By Kevin Maney, contributor
Every kind of tech CEO -- from Page to Zuckerberg -- can learn a few things from Big Blue.
FORTUNE -- IBM turns 100 this month. Remarkably, IBM (IBM) has stayed vital and important for most of its history -- except for that blip in the early-1990s when the company nearly collapsed. In 1911, the company had $800,000 in net income. In 2010, IBM's net income was $14.8 MORE
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* TechCrunch reports that Facebook has an HTML5-based mobile Web store in the works that iPhone and iPad users can access via their Safari browsers. Eighty third party developers, including Zynga, are supposedly working on the project. "Why? Because it's the one area of the device that Facebook MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jun 16, 2011 10:51 AM ET
Expects average sales of Apple's "quasi-tablet for productivity users" to hit 700,000/quarter
Photo: Apple Inc.
In early April, J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz issued a glowing report on Apple's thinnest notebook computer in which he predicted that Apple would sell $2.2 billion worth of MacBook Airs in the next 12-18 months.
On Thursday he revised his estimates -- upward. Not only did the new models released last October sell like crazy in the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 16, 2011 10:07 AM ET
Instead, students this year get the usual 10% discount and a $100 software gift card
Source: Apple.com
We always thought of the iPod touch that Apple (AAPL) offered students as part of the company's annual "Back to School" sale as the equivalent of a narcotics dealer's free sample: a gateway drug that left users craving for an iPhone.
To the dismay of much of the class of 2011, Apple has dropped the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 16, 2011 9:31 AM ET
Three conspirators are fined and imprisoned for stealing Apple's secrets
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In early December, when the original iPad was a hot-selling Christmas gift and the iPad 2 was still a rumor, there appeared on the Internet colorful images of silicone iPad cases that didn't fit the current model. For one thing, they each had a hole in the back that could accommodate a rear-facing camera.
Was it a hoax, a guess or MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 16, 2011 7:48 AM ET
The inside story of how Google conquered the smartphone world.
By Beth Kowitt, writer
FORTUNE -- When Google (GOOG) acquired a tiny wireless startup called Android in 2005, few at the search giant had particularly high hopes for the deal -- if they even knew about it. At that point Google had purchased just a handful of companies, mostly software makers it had quietly folded into its operations. (Big, high-profile deals like YouTube and DoubleClick came later.) Besides, not many people knew exactly what MORE
Jun 16, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Bloomberg Television is still stuck in Siberia in the Comcast channel lineup, and it's right to ask the FCC to step in.
Bloomberg TV
FORTUNE -- One of the main worries surrounding Comcast's (CMCSA) merger with NBC Universal was that Comcast would use its cable platform to favor its own programming at the expense of competitors. From the beginning, the financial news organization Bloomberg has issued perhaps the loudest complaints about MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jun 15, 2011 11:11 AM ET
It's not an iPad, or even a Nook Color. But that's the whole point of Barnes & Noble's newest e-reader: it's not supposed to be.
FORTUNE -- Just six months after launching its well-received Android-based Nook Color tablet, Barnes and Noble (BKS) unveiled a major hardware update to the original e-ink-based Nook e-reader that cuts down on bulk, weight, and physical buttons.
Here's the important thing to note right off the bat MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jun 15, 2011 10:31 AM ET
On Bloomberg TV, the head of Holland & Co. joins the chorus mystified by AAPL's valuation
Source: Bloomberg TV
Michael Holland can't believe Apple (AAPL) is selling for 11 times next year's earnings.
"Apple's not being picked on," he told Bloomberg's Carol Masser Wednesday, "they shouldn't take it personally."
Holland, who worked for J.P. Morgan, Salomon and Oppenheimer before starting his own private investment firm with $4 billion in assets, names Google (GOOG) MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 15, 2011 10:27 AM ET
But in the smartphone race, Android's lead grew slightly, according to Millennial Media
Source: Millennial Media
There's good news and bad for Apple (AAPL) in Millennial Media's May report, issued Wednesday morning.
The iPhone is still the top phone in Millennial's ad network, for the 20th month in a row
Apple is still the leading mobile manufacturer, with a 30% share
When breaking down ad revenue driven by apps, iOS devices were still narrowly MORE
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| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.60% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.24 | -0.23 | -5.26% |
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| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.58 | -0.25 | -1.26% |
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