Digital Revolution

Icahn's down pretty huge on this Motorola trade as far as I can tell, and he's gonna need it back to $15 or so to make any money on it, again as far as I can tell from having been following his activism in this name over the last few years.  But he's finally getting a large part of what he's been looking for, as Moto finally announces that it's going to be spinning off its handset division from ... read more

I must have written hundreds of articles and blog posts for RealMoney.com, on these pages, for The Financial Times and elsewhere for the last few years about how Google's dominance will grow for a long time. Take a look at the Tech page on NYTimes.com today.   It's really all about Google, isn't it?  Fastest growing ... read more

The other night I'm at a charity event with a friend. After the event, we're in a car service headed downtown for drinks. She's got two Blackberries (Blackberrys?) out and is tapping away. After a couple minutes, I ask who's she's texting. She names a hook up friend of hers, and adds that she'd just texted her parents too. I feel the Negativity well up inside of me and I sit there putting ... read more

Heard of bebo? It's huge in England and in some of its former colonies. One former British colony where it's not huge is in that little economy/society called the US. Here, MySpace.com rules. Remember when the folks I now work for stepped up and bought MySpace.com for about half a billion dollars. At the time everybody called it another bubble. That was before News Corp was guaranteed a ... read more

Not a coincidence that YouTube's making a bunch of news announcements and opening up much more of its inner workings to developers on the day that NBC and the guys I work for at Fox roll out Hulu.com. Hulu's not supposed to compete with YouTube per se, though YouTube does want to compete with Hulu. Yes, even though YouTube is by far the most dominant video site on the net, it's the one who ... read more

I didn't see the first season of Lost until after James Altucher had convinced me it was the "perhaps the greatest television program ever" and I went on the DVD buying binge to make up for lost video ownership years. So I watched a good half of the first season during what started out as a three day weekend of endless work, sorta in the background until I found myself glued to the 109" projector ... read more

As much bulling as I've been doing on Google down here below $500 again, I was actually worried that Barron's would call it a value stock or something this weekend. And, see, as Barron's has been dead wrong on Google since it first came public and they were quoting dudes saying Google was fair valued at $25 a share. As I've pointed out before, that'd be like buying it at ... read more

More proof of two realities we're living through -- 1. They can't stop the revolution. 2. Orwell had it wrong, it's Little Brother that's watching you.   Cyber-Rebels in Cuba Defy State’s Limits By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. A growing underground network of young people has been spreading news the official state media try to suppress. The best part of the article is the quote at the very ... read more