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October 29, 2009
Is Motorola (MOT) back? The mobile-phone giant has struggled for years as rivals from Nokia (NOK) to Research In Motion (RIMM) to Apple (AAPL) have stolen away its ...
October 27, 2009
The rally that propelled Apple's shares to a record has sparked debate over how much further the stock could rise, with most analysts expecting the gains to continue. ...
October 27, 2009
Think back to the age of telecom before the breakup of AT&T, before the Internet, before Facebook or Twitter. That's about how antiquated America's system for ...
October 18, 2009
I was recently at a Silicon Valley conference where one of the debates that raged into the wee hours centered on Silicon Valley's increasing aversion to risk: Is it a ...
October 6, 2009
Ten years after suffering one of tech's most spectacular flameouts, satellite-calling provider Iridium Communications (IRDM) is staging a comeback. Its late-September ...
September 24, 2009
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 20, 2009
A recent BusinessWeek article called for the investment of billions of dollars more in "basic research" to create millions of new jobs. It's hard to argue against the ...
September 13, 2009
For many consumers, the appeal of low-cost Web-based calling has long been clear. But many investors have kept their distance from companies specializing in Internet ...
August 27, 2009
Dell continues to struggle with sluggish corporate technology spending and a U.S.-centric business that's exposing it to the heart of the global recession. But it ...
August 19, 2009
In 2007, when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was pressed about when his company would sell shares to the public, he said he was in no rush. "I don't think four more ...
August 11, 2009
Now that Apple (AAPL) has once again passed Google (GOOG) in market value, can the consumer-electronics maker maintain its lead? While Apple's capitalization has risen...
July 23, 2009
Well, that was a cold, hard slap in the face. After a string of sunny earnings from Apple (AAPL), Intel, and other tech companies, Microsoft's dreary fiscal ...
July 6, 2009
There's plenty of fretting in Silicon Valley and beyond over the venture capital industry, how broken it has become, and what needs to be done about it. Proposed ...
June 28, 2009
Brazil is best known around the world for soccer, samba music, and supermodels. Now it's emerging as an attractive destination for investment capital. At a June 25 ...
June 22, 2009
It's a truism in tech that entrepreneurs who want to build the next Google must come to Silicon Valley. The area's importance as a tech hub was reinforced earlier this...
June 15, 2009
Micropayments for microbloggers—it sounds like a no-brainer. In a community based on real-time content, social causes, and brand awareness, users will want to ...
June 14, 2009
The once-triumphant "masters of the universe"have been brought down several pegs by the global economic crisis, and a chastened David Rubenstein, general manager of ...
June 10, 2009
When Arjun Gupta came to the U.S. in 1980 as an exchange student, he had big dreams and strong belief in his own potential. Now, as one of Silicon Valley's most ...
June 5, 2009
I love Twitter. I'm in the minority of users who check it and comment at least a couple of times each day. I even have two accounts—one personal (@ericjackson), ...
June 3, 2009
This week's bankruptcy" filing by General Motors (GM) is a painful lesson for shareholders who failed to grasp the profound risks of the company's failed business ...
May 27, 2009
Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists took notice just before the Memorial Day weekend when two technology companies had their initial public offerings in a matter of ...
May 27, 2009
The guessing games over Facebook's worth are back on again. They were reignited by the news on May 26 that Facebook has accepted a $200 million investment that values ...
May 26, 2009
Ending months of fevered speculation over whether it would raise more money, social network Facebook said on May 26 that it will take a $200 million investment from ...
May 20, 2009
SolarWinds (SWI) sells neither solar nor wind technology, but it landed in the spotlight and caught a puff of air when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange on...
May 20, 2009
The venture capital industry has been a slow-moving train wreck for much of the past decade. And one of the more radical steps aimed at avoiding disaster may only ...
