With hackers running riot on the Internet, here's how you can get paid to stop them.
By Alex Konrad, contributor
FORTUNE -- Don't let the headlines about New Corp.'s (NWSA) recent phone follies give you the wrong idea about hacking: Cyber crime is only getting more complex and dangerous, but it is creating new jobs for people who want to fight it. Recent high-profile hacks of government sites, Citigroup (C), and Sony MORE
Jul 22, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Proven.com aims to build the link for employers and skilled workers to connect on jobs.
By Alex Konrad, contributor
FORTUNE -- Proven.com wants to prove there's a job site for skilled tradespeople somewhere between the white collar networking of LinkedIn and the anarchy of Craigslist. A site focusing on the workers' end has been up since last year. The employers' end has been active since May under that site's old name, WorkersNow.com. MORE
Jul 21, 2011 5:03 PM ET
Tony Bates, CEO of Skype, discussed his company's acquisition by Microsoft with Silver Lake managing director Egon Durban, Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz and Fortune's Adam Lashinsky.
Below is an unedited transcript from the interview. For more, see Dan Primack's story Skype CEO checked his list.
ADAM LASHINSKY: We have in the Skype story a story that has everything that excites us at Fortune magazine, and you in our audience. We have MORE
Jul 21, 2011 3:17 PM ET
Daniel Ek, CEO and co-founder of the online music service Spotify, sat down for a one-on-one with Fortune's Andy Serwer at the Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo.
ANDY SERWER: Hello, hello, hello. Look at this, they're so generous, Daniel. There's just water, water everywhere.
DANIEL EK: It's great, I like it.
ANDY SERWER: Excellent.
Please join me in welcoming Daniel Ek. As you may know, Daniel is the founder and CEO of Spotify, MORE
Jul 21, 2011 2:46 PM ET
Apple's $76 billion cash stockpile is burning a hole in Wall Street's pockets
Source: Asymco.com
It happens every quarter. Apple (AAPL) reports blowout sales and earnings. Its holdings in cash and marketable securities swell by billions of dollars -- by $10.7 billion, to be specific, in the past 90 days. And analysts come out of the woodwork to demand that the company spend some of those billions buying back shares or MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 21, 2011 2:22 PM ET
For Tony Bates, joining Skype was a "no brainer."
By Dan Primack, senior editor
Skype CEO Tony Bates
FORTUNE -- Every year, Tony Bates and his wife make a list of future goals. In 2007, Bates was a 40-year-old Cisco (CSCO) executive who wrote down that he wanted to become a CEO by the age of 45. He then listed four companies -- all consumer-focused, despite his enterprise pedigree -- that he MORE
Dan Primack - Jul 21, 2011 2:03 PM ET
Daniel Ek, the CEO of the online music service Spotify, has ambitious plans for penetrating the U.S. market. Profitability, for now, isn't a concern.
Daniel Ek
FORTUNE -- One week after Spotify launched in the U.S., CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek discussed his company's rapid growth at Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, Colo.
The simple, legal "all-you-can-eat" music service has made waves in parts of Europe with a freemium model that lets users MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jul 21, 2011 1:59 PM ET
How can big companies innovate better? Jose Bravo, chief scientist of physical separations for Shell Oil, Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, and Javier Soltero, CTO of cloud services for VMWare, had a lively discussion about what works and what doesn't in enterprise innovation.
Jul 21, 2011 1:27 PM ET
What does the publishing and broadcasting industry need to do to survive in this digital age? At a breakfast panel at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo., this topic was explored by Brian Bedol, Co-founder and CEO of Bedrocket Media Ventures, Nicholas Lehman, president of entertainment and digital networks for NBCUniversal, Zander Lurie, senior vice president for strategic development at CBS, Wenda Harris Millard, president and COO of MediaLink, MORE
Jul 21, 2011 1:19 PM ET
Mobile games are just one wing of Rovio's plans for a global entertainment empire.
By Stacy Cowley, CNNMoney tech editor
FORTUNE -- Here's a fun stat: The 300 million players who have downloaded Rovio's Angry Birds games have flung more than 100 billion avians -- more birds than actually exist in the entire world.
"Our goal is to be the first brand with a billion fans," Peter "Mighty Eagle" Vesterbacka, Rovio's chief marketing officer, MORE
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