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I confess not to have been much of a TV watcher back when Happy Days was on the air, and I confess I never understood the phrase “Jumping the Shark.” So I am glad that Jeff Bussgang has provided an excellent explanation complete with video clip in his most recent blog post. Turning from the ridiculous (Fonzie jumping over sharks) to the serious, Jeff Bussgang’s point that Apple may have peaked, I have no idea if this is the case or not. Apple seems to me to have risen from the near dead with a series of brilliant product and marketing coups. It... More

Yesterday’s WSJ carried a story about a legal skirmish between Google and, as the story implied, Microsoft.  IT Business Edge also has a post on this topic. The background is that Google was pursing a collection action against a small company in Ohio, I think, for about $350K. Apparently, Google filed a "normal" collection action, but the defendant hired a well known antitrust litigator from the Washington office of the venerable New York based law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. This fellow, and his firm, have Mircrosoft as an important client. The thing that rightly caught WSJ’s eye is... More