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Jobs wows the faithful; Wall Street is underwhelmed
SAN FRANCISCO -- Steve Jobs gave it his best, delivering a new must-have gadget called the MacBook Air, deals with a full house of compliant Hollywood studios, and more bells and whistles on his existing products and services in a 90-minute speech than most technology companies do in a year.
But Wall Street was not impressed; shares of Apple (AAPL) got hammered, falling more than 10 points during the course of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 15, 2008 4:42 PM ET -
Private equity firm makes a big bet on the domain industry
By Paul Sloan
Score one for the ever-growing domain name industry.
Oversee.net, a Los Angeles-based company that's largely in the business of managing and making money off domain names, on Tuesday snagged a $150 million investment from Oak Hill Capital Partners, a Silicon Valley private equity firm. The two firms didn't disclose terms of the transaction, but the investment is a big boost for Oversee as it expands its offering around MORE
Todd Woody - Jan 15, 2008 3:45 PM ETPosted in: domain names, Google -
Leaky Apple
By Josh Quittner
The Macbook Air notwithstanding, the most interesting part of this year's Macworld was that all the interesting stuff was leaked well in advance. This has rarely happened before.
Steve Jobs takes secrecy at least as seriously as he does clean design. I remember being rousted out of bed by an irate phone call from Jobs at midnight, the night before a Macworld where he was to launch the MORE
Josh Quittner - Jan 15, 2008 1:55 PM ETPosted in: Apple -
Live: Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld 2008
Flash-based laptops? Suped-up iPhones? The wait is over for Apple's biggest announcements of the year.
The crowd at Macworld 2008 settles in for the Steve Jobs keynote. Photo: Jon Fortt
SAN FRANCISCO -- The keynote has begun. There's a Mac vs. PC commercial showing. PC is talking about what a bad year 2007 was, with all of Apple's announcements including the iPhone. PC says 2008, though, will be a great year. "What MORE
Jon Fortt - Jan 15, 2008 11:54 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Audio, BlackBerry, Digital Home, Energy, Enterprise, Google, Intel, Macworld, Microsoft, Mobile Computing, News, PCs, Phones, Storage, Yahoo -
Macworld keynote live coverage starting at 12 p.m. (9 a.m. PT)
Hours before the Macworld 2008 keynote, Apple offered this teaser message on its website. Image: Apple.com
FORTUNE will have live coverage of Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at Macworld San Francisco, beginning at 12 p.m., at http://fortune.com/bigtech. Jobs is expected to unveil new Mac computers with Intel (INTC) chips, a new version of Microsoft (MSFT) Office for the Mac, updates to the iPhone that runs on AT&T's (T) MORE
Jon Fortt - Jan 15, 2008 10:51 AM ET -
Google officially cleared for spectrum auction
By Michal Lev-Ram
Surprise, surprise: Google (GOOG) is now a qualified bidder in the upcoming Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction, joining the likes of Verizon Wireless (VZ), AT&T (T) and satellite television provider EchoStar (DISH). In total, 214 bidders have made it to the final round, the FCC announced late Monday. So who's out of the running? Over 50 companies and individuals, including early entrants like Faithfone Wireless, the Navajo MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 15, 2008 8:12 AM ET
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