Richard Branson has deep-sea ambitions, launches Virgin OceanicThe intrepid Branson launches Virgin Oceanic, a quest to explore the deepest parts of the aquatic world.- Goodnight ZuneAfter five years of false starts, word is leaking out that Microsoft is giving up on its much-maligned portable music player.
- Why startups don’t go public anymoreFacebook, Twitter, Groupon -- hot Internet startups are using private financing to grow like never before. Why do they trust the social graph to be the backbone of their business model but not of their statement of ownership?
- Can TripIt and Concur travel well together?TripIt was an innovative startup that helps users organize travel. Concur is an entrenched leader in the corporate travel world. Their fates tied together will be a playbook–or a warning–for the current generation of startups. By Chadwick Matlin, contributor For the past four years, a small travel startup called TripIt has been quietly rethinking the […]
- How the IT department can go from zeroes to heroesWith the rise of cloud and social, it’s time for the IT department to change the way they work — and become company heroes. By Aaron Levie, contributor On a daily basis, a select group of individuals are making technology decisions on behalf of their entire organization. They’re implementing services to solve real business problems, […]
- The year of surfing dangerouslyFacebook, Google Buzz, Gawker, Wikileaks, Chinese government hackers — last year, the wheels fell off Internet privacy. So, aberration, or new normal? By Kevin Kelleher, contributor Was it only a year ago that Mark Zuckerberg was accused of declaring the age of privacy over? Of course, he never said any such thing — he was trying to say that blogging […]
- Would you sell your Kindle to sell a used book?A recent Supreme Court decision, confusing Copyright Office rules and Amazon’s Kindle policies all indicate that the only way consumers will ever get to resell “used” ebooks may be to sell their hard drives, too. By Seth Greenstein, contributor The holiday season is upon us, and with it thoughts of peace on earth, goodwill… and […]
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