Coop's Corner

Forecasting a dead end for chips

Charles Cooper — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:28:00 GMT

The 4004 microprocessor

(Credit: Intel)

(Editor's note, 10:25 p.m. PDT: The original headline on this blog was altered to remove the word "subatomic" because its usage may not have been appropriate.)

TEL AVIV, Israel--One of Intel's legendary chip developers says that the computer industry may no ...

Israel's high-tech culture must rejigger, VC says

Charles Cooper — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

TEL AVIV, Israel--For one of the most important venture capitalists in Israel, the nation's recent burst of entrepreneurial success isn't going to be good enough to guarantee a productive future.

Chemi Peres, founder of the Pitango Venture Capital partnership, doesn't mince words when he talks about a ...

Will Andreessen befriend Zuckerberg?

Charles Cooper — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:56:00 GMT

Marc Andreessen

(Credit: Dan Farber/CNET News.com)

The rumors have been floating around for a while, and now Mike Arrington is reporting that Marc Andreessen is going to join Facebook's board of directors. (Kara Swisher had the original news break back in May.)

Best known as the founder ...

Stef Wertheimer's tech road to Mideast peace

Charles Cooper — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:40:00 GMT

TEL AVIV, Israel--He's the richest man in Israel. And at 82, Stef Wertheimer is far from calling it quits. Two years after selling 80 percent of his Iscar Metalworking to Warren Buffett for $4 billion, Wertheimer has an idea on how to bring peace to a region scarred by ...

Making sense of Israel: A 60-year-old start-up

Charles Cooper — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:34:00 GMT

TEL AVIV, Israel--Watching the news from Israel over the last several years, it sometimes seems that the political culture in the country is broken. Yet at the same time, the economic and entrepreneurial trends seem stronger than ever. I've never been able to explain that contradiction. Now that I'...

Daily Debrief: Figuring out Yahoo, Post-reorg

Charles Cooper — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:18:00 GMT

We got an earful from Yahoo insiders earlier Thursday on their plans post-reorg. Now, the $64,00 question is whether any of this is going to make a difference. All the while, Steve Ballmer's waiting in the wings with a big fat Microsoft checkbook, debating whether or not to ...

Daily Debrief: Defusing a P2P crisis before it starts

Charles Cooper — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:49:00 GMT

The backlash against BitTorrent is only beginning. Mark Cuban and others have raised the idea of charging for upstream bandwidth usage. That's not a popular suggestion but when 5 percent of the people using the Internet are hogging up to 80 percent of its capacity because of P2P transfers, ...

After Yahoo reorg, will Microsoft go to Defcon 1?

Charles Cooper — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:28:00 GMT

For the first time in several months, Jerry Yang can exhale. Though not for very long.

Now the countdown really begins. The long-term question: Will any of this effect substantive positive change? The short-term question: Will Steve Ballmer decide to return to the negotiating table. More about that in a ...

Software CEOs: The right stuff, the wrong stuff

Charles Cooper — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:04:00 GMT

Mary Jo Foley's a smart cookie. Reading through a retrospective piece by former Microsoft coder Joel Spolsky, she was quick to spot this intriguing paragraph:

"Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he

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Microsoft's Yahoo strategy: Betting on Yang

Charles Cooper — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:59:00 GMT

As Yahoo continues to hammer out plans for a corporate reorganization, Steve Ballmer is still eying a possible search deal.

While Microsoft has "no interest" in buying all of Yahoo, top management is still contemplating whether to go back to Yahoo with a sweetened search deal, according to a person ...