings or a fake name. I couldn’t even find a fleshed-out Google profile for Larry Page.

Dell Acquires SecureWorks, Embraces Security-as-Service

in Enterprise on January 4, 2011 at 8:37 am PT

Dell starts the year off with another small acquisition, this one in the security field.

Apple’s “Back to the Mac” Event by the Numbers

in News on October 21, 2010 at 4:05 am PT

As Apple events go, Wednesday’s was a bit lighter on metrics than some others we’ve seen this year. Still, there were quite a few worth noting, beginning with 13.7 million–the number of Macs sold in the fiscal year that ended in September. Then there was the Mac’s installed base: 50 million; and the number of Mac developers: 600,000; and…

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Survey Cites Who's Trustworthy on the Web

in News on April 21, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Most consumer Web sites haven’t taken adequate measures to cut down on online fraud, according to a survey released Tuesday by an Internet advocacy group that promotes anti-fraud tools and standards. The survey conducted by the Online Trust Alliance said only eight percent of major Web sites surveyed made it onto the organization’s “honor roll” of sites taking stringent measures to reduce online fraud enabled by forged emails, phishing sites and malware.

AOL Poaches Another Google Exec

in News on February 4, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

The One-Year Report Card of Yahoo’s Carol Bartz–Financials: C+

in News on January 15, 2010 at 11:48 pm PT

Yesterday, BoomTown began grading the performance of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, after she gave herself a B- for overall performance for the one year since she took over the troubled Internet giant. But I decided to be more specific, splitting the grades into five categories: Management, financials, product innovation, deal-making and moxie. For management, I gave Bartz an A-, which some thought was too generous and others thought should have been an A+. Which means, it was just about right! Today, let’s look at financials–by which I mean Yahoo’s fiscal performance and its stock price. In this regard, Bartz only gets a C++ (it’s a techie joke, get it?).
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Lady Blog Network BlogHer Gives Bloggers a Pay Cut

in Media on December 11, 2008 at 10:03 am PT

BlogHer, a women’s ad network/publishing network and conference organizer, is cutting the amount it pays to its blog partners by 10 percent. That’s really sort of a double cut, since the blog owners/writers in its network get paid based on the ads BlogHer can sell, and ads are already under pressure.

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After Vote-Gate, Heads Must Roll on Yahoo's Board

in News on August 6, 2008 at 5:00 pm PT

To anyone who says that it’s inconsequential that Yahoo understated the level of shareholder dissatisfaction by more than half thanks to a “tabulation error” by its proxy counter, Broadridge, I say: You couldn’t be more wrong. This incident will have ramifications in the coming weeks for the composition of Yahoo’s board.

Yah…eww

in News on May 5, 2008 at 4:51 am PT

The market is finally having its say about the collapse of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal and its words are far from kind. Shares of Yahoo plunged some 21% in premarket trading this morning after Microsoft abandoned its takeover bid, wiping out about $8.7 billion of the company’s market value. Yahoo’s current pre-market price is about 30% below Microsoft’s final offer of $33 a share, which the company deemed inadequate.