FORTUNE's tech coverage has a new home
On behalf of FORTUNE and our partners at CNNMoney.com, I'd like to welcome readers to Brainstorm: Tech, a new site that will be home to Fortune's award-winning technology coverage, original web videos, and commissioned commentary from thoughtful, though-provoking tech leaders.
The site also will be a venue for our live events, Brainstorm TECH and Brainstorm GREEN. Brainstorm TECH 2009 will convene July 22 - 24. MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Jul 16, 2009 9:00 AM ET
Proposed tax hike on international operations could delay economic rebound
By John Chen, chairman and CEO, Sybase
President Barack Obama has proposed to raise taxes on the international operations of U.S. businesses. There is one thing the proposal can effectively achieve: make the United States an even less friendly place to do business, and thus delay the economic recovery.
Chen worries higher corporate taxes will delay recovery of the U.S. economy
The current MORE
Jul 16, 2009 8:45 AM ET
Tech gathering brings together best of tech and digital Hollywood.
Next week Fortune Magazine continues a nearly annual tradition, its mid-summer Brainstorm conference. We'll gather some of the smartest, most connected and powerful people we know in the technology and entertainment industries to talk about where we are and where we're going. Check out the agenda to see who'll be with us.
We began almost a decade ago in Aspen, Colo., then MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Jul 16, 2009 8:30 AM ET
Friendly advice for the muckety-mucks of traditional media
By Jeremy Allaire, CEO and Chairman, Brightcove
Earlier this month the media industry elite gathered in Sun Valley, Idaho, for the annual Allen & Co. pow wow, and there are plenty of interesting tidbits and threads coming out of the discussion. I thought it would be fun to pretend that I was there. Here's what I'd have to say to the old guard – MORE
Jul 16, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Roundtable brings together top tech executives
Before there is Brainstorm Tech (the conference) there is Infotech Forty (the forum).
Fortune senior writer Jon Fortt and I are co-chairing an intimate event for a group of high-ranking technology executives whose jobs are becoming increasingly strategic in their corporations. No longer are these chief information officers and chief technology officers the folks who make company computers and software run; they play key roles in MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Jul 16, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Can smarter networks save the planet?
Unlike many technology confabs the upcoming Brainstorm Tech event is produced by journalists with the aim of creating a conference that is an informative, lively and multifaceted as a feature article in a magazine. Fortune writers and editors always get good story ideas from Brainstorm Tech. But sometimes the conference anels and discussions evolve from stories we've already run in the magazine or online.
One such MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Jul 16, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Not only has Apple's (AAPL) CEO recovered sufficiently from his liver transplant to return to work a couple of days a week, he's apparently feeling well enough to brave the crowds at a rock concert.
One of the crew on Coldplay's long-running Viva La Vida tour keeps a running blog and has proved -- over the space of 13 months and 90 posts -- to be a pretty reliable reporter of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 16, 2009 6:00 AM ET
Photo © Scott Haefner
Steve Jobs' 25-year real estate nightmare is almost over.
On Tuesday night, the city council of Woodside, Calif., approved Jobs' plan to dismantle a 14-bedroom Spanish colonial mansion he bought in 1984 but never really liked. He's been trying since 2004 to raze the house and replace it with a smaller home more to his exacting taste.
The latest plan, which was approved in a 6-1 vote, is MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 15, 2009 2:57 PM ET
Apple (AAPL) announced Tuesday that its customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in the year since its iPhone App Store -- "the largest applications store in the world" -- opened for business.
There was no countdown odometer this time -- as there was for the 1 billion mark last April -- and no prizes for the user who downloaded the last app.
Just a press releasefrom Apple PR and a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 14, 2009 9:20 AM ET
Betfair wants to bring online gambling to the Facebook generation
If your favorite book happens to be Seabiscuit you already know the answer to the following question: what are the three legal forms of online gambling in the United States?
The Federal Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, passed in 2006, put the kibosh on all kinds of online gambling, with the exception of fantasy sports, online lotteries, and horse/harness racing. It MORE
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