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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

How to Market an iPhone App: Get Apple to Market Your iPhone App

apple adThere 85,000 apps available. So how do you get Apple to highlight yours in national TV ads?

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Monday, April 6, 2009

AP Shakes Fist at Google, Tells Internet to Get Off Its Damn Lawn

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The Associated Press is fed up with… the Internet, apparently. And it’s going to do… something about it. At the news-gathering co-op’s annual meeting today, AP chairman Dean Singleton let rip a sort of hellfire-and-brimstone speech in which he announced the AP’s vague plans to stop unnamed scoundrels from making money from their work.

Unstated but obvious public enemy number one: Google.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Friends and Family Fly for Free, Frequently

eric-schmidtGoogle’s new 2008 proxy statement looks a lot like Google’s proxy statements from previous years: It tells us that the company’s top executives received nice bonuses, though slightly smaller than last year’s. And Google’s ruling troika–CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page–all took home salaries of $1. One smallish change: Eric Schmidt’s friends and families spent a lot more time with him on the company jet last year.

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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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