Apple’s interest in launching a web radio service represents a threat to market leader Pandora, but it also validates the huge potential for streaming music.
Technology & Media
Can Amazon Topple Netflix’s Streaming Empire?
When Netflix launched an instant streaming service for its movies and TV shows at the start of 2007, it was a minor perk for the company’s subscribers who were used to getting DVDs in the mail. Fast forward half a decade and …
Facebook Blame-Game: Who’s at Fault for IPO Debacle?
It’s too simple to blame any single entity. All parties bear responsibility. Investors are angry, but they should look in the mirror.
Lyft: Ride Sharing Startup Zimride Hits the Gas Pedal in San Francisco
Using technology to attack structural inefficiencies in the market for automobile transportation.
New York Times Tangles with Patent Trolls
Patent trolls — shell firms that don’t produce anything but instead amass patents in order to sue real companies — have long been tormenting the technology sector. Now, they are coming for media companies and one famous …
Future of Retail: How Companies Can Employ Big Data to Create a Better Shopping Experience
You don’t have to be a management consultant to know that we are all besieged by information, but it’s the consultant’s job to come up with a snappy buzzword to describe the phenomenon, and they have settled upon the …
Patent Peace: Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Larry Page in CEO Talks
One week after Apple’s $1 billion win over Samsung, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page are holding secret patent talks. Is peace possible?
Ahead of IPO, Moleskine Evolves From Notebooks to Apps
Just inside Moleskine’s New York office, Pablo Picasso stares down anyone who enters. The artist is a long-time Moleskine favorite, and the notebook company prominently displays a huge black-and-white portrait of him right at …
Apple’s $1 Billion Patent Win Over Samsung Rattles Google’s Cage
The billion-dollar verdict is the largest victory yet in Apple’s global proxy war against arch-rival Google. But what does the decision mean for mobile innovation?
Six Reasons Why “Gamification” Will Rule the Business World
The new fall TV season marks a happy resurrection: The Pyramid, the most recent update of the 20th-Century classic game show The $10,000 [$25,000] [$100,000] Pyramid, this version from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? creator …
PayPal-Discover Pact Boosts Mobile Payments Momentum
The mobile payments/digital wallet drama now unfolding is fascinating for three reasons: First, paying with your mobile phone is the most fundamental shift in retail commerce since the credit card was invented 60 years ago. …
Why Wall Street Loves Apple and Google as Facebook and Friends Flail
Investors are bailing out on one-time Web 2.0 darlings Facebook, Zynga and Groupon in favor of proven tech winners Apple and Google.