How does design drive new ideas? Yves Behar, founder of Fuseproject, Deep Nishar, senior vice president of products and user experience for LinkedIn, and Hosain Rahman, c0-founder and CEO of Jawbone explored this notion at a breakfast roundtable at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo.
Jul 21, 2011 1:10 PM ET
There will be failures, but also great investment opportunities for investors in the intersection of energy and technology.
Amory Lovins
By Brian O'Keefe
FORTUNE – When it comes to green tech, it's easy to dwell on the bad news. A decade of venture capital investments have so far produced mixed returns. The carbon tax hasn't gotten off the ground. And let's just say that U.S. energy policy could be more coherent.
Yet, despite MORE
Jul 21, 2011 10:16 AM ET
For the second quarter in a row, reimbursements for his corporate jet were $0.00
Source: Company reports
We've been keeping an eye on Steve Jobs' private jet expenses ever since Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty recommended that her clients buy Apple (AAPL) based on how much time he was spending in the air.
The argument she made in Feb. 2008, after Jobs was reimbursed a record $550,000 for jet fuel and other expenses, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 21, 2011 7:30 AM ET
FORTUNE -- Yahoo's earnings report, released Tuesday, shows that the company is running out of options. The consensus among analysts and the commentariat seems to be that the company has to make some kind of big move. The problem there is, the only big move anyone can think of is for Yahoo (YHOO) to buy the video-streaming site Hulu, which it is reportedly trying to do. That would be a MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jul 21, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Fortune's Adam Lashinsky interviewed longtime Silicon Valley banker Frank Quattrone about bubbles, what he learned when Apple went public, and why this time really isn't any different.
MR. LASHINSKY: Thank you, Jeff, and please welcome with me Frank Quattrone.
(Applause.)
MR. LASHINSKY: Frank, thank you so much for being here.
MR. QUATTRONE: It's a pleasure, Adam. Thanks for inviting me.
MR. LASHINSKY: You bet. I just wanted to kick things off by showing an illustration MORE
Jul 21, 2011 1:35 AM ET
Silicon Valley's banker doesn't think it's a bubble. Yet.
By Dan Primack, senior editor
FORTUNE -- When Frank Quattrone was a student at Stanford Business School, a classroom speech by fellow 25 year-old Steve Jobs sparked an interest in Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Quattrone would go on to virtually underwrite the initial Internet boom, helping bring public companies like Amazon (AMZN) and Netscape. Today he advises tech companies MORE
Dan Primack - Jul 20, 2011 7:23 PM ET
Twitter's CEO dismissed the secondary markets as a "distraction," but SecondMarket is winning converts among some entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
By Stacy Cowley, CNNMoney tech editor
FORTUNE -- Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took a few potshots yesterday at the secondary markets -- the private exchanges where early employees and investors can sell off the shares they hold in not-yet-public companies to willing buyers. Calling them a "distraction," Costolo said Twitter has retroactively put MORE
Jul 20, 2011 7:08 PM ET
Pandora. Spotify. SoundCloud. A number of companies are challenging a space dominated by the likes of Clear Channel.
FORTUNE -- Despite services like Spotify, Pandora, and Turntable.fm, which have all received generous buzz lately for one reason or another, digital music services aren't quite as disruptive to the music industry as you might think.
Clear Channel's Bob Pittman
At least that's what Clear Channel's Bob Pittman insinuated during a discussion about online MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jul 20, 2011 6:54 PM ET
A group of venture capitalists and private equity investors discussed the challenges and rewards of early and late stage investing in web companies today. Fundamentally, the game hasn't changed: You can't win if you can't pick winners.
Panelists: Adam Clammer, head of technology group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts; Bill Maris, Managing Partner, Google Ventures; Henry Ellenbogen, Portfolio manager, T.Rowe Price; Jerry Murdock, Special Limited Partner, Insight Venture Partners; Mike Maples, Managing Partner, Floodgate; Dana Settle, Partner, Greycroft MORE
Jul 20, 2011 6:20 PM ET
Some harsh words for the government's hand in business—and harsher realities dished back. Christine Varney: "You don't like antitrust laws, repeal them."
By Leigh Gallagher
Christine Varney, Gary Shapiro, and Glenn Hutchins
FORTUNE -- Brainstormers were treated to a lively and spirited debate on the role the government has in the technology business on Wednesday.
On the one side was Consumer Electronics Association president and CEO Gary Shapiro, who argued forcefully that the government MORE
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