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Why companies are flocking to HTML5
A new crop of apps from Amazon, LinkedIn and Box.net are the latest to take advantage of HTML5. They also signal this young language already has business' blessing.
FORTUNE -- Something in the last 18 months kicked the HTML5 adoption machine into overdrive. Maybe it was tech giants Apple and Microsoft joining hands and dubbing it the future of the web. Maybe it was Google's launch of the Chrome Web Store, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 30, 2011 11:06 AM ET -
Downgrade Apple from 'neutral' to 'unfavorable'? Seriously?
If anyone has access to Channel Trend's latest report on Apple, I would love to see it (Update: Got it!)
On Saturday night, this headline flashed across one of the news feeds I use to follow the analysts who track Apple (AAPL):
"On August 20, 2011 Channel Trend Inc. downgraded APPLE INC.from NEUTRAL to UNFAVORABLE."
My first thought was "seriously?" My second was "tell me more."
I've seen some boneheaded advice issued by Wall MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 21, 2011 7:48 AM ETPosted in: Analysts, Apple, Bear Stearns, Bloomberg Businessweek, Channel Trend, LinkedIn, Wall Street -
Today in Tech: Facebook News Feed changes coming?
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* LinkedIn (LNKD) reported better-than-expected profits of four cents a share on sales of $121 million for its most recent quarter, as well as a 61% jump in users to 115.8 million. Colleague Jessi Hempel spoke with CEO Jeff Weiner about the company's future. (Fortune)
* Former Microsoft (MSFT) exec MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 5, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Google attacks Apple, Microsoft, and RIM
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"Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it." -- David Drummond, Google Senior VP and Chief Legal Officer (Google Blog)
* David Drummond, Google Senior VP, aired his grievances against companies like Apple, Microsoft, and RIM, which MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 4, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Brian Chesky, Chief legal officer, David Drummond, Google, LinkedIn, Mark Zuckerberg, McAfee, Research in Motion -
Brainstorm Tech video: Designing new ideas
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 -
Can 'freemium' work for businesses, too?
Moving freemium to the corporate level will be tricky.
FORTUNE -- With consumer-focused companies like Angry Birds developer Rovio and Spotifyproving that freemium is a valid business model in the consumer space, the next question becomes: can freemium also work its magic with enterprise?
That was the theme of one breakfast roundtable earlier this morning at Fortune Brainstorm Tech, featuring Survey Monkey CEO Dave Goldberg, Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal, Index Ventures partner MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 20, 2011 1:04 PM ETPosted in: Angry Birds, Arash Ferdowsi, Business model, Deep Nishar, Index Ventures, Jason Rosenthal, LinkedIn, Michael Wolfe, Mike Volpi, Ning -
New BYTE bitten by link bait
Editor of the reincarnated publication retracts -- by strike-through -- its first opinion piece
It was not an auspicious beginning for the reincarnation of BYTE, the bible of the "small computing and software" business for much of the 1970s and '80s before it was bought and unceremoniously killed by CMP Media in 1998.
Four days after BYTE was relaunched last week as an online publication, its editor not only retracted its inaugural MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 18, 2011 7:57 AM ETPosted in: Apple, BYTE, Daring Fireball, Demetrius Mandzych, Gina Smith, Jim Thompson, John Gruber, Link bait, LinkedIn -
Much ado about patent lawyers
Apple changes its in-house legal guard. Samsung wants Apple's outside counsels ousted
On the heels of a Reuters report that Apple's (AAPL) chief patent counsel has been replaced by Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) top intellectual properties attorney (something that, according to their LinkedIn profiles, may have happened two months ago), comes a 20 page motion from Samsung asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to throw out most, if MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 12, 2011 8:45 AM ET -
Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet
Signs of exuberance are everywhere: Tesla roadsters, soaring real estate, overpriced vinegar - and eye-popping valuations for pre-IPO companies like Facebook and Zynga. So why are so many Silicon Valley denizens reluctant to use the B-word?
By David A. Kaplan, contributor
FORTUNE -- Michael Dreyfus, 49, is a leading real estate broker in the heart of Silicon Valley. During the winter he sensed the housing market was coming back, though he hadn't MORE
Jul 11, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: bubble, Facebook, Groupon, IPOs, LinkedIn, LivingSocial, Lou Montulli, Mark Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, MySpace, Netscape, Pandora Media, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley, Skype -
Zynga's IPO may be just what the tech bubble needs
The debate over whether we're seeing a new tech bubble has died down in recent weeks. It should heat up again this fall, as Zynga's IPO sets the stage for an even bigger debut: Facebook.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- The debate that has raged for most of the year over whether we're in a new tech bubble has grown quiet in recent weeks. But don't worry, it's just taken the MORE
Jul 5, 2011 9:34 AM ET
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| 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% |
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| Facebook's IPO: Sorting through the legal mess | ||
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