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Despite growing competition from Google, social network kingpin Facebook doubled its revenue in the first half of 2011, raking in US$1.6 billion to bolster company growth before its rumored IPO, according to a Reuters report Earnings from the privately held company aren't confirmed, but the world's largest social network reportedly posted a net inc...

After the firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz this week, the board is exploring a possibility of a sale, according to The Wall Street Journal, and intends to hire bankers for advice. In coming months, there may be a sale of Yahoo's Asian investments, a purchase of a social media or content company, or partnerships that could help Yahoo get more money ...

The next time you make a shopping trip to Amazon.com, you may be in for a surprise. The Net's largest retailer will be rolling out significant design changes to its online store -- changes that some say make the site more tablet friendly The new design is airier than the old one. There's more white space on the home page. The navigation bar on the ...

FSF's Star Turn in the Android FUDathon, Part 2 Where did this "you are permanently barred from distributing" stuff originate? In digging around, I found a post titled "A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance" at the Software Freedom Law Center dated August 26, 2008, written by the team of Bradley M. Kuhn, Aaron Williamson and Karen M. Sandler....

Now that the Department of Justice said no to the AT&T, T-Mobile merger, can we please start talking about solving the real -- and growing -- problem in the wireless industry? It's something that will affect every carrier and every customer in the years to come. In fact this is the very reason AT&T wanted T-Mobile in the first place: the spectrum ...

I worked on an exercise in messaging for a CRM vendor this week, and it was both entertaining and frustrating at times. It was entertaining to hear smart people offer clever takes on what they do (and, perhaps more colorfully, what their competition does), but it was frustrating to realize that the definition of "CRM" is becoming increasingly complex and, I fear, confusing.

Behind the Paywall, Part 1: Fan Sites Play Ball If recruiting followed porn's lead into the world of 900 numbers, it did the same on the Internet. Porn was among the first and most successful industries to charge for content online, supplying a different type of fix for an equally zealous audience.

Eight months after Verizon Wireless showed off the prototype for the Droid Bionic, it is finally coming to market. ...

Yahoo on Wednesday announced a leadership reorganization that moves Carol Bartz out as CEO and replaces her in the interim with Timothy Morse, the company's chief financial officer. The board has also formed a new executive leadership council populated by key senior executives to support Morse in day-to-day operations until a permanent CEO is appointed.

Online coupon retailer Groupon is reevaluating its plans to go forward with its IPO following a volatile summer market, according to a Wall Street Journal report The daily discount company originally announced its plans to go public in June and was rumored to be counting on a valuation of around US$20 billion, with some reports going as high as $25...

Sprint Nextel filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block the proposed US$39 billion merger of rival wireless carriers AT&T and T-Mobile. The move by Sprint appears to be a tactical one aimed at protecting the company's options should the deal be approved by the federal government Sprint's lawsuit was filed less than a week after the U.S. Department of Justic...

Of the nearly 6 million people (including this writer) who consider home their primary place of work, 2.8 million -- slightly more than 2 percent of the population -- are employed by someone else, not "self-employed," according to the U.S. Census Bureau. When accounting for those working at least one day from home, these figures shoot up to 20 to 30 million employees, reported the Telework Research Network...

You might have seen them without knowing what they are: little black and white boxes with squiggles and lines in the corner of a magazine advertisement, on a band's poster in a coffee shop, or even on a T-shirt Those things, called "QR codes" or "quick response codes," are part of a whole new way of connecting with consumers via their smartphones....

It's worthwhile to consider the economic consequences of Dreamforce -- the products announced -- as well as the cultural issues it raised. Now, I am not an economist, and I encourage you to think about that and maybe not read this if that matters Many people might look at the news coming out of San Francisco and try to calculate the ROI on one or a...

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The University of Florida coaching staff was short on selling points when it set out to recruit high school football players in early 1990. For starters, the head coach was brand new, his predecessor having been unceremoniously dismissed in the middle of the '89 season because of rule infractions. What's more, one of the best players in school his...

Jaguar Financial, a shareholder of BlackBerry-maker RIM, called on the company's directors to carry out a formal process for maximization of shareholder value in a letter from Jaguar and supportive shareholders, which was released to the public on Tuesday. The letter suggests that the company should consider selling itself or monetizing the RIM pa...

Researchers at Tufts University announced Sunday they've created an electrical motor many thousands of times smaller than the width of a single human hair, a breakthrough they claim could eventually lead to innovations in healthcare and technology The microscopic motor is the size of a single molecule and is electrically charged, an innovative feat...

The project management office (PMO) has provided well-documented value to many organizations. However, for some businesses, the benefits never materialize. Take a look at PMOs over the years, and you will see that many have restructured, dissolved, or constantly had to justify their existence during both economic downturns and high-growth periods.

It's been another wild and crazy week for the security community Scotland Yard arrested two suspected members of Anonymous and LulzSec Thursday....