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Fri, 09 May 2008 11:27:41 EDT 10 http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/magazines/fortune/fastforward/?section=money_fastforward http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/images/cnnmoney_logo_144x30.gif 144 30 From CNN and Money magazine, CNNMoney.com combines business news and in-depth market analysis with practical advice and answers to personal finance questions. http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/05/09/technology/microsoft_facebook.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/05/09/technology/microsoft_facebook.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward When Microsoft walked away from its blockbuster bid for Yahoo, the media sought desperately to keep the news coming even when there wasn't much left to say. That seems to be how The Wall Street Journal came up with the notion that Microsoft had approached Facebook about an acquisition. It's not true. Fri, 09 May 2008 11:26:19 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/05/09/technology/microsoft_facebook.biz2/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/05/09/technology/microsoft_facebook.biz2/index.htm?section=money_fastforward When Microsoft walked away from its blockbuster bid for Yahoo, the media sought desperately to keep the news coming even when there wasn't much left to say. That seems to be how The Wall Street Journal came up with the notion that Microsoft had approached Facebook about an acquisition. It's not true. Fri, 09 May 2008 10:22:16 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/05/02/technology/Kirkpatrick_Microsoft.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/05/02/technology/Kirkpatrick_Microsoft.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward Oh how frustrating when the mighty haven't fallen. Fri, 02 May 2008 12:28:53 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/04/25/technology/kirkpatrick_bioinvention.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/04/25/technology/kirkpatrick_bioinvention.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward I'm sitting at a dinner table at Fortune's just-completed Brainstorm Green conference in Pasadena. Janine Benyus, the high priest of a new field called biomimicry, has drawn a little sketch of a car on a napkin. "Abalone," she writes, and draws an arrow to the windshield. "Tree frog" and an arrow toward the tires. "Lotus leaf" she connects to the side of the car. She's telling me about the many ways car designers are borrowing concepts from nature. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:00:11 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/04/18/technology/kirkpatrick_facebook.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/04/18/technology/kirkpatrick_facebook.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward Facebook, the 71-million-member social network, has attracted lots of adults during the last year as it became a global technology cause celebre. But I'm hearing more and more of these grown-up newbies questioning whether the service is really worth their time. Some find it more annoying than useful, and can't really figure out any benefit. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:07:29 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/04/07/technology/amd.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/04/07/technology/amd.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward Advanced Micro Devices, the little PC chipmaker that couldn't, then could, then couldn't, is struggling again. What has it tried repeatedly to do? To compete both successfully on product with its giant and potent competitor Intel and still make money. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:55:25 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/04/01/technology/muhammed_yunas.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/04/01/technology/muhammed_yunas.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward "Technology is making more changes in our way of life than ever in human history," says Muhammad Yunus. "The way the Internet and the mobile phone are spreading, you cannot compare with any technology of the past." Yunus is known for his visionary leadership in microfinance and helping the poor. He and the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Now he wants to see the tech industry work more explicitly to empower the poor. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:13:03 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/27/technology/comcast.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/27/technology/comcast.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward Something remarkable happened on Thursday - an Internet service provider and a peer-to-peer software company announced a collaboration and agreed to work together. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:41:32 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/27/magazines/fortune/future_tech_stocks.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/27/magazines/fortune/future_tech_stocks.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward As a financial writer, I spend a lot of time looking at numbers. Right now, the numbers say that the world has a huge and unremitting hunger for technology, communication, Internet access, and information. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:22:50 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/21/technology/kirkpatrick_facebook.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/21/technology/kirkpatrick_facebook.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward It's already hooked America's youth, and now Facebook is set on winning the hearts of two potentially lucrative demographics: Adults and the rest of the world. Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:38:14 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/14/technology/kirkpatrick_thoughtworks.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/14/technology/kirkpatrick_thoughtworks.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward Roy Singham wants you to know that ThoughtWorks, the Chicago-based software company he founded 15 years ago, and where he is now chairman of the board, is a growing and profitable enterprise and not a socialist collective. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:06:24 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/04/technology/kirkpatrick_branson.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/03/04/technology/kirkpatrick_branson.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward The delightful Richard Branson proves yet again that you don't have to toe the line in order to be a successful businessperson. In launching another intriguing business, this time to make private aircraft charters easier to arrange, he cannot avoid the temptation for endless quips, even right off a long flight from India - a charter of course. Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:13:33 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/29/technology/kirkpatrick_socialmedia.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/29/technology/kirkpatrick_socialmedia.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward The next big thing is the integration of location-based information with social networking applications. At least that's one conclusion I took from a high-energy "social media" breakfast for 100 techies in New York this week. Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:53:08 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/22/technology/kirkpatrick_microsoft.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/22/technology/kirkpatrick_microsoft.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward Microsoft is at a critical moment in its history and is taking brilliant steps to remake itself. Thursday's announcement that it would open itself up to far greater interoperability with other types of software, including open source, is the latest big move. But the bigger step is its $44 billion bid for Yahoo. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:57:28 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/15/technology/kirkpatrick_ggl.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/15/technology/kirkpatrick_ggl.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward Ted Owen, CEO of Santa Monica-based GGL Global Gaming (GGL), has told Fortune he has signed a deal to make video gaming an official welcome event of this summer's Beijing Olympics. A Chinese official confirms it. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:01:24 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/04/technology/kirkpatritck_iamplify.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/04/technology/kirkpatritck_iamplify.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward A seemingly endless number of companies are engaged in creative ways to make money from online content by displaying advertising. But an up-to-now stealth startup called iAmplify is coming out of the closet with a different way to make money - enabling any website to sell video. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:56:59 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/01/technology/kirpatrick_microhoo2.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/01/technology/kirpatrick_microhoo2.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward With Google's stock already down considerably in recent weeks, the Web's next two most powerful players today struck a powerful blow for equality and influence in the increasingly-important Web ecosystem. Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:16:21 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/01/technology/kirkpatrick_coehlo.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/01/technology/kirkpatrick_coehlo.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward In 1999, best-selling author Paulo Coelho, who wrote "The Alchemist," was failing in Russia. That year he sold only about 1,000 books, and his Russian publisher dropped him. But after he found another, Coelho took a radical step. On his own Web site, launched in 1996, he posted a digital Russian copy of "The Alchemist." Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:29:16 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/01/technology/kirpatrick_microhoo.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/02/01/technology/kirpatrick_microhoo.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward With Google's stock already down considerably in recent weeks, the Web's next two most powerful players today struck a powerful blow for equality and influence in the increasingly-important Web ecosystem. Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:20:46 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/01/24/technology/kirkpatrick_dld.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/01/24/technology/kirkpatrick_dld.fortune/index.htm?section=money_fastforward Right after the close of the DLD tech/Net/media conference in Munich this week, I was running on a treadmill, looking out at the cathedral and church spires, the only things higher than the hotel's top-floor gym. Europeans respect and preserve the past. What consistently amazes me is how aggressively some in Europe are simultaneously pursuing the future. Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:44:48 EST