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* Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco yesterday, addressing topics like working conditions in Chinese Foxconn factories, the runaway successes of the iPhone and iPad, and emerging markets. Cook also revealed there are now 100 million iCloud users -- 15 million more than there were just 21 days ago. (Fortune and The Next Web)
* Ad Age reports Apple (AAPL) has dropped the minimum amount it charges advertisers for iAd again from $500,000 this time to just $100,000. (Ad Age)
* Zynga (ZNGA) reported a loss of $435 million during the company's fourth quarter despite a 59% increase in sales to $311 million. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Amazon (AMZN) reportedly has fewer Amazon Prime users than previously estimated: between 3 and 5 million instead of 10 million. (Bloomberg)
* Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's latest endeavor is CareZone, an online solution that allows its users to privately store and share health-related information about family members (or themselves) with others. CareZone is self-funded with less than $2 million of Schwartz's money. (CareZone)
* A look at how much user data mobile apps have access to on your phone. (The Verge)
* How developers are shaping the future of music. (Read Write Web)
* Tech blogs are abuzz about a new mobile to-do list app called Clear.
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The tiny polling site hopes to get a lift from presidential campaigns -- and its tech-star co-founder.
FORTUNE -- Scott McNealy can barely conceal his enthusiasm as he sits down in the media room of his Silicon Valley mansion to watch the New Hampshire Republican presidential debate. But it is not the debate itself that has Sun Microsystems' longtime CEO literally on the edge of his seat -- in fact, his MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Jan 26, 2012 5:00 AM ET
Ranked by Internet market share -- rather than unit sales -- Google is now No. 3
Data: NetApplications. Chart: PED
From the perspective of NetApplications, which has been measuring browser usage data since 2004 (currently monitoring the activity of 160 million users on 40,000 sites):
Apple's (AAPL) iOS is the still reigning champion of the World Wide Web among mobile operating systems (including tablets)
Google's (GOOG) Android made a strong showing in 2011 MORE
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A change in sales strategy is behind a drop-off in revenues, but Mark Hurd says it's all in service of more profit down the line.
FORTUNE -- Mark Hurd may have an impressive track record selling hardware for his former employer, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). But that hasn't translated to immediate success at Oracle Corporation (ORCL), where Hurd now serves as president. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company's hardware business fell short of MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jun 24, 2011 12:27 PM ET
Kleiner Perkins' Green guru believes on a household level, green power needs to recharge advanced batteries rather than plug right into the fuse-box.
Bill Joy of Kleiner Perkins. Credit: Russ Curtis
FORTUNE -- Having helped both create the Java programming language and co-found Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy is best known as a technologist and entrepreneur. He hopes to add environmentalist to that list.
As a partner at leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, MORE
Scott Woolley - Apr 6, 2011 6:03 PM ET
It's been just over a year since Oracle's (ORCL) acquisition of Sun Microsystems closed. In that time, former CEO Scott McNealy has been keeping pretty busy. McNealy launched a non-profit education project called Curriki, founded the Alternative Golf Association to offer a modern alternative to the game of golf, and continues to advise a smattering of startups. Find out why the Sun Microsystems founder wanted to meet Facebook CEO Mark MORE
Mason Cohn, Producer - Feb 28, 2011 3:02 PM ET
Facebook, Google Buzz, Gawker, Wikileaks, Chinese government hackers -- last year, the wheels fell off Internet privacy. So, aberration, or new normal?
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
Was it only a year ago that Mark Zuckerberg was accused of declaring the age of privacy over?
Of course, he never said any such thing -- he was trying to say that blogging had gotten people to feel more comfortable about sharing information online – but the meme took flight anyway.
Rogue memes MORE
Jan 10, 2011 11:55 AM ET
According to recent surveys, more large companies are committing to open-source software. How the platform went from closet to corporate.
By Kit R. Roane, contributor
There was a time when open-source software was the domain of computer geeks and do-it-yourselfers with more time than money. But, as Oracle's legal salvo against Google highlighted last week, those days are long gone.
Oracle (ORCL), through its purchase of Sun Microsystems, has become one of the MORE
Aug 16, 2010 12:50 PM ET
The biggest computing and networking companies in the world are getting bigger - and former partners are now fierce rivals. Is tech's new strife good for customers?
The largest technology companies in the world are at war.
Sure, the executives who run Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, and others appear to play nice: Cisco touts the "regular dialogue" between its CEO, John Chambers, and IBM's chief executive, Sam Palmisano. Ann Livermore, an HP MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jan 13, 2010 8:48 AM ETBen Baer, Senior Producer - Sep 24, 2009 2:20 PM ET
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.95 | -0.16 | -1.97% |
| Microsoft Corp | 31.27 | -0.17 | -0.54% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.25 | -2.00% |
| General Electric Co | 19.39 | 0.17 | 0.88% |
| Citigroup Inc | 32.36 | -1.00 | -3.00% |
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