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Today in Tech
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 day's most newsworthy bits below.
Effective January 1, Google is giving every one of its 25,000 or so employees a $1,000 bonus and 10% raise. (Fortune) Facebook engineer Mike Vernal openly chastised Google for attempting to block the social network's access to the MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 10, 2010 8:14 AM ET -
PayPal's cashless utopia: Built on eBay's back
PayPal is working hard to become the gold standard for online payments, chasing down Google and fending off the competition. Meantime, being the apple of eBay's eye, and its subsidiary, hasn't hurt either.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
This week, PayPal is hosting an event in New York called "Cashless Utopia." PayPal's aim is to usher us in to this utopia by establishing itself as the standard mechanism by which we pay for MORE
Nov 9, 2010 2:54 PM ET -
The YouTube of China is more than just cat videos
Youku wants to be the premier online video source for China, sure. But it's also something like Hulu and a movie studio. Maybe that's why Goldman Sachs is about to underwrite its IPO.
By Bill Powell, contributor
Viktor Koo is as about as matter of fact as it's possible to be when he describes the audacious goal he has set for a company that he founded just four years ago. "We want MORE
Nov 9, 2010 3:00 AM ETPosted in: China, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hulu, Initial public offering, SOHU, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Tudou, Youku, YouTube -
California's electoral technophobia
Tech CEOs Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina seemed to have all the pieces in place to take advantage of the nationwide GOP surge. But with tin ears aimed at voters, they couldn't even win their companies' headquarters counties.
By Chadwick Matlin, contributor
Carly! Meg! What happened? You were both so promising. A dream team of former Silicon Valley CEOs—female CEOs at that; Republican challengers in an election favoring Republican challengers; women who MORE
Nov 3, 2010 11:22 AM ET -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
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 day's most newsworthy bits below.
"Change just happens with new management and it's actually refreshing for all of us. So 15,000 employees, three people left? That's OK."
-- Yahoo's Carol Bartz on Fox Business News (Media Channel)At its "Back MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 21, 2010 8:10 AM ETPosted in: Angry Birds, Apple, Carol Bartz, eBay, Electronic Arts, Mobile, Netflix, smartphone addiction, Toyota, Verizon, Verizon Galaxy, Windows Phone 7, Yahoo -
Jeff Skoll: Becoming Superman
The entrepreneur backs heady causes and finances serious films (including documentary of the moment Waiting for "Superman"). How did this unassuming Canadian billionaire become a philanthropic superhero?
A few years ago Jeff Skoll, recently arrived in Hollywood from Silicon Valley, took a call from George Clooney. Clooney had directed Good Night, and Good Luck, one of the first films that Skoll financed, and positive reviews had begun fueling Skoll's reputation for MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Oct 18, 2010 3:00 AM ET -
The Carol Bartz departures: Where are Yahoo alums now?
In her 22 month stint as Yahoo CEO, numerous high-level executives have left Bartz behind, sometimes for greener pastures.
Say what you like about Carol Bartz's one-and-a-half-year tenure at Yahoo -- good, bad, or just ho-hum -- but there's no denying that high-level executives keep leaving as the CEO streamlines the troubled tech company and attempts to transform it into a viable competitor against the likes of Google and Facebook.
Last week, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 7, 2010 10:49 AM ET -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
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 day's most newsworthy bits below.
Early reviews of The Social Network, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Ben Mezrich's The MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 22, 2010 7:00 AM ETPosted in: Activision Blizzard, Adobe, AOL, eBay, Javascript, MetroPCS, Oracle, Patch, Research in Motion, RIM, The Accidental Billionaire, The Social Network, Twitter -
Browser toolbars are back
Remember browser toolbars? They're back -- and surprisingly powerful.
Adam Boyden's startup just might have the next big idea in online marketing -- and it's got nothing to do with search or banner ads.
Boyden heads U.S. operations at Conduit, a company that is challenging the conventional wisdom about how to get and keep people's attention online. Rather than use Google's column of blue links or Yahoo's image-rich brand advertising, Conduit claims MORE
Jon Fortt - Jun 3, 2010 1:23 PM ET -
Tech's 10 greatest blind spots
From Apple to Yahoo, Silicon Alley Insider spots the Achilles' heels
Here's an interesting exercise. Rather than look at what America's leading tech companies do best, why not focus on what they do worst? That's what SAI's Jay Yarow has done in a gallery posted Wednesday. The headlines:
Google (GOOG) doesn't get social
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 2, 2010 11:17 AM ET
Apple (AAPL) doesn't get the cloud
Twitter's weakness is good product
Facebook underestimates the importance of privacy
Microsoft (MSFT) doesn't get the Web
AOL MORE
