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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
Fortune's curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
"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 -
It's Social Media Day! (Like VJ Day, but without the cigarettes)
From Dublin to Las Vegas, governments are celebrating that obscure "revolution" known as social media. Nevermind that revolutions can sometimes get messy.
FORTUNE -- When was the last time you heard anybody mention Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn (LNKD)? It must have been at least 17 seconds ago, right? And that's exactly the problem that Mashable set out to solve when it started pushing for Social Media Day. Today - June 30, MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jun 30, 2011 1:35 PM ET -
How LinkedIn's bankers justify its price
The banks that believed LinkedIn was worth $45 a share last month now think it's a great investment at $85. Nothing changes on Wall Street.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- Consider the research analyst. Toiling in a job on Wall Street that is at once one of its most visible and least glamorous. Expected to write with integrity while serving - all too often - at the pleasure of the underwriting MORE
Jun 29, 2011 11:26 AM ET
