If Cisco could evade more taxes their results would have been spectacular

Cisco earnings fall 21 percent but beat expectations.

Not everything can be free

Newspapers have to figure out what is worth putting behind a pay wall and what is valuable to be accessed for free. 

Hint to newspapers: draw traffic with free op-eds, celebrity, sports, and gadget coverage (you know, information that you can get somewhere else for free) and upsell readers with news (hopefully they recognize the distinction between information and news).

Enough with the one size fits all crap.

Apple rumors “abound”?

PaidContent saysAs Apple’s Cash Pile Grows, Rumors of EA, Twitter Acquisitions Abound

“Abound”? Two guys started false rumors to either troll for more traffic or to manipulate stock prices. It has nothing to do with any acquisition.

So lets get this straight about Twitter acquisitions

First Facebook wanted to buy Twitter. Some Harvard nerd said the NYTimes should buy Twitter. Then Arrington pulled a rumor out of his ass about Apple buying Twitter, this was, of course, after Arrington claimed that Google was getting ready to buy Twitter.  Now SAI comes out to declare that Microsoft MUST buy Twitter.

Otay. What a load of crap. In these times no one is stupid enough to pay $500M+ for a firm with a business model. No one except …

Microsoft is extremely vulnerable to succumbing to peer pressure when it comes to acquisitions and investments (Facebook).  Just saying.

[Update] The traffic troll continues:Forget Apple, Amazon Should Buy Twitter. Why Not?