Google is prepared to bid at least $4.6 billion for wireless licenses in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming spectrum auction–but only if the FCC agrees to adopt the four license conditions the company has been lobbying for.
The eBay marketing “experiment” that began earlier this month with the cancellation of the auction giant’s Google AdWords campaign has finally ended. EBay resumed its Google AdWords advertising on Friday, ending a 10-day pullout that began when Google announced plans to throw a Google Checkoout Freedom Party for eBay merchants attending the eBay Live annual [...]
Larry and Sergey believed we could develop a better product than the existing online advertising offerings, but we knew that [DoubleClick] could be a fallback if Google’s ad program did not work.”
– Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development at Google, October 1, 2005
Odd how things come full circle, isn’t it? [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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