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Microsoft introduces its Office Web Apps today to compete with Google Docs and Apps. But Microsoft's insistence on installing major software on someone's hard drive turns a counter stroke into a fumble.
A new share-what-you-buy startup called Swipely has announced it's pulled in $7.5 million in venture funding to take on Blippy, its better-capitalized rival. Both sites allow you to announce big purchases to your social networking friends, almost as if you'd given them a glimpse of your credit card ...
Google made a slew of mistakes in selling the Nexus One. If it doesn't learn from the experience, the upcoming table with Verizon will become a repeat.
Sprint (S) is now offering cell-service plans that focus on text and data, an obvious reaction to the rise of smartphones and tablets -- and in so doing is likely setting a trend that AT&T, Verizon (VZ) and T-Mobile will also likely follow before long. From Reuters: While most U.S. cellphone pl...
Kraft Food's plans to let employees buy their own choice of computer will become a classic failure of management decision making.
A Verizon iPhone would collapse demand for Android phones, making Apple the de facto standard.
The recent health care law has changed the tax code so that, starting in 2012, companies will have to send 1099s to any individual or corporation that received more than $600 in a year for any services, rents, products, or virtually anything else a small or big company might pay for.
Publishers and others pin their future revenue hopes on mobile advertising. But they're likely premature, and ads on handsets are likely to disappoint.
The explosive growth of new electronic exchanges and high frequency trading has created a fragmented and volatile system that neither regulators no market participants fully understand or control.
Studios get the FCC to allow broadcasters to lock set-top box outputs for new movie on-demand services.
Facebook's underlying business of connecting users will drive it to attempt to take over at least eight different industries.
Apple can keep control over the iPhone ecosystem and avoid challenge from regulators and critics through five steps.
Product confusion could drive customers to focus on price, where the Kobo beats the competition.
Where others have failed spectacularly, FreshDirect is slowly proving there's money in delivering groceries.
Apple and Google might bring some much-needed credence to the mobile ad market without killing off smaller players.
