Jennifer Lai - Jul 22, 2009 12:36 PM ET
For anyone who's wondered what 'tweeting' can do for business, here are the keys to using Twitter.
By Kim Thai, contributor
Thousands of companies have hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon, trying to find a way to bring in business (and hopefully, revenue) one tweet at a time. But it isn't as easy to Twitter -- especially for companies -- as one might think.
For those who don't know: Twitter's a micro-blogging site that MORE
Jennifer Lai - Jul 22, 2009 12:27 PM ET
Days after deal with Barnes & Noble, Plastic Logic teams with AT&T to take on Amazon's electronic reader
With today's announcement that AT&T (T) would be supplying on-board, high-speed data connectivity to the upcoming Plastic Logic eReader, the last piece has fallen into place for the first real challenger to take on Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle.
Yesterday Plastic Logic announced a partnership deal with Barnes & Noble (BN) to start selling e-books in MORE
Josh Quittner - Jul 22, 2009 10:45 AM ET
Tuesday was not a good day for professional analysts as a class -- and Merrill Lynch's in particular.
Not only were most caught off guard by the strength of Apple's (AAPL) record third-quarter results -- see here -- but the men and women who track the company for banks and brokerage houses were bested once again by a bunch of bloggers, day traders and amateurs analysts.
In the color-coded chart excerpted above MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 22, 2009 8:27 AM ET
The shrinking of the tech sector threatens creativity and new thinking
By Christopher Lochhead, strategy advisor and former chief marketing officer, Mercury Interactive
Is Silicon Valley at risk of becoming Detroit 2.0 -- a company town dominated by a handful of big, uninspired conglomerates?
Lochhead advocates a mix of innovation and consolidation
Consolidation is replacing innovation as the hot strategy. During his company's battle for PeopleSoft, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison declared that the MORE
Jul 22, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Apple (AAPL) blew past expectations -- its own and Wall Street's -- to report record third-quarter earnings Tuesday.
Buoyed by strong sales of its new iPhone, an explosion of iPhone applications and price cuts on its flagship MacBook line, the company earned $1.35 per share on revenue of $8.34 billion -- up nearly 12% year over year.
Analysts were expecting earnings of $1.17 on revenue of $8.2 billion, according to Thomson Financial.
Apple's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 21, 2009 4:46 PM ET
At least 400,000 tech jobs are going begging, even in this market, writes Fortune's Anne Fisher in her July 21 Ask Annie column.
You can read the whole story here.
Jul 21, 2009 2:34 PM ETPenelope Patsuris - Jul 21, 2009 1:51 PM ET
Book retailer partners with Plastic Logic and Google to take on rival Amazon.
The world's largest bookseller has taken the wraps off the world's largest e-bookstore. Barnes & Noble (BN) announced yesterday the availability of more than 700,000 digital e-books, along with free e-reader software for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Mac and PC platforms. "It's a unique every-device strategy," said William Lynch, president of BN.com in a conference call.
The strategy is MORE
Jeffrey M. O'Brien - Jul 21, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Apple (AAPL), one of the most closely watched stocks on the Nasdaq -- and one of the engines driving the market's midsummer rally -- reports its fiscal third quarter earnings today.
None of the three dozen analysts who follow the stock think it will have any trouble beating its guidance numbers. The question is by how much.
The consensus, as reported by Thomson Financial, has been inching up and stands this morning MORE
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