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* The Verge gives at a long look at Research in Motion's rise and decline: how it was built and how former co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie lost their way. Also, the company's ailing BlackBerry PlayBook tablet received a software update that finally brought native apps to access email, calendar, address book and BlackBerry Messenger functions. (The Verge and CNNMoney)
* Dell's fiscal fourth quarter earnings came in below analyst predictions: an 18% drop in net income to $764 million on revenues of $16 billion. (The New York Times)
* Comcast (CMCSA) is working on a new subscription video-on-demand competitor, named "Streampix," intended to go up against Netflix (NFLX). But the streaming service will only be available to those who also subscribe to Comcast cable. (Variety)
* Netflix inked a deal with The Weinstein Company. Translation: film titles like The Artist, Sarah's Key, and The Intouchables, are coming to Netflix Instant. (Techcrunch)
* Tech entrepreneurs are getting younger and younger. Venture capitalists like Andreessen Horowitz now say they're funding startups with 18 or 19-year-old founders. (Reuters)
* According to the analytics firm Distimo, many app makers are apparently making more money from their apps in Amazon's Appstore than they are via Google's Android Market. (GigaOm)
* Is Amazon's rewards program, Amazon Prime, profitable? Probably not. But it is a vital part of the company's long-term strategy. (Fortune)
* As reported yesterday, Barnes & Noble (BKS) released a $199 version of its recently introduced Nook Tablet with 8 gigabytes of storage, arguably to better combat Amazon's Kindle Fire. (Barnes and Noble)
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Can so-called Super Wi-Fi bring high speeds and low costs to rural Americans? xG Technologies thinks so.
NB: This is the second story in a two part series about rural broadband access in America. To read the first part, please click here.
FORTUNE -- Engineers have long dreamed of using cheap wireless networks to do an end-run around the companies that now provide Internet access and cell phone service. Those dreams have MORE
Oct 18, 2011 10:59 AM ET
ESPN's deal to pay $15 billion for Monday Night Football could incite a revolt against the cable industry's basic business model.
FORTUNE -- The idea that American television viewers should be free to buy just the TV channels they want has always proven a pipe dream. It's a silly idea, cable and satellite operators have convinced politicians and regulators: selling channels in packages funds a wider variety of programming, actually leaving MORE
Sep 12, 2011 9:53 AM ET
At this point, the ultimate fate of the beleaguered Internet company is anybody's guess. But here are some of the executives that may get a chance at taking the top spot.
FORTUNE -- It's impossible to guess who might be Carol Bartz's replacement at Yahoo because it's impossible to guess what Yahoo might look like when a replacement is named. It could be a totally different company before a CEO is MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Sep 8, 2011 2:39 PM ET
The TV networks that invested big to create the online video service don't seem to like what it's maturing into.
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FORTUNE -- It must be immensely frustrating to either own or manage Hulu. The viewing public is moving away from cable and satellite toward Internet viewing, but so slowly and uncertainly that programmers can't simply port all their shows online and be done with it. They have to MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jun 23, 2011 4:26 PM 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
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 ETBoth were media-consumption game changers. But why did the iPod spark Apple's media empire while TiVo had to turn to suing companies that capitalized on its innovations?
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- A decade ago, two products were introduced that would change the way we consume media. One of them allowed us to carry hundreds, even thousands of songs around in our pocket so we could listen to whatever we wanted whenever we MORE
Fortune - Apr 27, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Despite criticism, a venture capitalist and former California State Controller explains why the Genachowski net neutrality proposal is a must-have for industry, the FCC, and the public.
By Steve Westly, contributor
Steve Westly
Nobody likes being stuck in traffic or choosing the slow checkout line at the grocery store.
Now imagine if you were faced with the choice of being forever stuck in the digital slow lane or paying even higher fees for MORE
Dec 20, 2010 8:52 PM ET
The battle between the video giants -- one cable, one streaming -- moves from the screen to the fiber.
In a press release today, Level 3 laid out the issue at hand. Comcast (CMCSK) made Level 3 "an offer it couldn't refuse." Either pay up or Comcast would block its services.
"On November 19, 2010, Comcast informed Level 3 that, for the first time, it will demand a recurring fee from Level 3 to MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.95 | -0.16 | -1.97% |
| Intel Corp | 26.73 | -0.43 | -1.58% |
| Microsoft Corp | 31.27 | -0.17 | -0.54% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.25 | -2.00% |
| General Electric Co | 19.39 | 0.17 | 0.88% |
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