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Feds eye Apple-Google ad war
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2010-06-13 01:09That didn't take long.On Monday, Apple (AAPL) changed the rules that govern its new iAd mobile advertising platform to exclude competitors like Google...
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The Apple of Nokia's Eye
Jessi Hempel 2009-10-27 06:43Posted by Jessi Hempel, writerThe trouble with being number one in any industry is that you have nowhere to move but down. Few companies know this bet...
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A yen for trade war?
Colin Barr 2010-09-19 11:37Holding down the yen won't work for Japan. But that's far from the worst part of Wednesday's news.The bigger problem is that the Bank of Japan's decis...
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Keyword ad buyers beware
Roger Parloff 2010-03-29 10:20The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled this morning on whether Google violated trademarks by selling brand-name keywords to competitors -- ...
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J.P. Morgan: 4G patent war looms
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2010-12-18 12:07Nokia, Motorola and RIM unlikely to let Nortel's intellectual property go without a fightIn a note to clients issued Tuesday, J.P. Morgan's data netwo...
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What exactly is a currency war, anyway?
Nin-Hai Tseng 2010-10-28 10:48Tensions are escalating among some of the world's biggest economies as finance ministers find incentives to devalue their currencies. But are we in a ...
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Skype's $200 million ad opportunity
Jessi Hempel 2010-08-17 01:18The video chat service is mostly free, for now. But if Skype just tiptoes into the advertising business, its returns could be massive.Apart from Googl...
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Behind the war between Obama and big business
Tory Newmyer 2010-08-13 01:24Corporate chiefs may seem hardboiled, but they can be sensitive, too. Take the ruckus they've been raising over what they perceive to be rough treatme...
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Profiting from Apple's war with Google
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2010-03-26 12:30It's been a busy couple of weeks for revelations about Steve Jobs' falling out with Google's Eric Schmidt.On March 12, we had Brad Stone and Michael H...
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Behind the Adobe-Apple cold war
Michael V. Copeland 2010-02-03 02:11by Michael V. CopelandIf you were watching Steve Jobs' iPad demo closely Wednesday, you would have seen it briefly as he showed off the device's Web-s...