Google stands Alone Before China

• Google
• Money
• Quote
• WWW
• January 15, 2010

It’s all about profit, and I understand where the silence is coming from, but they are missing the long-term picture. [Chinese leaders’] end game is to extract as much technology out of American companies as they can, transfer that to their own companies and, when they feel those companies have reached a level of technical maturity, show the American companies the door.

—Dan Slane, chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission,speaking to Bloomberg about Google’s plan to offer uncensored search data in China and why the information giant stands alone.

Gene Munster tells a Good Story, But is it Believable?

• Apple
• Ethics
• Mobility
• Money
• January 15, 2010

I definitely don’t agree with Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who believes that iPhone will be the dominant mobile platform. Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget was right to argue that Apple’s mobile phone business would go the same way as the Mac did in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Real Reason Microsoft Retired Money

• Microsoft
• Software
• WWW
• June 11, 2009

It’s sheer silliness to argue that Microsoft retired Money because of Intuit competition. The real cause is already giving Intuit’s Quicken trouble, too.