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Kevin Kelleher

Kevin Kelleher is a writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked at Bloomberg, Wired News and The Industry Standard magazine and has written for Wired magazine, Reuters, Fortune, GigaOm, Popular Science, Salon, Portfolio as well as many others.

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    There’s messy. Then there’s Groupon messy.

    By February 27, 2013

    There’s no way around it. From an investor standpoint, the financial performance Groupon delivered in its most recent earnings report is a disaster. But Groupon is keeping its chin up, presenting a game face to investors as if to say: Hey, growth in our market can get messy. Like, you know, the way fast-growing startups can be messy. And

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    Facebook won’t die. And it won’t own the Web. It’ll just be… mediocre

    By February 8, 2013

    The good news about Facebook is that it is, once again, destined for great things. Which is unfortunate. Because the bad news about Facebook is that it’s dying. More than most tech companies, Facebook inspires optimism as well as dread, addiction as well as loathing – sometimes all of these within a single heart. When it comes to talking about...

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    Why I’m rooting for Michael Dell

    By February 5, 2013

    Michael Dell has done it! Defying skeptics, he arranged a deal for Dell Inc. to go private, making the bold moves necessary to return the company he founded to its former glory. Or as close as it can get. In an interview, Michael Dell was clear about the challenges as well as the opportunities ahead. “We have a lot...

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    Is the iPhone becoming the fabled Facebook phone?

    By February 5, 2013

    Will the world ever see a Facebook phone? In the sense of a device designed and branded by Facebook, probably not. The idea has been around for several years and has been losing steam lately. The idea of Facebook selling phones was never a very good one, and the prototypes were not very compelling. Instead, Facebook...

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    Yahoo’s new sense of caution is welcome

    By January 28, 2013

    Under some of Yahoo’s previous CEO’s, the quarterly conference calls discussing financial earnings used to involve a lot of encouraging spin. The ever-elusive turnaround was right around the corner. The company’s nth makeover was sure to revive the site’s appeal. Defections of key staff was balanced by die-hard employees who bled purple. And so on. There is a subtly different...

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    Why going private won’t save Dell

    By January 15, 2013

    Desperate times, they say, call for desperate measures. And a corollary to that rule is that desperate companies are sometimes driven to make desperate moves. That seems to be the case with Dell this week, as reports emerge that the company is considering a leveraged buyout on a large scale rare in the tech industry. Such a move may end...

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    The Web in 2013: Already old, or forever young?

    By January 1, 2013

    New Year’s Day has long been one of my favorite holidays. It caps a week of year-in-review stories that underscores how ghastly the past year has been – fiscal cliffs, mass shootings, super storms – and then for a few glorious minutes you’re in a crowd of ecstatic people screaming, embracing, giddy again about the possibility, however...

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    I admire Amazon. I just don’t shop there anymore.

    By December 28, 2012

    In one of the year’s least surprising news developments, Amazon enjoyed yet another banner holiday season – the busiest one ever! And for the first time I wasn’t a part of the online throngs of shoppers crowding to its site. This wasn’t one of those one-man boycotts, at least not a conscious one. And it wasn’t...

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    Just what Microsoft didn’t need: An awkward Windows 8 launch

    By December 13, 2012

    The warning signs started to appear on Black Friday. A YouTube video comparing a Apple Store with an Microsoft Store on the most crazed shopping day of the year showed the former jam-packed, the latter sparsely populated with quiet shoppers. It dramatized Microsoft’s worst fear – that the company’s big bets on bold new products like...

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    Hold the conspiracy theories: The real reason why Apple is slumping

    By December 8, 2012

    For a company at the peak of its game, Apple sure had a dismal week. The stock slumped 9 percent without any negative news, and in the midst of what could be its strongest quarter ever. In fact, Apple’s stock is down 24 percent since Sept. 21. Months after people started predicting Apple would be the

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