Epicenter on the Air: How The Komen Uproar Saved … Komen
For those of you who weren’t up with the chickens on Saturday, here’s the interview I did with Nancy Cordes on CBS This Morning about Susan G Komen For The Cure’s head-snapping change of heart about...
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Tim Berners-Lee, The World Wide Web, And … Alvy Singer?
It was almost like that scene from Woody Allen’s Annie Hall: Alvy Singer: [the man behind him in line is talking loudly] What I wouldn’t give for a large sock with horse manure in it! Alvy Singer: [to...
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Why Aereo Is Not Zediva, From A to Z
As Aereo fights for its life against the TV networks, it's tempting to liken it to Zediva, the last company who fought the content industry and lost. Aereo rents you an antenna to stream broadcast TV...
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Damn the Lawsuits — It’s Full Speed Ahead for Aereo In New York
NEW YORK — Aereo, the startup which aims to rock the TV world by renting you a remote high definition antenna that allows you to watch and record broadcasts via a web browser, launched Wednesday...
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DOJ Could Sue Apple Today Over E-Books: Reports
The Justice Department could sue Apple as early as Wednesday over e-book price fixing, Reuters reports, citing 'two people familiar with the matter.'
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Video: At Foxconn, an Exclusive Look at How an iPad Is Made
Much has been written about conditions at Foxconn, the embattled Chinese manufacturer for Apple and a host of other hardware companies. Rob Schmitz, Shanghai Bureau Chief of American Public Media's...
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Augmented Reality’s Path From Science Fiction to Future Fact
Google Glass is akin to a concept car, but not like those commercially ludicrous models automakers show off annually just to show how impossibly blue the sky can be. Glass would be a new prism through...
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What’s Better Than $78 Million? A Bigger Piece of $1 Billion (Maybe)
Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz is pushing back on criticism suggesting Andreessen Horowitz, an early investor of Instagram, failed to make a greater return on his investment in a company Facebook has...
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Hardware | Microsoft Finds a New Nook in E-Books
Microsoft announced Monday that it is investing $300 million in the Nook, the Barnes & Noble e-reader that is the closest competitor to Amazon's Kindle. The investment gives Microsoft a 17.6...
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Wired Gives Up the ‘Secret Sauce’ for Spotting the Future
NEW YORK — Ever wonder how Wired has managed to predict the future so darn well for nearly 20 years? Wired debuted nearly two decades ago and was hailed as “A burst of fresh air from a distant planet’...
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Murdoch on MySpace: ‘We Screwed Up in Every Way Possible’
Rupert Murdoch, one of Twitter’s newest media darlings, has unburdened himself on one of the worst bets of the post dot-com boom: News Corp’s ill-fated purchase of MySpace. The post Murdoch on MySpace:...
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Who Buys All Those Google Ads? An Infographic Breakdown
Google cleared $37.9 billion in 2011 revenue, which equates to more than $3 billion a month, mostly from those little text ads next to your search results that neither you or anybody you know will...
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Commentary: Face(book)ing the Music
The least suspenseful waiting game in Silicon Valley is now over, thank heavens. Facebook, which began as a decidedly private Harvard hangout, has begun the process of going absolutely, totally,...
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