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TV nets wrap upfront week: “The biz still goes through us”

TV nets wrap upfront week: “The biz still goes through us”

What, me, worry? Those three words broadly sum up the attitude of the broadcast TV network chiefs regarding the encroachment on their turf by digital media companies, as they conducted their… Read more »

A kinder, gentler DRM?

A kinder, gentler DRM?

With Harry Potter fan site and e-bookstore Pottermore.com now using watermarkinginstead of heavyweight DRM on all the Harry Potter e-books, anti-DRM arguments are growing louder. Now the International Digital Publishing… Read more »

Why Social Learning Benefits Your Business

Why Social Learning Benefits Your Business

Classroom training isn’t dead, but it also isn’t the answer for every training need. Social tools are changing the game when it comes to employee learning. Organizations can create collaborative… Read more »

SpaceX No Stranger to Launch-Day Rocket Glitches

SpaceX No Stranger to Launch-Day Rocket Glitches

When a privately built rocket aborted its launch attempt at the very last second today (May 19), it was likely a familiar sight to the booster’s builders: the California-based company… Read more »

Facebook IPO: Tracking the price

Facebook IPO: Tracking the price

4:13 p.m. ET: Facebook’s stock came full circle on its first day as a public company, ending the day at $38.23 with more than 500 million shares traded. That’s barely… Read more »

Facebook doesn’t want world domination: it needs it

Facebook doesn’t want world domination: it needs it

In many ways Facebook is a very American success: forged at Harvard, warmed up in the crucible of Silicon Valley, and now reaching boiling point by becoming one of the… Read more »

YouTube’s April video usage up 55% over 2011

YouTube’s April video usage up 55% over 2011

Digital media companies like YouTube and Yahoo have yet to see how much they will have increased their ad base by upping the quality of their video content recently. But… Read more »

Can This Computer Empower a New Generation of Programmers?

Can This Computer Empower a New Generation of Programmers?

Big Idea: Raspberry Pi is a small, lightweight computer that runs on Linux and costs next to nothing — the Model A retails at $35, while the forthcoming Model B… Read more »

6 Reasons Why the Facebook IPO Fell Flat

6 Reasons Why the Facebook IPO Fell Flat

Well, that was anticlimactic. After all the hullabaloo about Facebook’s IPO, this is how it ends, with a mere $0.23 jump in share price? That kind of movement is what happens… Read more »

What you need to know about that $15 billion Facebook privacy case

What you need to know about that $15 billion Facebook privacy case

Lawyers tried to ruin Mark Zuckerberg’s big day with a sprawling lawsuit that portrays the Facebook founder as a rogue hacker, and accuses the company of tracking users on their… Read more »