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Finding cracks in Facebook

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:06:47 EDT

Late last year Mark Zuckerberg, the 24-year-old CEO of social-networking phenomenon Facebook, got onstage before a Madison Avenue crowd and declared that he was leading a once-in-a-century media revolution. Long story short: The revolution hasn't panned out. Six months later, advertisers could be forgiven for mistaking Facebook for a smaller MySpace or a much larger Friendster (remember them?). And far from changing media as we know it, the virtual home of Superpokes, Funwalls, and other such time wasters is showing cracks in its foundation.

HP to buy EDS for $13.9 billion

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:54:57 EDT

Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday it is buying Electronic Data Systems for about $13.9 billion in cash, as it aims to step up competition for the computer services business with rival IBM.

What Microsoft will do next

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:39:08 EDT

The software giant's moves after its failed bid for Intuit a decade ago offers a preview of its post-Yahoo strategy. By Michael V. Copeland

Sex and the iTunes store

Tue, 13 May 2008 11:07:40 EDT

XM's costs pile up as merger stalls

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:34:41 EDT

XM Satellite Radio reported Monday more of the same as it limps toward a final decision on its proposed merger with rival Sirius Satellite Radio: Slower growth and wider losses.

Clear Channel talks with buyout banks

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:24:53 EDT

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Sirius loss narrows

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:39:19 EDT

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Clearwire expansion doubles loss

Mon, 12 May 2008 18:16:08 EDT

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Sprint Nextel loss widens

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:34:57 EDT

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Clear Channel surges on possible buyout

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:38:55 EDT

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XM adds 'subs' but losses widen

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:45:31 EDT

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Where does Google go next?

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:09:30 EDT

Sean Knapp had it made. As a young computer scientist, he couldn't have had a better gig: working at Google, the engineer's paradise. He had all the usual perks - a massage every other week, onsite laundry, free all-you-can-eat haute cuisine. Even better, he got to work on some of Google's highest-profile products, including the search technology that is the heart and soul of the company. And he made full use of his "20% time," that famous one day a week that Google gives its engineers to work on whatever project they want. A little over a year ago he and a couple of colleagues, brothers Bismarck and Belsasar Lepe, ages 28 and 21, respectively, did what many of the young geniuses do at Google: They came up with a cool idea, in this case a new way to handle Web video.

Apple and Eve

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:08:11 EDT

In Pixar Films' upcoming animation epic, "Wall-E," the title character is a cute but clunky robot whose centuries of solitude on an abandoned Earth is broken by the arrival of a svelte, futuristic robot named Eve - who is so white, gleaming, and well, pod-like, that she looks like she was born in Apple's design room. It turns out that she was - sort of: Eve marks the first design collaboration within Steve Jobs' culture-shaping Apple-Pixar-Disney axis. (Jobs sold Pixar to Disney and is Disney's largest shareholder as well as the CEO of Apple.)

The BlackBerry is in for a bruising

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:59:03 EDT

Research in Motion is riding high but a new business-friendly iPhone and Nokia's forthcoming corporate smartphones threaten its BlackBerry franchise. By Scott Moritz

Why Microsoft isn't buying Facebook

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:02:43 EDT

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.

Microsoft appeals $1.39B antitrust fine

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:01:11 EDT

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Meeting the Net's need for speed

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:19:19 EDT

A decade ago Akamai was not much more than a handful of scientists at MIT trying to come up with an approach that would rid the Internet of congestion. The only glitch was that in 1998 there wasn't any congestion on the Internet. Today, of course, it all makes sense. The Internet is getting jammed as more people conduct their business, find information, or simply get entertained online. The Akamai team's foresight and the solutions they have concocted are now a business that booked $636 million in sales in 2007, with a profit just north of $100 million. The company, based in Cambridge, Mass., was No. 48 on our 2007 list of fastest-growing companies and is projected to break $1 billion in revenue in 2009. Not bad for an outfit that solved a problem nobody knew we had.

EA gets $1B financing for Take-Two bid

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:11:32 EDT

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Facebook adds 40 safeguards

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:09:54 EDT

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Google seeks Yahoo ad partnership

Thu, 08 May 2008 19:06:46 EDT

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