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After the last 20 or 30 years in the U.S., you'd think that almost everyone had learned one lesson: people get caught in the cover-up. From Richard Nixon's crew to Bill Clinton, from Enron to Conrad Black's Hollinger International, what often trips a person or company isn't what was done so much as ...
Sometimes you wonder why companies are so desperate to make acquisitions, especially when everyone knows the rate of successful mergers is pretty low. This summer's cat fight between EMC and NetApp over Data Domain is a case in point (although plenty of rationalizations were offered). EMC's Chuck...
EMC looks set to expand its document management and storage business with the adjunction of ediscovery specialist Kazeon Systems. EMC and Kazeon are already partners, so EMC knows exactly what it's getting, and an acquisition would ensure that Kazeon doesn't get snapped up by rivals like Oracle, ...
Shaking your head over Twitter's lack of not just profits but a basic revenue model has become quite a sport. So there will be some who regret hearing that the company is apparently finally readying something it's been discussing for a long time: pro accounts. Tech companies should pay attention to the model, not just to make commercial use of the service, but as the germ of a brainstorming session on breaking out of old revenue model habits.
The Obama Administration may not be as anti-business as some people fear. True, the new sheriff in town has launched a series of investigations into issues as diverse as collusion between technology firms to limit employment opportunities, interlocking directorates between Google and Apple, Google's...
Competition makes for interesting alliances. The latest coming to light is one including Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon, who are among others targeting the settlement between Google and some forces in the publishing industry over scanning books for online searching and display. And the three companies are going to profit tactically from it at least, no matter how things come out.
Last month, Russian company Digital Sky Technologies announced that it was buying up to $100 million in Facebook stock from people with vested shares. That roughly translates into the employees who went to work for the company early on and helped make it what it became. And this is probably really bad news for Facebook, although the results may not show immediately.
One of the most overlooked reasons behind Apple's decision to sit out this year's back-to-school market without a new netbook is the weak economy. There's already evidence of parents scrimping on school supplies and fashions for their returning students, many of whom will also just have to do withou...
Executive confidence may be returning, according to consultancy Watson Wyatt Worldwide, because a growing number of employers are considering reversing pay freezes and cuts, among other things.
For some time, Vonage has been trying to entice new users with a better-value proposition, claiming that they will pay less than a typical telephone service by using Vonage. And it's just taken another step by making free international calls into 60 countries part of its standard plan. But the marketing approach is a dangerous game for the company.
Apple has been attracting significant attention from regulators and the press for some of its actions: alleged product safety issue with iPods and iPhones and its relationship with Google, including having Eric Schmidt on the board, banning Google Voice from the iPhone app store, and engaging in an unofficial policy of not hiring people away from each other. Now Connie Guglielmo at Bloomberg has a story claiming that Palm's ex-CEO Ed Colligan rejected overtures from Steve Jobs to similarly implement a no-poach policy.
Apple may not introduce a tablet-like netbook this fall, but is quietly making long-range plans for a device that fits more neatly into its overall strategy. A recent survey of back-to-school plans shows that students are more inclined to buy low-cost netbooks than MacBooks, which is no surprise ...
Microsoft filed its motion for a stay pending its appeal of the Federal District Court's decision that it violated i4i's patent on custom XML. The legal brief is fairly short, the longest argument being that Microsoft is likely to prevail on appeal. But the approach it takes is more like a scatte...
As I've mentioned before, there's a long standing problem with iPhones and iPod seriously overheating. And according to various reports, Apple has been covering up problems, including trying to block reporters from getting information on the extent of the issue. And now the pressure on Apple increases as the European Commission starts examining the safety of iPhones and iPods.
HP released its 2009 Q3 results yesterday. The numbers show some continuing trends that show how much the company is changing its traditional business model.
