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  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube Read my commentary on China’s copyright-free tech world on the blog. MICROSOFT is looking to revive a deal with YAHOO. However, the transaction is likely not be a total acquisition, rather a deal that could bring Microsoft search ads alongside Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube WiMax and the future of broadband. Check out my commentary on the blog. NBC will officially name Jimmy Fallon as the future host of Late Night. Fallon will takeover for Conan O’Brien beginning June of 2009, when O’Brien will begin Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube MICROSOFT informally approached FACEBOOK about a possible merger. A meeting with the social networking site comes just days after Microsoft backed away from its bid to secure YAHOO. Like the failed Yahoo bid, a merger with Facebook would seriously improve Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Disney mega-star Miley Cyrus gets racy for Annie Lebowitz and Vanity Fair, or does she? Check out my commentary on the Shelly Palmer blog. MICROSOFT walked away from its bid to acquire YAHOO. Not willing to go hostile, the software Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. YAHOO rejected MICROSOFT‘s takeover bid once again and denied Steve Ballmer’s claim that its business is slowing down. Yahoo says it is open to a deal with Microsoft but only if the price is right. For now, it will continue Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SHELLY PALMER analyzes Amazon’s latest move in the techno-rebellion against the retail industry. Read on to see how 3G phones, white-space devices and future wireless technologies may impact retail stores. MICROSOFT increased its pressure on Yahoo, threatening to begin a Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. GOOGLE is using April 1st to roll out a number of exciting new initiatives. The company has unveiled a joint venture with Virgin called Virgle, the first human settlement on Mars. Users can sign up online to be a Virgle Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. COMCAST and TIME WARNER CABLE are in discussions to fund a WiMax joint venture with SPRINT and CLEARWIRE. The current deal calls for Comcast to invest $1 billion and TWC to put in $500 million. Bright House Networks, Google and Continue Reading →

GENERAL MOTORS will shift half of its $3 billion advertising budget to online and one-to-one marketing within 3 years. That indicates a rapid increase over the $197 million GM spent online last year. The company plans to embrace a wide variety of formats, including gaming, search, interactive applications and more. THE FCC announced that the Continue Reading →

SHELLY PALMER shares a true story about the pitfalls of dating in the social-networking era. Is that perfect stranger you met really perfect? You may want to check his Facebook profile before deciding. NBC UNIVERSAL will purchase 35% of web site and VOD channel DriverTV for $6 million. DriverTV creates short promotional videos for major Continue Reading →