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| Jun 21, 2013 | Are corporate subsidies worth the money? | (MoneyWatch) Companies around the U.S. commonly demand subsidies and tax breaks from states, cities and other municipalities in exchange for locating facilities there. For political leaders, such deals are a way to bring jobs to their distr... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | Biotech loves Supreme Court ruling on gene patents | (MoneyWatch) You might think that biotech companies would take a hit today in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that human genes are not patentable, after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had been issuing such patents for 30 yea... |
| May 13, 2013 | Do generics work as well as name brands? Maybe not | (MoneyWatch) The Department of Justice just announced its largest drug safety settlement to date. Ranbaxy USA Inc., a subsidiary of Indian generic pharmaceutical manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, has agreed to pay a total of $500 m... |
| Apr 26, 2013 | Facebook's new way to recommend friends | (MoneyWatch) A Facebook (FB) patent application for suggesting friends to users just became public. A look at it gives an interesting insight into Facebook's attempt to ease a process that can be exhausting show Facebook trying to expa... |
| Feb 13, 2013 | Box.com offering 50GB online storage for free | (MoneyWatch) Online storage, especially the type that automatically synchs with your traditional PC or laptop, tablet and smartphone, is great. Move files to save room and have them available wherever you are, no matter what device you'... |
| Jan 2, 2013 | Intel joins the 2013 TV throwdown | (MoneyWatch) News about a rumored TV service launch by Intel (INTC) caught a lot of attention at the turn of the year. Intel will reportedly announce a set-top box and Web-based television programming service, which could let people bypass ... |
| Dec 9, 2012 | U.S. energy independence? Don't hold your breath | (MoneyWatch) Gaining energy independence would be an enormous boon for the U.S. No other country could use a threat of cutting off supply as a geopolitical weapon, as OPEC did in the 1970s. A major contributor to the nation's trade imb... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | Social networks fail Cyber Monday test | (MoneyWatch) For retailers, "Cyber Monday" has some distinct advantages over the Black Friday holiday extravaganza. Online, rather than in-store, commerce can result in reduced crowds and lowered staffing costs; allow merchants to... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | No, Apple doesn't own the mobile "page turn" | (MoneyWatch) Yet another technology pundit has lauded Apple (AAPL) for patenting a widely used feature in mobile devices that ostensibly will let the consumer electronics giant pound tablet and smartphone rivals into submission.
Looking at ... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Facebook's mobile first credo: Tough to pull off | (MoneyWatch) "Mobile first" has become the marching orders for many companies. Facebook (FB) is just the latest tech company to restructure its operations to give the nod to mobile.
But there's a little problem. Even though F... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | Electronics industry headed for slowdown? | (MoneyWatch) News out of the consumer electronics industry of late has centered on the success of a few players, such as Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT) and Samsung, amid healthy spending by U.S. consumers. But the good news d... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | More jobs return to the U.S.: Is it a trend? | (MoneyWatch) After years of jobs moving overseas by the million, some are trickling back. China's largest PC manufacturer, Lenovo Group, recently announced that it will open its first manufacturing plant in the U.S. The company expects... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | Can Sprint catch AT&T, Verizon with a Japanese boost? | (MoneyWatch) After days of a rumored deal, Japanese telecommunications company Softbank announced it would buy up to 70 percent of Sprint (S) for $20.1 billion cash -- $8 billion to the number 3 U.S. mobile carrier directly and $12.1 billio... |
| Oct 12, 2012 | 5 misconceptions about the tech patent wars | (MoneyWatch) The New York Times recently published a lengthy piece that frames patents as financial and intellectual weapons. But while many any of the article's points are correct -- notably the power that Apple (AAPL) has gained thro... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Companies attack proposal to label modified foods | (MoneyWatch) Although the use of genetically modified foods goes back decades, it remains controversial. The latest battle is taking place in California, where a proposed ballot initiative would force retailers and manufacturers to label fo... |
| Sep 29, 2012 | Companies fight to control access to the online bazaar | (MoneyWatch) All the talk about mobile ecosystems might make you think that Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) Microsoft (MSFT) and the like are interested in controlling content: music, e-books, electronic periodicals, video, and software. And th... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | Why Groupon has joined the mobile payment hunt | morgueFile user click
(MoneyWatch) Groupon (GRPN) will launch a mobile payment system, letting merchants take payments through an iPhone or iPod touch, putting it in direct competition with Square, started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey,... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | HP and Dell hurting? Expect more of the same | morgueFile user wax115
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) announced an $8.9 billion loss Wednesday to an already skeptical investor base. At least it had company, with Dell reporting disappointing results as well. Traders took th... |
| Aug 20, 2012 | Trulia IPO: With no profits, who will invest? | morgueFile user clarita
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Real estate site Trulia filed for an IPO on Friday on $38.5 million in revenue last year and a loss of $6.2 million. The company hasn't made a dime of profit since it started.
Trulia is b... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | Despite Mayer, women still face hurdles in tech | morgueFile user mconnors
(MoneyWatch) Marissa Mayer's move to leave Google (GOOG) and take the reins at Yahoo (YHOO) seems to extend a trend of troubled technology companies turning to female executives as their "Chief Rescue Offi... |
| Jul 6, 2012 | Hackers target small businesses | morgueFile user kevinrosseel
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY When the Federal Trade Commission sued Wyndham Worldwide hotels last month after lax security allegedly allowed $10.6 million in phony credit card charges, it highlighted an emerging prob... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | Here comes Apple's new iPhone headset | morgueFile user ppdigital
(MoneyWatch) A new patent filing shows that Apple is considering a new iPhone headset design that would combine both a Bluetooth wireless connection as well as the option of a wired one for either communications or... |
| Jun 28, 2012 | Google makes its peace with Hollywood | morgueFile user xenia
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY If there is one thing that Google (GOOG) has been fairly bad at, it has been negotiating with some major and important potential business partners. There was the blow-up with publishers over sca... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Facebook U.S. unique users down 4.8% in 6 months | morgueFile user dtcreations
(MoneyWatch) A recent report from analyst firm comScore said that unique U.S. visitors to Facebook (FB) dropped slightly in May compared to April and March. But an analysis of additional comScore data suggests th... |
| Jun 1, 2012 | Klout scores get clouted, and maybe consumers [update] | (MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY If you have an account on Klout, the website that ranks social media users according to their perceived influence, you might have noticed a big drop in your score during May. If so, it may have been due to a bug that... |
| May 31, 2012 | Facebook deflates the bubble its IPO floated on | morgueFile user kahle
(MoneyWatch) Facebook (FB) has become the poster child for how fickle Wall Street and investors can be be. Not even two weeks ago it had a market valuation of $104 billion. Today? Barely over half of that as the value ... |
| May 11, 2012 | Yahoo: Time to give up | morgueFile user dhannte
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Americans famously love a winner. At best, they can only admire a loser, especially the kind who overcomes great odds and never gives up in the face of adversity. But a quitter? Anathema. And ... |
| Apr 24, 2012 | Is Apple's run of operational flubs a hiccup, or a serious problem? | morgueFile user dave
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Chances are slim that Apple (AAPL) will report a major financial disappointment in its earnings release and call today. But one thing to keep an eye on is what seems like an increasing number of ... |
| Apr 20, 2012 | Tax refund your way to cool tech | morgueFile user rubencolorado
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Even though you put the work off, you made it past tax filing day. That deserves some celebration, and maybe a reward. Don't expect to get even a card from the IRS (better hope you ... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | How Apple's battle over e-books helps consumers [Update] | morgueFile user ariadna
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY The battle lines over e-book pricing are dug deep, and the verbal attacks are flying. The Department of Justice last week sued Apple (AAPL) and five major publishers for alleged price-fixing. ... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | Why Amazon may have killed the golden goose | morgueFile user clarita
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Amazon (AMZN) has been in a tough battle with publishers and rival Apple (AAPL). The U.S. Department of Justice has stepped in with a suit over alleged price fixing.
That could be a real help ... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Countdown to Apple's Meltdown | morgueFile user beanworks
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY As the hubbub builds around Apple's (AAPL) launch tomorrow of the iPad 3, the company's string of product hits has come to make it seem invincible -- and for good reason. Apple is ... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | Layoffs are good news for Yahoo -- really | (MoneyWatch) Layoffs are generally perceived as a sign that a company is in trouble. And given Yahoo's (YHOO) woes in recent years -- declining sales, poor leadership, key employees running for the exits -- some might interpret the Int... |
| Mar 17, 2012 | How the new iPad makes everything old again | morgueFile user gracey
COMMENTARY The new iPad started shipping today. As expected, the media coverage was replete with stories about lines of eager shoppers -- including Apple (AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak -- waiting to get their hands o... |
| Mar 10, 2012 | Google working on motion interface for Android | morgueFile user jppi
(MoneyWatch) Microsoft (MSFT) has had great success with the Kinect, its motion-detecting interface for the Xbox 360 game console -- so much so that Guinness World Records named it last year as the fastest-selling consu... |
| Dec 26, 2011 | A new innovative medical device prototype (for a few thousand dollars) | Their focus is on wellness, prevention and cost containment. The group is setting up a seed fund right now.
The center is different in part because they’re an incubator along the lines of a Rock Health but with a built-in collection of heal... |
| Nov 2, 2011 | The Real Reasons for Sony's $1.1B Loss | morgueFile user runron
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Eyebrows shot up on Wall Street when Sony released its earnings results for the quarter ending September 30. Not only was there a quarterly loss of $350 million, but a projected annual loss of ... |
| Oct 28, 2011 | If Today Ends in a Y, HP Must Have Flip-Flopped on PCs Again | The noble Duke of York, he had 10,000 men. He marched them up to the top of the hill and marched them down again.
Watching HP (HPQ) is like following a furious game of ping-pong in which every volley immediately ends before it begins as the... |
| Oct 28, 2011 | Will IBM's First Woman CEO Have Time to Match a Business Genius? | IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has announced that he's stepping down as of January 1st next year, though he'll remain chairman. His replacement is Virginia Rometty, who is currently head of sales and marketing and who will become the first... |
| Oct 25, 2011 | Untangling Groupon's Actual Performance | Groupon's history has been one of great hype, a lot of attention, massive losses, and some of the most confusing financial reporting you might find in a company that wants to go public. In its most recent amended S-1 (keeping track of ... |
| Oct 21, 2011 | Why Groupon Is Rushing to IPO [Updates-2] | You might not think that Groupon was in a hurry. After filing SEC paperwork in early June, the company still hasn't had its IPO. In fact, Groupon has had enough time to amended its S-1 statement four times -- largely because of SEC con... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Apple Earnings: iPhone Units Take Big Dip, Sales Saved by iPads | For those who are certain of Apple's (AAPL) inevitable march to world domination and flawless business strategy (and management gets most things right there), it's wise to see where things go awry. And they did on the iPhone front... |
| Oct 14, 2011 | Hulu Goes Off the Market And 4 Other Corporate Flip-Flops | Hulu and its Hollywood network owners knew that it was time to move on -- to let someone else run the popular streaming site. And so, the company retained investment bankers and put itself up for sale. Some of the interested potential buyer... |
| Oct 14, 2011 | Google Is a "Complete Failure" in the Future of High Tech | Can you imagine what life must be like for Google (GOOG) engineer Steve Yegge at the moment? He posted something critical of Google+ on his own Google+ profile page intending it just for his colleagues at Google. But he mistakenly made it p... |
| Oct 12, 2011 | Tim Cook's Big Apple Challenge: Don't Be a Tool | People have some big questions about Apple's (AAPL) new CEO, Tim Cook. Can he be creative and visionary enough? Can he continue to grow revenue and stock price?
Something you almost never hear, though, is whether Cook can stop being a ... |
| Oct 10, 2011 | Steve Jobs and His Magical Business Decisions | You could remember Steve Jobs as a pioneer. An innovator. As someone who didn't compromise and who eventually brought much of the world to see things his way. But another way to see him is as a business genius. Although he made his sha... |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Why the iPhone 5 Will Be a Killer Out of the Gate: It's Late | We're in the run-up to the big Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 announcement next week, and the sales handicapping is well under way. The latest tidbit is from a poll conducted by mobile ad network InMobi. Supposedly, 41 percent of current mobile... |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Amazon Says, Let the Employees Sweat -- and the DVDs, Too | Amazon has already attracted labor controversy aplenty with its "no taxation with jobs representation" stance. The company continues to pull operations and jobs out of states that demand it collect sales tax. Now it's got ano... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Facebook's New Privacy Bust: Users Log In but They Can't Log Out [Update] | The biggest news at the f8 Facebook developer's conference last week was the open graph announcement. The company wants to expand its network of interconnections with other sites so people can see every more about what their Facebook f... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | Facebook Wants to Copy Google? It Needs to Manage Change Better | Facebook continues to make it clear that it fears Google (GOOG). CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his management team keep changing the company's services and interface in an obvious reaction to the threat that Google+ could represent.
Increasi... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | AT&T Is Desperate to Save Its T-Mobile Deal -- and Here's Why | AT&T (T) is in full-blown, run-headlong-into-walls panic mode. To keep its $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile on track, the company has to go hat-in-hand to small rivals, begging them to buy spectrum and subscribers. What AT&T is tryi... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Has Facebook Been Cooking the Ad Books? [Update] | Facebook has grown its revenue like crazy, even if not enough for a reasonable $70 billion valuation. But a would-be class action lawsuit suggests that Facebook benefits from ad click fraud, and so can't even justify its revenue, let a... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | TechCrunch Meltdown: 3 Lessons for Entrepreneurs | The continuing drama fest at TechCrunch (AOL) has made great humor fodder for Dan Lyons of Not Steve Jobs fame. But not-so-internally to the site, the story has become even more ugly, which is saying something. Part-time blogger Paul Carr r... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Netflix: Qwik, Let's Dump All the DVDs and Tick Off the Customers | Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings announced the split-off of the DVD rental business that made the company a household name. The new division, Qwikster, will continue the DVD business and also add console game rentals.
Some thought it was a ... |
| Sep 17, 2011 | Why Wall Street Is Wrong About Netflix | Oh, Netflix (NFLX), you bad, bad company. Wall Street had the highest hopes for your conquest of video streaming entertainment. You became the single largest source of North American Internet traffic. And then you effectively raised the rat... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Google's March Out of China Was More a Stroll Next Door | Google (GOOG) has wanted to enter the daily deal/group coupon craze -- it's why the company has expanded its local deals service to five cities in the U.S. But it's not stopping at national borders. Google has a new deal aggregati... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | Activists Might Sue Cisco -- and Others -- Into New China Strategies | Cisco (CSC) is in the crosshairs of several lawsuits filed in the U.S. Not from angry investors or business partners, but human rights activists. Some of them in China.
The Alien Tort Claims Act, which dates to 1789, has potentially opened ... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | Google Buys Publisher Zagat to Kill Off Yelp | For years, Google (GOOG) insisted it wasn't a publisher. All it did was collect information and make it available online... like a publisher. But now that Google bought restaurant rating publisher Zagat, it shows that it wants its own ... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | Why Amazon Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Sales Tax | In a pitched battle between Amazon (AMZN) and the state of California over sales tax, the retailer and the legislature finally compromised. Amazon won't push a public referendum to block out-of-state retailers from having to collect in... |
| Sep 7, 2011 | It's Not Just Yahoo: 5 Terrible Boards in Need of Fixing | Some think that Yahoo (YHOO) fired CEO Carol Bartz because big high tech company boards have run out of patience. But you might say that about companies in a lot of industries. BNY Mellon, Time Warner's magazine unit, Tim Hortons, and ... |
| Sep 7, 2011 | Yahoo's for Sale -- but Why Would Anyone Buy It? [Update] | Stuck in the middle of the WSJ story on Yahoo (YHOO) firing CEO Carol Bartz was a telling line from a source: "One of these people said Yahoo is open to selling itself to the right bidder." Yup, the company has all but planted a f... |
| Sep 7, 2011 | TechCrunch Drama Fest Is an AOL Management Meltdown | The sturm und drang over former TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington having been, or not been, fired, given a new position, going into business, welcomed back, no, fired at AOL has been dizzying to watch from the outside. (Now there's a... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Amazon and Baidu to Google: Fork You | Two new developments -- literally -- on the Google (GOOG) Android front: new variations on the basic code engineered by Amazon (AMZN) and Baidu (BIDU). Technically called forks (like in a road), the variations take Android in new directions... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Groupon Might Be Fine, If Only Its Customers Weren't Burning Out | The game of public badminton over Groupon's real financial state has actually managed to get even hotter. My BNET colleague Jim Edwards calls the company's business model a Ponzi scheme. The Atlantic asks if the company is running... |
| Sep 3, 2011 | Bad Corporate Management Is Killing the Economy | Another month, another lack of jobs being added to the economy. Unless, as my BNET colleague Alain Sherter puts it, you want to be a soldier or flip burgers.
Corporations aren't spending. They say they don't want to take a chance ... |
| Sep 2, 2011 | Twitter and Facebook Must Really Be Hungry for Revenue | It was just yesterday we heard that Twitter would push ads in news streams, even if the users didn't follow the accounts of those companies, as AllThingsD reported. Today, it's Facebook that will drop ads in news streams, accordin... |
| Aug 31, 2011 | AT&T's Bid for T-Mobile Stopped Dead by Federal Antitrust Suit | AT&T (T) has spent a lot of time and effort trying to convince regulators and the public that its purchase of T-Mobile for $39 billion would be a Martha Stewart-like Good Thing, instead of the cynical effort to take out a competitor it ... |
| Aug 30, 2011 | Facebook Patent Locks Down Profiles... but Google Saw It Coming | Facebook keeps nailing patent awards that will make it difficult for competitors to provide what have become basic features. Its latest covers who can view a social network user's profile and whether someone else can see a full profile... |
| Aug 29, 2011 | Why Apple CEO Tim Cook's Sexual Identity Isn't -- or Shouldn't Be -- News | It was sad to see Felix Salmon at Reuters argue that his coverage of new Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook supposed homosexuality was the ethically correct path. Not because sexuality is a topic that should be hidden under a pre-Vatican II cassock,... |
| Aug 27, 2011 | What Groupon's CEO Didn't Tell His Employees in That Memo | What is it about pre-IPO Groupon? First, chairman Eric Lefkovsky made a remark about becoming wildly profitable, which the company had to retract in an amended S-1. Now CEO Andrew Mason sends a memo to employees about how he has "never... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Cloud Video Platform Brightcove Says Game On for IPO | Online video platform Brightcove filed for a $50 million IPO this morning. On the face of it, the startup's timing is odd, given the state of the market and the 17 companies that have postponed or cancelled their IPOs this month -- the... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Does S&P's Shiny New CEO From Citi Mean Change? Not a Chance | Standard & Poor's (MHP) public image has taken a hammering of late, what with the U.S. sovereign credit rating downgrade coming on the heels of a Department of Justice investigation into the rating company's practices in mortg... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks the $1.2T Kid-Glove Treatment | Everyone knows that the big Wall Street banks got bailed out of the mess they put the world's economy into. But even the infamous TARP funds were small beans compared to the $1.2 trillion that the Federal Reserve lent to financial inst... |
| Aug 20, 2011 | Economic Paranoia: Did S&P Downgrade U.S. As a Preemptive PR Move? | When rating agency Standard & Poor's reduced the U.S. sovereign debt rating, it readied the scene for the stock market turbulence that followed. And yet, it did so while apparently aware of a $2 trillion mistake it made in the calc... |
| Aug 19, 2011 | Hulu Starts to Kick Its TV Studio Dependence | Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock has a new documentary series. Nothing particularly odd about that, except it debuted on Hulu, not in a movie theater or even on a cable channel.
This is Hulu's first foray into backing its own lon... |
| Aug 19, 2011 | For HP's Next Move -- and It Needs One -- Why Not Merge With SAP? | Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) took a beating after yesterday's announcements that it would get rid of the PC business, can webOS, and buy software firm Autonomy for $10 billion, or roughly ten times annual revenue. The stock dropped 20 percent... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | Microsoft's Life Preserver for Windows: 3rd Party App Store | It might seem like a case of Microsoft (MSFT) copying Apple (AAPL): Windows 8 will have an app store much the way Mac OS X Lion just introduced the feature. But this has a lot less to do with Apple (AAPL) than with Microsoft's recent e... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | Losers in the Government Agency Innovation Lottery: Businesses | Executives who get frustrated by dealing with government agencies might wonder why things never seem to get better. There's a good reason: innovation, or rather, a lack of it. A survey by non-profit organization Partnership for Public ... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | Apple Legal Victory: Court Blocks Samsung Tablet in Europe [Update] | In a stunning and painful decision for Samsung, Apple (AAPL) got a German court to issue a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab. According to patent analyst and blogger Florian Mueller, that means Samsung cannot for the time being ... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | RIM Goes From Delusional to Self-Destructive With New High-Priced BlackBerrys | Research in Motion (RIMM) announced a new round of phones. Now Verizon (VZ) has a price on the BlackBerry Bold 9930: $250 with a two-year contract. BGR reports that other carriers, like Sprint (S), plan the same price. That's a big pro... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | Patents: The New Tech Bubble | The return of tech IPOs this year, and the accompanying hefty share prices, generated of talk about a new tech bubble. But the last few months have shown the existence of a second bubble. A tech patent bubble.
Patent wars between tech giant... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | HP Feels the WebOS Blues. Was Palm Worth the Money? | When HP (HPQ) bought mobile device vendor Palm, it was aiming for a "platform to expand HP's mobility strategy and create a unique HP experience spanning multiple mobile connected devices." Nice theory. Unfortunately, practic... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Why E-Commerce Sites of All Sizes Still Drive Away Business | Whether you call it e-commerce or e-tailing, selling online is big business. According to comScore, U.S. retail e-commerce was up last quarter to $37.5 billion, up 14 percent over the previous year. But that's actually bad news. That&#... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | Amazon May Have to Share Its E-Books to Kick-Start Its Publishing Venture | Amazon (AMZN) loves to keep details about its business to itself and dotes on proprietary systems that keep its e-book customers tied to the company's Kindle devices and software. But that attitude may have to go out the window to make... |
| Aug 9, 2011 | AOL Earnings: Is Patch a Bomb -- or a Secret Weapon? | It was a bad news/good news earnings announcement for AOL. The bad: a net loss of $11.8 million only looked good in a year-over-year comparison because the 2010 results included a massive goodwill write-down. Otherwise the comparison would ... |
| Aug 8, 2011 | Did HTC Get a Patent Application that would Cover Apple's iCloud? | Google (GOOG) has whined about Android being bullied via patent lawsuits -- "Ma, Stevie Bullmer and Steve Jobs are picking on me again!" -- but it is hardly the only direct target. Its hardware vendor partners have been contributi... |
| Aug 8, 2011 | 6 U.S. Downgrade Dangers for High Tech | S&P's downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt isn't the biggest problem facing the country -- the economy is. Some even think that any resulting shock may be short lived.
That could be, but expect that high tech is going to take this... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | New Analytics Might Spoil Facebook's Pull with Marketers | Facebook is getting even more attention in the form of companies trying to measure the site's marketing effectiveness. And that may not be a good thing for the social network.
As my BNET colleague Jim Edwards has noted, Facebook is oft... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | RIM Lays Off 2,000 Workers -- or Does It? [Update] | Research in Motion (RIMM) is making headlines today with its announced plans to lay off 2,000 employees.Yet the company has a puzzling way of trimming its workforce, as becomes apparent when you look a little more closely.
Maybe co-CEOs Jim... |
| Jul 21, 2011 | The Downside of America's Big Used Airplane Export Push | The airline industry's little noticed but long-standing practice of leasing or selling older, beaten-up planes to airlines in developing countries that don't have the maintenance experience to deal with potential problems could tu... |
| Jul 21, 2011 | What Zillow and SkullCandy Tell Us About This Tech Bubble | We have two new data points in the development of the tech bubble today: the IPOs of Zillow (Z) and SkullCandy (SKUL). Shares of Zillow, which provides estimates of property values, immediately doubled. SkullCandy, which makes headphones, i... |
| Jul 21, 2011 | Intel Earnings Raise Questions about Tech Analyst Forecasts | Up through yesterday, Wall Street expected Intel (INTC) to jam on the brakes. Not a meltdown, but a sudden recognition that PC sales wouldn't support the growth the company expected. So much for disappointment, as Intel flattened the i... |
| Jul 19, 2011 | JP Morgan Helps Pump Up LinkedIn, Then Kicks It Back Down | LinkedIn (LNKD) scored a $4.5 billion valuation in its IPO. As one of the IPO's underwriters, JP Morgan (JPM) was one of those responsible for helping establish that price in the first place. Now that LinkedIn is out of the gate, howev... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Murdoch Says "Bye-Bye, BSkyB" and Builds a News Corp. Firewall | The News of the World phone hacking scandal only gets wider and deeper for News Corp. (NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch. The company just dropped its bid for the majority share of British satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
It's just the latest step t... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | How Men Look at Women: One Online Marketer's Surprise Answer | What part of a beautiful women do men and women look at first? Hey, it's not what you think. Market research firm EyeTrackShop, which provides opt-in eye tracking tests via webcams for corporate clients, just finished a study that turn... |
| Jul 9, 2011 | How Microsoft and Oracle Will Tax Google Android Out of Existence | Microsoft (MSFT) has set a $15 a handset Android tax on Samsung to keep legal action at bay, according to a Reuters report. That's a good deal stiffer a royalty than the $5 to $12.50 price tags previous reported.
Although I've wri... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Spotify Might Be a Splat on U.S. Music Market Windshield | Pandora (P) has faced serious criticism of its business model and financials as it went public. One of the potential competitive threats according to its S-1 filing was "potential U.S. market entrants like [European streaming service] ... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Hey, What the Hell Is Happening at Google? And Why Did It Take So Long? | First came the introduction of its Google+ social network, which looks like it may have thrown a minor panic into rival Facebook. Now Google (GOOG) reportedly plans to rebrand its Blogger and Picasa services with the Google name around the ... |
