Clint Boulton

Google confirmed after the stock market closed today that Chief Financial Officer George Reyes will retire as soon as he helps the company find his replacement. The 53-year-old Reyes, at Google for the last 5+ years, said he will stay to help search for a new CFO, which Google expects will occur by the end […]

UPDATE: The cash cow keeps getting healthier. CNN.com has agreed to join Google’s AdSense advertising program, which has made the search vendor the multibillion-dollar Internet ad realtor it is. Neither the financial terms nor the duration of the deal were made public, but a CNN spokesperson confirmed for me that Google is replacing Yahoo as […]

Software startup TransMedia is looking to crack into the cluttered market for word processing software with a new product tailored for the increasingly mobile workforce. TransMedia introduced its Glide Write 2.0 operating system and word processor on August 28, billing the software as a “mobile collaborative platform” that lets users create, edit and share rich […]

It can be a lot of fun to predict who Google may buy next. So when a colleague pointed out a blog post on Domain Name Wire last week that suggested Google could buy GoDaddy, I went fishing. Noting that registrar GoDaddy has been on a veritable patent filing rampage (more than 50 pending), Domain […]

In the interest of making it easier for its people to reach each other even when theyre not online, Yahoo, on August 27, added the ability for users to send text or instant messages from a computer to a cell phone via Yahoos Web mail software. Users of Yahoo Mail can now send free text […]

Google Apps Premier Edition may be a tempting alternative to Microsoft Office software, but it may not be all that its cracked up to be early on, according to one industry analyst. When Google unveiled its Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) in February 2007, many industry watchers sat up and took notice. The initial thought […]

Ask.coms users may not have time to fully absorb the search engines revised Ask 3D service because it will be following that act in the next six to 12 months with “collective search.” Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone said collective search is a way of improving the relevance of search results by using the feedback of […]

YouTube has only been running in-video ads for a couple of days, but the video-sharing site has been shelled by comments ranging from annoyed to angry to disgusted. To recap, YouTube Tuesday began running ads directly in videos from select partners. Yesterday morning, I wrote about how I couldn’t seem to find any of the […]

IBM Buy Shines Spotlight on Web Collaboration”> IBMs purchase of Web conferencing vendor WebDialogs on Aug. 22 highlights a growing trend in which high-tech stalwarts and startups alike are vying for pieces of an online collaboration software pie that could be worth billions of dollars. WebDialogs makes on-demand Web conferencing services, and IBM plans to […]

Google’s YouTube property allegedly has begun running ads directly in its videos this week. I say allegedly because I spent 20 fruitless minutes this morning looking for one, viewing a dizzying array of Ford Model beauty tips and muscular videos about new BMWs and such. I must be looking for video ad love in all […]

Google took a major step toward answering how it would derive financial value from video-sharing site YouTube August 21, rolling out ads in videos from select partners such as Ford Models and Warner Music Group. Finding unobtrusive ways to plant ads in videos has been a major challenge for search vendors such as Google, Yahoo, […]

Everyone loves a good mea culpa and posted a big one on its Google Blog site August 20. Seems the company underestimated the firestorm of complaints it would trigger when it discontinued its download-to-own/download-to-rent feature for its Google Video service, meaning the videos customer bought would no longer be playable. Customers were offered a refund […]