General Motors pulled the plug on its first electric car, but supplier AeroVironment used some of that experience to build a very different kind of vehicle for the U.S. military.
By Doron Levin, contributor
AeroVironment, a firm based in Monrovia, Calif., whose products include gear for electric, hydrogen, and hybrid cars, is applying its environmentally friendly research to a technology that at first blush might make some tree huggers tremble: a military MORE
Feb 17, 2011 5:00 AM ETA newcomer to Fortune's 40 under 40 list decamps from the software giant to the social behemoth. Carolyn Everson's time at MTV may have helped pave the way.
Carolyn Everson
Among the newcomers to Fortune's 40 under 40 list in 2010 was Carolyn Everson (No. 38), a rising star in the advertising world who had just taken over as head of global advertising for Microsoft (MSFT). Today, just nine months after MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Feb 16, 2011 4:49 PM ET
Its own audit found toxic chemicals, underage workers, bribery and falsified records
Source: Apple Inc.
"Foxconn is not a sweatshop," Steve Jobs told the audience at All Things Digital last June, speaking of the world's largest electronics manufacturer and Apple's (AAPL) primary supplier of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macs.
But the company's 2011 Supplier Responsibility progress report, issued earlier this week, found plenty of room for improvement in its extensive Asian supply MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 16, 2011 1:29 PM ET
As Apple deals with a publisher backlash from its subscription plan offering, Google swooped in today to offer publishers a less expensive alternative that will work on more devices.
Originally leaked last June as 'NewsPass' by an Italian newspaper, Google (GOOG) released details on its new One Pass publishing tool today. The timing is no coincidence as Apple (AAPL) is currently dealing with a publisher backlash over its newly-enforced 30% cut of publisher revenues in MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 16, 2011 11:10 AM ET
The social startup announced a surprising turn today, challenging Cisco, Citrix and other enterprise heavies with its freemium video web conferencing.
It's hard to imagine why anyone would willingly sit through a PowerPoint presentation, but turns out there's a market for uploading, sharing and viewing slides. Just ask the over 45 million people who log on to SlideShare, the so-called "YouTube for presentations," each month.
The San Francisco-based startup has become MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Feb 16, 2011 11:00 AM ET
A dispatch from Barcelona sees trouble ahead for the iPad's competitors
The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones reporting from the Android booth
RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky has coined a new acronym: NAAT! (Not Another Android Tablet!)
"The geyser of Android tablet launches continues," he writes in a note to clients from Day 2 of Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. He mentions, among others, the HTC (Flyer), ViewSonic (ViewPad 4), and Samsung Galaxy Tab MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 16, 2011 10:51 AM ET
You could argue that it has several, depending on how you define the market
Photo: siliconvalleysleuth.com
It was only a matter of hours after Steve Jobs announced the terms of Apple's (AAPL) new subscription service Tuesday morning that commentators started dropping the A word -- "antitrust."
"My inclination is to be suspect," Shubha Ghosh, an antitrust professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, told the Wall Street Journal that afternoon. And MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 16, 2011 7:58 AM ET
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"I don't think Verizon needs the Nokia and Microsoft relationship. Right now the three OS players we see for our network are Android, Apple, and RIM." -- Verizon CTO Tony Melone (Business Insider and CNET)
The HTC Salsa and ChaCha. Photo: SlashGear
Facebook revealed that a dozen MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Feb 16, 2011 7:54 AM ET
Known for its leftward leanings, the tech giant is beginning to pay a whole lot more attention to the GOP.
By Tory Newmyer, writer
House Republicans were still unpacking their boxes in the first week of January when outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed up with a tantalizing offer: Since the GOP had reclaimed power in part on promises to make government more transparent, Google could volunteer its vast technical know-how to MORE
Feb 16, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Demolition of his Spanish colonial folly began Monday and is expected to last two weeks
The 14-bedroom mansion Steve Jobs purchased in 1984 but never really liked has been "essentially flattened," an unnamed source told The Almanac.
Quoting town officials, the local news service reports that demolition began Monday and should be wrapped up by the end of February.
The 17,250-square-foot Spanish colonial hacienda was designed by George Washington Smith for Daniel C. MORE
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