Roundup: Yahoo, Apple pre-earnings reports, Akamai’s new ads, and more
Here’s the latest action:
Earnings: Yahoo may shortly be cutting employee compensation – This may be instead of or in addition to planned job cuts.
Earnings: Apple lowballs projections, as usual — Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog has a closer look at this historical trend.
Akamai launches ad targeting service — The content delivery network company has bought ad-targeting company Acerno for $95 million, as part of this new focus.
Research in Motion joins Blackberry cross-device application testing service — The service, DeviceAnywhere, lets developers test applications on 100 Blackberry phone models on 16 networks.
Funding slows for cleantech companies — Lower fuel prices and tighter capital markets are, unsurprisingly, the cause. General Electric both makes cleantech equipment and underwrites cleantech projects, but it is getting out of the sector at least until it can get better access to capital.
Web media viewing service Cooliris launches iPhone app — Check it out.
Music service ILike partners with independent online distributor TuneCore — This will allow unsigned artists who use TuneCore to get paid when their music streams through iLike’s applications on social networks.
BusinessWeek: Who might be Obama’s “Chief Technology Officer” (if he wins) — The position would involve trying to increase broadband internet proliferation across the country.
Texas Instruments earnings down 26 percent — The New York Times has more.
DLA Piper survey: IT execs see more than a year of economic downturn — More on the law firm’s findings here.
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About the Author, Eric Eldon
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.