U.S. Strategy to Change Chinese Currency Will Badly Backfire
Congress has targeted China's monetary practices as unfair to American companies. But those same businesses depend on artificially cheap manufacturing costs.
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How Facebook and Skype Could Become a 21st Century Telco
A partnership between Facebook and Skype could disrupt the mobile industry and create a new breed of telco.
Netflix Needs Streaming Only Memberships To Fend Off Hulu, Apple, Google
Netflix is considering a streaming-only membership, putting it on equal footing with Hulu -- and will be doing now what all movie delivery companies will have to do in 2011.
HP Wants To Be All Things To All People
HP will go with webOS for tablets and smartphones instead of Google Android. In the tech industry, it's a trend of companies trying to sell more themselves to sustain growth in a now mature market.
Xmarks Dies: Freemium's Just Another Word for Nothin' Left To Lose
Browser bookmark synchronization service Xmarks plans to close down within three months because it never found a viable business model. And that should be a warning to many entrepreneurs.
AOL Bought Techcrunch for More Than the Pageviews
AOl's purchase of TechCrunch is about more than pageviews or journalistic cred. It's about data and access.
AOL Buys TechCrunch, but the Real Crunch Will Be in Culture
As part of its niche content strategy, AOL will finally buy major tech news web site TechCrunch. Whether the two cultures will get along is another question.
7 Management Lessons from RIM's PlayBook Tablet Announcement
RIM's new PlayBook tablet has offered a solid challenge to Apple, but also a concise set of lessons to executives at other firms.
New RIM Tablet Is a Strategic Masterstroke That Ups Apple's Ante
RIM has finally announced its new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Through smart understanding of its core market, the company has created potentially sharp competition for the Apple iPad.
Nokia Appoints a Bureaucrat To End Bureaucratic Slowdowns
Nokia is a company with a hidebound culture that has stifled innovation and critical change for years. Who does it hire as CEO? Someone who ran one of Microsoft's more bureaucratic divisions.
China Cuts Off Rare Earths to Japanese High Tech. Who's Next? [Update]
As part of a dispute, China allegedly stopped shipments of rare earths, vital to high tech, to Japan. China has a lock on global production and could do the same to anyone.
Why Verizon Wants You to Make its Next Phone
Verizon is experimenting with open source hardware to create a cheap process for prototyping devices that may turn out to be mobile's next big thing.
New Kindle Games Block Book Publishers From Number One Bestsellers
Jonathan Franzen's buzzworthy, Oprah co-signed book Freedom is being blocked from the number one Amazon (AMZN) Kindle spot -- by a video game, Electronics Arts (ETRS) Scrabble. The lumping together of apps and books could anger publishers, authors, agents and readers in short order.
New Adobe Demo Is the Digital Camera's Future: Super Focus
Adobe and other companies are creating plenoptic cameras that allow manipulation of focus after someone has taken a picture. From fixing pics to 3D, this technology will be huge in photography.
Why Apple, Microsoft, and Others Will Take Chips In-House
For years, hardware vendors have looked to semiconductor companies to provide chips that powered products. Now big names are looking at getting into the silicon business themselves.
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As Texas Dems predict a Hispanic wave, Hinojosa takes her pitch ringside
DOJ calls Alaska Senate allegations "troubling," asks to segregate ballots
She spent 18 years believing she had MS. Then her diagnosis changed.
El-Sayed asks fellow Democrat Stevens not to attend final campaign events
Judge orders DOJ to stop trying to "intimidate" California election officials
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Iran's supreme leader warns U.S., Israel against new attacks
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Daniel J. Sullivan left his Alaska hometown before Senate election
