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Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.
Given Intel's (INTC) mergers and acquisitions track record -- it spent $11 billion-plus for some 40 companies between 1999 and 2003 only to MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 20, 2010 8:09 AM ETPosted in: 4Chan, ann livermore, Atom, Avatar, cloud computing, Cuil, Dave Donatelli, Dell, Digg, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Intel, James Cameron, mobile payments, MPAA, Todd Bradley, Verizon, X Prize -
Toyota's low-risk dialogue on Digg
If you're Toyota (TM) right now, the last thing you want is more surprises. That might explain why Jim Lentz, president of the U.S. sales division, will be fielding questions about the automaker's troubles on social media site Digg today at 2 p.m. PT, 5 p.m. ET; it actually looks to be a pretty low-risk affair.
Normally, "low-risk" and "Digg" don't go together in the world of corporate PR. On Digg, MORE
Jon Fortt - Feb 8, 2010 4:00 PM ET -
How Iran's opposition really uses social media
Twitter was great for communicating with the West, but other online tools aid increasingly sophisticated activists
By Jia Lynn Yang, writer
During protests in Iran this summer over the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, social networking tool Twitter's raison d'être overnight went from frivolous to vital: The world outside Iran followed every spurt of information that trickled out on mobile phones outfitted with the Twitter application.
Since then, activists have only grown more MORE
Dec 16, 2009 12:04 PM ET -
What wowed the crowd at Web 2.0 Expo
The man behind #swineflu and #HowBlackAreYou was the hit at this year's NYC webfest
This has nothing in particular to do with Apple (AAPL), but it's very 2.0.
We spent much of last week at a conference in New York City called Web 2.0 Expo -- a celebration of the "next generation Web" where one of the centers of attention was the giant Twitter screen set directly behind the keynote speakers that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 21, 2009 11:40 AM ETPosted in: Baratunde Thurston, Beth Noveck, Caterina Fake, Digg, Douglas Rushkoff, Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, The Onion, Tim O'Reilly, Twitter, Web 2.0 Expo -
Eight hard truths about online media
Think you can create the next Twitter or Facebook? Good luck with that.
By Mike Markson, co-founder, Blekko Many a consumer looks at an "overnight sensation" such as Twitter or Facebook and muses: "That service is so simple -- I could do that." If only it were true.
It turns out that starting a business on the web is hard. Very hard. And I'm not talking about the technology – although that part MORE
Sep 11, 2009 9:00 AM ET -
Andreessen: what's next in tech
Jennifer Lai - Jul 23, 2009 11:11 AM ET
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of America Corp... | 7.17 | 0.19 | 2.72% |
| Ford Motor Co | 10.41 | 0.22 | 2.16% |
| Microsoft Corp | 29.11 | -0.65 | -2.18% |
| General Electric Co | 19.18 | 0.00 | 0.00% |
| JPMorgan Chase and C... | 34.26 | 0.25 | 0.74% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dow | 12,496.15 | -6.66 | -0.05% |
| Nasdaq | 2,850.12 | 11.04 | 0.39% |
| S&P 500 | 1,318.86 | 2.23 | 0.17% |
| Treasuries | 1.72 | -0.07 | -4.02% |
| China's manufacturers still hurting | ||
| Google vanquishes Oracle in Android patent fight | ||
| The problem with Microsoft trying to be Apple | ||
| Facebook's IPO: Sorting through the legal mess | ||
| HP to cut 27,000 jobs |
