When you’re 20, you have fewer bills and can take more risk. When you get to be 40 you are likely to have a mortgage, a spouse, kids, a dog and other responsibilities that require a steady check. But more importantly when you’re 20 you have no idea how hard it is to sell a …

Sprint’s market cap today is about 15 billion, Verizon has about 22 billion in current assets and a market cap of 101 billion. It is certainly doable. Let’s see what happens assuming the ATT deal gets passed the SEC

I don’t wish bad on SecondMarket and other secondary stock markets and in fact I think they bring many positives to the ecosystem, letting founders take some money off the table without selling out and without having the burden of being a public company. Certainly its fun to watch some of these hot young companies …

With the pervasiveness of Facebook and now Facebook Connect on so many web sites, it maybe time for Facebook to launch its own browser. Does the world need another web browser, probably not but they could use Webkit as the rendering engine and then add social layers to the browser. This would allow you as …

It seems every day I read about another law suit filed by a shell company who has licensed patents from inventors with no other purpose but to sue companies. They can sue with essentially no risk to themselves but even if the patent turns out to be invalid or the company is found not to …

I don’t have any problem with Apple taking 30% of subscription revenue for iPhone and iPad apps that leverage its new billing mechanism but I have a big problem with Apple requiring publishers to use that system. Given Apple’s magnitude right now that is asking for an anti trust action but for companies that have …

I played with an iPad 2 this weekend and a Samsung Galaxy. I also saw a myriad of new Android tablets at CES. It is Windows vs Mac all over again. I hate to be an Apple fan boy but everything else I saw just sucks in comparison. Sure there are some advantages to Android …

Mobile is the new everything and like all new media, CPMs are high in the early going.  If you have an app in the app store that gets a lot of usage, iAd is a viable business model.  The fill rate is still not where it needs to be but CPMs are high and I’m …