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The Dark Side of Crowdsourcing

It's a bad time to try to grow a startup -- unless of course your overhead is low. Fortunately for Ryan Born, CEO of AudioMicro, his company falls in that category. ...

The Pirate Bay Fights Back With Appeal Charging Judicial Bias

The music and entertainment industry didn't even have a week to fully savor its victory against the four proprietors of The Pirate Bay before they filed an appeal ...

eBay Beats Street, Gets a Grip on Turnaround Strategy

Profits dropped at eBay last quarter, but the online marketplace still delivered a solid earnings report for Q2 that beat analysts' expectations. eBay's results provide a welcome boost to the tech sector,whose performance has been all over the map this earnings cycle. They also validate the direction CEO John Donahoe has been taking the company: away from its small-garage-sale roots and toward large-scale sellers and buyers...

Will Oprah Get the Creaky Crowd Tweeting?

"HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21stCENTURY." ...

AT&T’s Q1 Losses Tempered by Wireless Gains

By some measures, AT&T's Q1 earnings report was lackluster, at best. The company reported a nearly 10 percent profit decline for the quarter ending March 31, compared with the same period a year ago. However, the drop was not as steep as analysts had expected. ...

AT&T’s Q1 Losses Tempered by Wireless Gains

By some measures, AT&T's Q1 earnings report was lackluster, at best. The company reported a nearly 10 percent profit decline for the quarter ending March 31, compared with the same period a year ago. However, the drop was not as steep as analysts had expected. ...

AT&T’s Q1 Losses Tempered by Wireless Gains

By some measures, AT&T's Q1 earnings report was lackluster, at best. The company reported a nearly 10 percent profit decline for the quarter ending March 31, compared with the same period a year ago. However, the drop was not as steep as analysts had expected. ...

VMware Shoots for IT as a Service With Cloud OS

VMware is launching what it bills as the first operating system that has been developed specifically for cloud computing. Called "vSphere 4," the virtualization platform pools and then manages an enterprise's virtual infrastructure and computing resources in its data center ...

Obama Taps DC-Area Tech Leader as First US CTO

President Barack Obama has rounded out his panel of high-tech advisors, naming Aneesh Chopra, the state of Virginia's secretary of technology, as the chief technology officer of the U.S. While not having the heft of a cabinet-level appointment, the newly created position is still seen as pivotal to many of the Obama administration's initiatives ...

VENDOR WATCH

Poised to Pounce on IPO: Q&A With SugarCRM CEO John Roberts

Around the time when Software as a Service (SaaS) was pre-empting the on-premise vendors, SugarCRM burst onto the CRM scene with its owndisruptive business mode: open source for CRM. ...

Google Lumbers In With Modest Q1 Growth

It's telling when a company in this market registers growth yet still comes under scrutiny because the growth wasn't as high asprevious years. Then again, this is Google we're talking about -- theuber-corporation of the Web with seemingly limitless potential and promise ...

Cloud Implementation, Part 3: Training for the Task

Part 1 of this three-part series focused on planning out a successful move to a cloud environment. Part 2 investigates obstacles and strategies relating to customization in the cloud. Part 3 takes a look at training ...

eBay Makes $1.2B Proposal for Korea’s Gmarket

eBay is making a play for one of the most wired nations in Asia with aUS$1.2 billion acquisition offer for South Korea's Gmarket, thecountry's largest online market. ...

eBay Suits Up Skype for 2010 IPO

eBay is planning to spin off Skype in a public offering next year. While Skype has been successful in terms of growing its user base since being acquired by eBay over three years ago, the VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service has proven to be a less-than-perfect match with the Internet auction powerhouse ...

Disappearance of Books and Movies Shoves Amazon Into Tight Corner

What is worse: to be accused of prejudice, or accused of incompetence? In thee-commerce world, where how well one safeguards one's customer data isparamount to any reputation, taking a hit on the latter is a bitterpill to swallow. That is better, though, than to be viewed as a companythat would deliberately and stealthily delist gay-themed books andmovies, among other materials, from its sales ranks, as Amazon was thought to have done this past weekend...

Tech Mahindra Swings In to Snap Up Stake in Scandal-Wracked Satyam

The four-month-long process to find a strategic investor for Satyam --the India-based outsourcer that rattled the global businesscommunity with its ex-chairman's confession in January of longstanding accountingfraud -- is apparently over ...

VENDOR WATCH

BI Bridge-Building: Q&A With Noetix CEO Morris Beton

The Business Intelligence (BI) space has been on a mission for severalyears. The goal: to simplify the way these applications work for the end-user. ...

YouTube, Universal Hook Up for Music Video Site

Google's YouTube and Universal Music Group (UMG) are partnering to launch Vevo, amusic video vehicle featuring UMG's videos. The site will launch inthe coming months. Few details have been provided about the launch; however, both companies will share in the revenues, and additional deals with other music labels are being negotiated, the companies said...

Cloud Implementation, Part 2: Cutting a Path to Customization

Part 1 of this three-part series focused on planning out a successful move to a cloud environment. Part 2 investigates obstacles and strategies relating to customization in the cloud ...

Cisco Rolls In Tidal Software for $105M

Cisco has announced its intention to acquire Tidal Software for US$105million in cash and retention-based bonuses. ...

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