EPA chief Lisa Jackson says tech companies tend to be young, hip and green. Now they need to think about recycling on the front end.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
EPA head Lisa Jackson at Brainstorm Tech. Photo: Matt Slaby, Fortune
Garbage is money, says Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. She claims that's especially true for tech products that are built with some of the more MORE
Jul 24, 2010 1:10 PM ET
The company's doing just fine, but it has had to pull back in some regions after regulation and competition made it tough to do business there.
by Laura Rich, contributor
After a few years in France, Liberty Global (LBTYA) pulled up stakes and left. In South America, it retreated from seven countries down to one. "We realized it was never going to go our way," said Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries.
On MORE
Jul 24, 2010 10:45 AM ET
Born on this day 150 years ago, the Czech painter is being celebrated on Google.com.
Alphonse Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist was known for his distinct style and his images of women. His work has widely influenced modern art in a wide range of fields.
His designs were influential to Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, designers who, in the 1960s, created MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 24, 2010 10:09 AM ET
Something you expect to see on the streets of Shenzhen, China shows up on Amazon.
Amazon hasn't been officially blessed to sell Apple's iPad outright, but you can still buy them via third party sellers on its site. Perhaps that is why the online retailer has turned a blind eye to the packaging on this particular Android tablet:
Seth Weintraub - Jul 24, 2010 9:11 AM ET
Google tries to keep its employee/Twitter karma in line as it looks to hire a famous State Department Twitterer-in-Chief and at the same time loses a top Android evangelist to Twitter.
Jared Cohen (from WSJ)
AllThingsD's Kara Swisher reports that Jared Cohen, the Twitter face of the US State Department is finalizing a deal which would bring him to Google (GOOG). As she points out, the revolving door between Washington and Google seems to spin MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 23, 2010 11:44 PM ET
Apple continues to try to draw attention away from its antenna woes by this time targeting its second Android device.
Apple's iPhone 4 has an problem where if flesh or any conductor makes contact with where the two external antennas meet, the signal drops. Apple reluctantly announced that it would issue free bumpers to its customers last week to help deal with this flaw, until they come up with something better MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 23, 2010 9:17 PM ET
As AOL eyes turnaround strategies, one business still seems to be in demand: selling its search traffic.
Tim Armstrong at Fortune Brainstorm Tech
AOL's nearly $700 million-a-year search deal with Google (GOOG) will expire in December, and CEO Tim Armstrong is not limiting the next deal to the usual two suspects: Microsoft (MSFT) and Google. "Search is heating up from a multi-partner space—we are not talking to two companies," said Armstrong MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jul 23, 2010 7:27 PM ET
Enterprise, mobile, China, storage and social -- so many places to deploy cash.
The view from Aspen; who wouldn't be optimistic? (Photo: Matt Slaby, Fortune)
Fortune's Michael Copleand opened his venture-capital panel at Fortune Brainstorm Tech Friday afternoon with a fun round-robin question: Name one sector that is overhyped or underhyped. Shockingly, the six-member panel found nothing whatsoever that is overhyped. Only the opposite. VCs, after all, are congenital optimists.
Jerry Murdock MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Jul 23, 2010 6:53 PM ET
If it doesn't find a solution, the MLB could find itself with a consumer riot.
By Kevin Maney, contributor
From Major League Baseball's point of view, content providers are going to have to figure out how to charge one price for aggregated packages of content. Otherwise, consumers are going to rebel against "a la carte creep," said MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman in a lunch session at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.
"It's not that MORE
Jul 23, 2010 5:49 PM ET
Diller says his websites didn't miss the social media wave because not everyone has to ride it.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
IAC CEO Barry Diller at Brainstorm Tech. Photo Credit: Matt Slaby, Fortune
Barry Diller's sitting on some prime, if diverse, Internet real estate. His company, IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), owns Match.com, Ask.com, Citysearch, and about 50 other sites that seem like they could create the kind of digital sharefest communities that Facebook MORE
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