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Facebook is a great company with a massive following -- and a lousy stock price Facebook erred greatly when it priced its stock at US$38 per share for many reasons -- not the least of which is that everything it will ever do will be viewed through that overpriced prism....

eBay may expand its customer base by opening the site to online shoppers under the age of 18. The etailer is considering plans that would allow users between the ages of 13 and 17 to buy and sell eBay's offerings online. Children under the age of 13 are protected under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The legislation dictates ...

Siemens, which made the industrial controllers targeted by the Stuxnet cyberweapon, announced last week that it was releasing some patches aimed at foiling attacks on its hardware similar to those mounted by the now-famous worm Previous versions of the controllers used in SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems allowed DLL (Dynamic...

Social media sites are all about having conversations, and that's true for businesses as well as individuals. The trick for businesses is knowing how and when to engage in these conversations -- and how to keep up with them. Like any conversation, listening is important, and it's one way that businesses can begin to engage their customers.

The details of the recent Colorado massacre are bothering me this week. What bothers me the most isthat both political parties seem to take an event like this and use it to further an agenda. Theright wants everyone to get armed, and the left wants to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. Thefirst would likely result in lots more people gettin...

For years, pay-TV services were the dominant means of delivering premium content to consumers. Today almost 900 million homes worldwide subscribe to pay-TV services, but new delivery technologies, with smartTVs at the forefront, have created new opportunities and new potential competition ...

On Facebook's earnings call Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg seemed to deny that the company would be developing its own branded smartphone, presumably an effort to put to rest growing speculation -- mostly attributed to unnamed sources -- about a Facebook phone under development at HTC Building a smartphone, said Zuckerberg on the call, "wouldn't really...

Amazon reported late Thursday that its Q2 net income had dropped an astounding 96 percent, but the market didn't seem to mind. Its stock jumped nearly 8 percent in Friday trading -- never mind the fact that it posted a net income of US$7 million compared to $191 million in the second quarter of 2011 The picture these numbers paint is of a company t...

Ouya, the recently unveiled video game system, on Friday announced a content deal that will make OnLive's cloud gaming service available on the console when it launches next year. ...

Facebook on Thursday released its first quarterly earnings report since its monster IPO in May During the period, Facebook reported revenues of US$1.18 billion but couldn't turn a profit, losing $157 million, or eight cents a share....

Twitter is back in action after a data center failure caused worldwide outages for many of its users Thursday Starting around 8:30 a.m. PT, Twitter users who tried to access the site were greeted with a partially coded message that read, "Twitter is currently down." It appeared that the note was supposed to let users know the reason for the outage ...

Google on Thursday launched its high-speed Internet Google Fiber network in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Mo. Residents of the two cities have to preregister for a US$10 fee. They have six weeks to rally their neighbors to sign up, and have to achieve a goal pre-set by Google. Residents of communities that don't meet the goal will be refun...

Shana and Len Bentivegna started their online store, Organic Pet Boutique, as a result of pet food scares and their concern for the safety of their two Shih Tzus, Milo and Ceasar. "After discovering organic and natural pet food was the only safe alternative, we decided to go online to purchase their food," Len Bentivegna told the E-Commerce Times....

When Yardi CRM launched in the fall of 2010, it was targeting what it saw as a lack of industry-specific CRM within the commercial real estate broker industry -- or to be more precise, CRM functionality that was integrated into a property management system. ...

TuneIn Radio Pro, an app from TuneIn, Inc., is available for 99 US cents at Google Play.It wasn't too long ago that you'd have to pore over shortwave radio schedule listings,cross referencing time of day, with frequency in kilohertz, in order to listen to long range,overseas broadcasts -- picking out the words from the spooky radio harmonics....

Security has been a top concern of the Olympic Games ever since that fateful day in September of 1972 when terrorists killed members of the Israeli Olympics team. Since then, each Olympics has only increased its level of security consideration. The more recent games have had to focus as much on cybersecurity as they have on physical security. A...

A new trade group called "The Internet Association" has been formed to represent the interests of large Internet companies. It will begin operating in September, with Michael Beckerman, a former adviser to the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee, serving as its president Though Beckerman has not yet confirm...

The Google Talk chat application went down some time on Wednesday night, provoking many users to anger. Some said they had switched temporarily to Skype or Twitter Google posted updates regularly on its App Status website, and began restoring service on a rolling basis....

Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle this week, Gabe Newell, chief executive and cofounder of Valve, had some harsh words about Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The award-winning game publisher is also the creator of the Steam digital distribution service for games, and Newell seemed rather "steamed" himself ab...

Zynga reported second-quarter earnings lower than expected Wednesday, sending its stock sinking as much as 40 percent Thursday morning The maker of popular social games such as "FarmVille" and "Words With Friends" reported a net loss of more than US$22.8 billion, or 3 cents per share....