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Stephen Baker

Stephen L. Baker is a senior writer at BusinessWeek, covering technology. Previously he was a Paris correspondent. Baker joined BusinessWeek in March, 1987, as manager of the Mexico City bureau, where he was responsible for covering Mexico and Latin America. He was named Pittsburgh bureau manager in 1992. Before BusinessWeek, Baker was a reporter for the El Paso Herald-Post. Prior to that, he was chief economic reporter for The Daily Journal in Caracas, Venezuela. Baker holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a master's from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Recent Articles by Stephen Baker

October 15, 2009

Timken Plots a Rust Belt Resurgence

You might look at Timken (TKR), the Canton (Ohio) manufacturer of bearings and specialty steel, and wonder if pursuing a diversification strategy is worth the bother. ...

October 13, 2009

IBM to Apply Analytics to War on Terror

Can the analytic science that powers operations at Wal-Mart (WMT) and Federal Express (FDX) make inroads against terrorists? IBM (IBM) is going to give it a shot. Big ...

September 30, 2009

IBM's Encryption Breakthrough for the Web

In the dog days of summer 2008, an intern at IBM Research was sitting in a Manhattan café turning a problem over in his head. Craig Gentry was thinking about ...

September 24, 2009

Is Twitter Worth a Billion Bucks?

Twitter's home crowd can be pretty tough. When reports emerged on Sept. 24 that the microblogging service was close to securing $100 million in funding that valued the...

September 21, 2009

Netflix Prize: Another Million at Stake

In the annals of customer feedback, one Netflix subscriber might merit a place in the record books. This anonymous individual took the trouble to rate more than 5,000 ...

September 3, 2009

This Is Your Lifelog

Gordon Bell, a 75-year-old legend of computer science, strolls around the San Francisco offices of Microsoft (MSFT) Research wearing what looks like a heavy black ...

July 16, 2009

The Web Knows What You Want

Every once in a while in most Web surfers' lives, a suggestion pops up on the screen that leads them to wonder: How did they know that about me? The moment can seem ...

July 16, 2009

A Brief History of Blogs

Say Everything:How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It MattersBy Scott RosenbergCrown; 405 pp.; $26 In late January of 2001, in the depths of the dot-com ...

June 10, 2009

A Bull Market in Social Entrepreneurs

For graduating students at Stanford University, it's all too clear that the economy's in the tank. The venture capital industry, with its epicenter just down the road,...

May 21, 2009

Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships

A question: If you have 347 followers on the Twitter microblogging service, what are the chances that they'll click on the same online ad you clicked on last night? ...