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Spencer E. Ante

Spencer E. Ante is an associate editor for BusinessWeek. Previously, Ante was computers department editor. Before joining BusinessWeek in February, 2000, he was a staff reporter for TheStreet.com. Prior to that, he was a contributing writer at Wired News, a columnist for Business 2.0, a producer for the Netscape NetCenter, and associate editor of The Web Magazine. He is the recipient of a 2007 Deadline Club Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and a 2006 award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Ante received a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and a master's from the University of California at Berkeley. His book Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital was published by Harvard Business Press in April, 2008. He can be reached at http://creativecapital.wordpress.com.

Recent Articles by Spencer E. Ante

February 24, 2010

And Google Begat...

During the holidays last year, Aydin Senkut and Elad Gil gathered 50 of their friends at a health-food restaurant in Palo Alto. Over turkey burgers and tofu wraps, ...

January 20, 2010

Apple in Talks with McGraw-Hill, Hachette over Tablet

Apple (AAPL) is in talks with the McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP) and Hachette Book Group to include educational and trade titles on its planned tablet computer, according...

January 13, 2010

The Next Big Thing, 20 Years Later

If there was a land of misfit gadgets, the tablet computer would be one of its oldest residents. The tech industry, though, refuses to give up on these slate-like ...

December 29, 2009

e-Books: Averting a Digital Horror Story

On Christmas Day, for the first time in its history, Amazon.com (AMZN) sold more digital books than the old fashioned kind. It was a watershed moment for the book ...

December 20, 2009

Content-Search Deals Make Twitter Profitable

Twitter is ending 2009 on a high note. The microblogging site has reached profitability after inking $25 million of deals that make its content searchable by Google ...

December 16, 2009

Verizon Wireless Prepares for the iPhone

There's no telling yet whether or when AT&T (T) might lose its position as the sole U.S. carrier of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. But in the event Apple opts to partner ...

November 24, 2009

Man of the Meltdown

The Greatest Trade EverBy Gregory ZuckermanBroadway; 293 pp.; $26 The Great Recession of 2009 destroyed trillions in wealth. But a few lucky or shrewd souls profited ...

November 11, 2009

Fertile Ground for Startups

Who needs job security? In June 2008, as the recession was moving from bad to worse, Caterina Fake gave up a comfortable, executive-level job at Yahoo! (YHOO) to ...

October 28, 2009

Verizon: Who Needs the iPhone?

Can Verizon Wireless keep its spot as the leading wireless company in the U.S. if it doesn't have the industry's hottest phone? Lowell McAdam, the company's chief ...

October 22, 2009

Inside the App Economy

It's easy to shrug off the kooky world of apps. The bite-size software programs people load onto their mobile phones or tap into on the Web seem mostly to be silly ...