It's nearly time for the annual geek pilgrimage to Las Vegas for CES. It's easy to write off this massive tech trade show as an outdated, overrated, overhyped gizmo-fest, but it does provide ahead-of-the-curve marketplace knowledge. Here's what's next for TVs and other tech gadgets in 2012.READ»
Describing your product as "new and "never been done before" instead of "we're just like those others guys, but better" could cost your company billions. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong.READ»
Rosetta Stone is on a proven path, the same one that most of the highly disruptive companies of the past twenty years--Dell, RIM, Google--have trodden.READ»
Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization, revealed today that Google upped its spending on Washington lobbyists by a mammoth 57% from the same period last year.READ»
Revenue
Ads/Sponsorships Hosts read live commercials. Almost all ads have a promo code to track response. Ads on a popular show (2 million monthly downloads) command $25 to $35 per 1,000 impressions. "There are advertisers who ...READ»
Google has assembled a crack team of associates to launch a full-scale invasion into the living room. Yes, GoogleTV is real--or at least it will be soon.READ»
At an event in NYC tonight, TiVo introduced the biggest change to their digital video recorder (DVR) in years with the Series 4, to be officially called the TiVo Premiere. It's the first TiVo box to use a new, Adobe Flash-based ...READ»
We still haven't found a better way to sleep off a turkey feast than beach ourselves in front of the boob tube. But that doesn't mean there aren't better ways to watch TV: Roku wants to, well, rock you--the Web-to-TV device is upping ...READ»
Just yesterday TiVo was in the news for its user-data deal with Google, but its execs have obviously been far busier than that: Today there's fresh info that TiVo is expanding--it's due to launch a co-branded DVR TV service in the ...READ»
TiVo, everyone's favorite DVR maker, has just signed an agreement with Google to hand over tons of data on its users habits for analysis. The upshot: Advertisements are going to be even more targeted and personal. It's how Internet TV ...READ»
Blockbuster, the $500 million video rental chain, has been in a long battle to remain relevant in the Internet-enabled age--lately by attempting to strike a deal for online content distribution. But the company's Internet leap may ...READ»
