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Last decade, Steve Jobs was the clear leader, and he ended the decade as the top CEO. We are early in this decade, but already Sam Palmisano has jumped out to an early lead. Like Jobs, it isn't because he is lobbying for this title -- it is because he is already being recognized by peers as being the best there is. Interestingly, this came thr...

A multinational research team says it's found neutrinos that travel faster than the speed of light. For the Opera neutrino experiment (results of which can be read here), scientists basically shot a high-intensity, high-energy beam of muon neutrinos from the CERN SPS accelerator in Geneva toward the LNGS underground laboratory at Gran Sasso, Italy...

Leo Apotheker's short stint as CEO of tech giant HP came to an end Thursday as the board ousted the executive it appointed just one year ago and installed former eBay CEO Meg Whitman in his place From her first day in office, Whitman will have a lot on her plate. Once a clear tech leader, HP has struggled to keep up with competition, especially in ...

Online Ad Scams, Part 1: Tip for a Tiny Belly and Other Snake Oil Victims bilked of their money by fake online ads are not the only ones hurt.

Science (n.) Systematic knowledge. Application of facts and principles. Proficiency Talk about a misnomer. Marketing automation is not science. It is a badly coined term that describes the automation of push marketing. The name is often associated with a class of cloud software that helps marketing become more efficient and effective. Market...

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Pity the Facebook user. The social networking giant's constantly making changes to its website, forcing its subscribers into new usage habits Some of these changes, especially when they relate to privacy, have triggered calls from privacy advocates for regulatory intervention and led users to start organizing groups criticizing the alterations....

New developments announced by Facebook at its F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco on Thursday might give the social networking king new advantages over Google as the two battle for dominance. They may also create a world of hurt for Apple Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Timeline, which lets subscribers store and display all their storie...

HP CEO Leo Apotheker is on the way out, and the company is close to naming the former chief executive of eBay, Meg Whitman, as its new CEO, said sources speaking to Reuters. The decision to make Whitman the full-fledged CEO of the company -- rather than appointing her to serve in an interim capacity -- reportedly will be announced after the markets close Thursday.

In a scene reminiscent of Microsoft Cofounder Bill Gates' appearance before a Senate hearing on market dominance years ago, Google Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt took the stand Wednesday to persuade U.S. Congressional leaders that the search engine giant is not violating antitrust principles. Schmidt faced Senate officials, led by Sen. Herb ...

Recently I read in The New York Times that the phenomenon of the "star analyst" is coming back into fashion. If Wall Street analysts, tech analsyts and telecom industry analysts are getting hot once again, how can you get good advice and good reviews from the analyst community? Let's discuss. Then in my Pick of the Week, I want to tell you about A...

One of the great conundrums about CRM is the disconnect between its stated intention and what it's usually really used for. Theoretically, CRM is supposed to help businesses build better and longer-lasting relationships with customers. In actuality, it's usually used to simply manage customer data as a tool for sales. The idea of really becoming c...

Right now, you can buy a car that you can unlock by just touching the door handle. No need to struggle with key fobs or keys Known by various names, including "Keyless Go" and "Smart Key," this feature is available for a cool grand or so as an option on various cars, including the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, E-Class and SL-Class; the Cadillac STS; and t...

Just over a year after taking the job as HP's top executive, CEO Leo Apotheker may soon be unceremoniously escorted to the door. The company's board of directors is reportedly meeting on this and other issues this week. The board is said to be eying former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a replacement. Whitman clocked in 10-plus years of strong executive ...

Adobe on Wednesday announced its Flash Player 11 and Air 3 packages These have a heavy focus on games and online video across multiple devices and platforms. Those platforms include Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry Tablet OS, Mac OS X, Windows and connected TVs....

Facebook users were hit with a major update on Wednesday. The News Feed that displays other users' status updates has been altered to a real-time news ticker. It is now tailored to how often a user visits the site. Updates are now ranked by factors that allow users to mark certain posts as top stories instead of simply displaying the most recent news...

The U.S. Department of Justice expanded its online gambling crackdown Tuesday when it filed a civil suit against the owners of the website Full Tilt Poker for defrauding thousands of members out of more than US$300 million in what it called a "global Ponzi scheme." The suit alleges that Full Tilt co-owners Christopher Ferguson and Howard Lederer, w...

3D marketing is powerful -- and even more so, when it's delivered to the palm of your hand. Mobile 3D is becoming an increasingly common way of grabbing, holding, and entertaining consumers From using current mobile technologies to create a sense of 3D, to creating actual images that seem to pop off the screen and into the air, mobile marketers are...

Turn on an episode of Seinfeld and return with me to the 1990s! This summer the National Venture Capital Association released results for the second quarter of this year, showing that US$7.5 billion was invested in 966 deals. This represented an increase of 19 percent in dollars and deals over the first quarter and continues a trend of larger deal sizes relative to 2010...

Shades of George W. Bush and Victoria's Secret all in one. We got fooled again last week by our own ineptitude and inability to learn from history when retailer Target's website crashed under the weight of a highly successful marketing campaign. The last time anything remotely similar happened was when Victoria's Secret decided to do an online fashion show. ...