Facebook, which has been very busy ferreting away to get a presence on all the big cellphone makers, is in talks with mobile handset giant Nokia about integrating the hot social-networking site on its phones.

Its deals like this–as well as building its popular Facebook app for smartphones like the BlackBerry from Research in Motion and the iPhone from Apple–that are spurring huge market share growth in the arena by Facebook.

And there are more deals to come, with cellphone makers like Palm and Motorola, as the smartphone market keeps heating up.

Too bad for fast-growing Facebook and others that there’s no money to be made yet.

Read More »

Eric Jackson, the effectively noisy shareholder advocate who prodded Terry Semel to leave Yahoo as CEO at its annual board meeting just days before he did, is now targeting Motorola and its CEO Ed Zander.
While Jackson runs a small operation, he uses his Web site, YouTube videos, posting to wikis and other online tools in [...]

Read More »

Roger McNamee is very bullish on the iPhone. “It’s the most exciting thing in years,” said the longtime Silicon Valley investor. “With Apple’s identity, I think it will be spectacularly successful.”

This, of course, is an interesting product for McNamee to cheer for. Because last week, Elevation Partners, the high-profile private-equity firm that counts McNamee and [...]

Read More »

Yes, the countdown to Apple’s iPhone is on–that is, if you are a 30-something educated man with cash to spend.
Take a gander at the results of an online survey of U.S. customers below by Solutions Research Group.
Three-quarters of those “definitely interested” are men, and 94% are between 15 and 49 years old, with an average [...]

Read More »

So Carson Daly, of all people, turns out to be an unlikely geek–but he sounded pretty sharp onstage interviewing a clutch of tech figures last night at the opening of AlwaysOn OnHollywood conference, the Tony Perkins-led event being held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood through tomorrow.

The late-night television host is involved with Demand Media, [...]

Read More »