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Today in Tech: Amazon's secret book publishing weapon
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* Meet Larry Kirschbaum, the former Time Warner Book Group head who now runs Amazon Publishing. Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone profiles the man quietly leading the charge to build a new publishing empire one e-book author at a time. Also in Amazon-related news, the company announced the AWS Storage Gateway, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 26, 2012 4:16 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Can Firefox survive?
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"Yeah, Google's a great company, and I think we want to look at and learn from everything that they do. But at the same time, people have shared a lot on Facebook and have already told a lot of their life story on Facebook. And we think that we have MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 5, 2011 1:19 AM ET -
HP's PCs: The handwriting was in Léo Apotheker's resumé
The board sealed the fate of HP's personal systems group when it hired the CEO of SAP
What the hell happened to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) last week?
The simplest explanation is the one suggested Thursday by Techcrunch's MG Siegler and picked up Sunday by Daring Fireball's John Gruber: HP's board put an enterprise software guy in charge of a low-margin PC business and a high-risk play to outflank Apple (AAPL) in smartphones and tablets. When MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 22, 2011 8:02 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Booz Allen Hamilton, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IBM, iPad, iPhone, Léo Apotheker, Mobile, Oracle Corporation, Pre, SAP, SAP AG, Smartphones, Tablets, TouchPad -
Why big data is suddenly sexy
Jim Goodnight, CEO of software maker SAS, talks about a changing competitive environment, rising medical costs for employees, and the company's succession plans.
FORTUNE -- Software maker SAS gets a lot of love for its laid-back corporate culture (it ranked No. 1 on Fortune's Best Companies to Work For list in both 2010 and 2011). But no amount of on-site massages, car washes and Zumba classes can alleviate the increasing pressure MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jul 15, 2011 9:53 AM ET -
SAP's culture of innovation
Mobile, cloud, memory -- the three foundations of enterprise computing's present and future. SAP's new co-CEOs want to be forceful players in them all.
Editor's note: Welcome back to Big Tech, Fortune's email newsletter covering the digital giants. Now written by Silicon Valley-based Michal Lev-Ram, Big Tech will bring you stories up to twice weekly about enterprise computing's household names and the nimble startups trying to disrupt them. If you're reading MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - May 3, 2011 10:48 AM ET -
The iPad as capitalist tool
If Apple's tablet is so great for business, what's holding up the big deployments?
Medtronic bought 4,500 iPads for its sales and marketing teams. Boston Scientific bought 2,000. SAP bought 1,000.
Okay. But where are the rest of the four- and five-figure deployments?
According to Apple (AAPL) COO Tim Cook, 65% of Fortune 500 companies are either testing or deploying iPads. But from the reports we've seen so far -- including the seven MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 9, 2010 10:23 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Boston Scientific, Citrix Systems, Fortune 500, iPad, Medtronic, SAP, Scott Adams, Tim Cook -
The tiny firm Oracle hates
In the wake of the Oracle's $1.3 billion legal victory over SAP, the software giant is turning its guns towards another business trying steal away its lucrative customers.
It was clear from the beginning of its recently concluded trial against SAP that Oracle wasn't in it just for the money. It got that, though. A federal jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in damages stemming from SAP's (SAP) acknowledged copyright infringement of MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Nov 29, 2010 11:05 AM ET -
Why enterprise tablets might flop
The iPad has the affection of consumers, but most IT departments aren't rushing to integrate the new Apple tablet -- or any other, for that matter.
Apple's (AAPL) iPad may be at the top of your holiday wish list, but don't go asking your IT department for one.
Why? Tablets are small and lightweight, and they have the computing power to accommodate enterprise-class applications. But they're also expensive, and can't do some MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Nov 22, 2010 12:34 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Cisco Cius, Gartner, Hewlett-Packard, iPad, Research in Motion, SAP, Second audio program -
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 weekend's most newsworthy bits below.
News Corp head Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs are reportedly knee-deep in the Daily, a digital newspaper that combines "tabloid sensibility" with "broadsheet intelligence" and will appear exclusively on tablets like the iPad some time early next MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 22, 2010 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Accel, Apple, Facebook, Groupon, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, SAP, Sony Ericsson, Steve Jobs -
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.
Facebook topped expectations at their media event yesterday -- they didn't just launch an email service, but a revamped Messaging app that fuses email, SMS, IM and Facebook chat. All communications between two people, regardless of format, MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 16, 2010 6:00 AM ET
