Jive adds Facebook, Google and McAfee muscle to its board

Is the "Facebook for the office" company joining the rest of the Valley in cranking up the IPO machine?

Jive CEO Tony Zingale. Image by Alex Dunne via Flickr

FORTUNE -- Nothing says, "we plan to go public" more than when a startup bulks up its board with executives from brand-name companies. Software company Jive has just done that, with the addition of former McAfee (MFE) Chairman Chuck Robel, McAffee President MORE

Netflix buys its first original show, starring Kevin Spacey

Reed Hastings' disruption tour continues as Netflix weighs ploughing its profits into an original series. "It's not TV, it's HBO" may soon be "It's not HBO, it's Netflix."

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Update: 24 hours later, it's official. "Netflix has committed to a minimum of 26 episodes," the press release reads, of "House of Cards." That sounds like 2 seasons worth, and it should begin, um, "airing" in late 2012. Kevin Spacey MORE

Apotheker sets HP's course: Heading for the cloud

Hewlett Packard's CEO plans to kick the company and its flagging stock back into gear in part by selling apps and services via a new public cloud.

HP CEO Leo Apotheker

It's been just over eight months since Mark Hurd left HP (HPQ) beneath an avalanche of tabloid covers. In that time, HP's stock has slid just over 10%, leaving investors wondering when and how the world's largest tech company can MORE

Liveblog from Apple's iPad 2 event

Fortune's Michael V. Copeland takes us into the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco with live coverage of Apple's media event.

Apple's iPad 2

[11: 10 AM PT] And the highlight reel of iPad 2 ends. Jobs back on stage. "It's in Apple's DNA, that technology alone is not enough. Technology combined with liberal arts with the humanities that makes our hearts sing." Jobs says MORE

What HP really bought from Palm: A mobile future, untethered from Microsoft

The Touchpad, not reliant on Android, Windows or (of course) iOS, is a sign that HP demands to be taken seriously as a software company.

The Palm Touchpad from HP

Yes, HP (HPQ) has now jumped into the tablet fray with its TouchPad.  It's a whiz-bang cool gadget, and some folks will want to rush out and buy it.  Are we talking iPad numbers? Not likely, but whether HP sells as MORE

Google's Honeycomb is sweet

Honeycomb, or Android 3.0, is a big, impressive step toward the unified, mobile world that Google is trying to bring to us. But rest assured that Apple will give Google some stiff competition with its own upgrades.

With images of blue and black-striped bees leading the way through its Mountainview, Calif. headquarters, on Wednesday Google  gave a deep-dive into Honeycomb, a tablet-ready version of the Android operating sysem it hopes MORE

Adult supervision over: Schmidt yields back to Google co-founder Page

Incoming CEO Larry Page with outgoing chief Eric Schmidt

Larry Page, the original Google CEO, gets his job back.

No one saw it coming. Sure the Google board, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt knew about  the executive change-up bomb they were about to drop Thursday, but for most everyone else within Google (GOOG) and without, the news of Schmidt's departure as CEO came as a complete surprise. So was MORE

Intel and Nvidia play nice for a $1.5 billion price

Intel agrees to a huge licensing deal that pays graphics powerhouse Nvidia handsomely. But, it's not exactly a thaw in their cold war.

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After canceling a Dec. 6 trial date to hash out lawsuits they had pending against each other, chipmakers Intel (INTC) and Nvidia (NVDA) announced a new six-year agreement Monday. The agreement gives Intel access to the full-range of Nvidia's patents for graphics chips, which it MORE

The Motorola phone that becomes a laptop

Coolest thing so far at CES, and it isn't a tablet: the Motorola Atrix, a souped-up 4G smart phone that doubles as the engine for a notebook/netbook running Android. But ask the Motorola Mobility gang (they spun off from Motorola and went public on Tuesday) if they are now building laptops and they get coy. "We are blurring the lines," says Alain Mutricy, SVP for mobile devices, "but we are MORE

CES 2011: There will be tablets

Dozens of tablets! Dual-core processors in your phone! LED backlighting for everyone! Live in 3D, with the inevitable pounding headache! Here's our preview of what's coming out of Vegas this week.

Take your typical Best Buy (BBY) store and multiply it by 100,000. Next, throw in quarter-mile long lines for everything food-related. Add the unmistakable arrival of the adult entertainment industry. Combine all that, and you pretty much have a feeling MORE