In other words, we’ll soon see that 2009 won’t be like “1984.” With price tags that can reach nearly $3 million and the inevitable need to compete with garish offerings from food and beverage brands like Anheuser-Busch and its army of Clydesdale horses, Super Bowl ads are something that could disappear quickly from a budget [...]

Today, for kicks, I tried to draw a map of all the places I write content, all the places it is displayed, and all the intermediate services that re-post my content in places other than where I originally write it. It’s a spaghetti of interlinked services, and it’s becoming unmanageable. I think it’s just [...]

The Fisker Karma will be a luxury plug-in hybrid sedan the company intends to start selling in the fourth quarter of 2009 to North American customers with an expected price of about $80,000.

The two companies are also in a legal battle; Tesla has accused Fisker Automotive CEO Henrik Fisker and a colleague of stealing company [...]

11:53 a.m. PDT: A plea from a fantasy sports fan who owns Yahoo stock: “If you’re trying to target men between ages of 15 and 35, it seems you have a competitive advantage over anyone else,” so invest more. The audience chuckles.
CEO Jerry Yang takes the podium.

11 a.m. PDT: Yang doesn’t exactly say good [...]

The point is, Google App Engine may be neither competitive nor monopolistic – it might just be trivial as Google Pages or Google Base. So far it seems pretty simple and useful, though. We’ll have to take a deep breath, hope that Amazon and others step up their offerings a notch or two in response, [...]

The Internet company had agreed to select two candidates from a pool that included Icahn’s former slate of dissident directors. Icahn was also appointed to Yahoo’s board as part of the proxy battle-ending agreement.

“We know who we want,” one source over the weekend said, though declining to elaborate the why the announcement has been delayed. [...]