Internet search titan Google startled Wall Street with weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings results, sending the company’s shares down as much as 9% after the numbers were released. The results were driven primarily by an …
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Apple Rolls Out iPad Textbooks, Publishing Software for Teachers
Apple held an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York today. The company’s number one initiative: “Reinventing the textbook,” said SVP of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller.
Apple announced iBooks 2, a free app for …
Is Mobile Gaming Facebook’s Achilles Heel?
Here is a sobering thought with which to start 2012. The human brain has more neural connections than there are particles in the known universe. We are complex, we are magnificent. But what if the destiny of this most marvelous …
Ten Prominent Websites Protesting SOPA and PIPA
Thousands of websites went black or obscured their homepages on Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), two controversial bills designed to crack down on web piracy. Critics of the …
SOPA Protests Gain Steam as Web Activists Flex Growing Clout
Internet-based protests against a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills gained momentum Wednesday, as several lawmakers dropped their support in the face of widespread opposition from the tech industry. Until recently, the Stop …
Davos 2012: “The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models”
Next Wednesday marks the launch of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The annual meeting of the most powerful men and women in business, government and the non-profit world will focus on the theme “The Great …
Jerry Yang’s Exit Clears Path For Yahoo Sale or Breakup
Yahoo founder Jerry Yang will surely be remembered as one of the great pioneers of the Internet industry, but in the end, he couldn’t overcome the consequences of the most important decision of his career: spurning Microsoft’s …
Tebowing.com Founder Begins His Off-Season
With praying quarterback Tim Tebow and his Denver Broncos eliminated from the NFL playoffs this past weekend, Jared Kleinstein, 24, the founder of the Web site Tebowing.com and its parent company Tebowing LLC, finally has a …
Can America compete without Steve Jobs?
At first glance, the question that serves as the title of this post might sound a tad ridiculous. After all, Steve Jobs, no matter how talented, was just one man in charge of one company in a $14.6 trillion economy. How can the …
Steve Jobs the businessman: Can Apple thrive without him?
As Apple fans mourn the unfortunate loss of Steve Jobs, the great innovator will be remembered most of all for how his ideas changed people’s lives. But in the world of business, he will also be honored as an absolutely …
Will Twitter Get Aggressive With Ads?
Twitter and Facebook. Facebook and Twitter. You may love, or loathe, one app more than the other. Or you may love – or loathe – both equally. Here’s what’s indisputable: they are the two social media titans of our age.
Yet, …
New Tech Bubble? More Like Tech Nation
The eye-popping IPO for Yandex, a Russian search engine few Americans have ever heard of, which managed to raise $1.3 billion on the NASDAQ, is raising more questions about whether we’re in a new tech bubble. So are we? Probably, …