There's a fight ready to break out in the music-locker room. But to Michael Robertson, founder of MP3Tunes an old hand at the digital music game, it's nothing new.
Michael Robertson. Image via CrunchBase
FORTUNE -- After six years of waiting, the day Michael Robertson always knew would arrive finally got around to arriving. On Tuesday Robertson, the former CEO of MP3.com and general digital music gadfly, read the news that MORE
Chadwick Matlin - May 13, 2011 11:16 AM ET
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* Members of the media are still reeling from yesterday's revelation, courtesy of The Daily Beast, that Facebook hired public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to pitch anti-Google stories to publications. And while some, like TechCrunch's MG Siegler, think Facebook's actions were deplorable, others pointed out that unfortunately, this is not an industry MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 13, 2011 10:26 AM ET
The stock is up 330% since its 2008 low, but that's really nothing to write home about
Click to enlarge. Source: Andy Zaky
In an article posted Friday on Seeking Alpha, Fortune.com contributor Andy Zaky takes aim at a phrase that has attached itself to Apple (AAPL) recently: "the darling of Wall Street." (Google it; you'll be surprised how often it pops up in the financial press.)
Apple is a darling, the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 13, 2011 7:40 AM ET
By Daniel Roberts, reporter
Customers love Cognizant's C2 platform so much that they want to buy it. Too bad it isn't for sale.
FORTUNE -- Cognizant Technology Solutions, a tech outsourcing and consulting firm that serves huge companies, has built a corporate version of Facebook that pulls together a bunch of Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter feeds, employee-written blogs, and chat. It's the kind of collaboration tool many businesses say they'd love MORE
May 13, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Dating sites, social networks and the mobile devices -- even cars -- we use to connect to them let us be distant or callous to fellow singles in a whole new, yet familiar, way.
FORTUNE -- As a tech writer, I'm impressed by the industry and the rate at which companies innovate. Fifteen years ago streaming high-quality video content was a pipe dream squeezed by the reality of 56K modems; the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 12, 2011 1:11 PM ET
There's something very fishy about the weekly options market. Is it time to reel in the bad guys?
April 29, 2011: AAPL's share price fell to the 350 strike price in the last 12 minutes of trading
It was 3:48 p.m. on Friday April 29 and traders who had purchased Apple (AAPL) April 29 $350 "calls" -- options that gave them the right to buy Apple shares in blocks of 100 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 12, 2011 1:00 PM ET
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* This one's a whopper... The Daily Beast discovered that Facebook hired public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to pitch anti-Google stories to publications. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed as much to the Web site last night, citing concerns with Google's social networking activities that raise privacy concerns and issues with MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - May 12, 2011 10:23 AM ET
Google's latest push into the cloud comes with partnerships for two consumer versions of its Chrome laptops. Will customers come along for the ride?
FORTUNE -- Chrome, the web-centric operating system that Google hoped would revolutionize the computer industry, is finally ready for its star turn. This week, Google (GOOG) took the wraps off of its long-awaited Chrome OS netbooks (dubbed "Chromebooks") at its annual developer conference in San Francisco, I/O. MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - May 12, 2011 10:20 AM ET
Perhaps Apple's magazine subscription rules weren't as one-sided as publishers feared
Source: Apple Inc.
If you were subscribing to the online edition of, say, Wired, Vanity Fair or the New Yorker on the iTunes store, and you were faced with the pop-up window at right, would you opt-in and click "Allow"?
Most major magazine publishers, when shown this screen by Apple (AAPL) representatives, blanched. Each of them knew full well the kind MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 12, 2011 6:49 AM ET
A second look at the claim that Apple's four-year conquest of the mobile market is adrift
Source: Asymco
Business Insider's Henry Blodget may come to regret -- if he doesn't already -- using the phrase "dead in the water" to describe the performance of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in a comScore market share survey that seemed to show, as Blodget's headline put it, that "Android is destroying everyone."
The comScore survey to which MORE
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