Is Oracle getting into the acqhiring game?
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FORTUNE -- Oracle's (ORCL) acquisition of FatWire is all about the company putting itself in front of end customers. That is, it's more or less a retail play.
FatWire is a "customer experience management company," which means that it helps businesses make their online services work better. Its products include content management, community forums, mobile platforms and the like. ReadWriteWeb says Oracle MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jun 22, 2011 12:28 PM ET
Startup Fansnap is trying to bring the events business to Facebook, betting a social layer will help teams and rockstars fill seats.
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FORTUNE -- I heard a new expression today: F-commerce. The "F" is for Facebook, and it refers to transactions that happen in that alternative universe that isn't merely the web, isn't specifically mobile and most definitely is not a physical store. Rather, it's commerce on that MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Jun 22, 2011 11:09 AM ET
One analyst thinks so, citing unit sales, average prices and thin activity in the TV aisles
HDTVs at Best Buy. Source: The Consumerist
Not only has strong demand for tablet computers -- led by Apple's (AAPL) iPad -- cut into notebook PC sales, but it has started to be felt in the market for high-definition televisions.
That's the thrust of a note issued Wednesday by Hudson Square Research's Daniel Ernst. The evidence:
His MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 22, 2011 10:37 AM ET
Take a picture with Lytro's soon to come camera and change the focus to any spot, with the click of a mouse. The only question most photo geeks have is "how much?"
FORTUNE -- There's a new player in the camera market: Lytro, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup with just 45 employees, is hoping to disrupt the industry with an innovative camera that lets users focus a picture after it's been MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jun 22, 2011 10:28 AM ET
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* Hulu is considering a possible sale after receiving a takeover offer from an unspecified bidder. As a result, the company's board is looking at its options and may reach out to other companies and private equity firms that have wanted to buy it in the past. (New MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jun 22, 2011 9:49 AM ET
The new device is said to have a more powerful processor and a higher-resolution camera
AAPL shot up $9.98 (3.17%) on Tuesday
In what may be the most authoritative confirmation yet of rumors that have been floating around for months, a Bloomberg report late Tuesday cited two unnamed people familiar with Apple's (AAPL) product release plans to say:
Apple plans to release the successor to the iPhone 4 in September
It will run MORE
Android, at 11%, pales by comparison. The iPad, per device, is the biggest data hog of all
Click to enlarge. Source: Meraki
According to a report released Wednesday by Meraki, a San Francisco-based company that provides wireless networking to 17,000 small and medium-sized organizations, from MIT and UVA to Starbucks and Burger King, 2011 was the year that mobile devices overtook PCs as the major consumers of Wi-Fi data.
In a one-month MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 22, 2011 6:11 AM ET
The cable company CEO previewed a next-gen user interface, but can Comcast really compete with Apple, not to mention Netflix?
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts
FORTUNE -- Comcast (CMCSA) CEO Brian Roberts wants you to know the company is adapting to the times, and that the perception of the cable company as a stodgy provider of bulky cable set top boxes is a thing of the past.
"We recognize that the business is MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jun 21, 2011 4:45 PM ET
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
Silicon Valley boosters swear there's no tech bubble, but maybe that's because they've all been living in one.
FORTUNE -- For all the talk this year about a tech bubble, there is surprisingly little agreement. On the one hand, valuations of hot web companies are irrationally high; on the other big tech valuations are inexplicably low. On the one hand, the number of overpriced IPOs in 2011 is MORE
Jun 21, 2011 12:12 PM ET
76% say they'll sign up for free e-mail; 30% for the $25/year music matching service
Click to enlarge. Source: RBC Capital
Apple (AAPL) is not a company known for giving things away for free, but when they do, people tend to respond positively. According to a survey conducted for RBC Capital the week after Steve Jobs' iCloud keynote:
76% of respondents said they were likely to sign up for iCloud, Apple's free MORE
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| Frontier Communicati... | 4.24 | -0.23 | -5.26% |
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