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The Whens, Whats and Hows of iPad 3 February 11, 2012 
A Wall Street Journal report on Thursday gave Apple fans all the excuse they needed to indulge in some more speculation regarding the iPad 3 -- if that is its real name, and if whatever it is even exists. Apple's kind of tight-lipped about this stuff. At this moment in the tablet universe, it's hard to guess what kind of grand and monumental new features Apple would want to add to the iPad.
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LinkedIn Delivers Sparkling Earnings Report, Bright Forecast February 10, 2012 
LinkedIn, the social network site for professionals, surprised the market on Thursday, reporting fourth-quarter sales that more than doubled its year-ago performance. Company executives forecast an even better 2012. Shares of LinkedIn rose more than 10 percent on the news. Revenue for the quarter ending Dec. 31 hit $167.7 million, up from $81.7 million in Q4 2010.
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Huge Pension Fund Grouses Over Facebook's Unbalanced Board February 09, 2012 
The California State Teachers' Retirement System has a gripe about the makeup of Facebook's board of directors: It is too small and too male. In fact, there are no women on the board. "We believe that investors and the company would benefit from a larger, more diverse board," CalSTRS corporate governance director Anne Sheehan wrote to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Groupon Shares Dumped in Discount Bin After Rough Quarter February 09, 2012 
Shares of Groupon were down about 14 percent midday Thursday, a day after the company revealed that it failed to turn a profit in its first quarter as a publicly traded company. The daily coupon site saw a revenue increase of 194 percent to $506 million during its first fiscal quarter, but it still had a net loss of $42.7 million, or about 8 cents per share.
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Sprint Groans Under iPhone Subsidy Weight February 08, 2012 
Sprint Nextel delivered its Q4 and full year 2011 financial results on Wednesday. The third-largest wireless carrier reported an adjusted OIBDA of $842 million for the fourth quarter and nearly $5.1 billion for the full year 2011. The company's stock price fell after it posted an overall fourth-quarter loss.
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Yahoo Rumblings Shake Loose Chairman, Board Members February 08, 2012 
Yahoo's chairman and three of its board members will step down at the company's next shareholder meeting as part of an extensive overhaul process Yahoo has been undertaking to please investors. Yahoo has faced criticism from shareholders for some time. Years ago, its management refused a buyout offer from Microsoft that would have netted $44.6 billion.
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iTV Looms Large February 08, 2012 
Apple ended up being the top-selling smartphone vendor for the fourth quarter of 2011, but rumors about an as-yet unconfirmed next-generation Apple TV claimed much of the company's spotlight over the last week. In a note regarding Apple, Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek wrote that Apple stock was a smart buy because the company's next entertainment device, which he called "iTV," is on its way.
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Facebook's IPO: What's Its Game? February 07, 2012 
As Facebook prepares for an IPO of its stock that may value the company at US$100 billion, it's important to know what sport it's in and if, like the Chicago Bulls with Jordan, dynasties can last. Michael Jordan was probably the best basketball player to play the game of hoop. He had a halo effect. But baseball just wasn't his sport at the level basketball was.
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Facebook to Investors: You Like What You See? February 04, 2012 
Facebook's finally decided to take a head-first dive into the mountain of cash it's been standing on for years. Following several days of heated rumors and years of speculation about when CEO Mark Zuckerberg was finally going to cash in his chips, the company filed an S-1 statement with the SEC, paving the way for an IPO as early as this May.
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Zuckerberg to Keep Iron Grip on Facebook's Reins February 02, 2012 
Facebook has finally filed for its IPO. The social networking giant submitted an application to the SEC on Wednesday. It plans to raise up to $5 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who cofounded the company in February 2004, currently holds a 28.4 percent stake. Details in the SEC document illuminated the extent of Zuckerberg's control over Facebook.
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Facebook Laid Bare for All to See February 02, 2012 
Facebook filed it's long-awaited S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, announcing its intent to raise $5 billion and begin public trading. The highly anticipated move caused enough of a stir to clog traffic on the SEC's website and provided some insight into the social network's financial situation.
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AOL Dumps a Lighter Load of Bad News February 01, 2012 
AOL delivered a little bit of something for everyone with its Q4 earnings report -- good news, bad news, and hope that its many different initiatives are on track to pay off for the company. First the bad news: AOL reported a profit of US$22.8 million, or 23 cents a share, that was down from the $66.2 million, or 61 cents a share, it earned in the same period a year earlier.
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Ghost of Christmas Past Haunts Amazon February 01, 2012 
Amazon's stock took a pummeling Wednesday after the online retailer released quarterly figures that fell short of Wall Street expectations, which had been built up in part by past years' holiday performances. Amazon's net income was $177 million, or 38 cents per share, a 57 percent percent drop from a year ago.
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Andreessen Horowitz Waters Silicon Valley's Money Tree February 01, 2012 
Andreessen Horowitz announced that it has raised US$1.5 billion for a fund aimed at investing in technology startups. The new fund is launching just as one of the firm's well-known bets, Facebook, prepares to go public. Andreessen Horowitz has an unspecified stake in the social network.
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Apple's Dynamic Tension February 01, 2012 
A week after Apple revealed record-breaking sales numbers that drove its value to new heights, the company's fans were shown a bleaker image of Cupertino in a recently published news series. The iEconomy series paints a picture of harsh working conditions in some overseas facilities that manufacture Apple products.
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Can Anything Stop EMC? January 31, 2012 
A bit over a year ago, the conventional wisdom related to enterprise IT vendors was fairly straightforward: Sheer size and depth of expertise gave end-to-end systems vendors unlimited access to the high ground. As markets recovered from the 2008 recession, enterprise customers would naturally stick with or gravitate toward large established players that could fulfill their every need.
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