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At Google, Page Seeks to Cut Red Tape

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 25, 2011 at 1:01 pm PT

As Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page prepares to reclaim his role as chief executive on April 4, he has already taken steps to assume greater command of the Internet company.

Man Bites Dog! Web Publisher Pays Writers

Peter Kafka in Media on January 16, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Financial chatter site Seeking Alpha, which has relied on free stories from thousands of contributors for the past seven years, shifts strategies.

Chartbeat Says the Rise of the Machines Won't Be So Bad if You're a Cyborg

Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2011 at 7:46 am PT

Or why Tony Haile wants you to learn to stop worrying and love data–and pay up for a subscription to Newsbeat, his new analytics service.

The Right Kind of Ambition

Ben Horowitz, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in News on August 30, 2010 at 10:50 am PT

In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. Surprisingly to me, I received a large number of responses from readers questioning whether or not this was good advice. Here’s how one commenter phrased it:

It Was a Bright, Cold Day in Beijing, and the Clocks Were Striking Thirteen…

John Paczkowski in News on March 25, 2010 at 2:26 pm PT

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says China’s efforts to censor speech and suppress dissidents smacks of the “totalitarianism” of his youth in the Soviet Union. Here’s a prime example of that: A Beijing directive describing how Google’s defiance of China’s censorship laws is to be portrayed in the country’s media.

CIOs: The Econalypse Ate Our 2009 Budgets

John Paczkowski in News on June 10, 2009 at 11:30 am PT

No surpises here. The econalypse has sent IT managers scrambling to redraft their already diminished 2009 budgets. About 42 percent of chief information officers have cut their budgets to grapple with the souring economy, according to a new survey by Gartner.

Microsoft Starts the Layoff Machine Again With Thousands of Cuts: Steve Ballmer’s Memo to the Troops

Peter Kafka in Media on May 5, 2009 at 7:45 am PT

Here comes the second round of layoffs at Microsoft, following a first round that started in January. Today’s cuts will likely end up costing about 3,000 workers their jobs. Microsoft had previously warned that it would cut up to 5,000 jobs by 2010. The good news, says CEO Steve Ballmer: The newest round means “we are mostly but not all done” with layoffs. Here’s Ballmer’s memo to the troops.

Alcatel-Lucent: Let's Get Small

John Paczkowski in News on December 12, 2008 at 8:50 am PT

Alcatel-Lucent, the world’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment, won’t be quite so large come 2009. This morning the struggling Franco-American network supplier said it plans to sack 1,000 managers and 5,000 contractors in a bid to bring down costs.

Alcatel-Lucent: Let’s Get Small

John Paczkowski in News on December 12, 2008 at 8:50 am PT

Alcatel-Lucent, the world’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment, won’t be quite so large come 2009. This morning the struggling Franco-American network supplier said it plans to sack 1,000 managers and 5,000 contractors in a bid to bring down costs.