Michael Lazerow, CEO Buddy Media, predicts that Twitter will continue to scale and then sell within the next year so someone else can figure out the annoying business model part. If he were Google or Microsoft, he would cough up $2 billion and somehow harness the 100-200 million users later… Tweet This Post

Germany has declared itself an enemy of Google’s ambitious and controversial plans to digitise millions of out-of-print books, fearing the creation of an unfavourable “new copyright regime”. In a filing to a New York court on Tuesday, Angela Merkel’s administration urged US authorities not to green light Google’s settlement with publishers reached last year as [...]

Gmail’s web interface had a widespread outage earlier today, lasting about 100 minutes. We know how many people rely on Gmail for personal and professional communications, and we take it very seriously when there’s a problem with the service. Thus, right up front, I’d like to apologize to all of you — today’s outage was [...]

A week ago I had a chance to sit down for a hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. There were no rules, and the whole interview was on the record. Part of the interview was on video as well.There’s so much material that we’ve broken the interview notes up into a [...]

Google Voice users have been complaining the last couple of days that calls using the service are unceremoniously terminated after 15 minutes. The service is still in beta, but as we’ve written before, users expect perfection when it comes to voice calls. Problems like this make it hard for people to trust the service… Tweet [...]

Have you noticed that Sony has launched its best ebook reader a couple of days ago, with an AT&T 3G modem for fast wireless connection? Not by accident, Google now announced they’re offering over a million public domain books in EPUB format – the exact format that Sony’s Daily Edition reader likes… Tweet This Post

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable is on the verge of expanding its online video efforts from a small-scale HBO trial to a small-scale national test of its version of TV Everywhere with some of the same networks involved in Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) On Demand. The WSJ reports that the plans could be announced as early [...]

Google’s machine translation service added new languages: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh, Yiddish. Some of these languages have a small number of speakers: for example, according to Wikipedia, only 320,000 people speak Icelandic… Tweet This Post

We first launched the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to help some of our more popular users make money from their videos on YouTube. While we’ve focused on accepting prolific users who regularly produce videos that reach a wide audience — like Fred and ValsArtDiary — we’ve occasionally extended the program to include some of the [...]

Google user interface designer Leland Rechis has quit the company to join microblogging startup Twitter, Twitter’s Director of Mobile Business Development announced today… Tweet This Post

Every year, the market-research firm Millward Brown conducts a survey to determine the economic worth of the world’s brands — in other words, to put a dollar value on the many corporate logos that dominate our lives. Lately the firm’s results have been stuck on repeat: Google has claimed the top spot for the past [...]

Another Google sales exec has left the building: Andrew Rutledge, who has been running publisher sales for Google’s DoubleClick unit for the last year, has taken the same job at PubMatic, an ad optimization startup. Tweet This Post