When the Federal Trade Commission began investigating Apple (AAPL) and Google's (GOOG) overlapping boards, it was just a matter of time before they got to Arthur Levinson.
Levinson, the former chairman and CEO of Genentech (DNA), joined Apple's board in 2000 and Google's in 2004.
Since then, the two companies have become increasingly competitive, and last May the FTC began an inquiry into whether the presence of Levinson and Google CEO Eric MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 12, 2009 11:13 AM ET
In his new book the Salesforce.com CEO explains the methods behind his particular brand of madness.
Benioff's books offers 111 tips for business success. Photo: Salesforce.com
I got played by Marc Benioff.
Salesforce.com (CRM) CEO Benioff calls his forthcoming book, Behind the Cloud, a "playbook" for would-be entrepreneurs and executives. Benioff, who co-authored the book with journalist Carlye Adler (a former colleague from Fortune's sister publication, FSB), offers 111 business tips, MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor - Oct 12, 2009 10:27 AM ET
The opportunity to cash in on the iPhone's subscription accounting has mostly passed
Source: Deagol's AAPL Model
Apple (AAPL) is scheduled to report its fiscal 2009 earnings next Monday, Oct. 19, and in the days ahead investors can expect to hear a lot about the new accounting rules that will allow Apple for the first time to book iPhone revenue when the sales occur, rather than spreading it out over eight MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 11, 2009 8:34 AM ET
Most iPhone apps lose money, but some freebies -- like Shotgun -- rake in the cash
Source: Mobclix
As an app, Shotgun Free doesn't do much. Give it a shake and it makes the sound of a shell being chambered. Tilt it up sharply and the gun fires with a bang as loud as an Apple (AAPL) iPhone can make -- which isn't terribly loud.
But the app is popular. It's been MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 10, 2009 3:14 PM ET
Why is the carrier trying to downplay the effect of Apple's bandwidth-hogging smartphone?
Source: Rysavy Research
In his keynote address at the CTIA's (Cellular Telephone Industries Association) big fall meeting in San Diego Thursday, AT&T's (T) chief technology officer John Donovan denied that Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is the reason so many of customers are complaining about his networks sluggish performance.
"I'm well aware of what's being said in the press, in blogs, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 9, 2009 10:59 AM ET
Consumers and business users alike prefer it over the BlackBerry
Photo: J.D. Power
Here's a bullet point you can expect to see at Steve Jobs' next keynote.
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone has once again come in first in J.D. Power's semi-annual customer satisfaction study, despite a battery that continues to disappoint.
Apple increased its score in both the consumer and business user portions of the survey.
Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry was No. 2 among MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 8, 2009 6:40 PM ET
Daniel Eran Dilger finds anti-Apple bias in Gartner's research
"Looking into its crystal ball, Gartner Group has predicted that Google's Android will become the second largest smartphone platform by 2012," writes Daniel Eran Dilger in the one-man blog he grandly calls Roughly Drafted Magazine. "Problem is, nobody's talking about how terrible Gartner is at predicting things, or that Gartner's 'research' has historically been paid for by special interests."
So begins Dilger's reaction MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 8, 2009 3:55 PM ET
Reading between the lines of Walt Mossberg and David Pogue's reviews
Photo: Microsoft
It's a given that Windows 7, scheduled for release Thursday, is an improvement over Vista. But how does it stack up against Apple's (AAPL) Snow Leopard?
At moments like this we look to the well-compensated deans of tech journalism: The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and the New York Times' David Pogue.
The caveats in Mossberg's review were summarized here MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 8, 2009 6:18 AM ET
Shaw is the latest non-technologist to ascend at Intel. Photo: Intel.
Who rules techland? Increasingly, it isn't the inmates.
In May, when Craig Barrett retired as chairman of Intel (INTC), the choice of his replacement marked a momentous occasion for the granddaddy of the semiconductor industry.
That Jane Shaw became nonexecutive chairman of Intel is a big deal, but not because she is Intel's first outsider to chair the board or because MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Oct 8, 2009 6:00 AM ET
IBM (IBM) is pushing more of its technology into trains.
The company has announced today that transit agencies in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. will use its Maximo software to monitor the health of rail cars, bridges, tunnels, tracks and other assets, and flag them for maintenance before they break down.
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