Apple's App Store Screw-Ups Are a Strategic Danger
As Apple continues making a fool of itself in how it runs its app store, it moves beyond bad PR into the realm of nascent strategic disaster.
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Google Diversifies; Non-Ad Revenue Grows 3X Faster than Ads
Nexus One and Google Apps drive Google's non-advertising revenue at three times the pace of ad growth. But sustaining that momentum will be very hard.
Microsoft's Chinese Labor Scandal: There's More Trouble Ahead for the Rest of High Tech
Microsoft is caught in a labor scandal at one of its Chinese outsourced factories. It's only a matter of time until other high tech companies find themselves in the same boat.
Google + Twitter: A Hot Tweet Time Machine
The field of real-time search gets more crowded every week, with start ups and tech giants jockeying for position. The problem is that, while dozens of sites can tell you what's popular right now, very few of them can make sense of what's relevant or why. A more interesting approach is Google's (GOO...
HP Shows Foreign Bribery Can Bite U.S. Companies at Home
HP's bribery scandal in Russia and Germany will likely spill back into US investigations.
What Apple and Twitter Can Learn from Microsoft
Apple and Twitter could learn valuable lessons in developer relations from Microsoft.
The Future of Content Threatened By The Tyranny of Good Enough
Content companies could give away material in hopes of selling premium versions, but history suggests that it won't work.
Google, Facebook Create Q&A Services To Bet Against Traditional Search
Why are some of the internet's biggest companies so concerned with questions? Two months after Google bought a question-and-answer service called Aardvark, Facebook has begun testing a "Questions" function near its ads, according to AllFacebook. And that's not all: back in January, former Facebo...
Initial iPad Sales Have Slowed, But Don't Blame Apple
The pace of Apple iPad sales have rapidly slowed, and there isn't much left the company can do to change that.
Twitter's New Ad Model Is Way Too Subtle
Twitter's ad strategy may be too subtle to let the company make the money it will need.
Intel Earnings: Great Numbers, and Hidden Troubles
Intel earnings made investors happy, but showed continued tough times for enterprise IT and a reversal in fortune for the netbook market.
A Google Tablet Means It's Time to Kill Chrome OS
Google Tablet with Android should spell the end of Chrome OS. The company has no need to support two operating systems.
A Radical Innovation: Build Tech Products People Really Want
The high tech industry and IT departments could learn a lot from the design of a Dallas theater and how cooperation can create something amazing.
Apple Says Yes to Opera, But App Approval Remains a Crap Shoot
Apple approves Opera mini browser for iPhone, but is it all PR for app developers?
Microsoft's New Phone? It's Not Pink, But Kin Is All About Social Networking
Mcirosoft Pink has appeared. Two phones -- Kin One and Kin Two -- turn a handset into a social networking device, targeting a younger crowd.
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