Clint Boulton

Yesterday, I promised to look into whether or not Nielsen and ComScore were concerned about Google’s new Ad Planner tool as some in the blogosphere wondered.In short, the answer is a big, fat no.Nielsen Online Chief Marketing Officer Susan Hickey noted that Google, with which Nielsen signed a strategic agreement last October, is an important […]

Platform-as-a-service provider Bungee Labs, keeping a promise it made back in April, is allowing customers to run Bungee’s Connect grid computing software on their own infrastructure instead of on servers from Bungee.Companies can download the Web-based virtual image for the Bungee grid application software, which registers with Bungee’s data center.When customers go to deploy an […]

Nokia may have just switched the balance of power from proprietary to open-source mobile phone software by buying the remainder of the Symbian operating system software concern and spinning out the assets under an open-source license. This move, in which Nokia paid $410 million to buy the 52 percent of Symbian it didn’t already own […]

When Google and Salesforce.com announced Salesforce for Google Apps, the deal was widely covered by press and analysts, with many in the latter group treating the news to little more than a yawn. In that leg of the SAAS (software as a service) providers’ relationship, current Salesforce.com customers were allowed to directly work with Gmail, […]

Updated: Big news in the mobile operating system world today: Nokia is bidding to acquire the 52 million remaining shares it does not already own of Symbian Ltd. for $410 million.Nokia said Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens had accepted the offer for their Symbian stakes; Samsung is the holdout, but Nokia […]

Google has about 10 years of analyzing data under its belt, figuring out search trends to help it sell its vaunted keyword advertising platforms.Now that we’re ensconced firmly in this rabid Web 2.0 era, where traffic is more competitive and precious than ever for advertisers and content publishers alike, Google is using its iterative knowledge […]

The Wall Street Journal has digested the telephone company, analyst and pundit spin for a story on the alleged delay of phones based on Google’s mobile Android operating system.Google has said since it unveiled Android Nov. 5 that there would be phones based on the operating system in the second half of 2008. The Wall […]

Yesterday I aired the theory on Google Watch that by joining Benchmark Capital as a venture capitalist in training while remaining as a special advisor to Facebook, Matt Cohler would be well-positioned to help the social network spot bleeding-edge Internet startups.While Cohler didn’t cop to this idea outright, he did nothing to dissuade me of […]

Driven by user demand, Google has made several enhancements to its Google Sites wiki application, which launched in February to much fanfare and relief that the JotSpot technology did indeed still exist at Google, even as a shadow of its former self. Here are full details and screenshots about the enhancements. First is an auto-save […]

Since Google acquired YouTube in 2006, financial analysts everywhere have examined the $1.65 billion deal. How would Google make money from the popular video-sharing site, where, according to Google, clips are uploaded at a stunning rate of 10 hours’ worth per hour? Those who follow Google assumed the company would sell ads for the clips, […]

This goes out to all you conspiracy theorists.Matt Cohler, a vice president of product management at Facebook, is leaving the social network, not for Google, but for Benchmark Capital, which he will join as a general partner.Cohler will be at Facebook full-time until the fall, when he will transition into a formal advisory role to […]

Seeking to make Google look bad and to curry favor with privacy advocates and government regulators, Ask.com has added a link to its privacy policy on its home page and on the landing pages across its verticals.Ask has also added a link to its privacy policy right on its Ask About page, and is developing […]