How Goldman Sachs' "Wonderful Life" Magnified Toxic Risk
The mortgage dealings of banks like Goldman Sachs not only failed to spread the risk of sub-prime mortgages, they magnified it.
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Oil Spill Technology Improves, But Too Little and Too Late
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill clean-up is making use of sophisticated satellite and underwater imaging, but oil companies have paid little attention to improving the actual removal technology, largely because they see no financial advantage to it.
eBay Renews Assault on Craigslist with... Buzzwords?
Ebay should stop wasting money in a niche where it can't compete.
Biggest Threat to Sirius Earnings: Smartphones and Bluetooth
Sirius has become so dependent on subscriptions through automobile sales and rentals that it is now at risk from the disruptive combination of smartphones and Bluetooth links to car sound systems.
RIP Point-And-Shoot: Nokia N8, Smartphones Make Simple Cameras Redundant
The new Nokia N8 smartphone highlights a serious problem confronting companies that manufacture point-and-shoot cameras -- namely, in the era of multiuse devices, how do you market a one-trick pony? The issue isn't new, but the situation is now dire for companies like Kodak (EK), Canon (CAJ), Sony (...
Apple Sells 1M iPads Because Steve Jobs Isn't Afraid To Fail
Why did Apple succeed with the iPad while Microsoft, HP, Dell, and others continue to lag in getting a tablet to the market? Because, unlike the others, Apple executives are not afraid to fail.
Google's BumpTop Buy Could Push Android Ahead of Blackberry for Business
Could Android be the first OS to truly allow road warriors to leave their laptops at home?
Apple vs. the Free Web: Lala Shutdown Heralds the Onset of Total War
Apple is willing to accept any amount of bad press and negative consumer sentiment in exchange for more control over the digital supply chain.
Web Video Wars: Apple and Microsoft Team Up to Kill Off Firefox and Opera
Apple and Microsoft are promoting a particular video compression technology -- and attacking free alternatives -- to eliminate some competitors in the browser space and better coalesce control over delivery of web content.
Symbian Makes a Play for Apple App Developers By Leveraging Web Standards
Symbian is trying to use Palm's old strategy of offering web-based app development tools for its mobile platform to attract developers and further pain Apple and others as proprietary and closed.
The Biggest Threat to Google's Cloud: Its Own Users
No matter how hard Google works to secure their system, the truth is that the real threat keeps growing. That's because in a cloud computing world the biggest danger comes not from outside hackers, but from Google's own users.
In Mobile Video Standards Fight, Consumers Are Poised to Lose
Disagreements over how to code Web videos might let traditional media keep their waning grip over viewers for that much longer.
PayPal, Zong, and Apple Test Ways to Boost Popularity of Mobile Payments
What does an e-tailer have to do to get people buying with their mobile phone?
Motorola Handset Sales Crash, But It's Google's Android Champ
Motorola handset sales crash, but it's the champ of Google Android sales, moving more than 40 percent of all smartphones running the operating system.
Amazon Risks Kindle Sales By Tracking, Reporting What Readers Highlight
Amazon (AMZN) is now watching what its Kindle users are highlighting -- and publishing the results. This bold, unnecessary move may erode consumer trust and hurt Kindle book sales, two things Amazon can't afford as it wages war against Apple (AAPL). From MediaBistro's GalleyCat: Amazon recently...
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