Steve Bryant

On the news Barron’s predicting a possible 50% drop in Google shares, here’s an interesting article in the WSJ that I don’t see many paying attention to online. The headline is as witty as it is accurate: New Key Word for Google: Interest. “Fourth-quarter net interest income was $70.2 million, more than a ninefold increase […]

By now you’ve heard the news that Google Desktop 3 beta is available for download. There are plenty of useful new features, most of which include enhanced interaction with other desktop users.The most interesting new feature is called “Share Across Computers,” and it allows you to make some of your documents available when you search […]

John Battelle made noise about this last night, and now the AP has the story: Google has hired Amazon search chief Udi Manber. Amazon’s A9 is replacing Manber with David Tennenhouse, who previously directed research at Intel and DARPA’s Information Technology Office.Barnaby Dorfman, A9’s vice-president in charge of business development, also recently left Amazon, but […]

Over on the Intermedia blog, I’ve got some conjecture about why Google’s merging Gmail and Gtalk. On the surface, it looks like Google is driving users to Gtalk by 1) embedding it in their very successful email client, and 2) not making Gtalk interoperable with other IM services (AOL, Yahoo and MSN).That’s a sound business […]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting (no pay wall) more details on Google’s online payment service, GBuy. “But PayPal must now contend with Google. The Mountain View, Calif., Web-search giant, which has terrified Silicon Valley with its ability to quickly create new consumer products and services, is developing a rival service called GBuy. For the […]