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Today’s most popular headlines are Yahoo suggests NSFW video (30,666 views today), The Genius Bar can help you only so much (6,063) and China trip nets Wired editor a $2,100 iPhone bill (4,095). Today’s most discussed stories are The Genius Bar can help you only so much (42 comments), China trip nets Wired editor a $2,100 iPhone bill (38) and Gates Foundation leaves Africa hungry for more (11).
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Yahoo has installed Brandon Holley, the former editor of Jane, a women’s magazine, as executive producer of Yahoo Lifestyles. This doesn’t bode well for her career. When Scott Moore was put in charge of Yahoo’s media operations, he said Yahoo would start focusing on mass instead of niche content — news, finance, sports, and maybe entertainment. “Lifestyles is the same — lots of subcategories don’t meet the bar.”
Holley’s now in charge of those very same niches — food, health, astrology, and technology — Moore has suggested he plans to drop or scale back. Maybe having a girlfriend in HR was actually a good idea.
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The New York Times spent an epic 3,800 words on a truth known to everyone in Silicon Valley: Google is competing with Microsoft in email and productivity apps. Steve Lohr got lots of time with Google CEO Eric Schmidt — but attributes his failure to get any good quotes from Schmidt to Schmidt’s caginess. Here’s a version that skips the useless talking points from Microsoft and Google and just gets down to the scant few numbers Lohr managed to assemble. Bottom line: Microsoft doesn’t have much to worry about. Yet. Lohr doesn’t note this stat: 73 percent of consumers surveyed by NPD have noever even heard of Google Apps.
Eric Schmidt career competing against Microsoft. Google offering word processing applications and spreadsheets. Epic business battle. Cloud computing. Microsoft sees a Web future tethered to its desktop PC software. In order to succeed, Google needs to win corporations. About 2,000 companies are signing up for Google Apps every day. Companies with more than 50 users, charge of $50 a year per user. A few large companies, notably General Electric and Procter & Gamble, are at least trying out Google Apps. About 160 employees of BankFirst Financial Services, a small bank in Macon, Miss., have been using Gmail for about two months. BankFirst isn’t using Google’s online word processing, presentation and spreadsheets, a package known as Google Docs. According to Compete.com, a research firm, Google Docs is gaining popularity. It had 1.6 million users in November, seven times as many as a year earlier. Office may continue to be an outstanding product, but Microsoft may not be able to charge as much for it.
(Illustration by Tim Bower)
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