From YouTube celebrities to chief social-media officers, these unexpected players exert outsize impact and power online -- offering new channels of communication that businesses can't afford to ignore.READ»
The iPhone and iPad app store has been a huge success for Apple. Can Steve Jobs make lightning strike a third time -- on the Mac? Here's why it may be a little more difficult.READ»
Apple introduced the latest version of the MacBook Air today, and it's a feat of miniaturization. Steve Jobs described it as "what would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up." Perhaps most intriguingly, the new MacBook Air ...READ»
The military has opened its doors to openly gay recruits for the first time--but cautions that policy could change again in the future, citing pending court cases. Justice may tarry, but business innovation waits for no one! We at ...READ»
Last week, Google's Eric Schmidt touted the virtues of Android's "open" system over the "closed" Apple iOS. Today Steve Jobs hit back, arguing those terms are just a "smokescreen" clouding the "real issue." Jobs had some unkind words for RIM, too.READ»
Steve Jobs and company have reason for a Cupertino celebratory cha-cha: Apple crushed quarterly revenues on the tails of huge iPhone sales. Today, Apple posted record earnings of $20.34 billion--way up from last year's quarterly ...READ»
Hiding in the logo for Apple's new press invite to an October 20th "Back to the Mac" event is a picture of a lion. Woah! That's one enormous hint it's all about the next-gen OS X. What'll it be like?READ»
HTML5 may be the future of advanced websites, and one step toward the demise of Adobe's Flash tech, but that doesn't mean it's 100% wonderful. Now a virus coder has shown HTML5 may have huge privacy loopholes.READ»
In this excerpt from "The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs," author Carmine Gallo recounts what Steve Jobs told Nike CEO Mark Parker, and how this is a glimpse into Apple's strategy of focused simplicity.READ»
In this excerpt from "The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization," authors Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton look at the team that created the iPod, and how the vision of a revolutionary music player motivated them to innovate.READ»
Kirk Manley
"I have too many comic books and action figures for a man my age and more unbuilt Japanese resin model kits than I care to admit," says Kirk Manley. The New York -- based illustrator and graphic designer first inked a ...READ»
The Big Apple
Nice job, Farhad Manjoo ("Apple Nation"). Not only do you peel back the layers to reveal what makes Apple Apple, you do so systematically -- offering clear, insightful messages to other companies striving to be ...READ»
How to manage people through "light" and "heat" (think carrot & stick but I like my analogy better because we're humans not animals). As a leader you need to have both heat and light in your arsenal.READ»
Riggio's latest blockade has been to thwart billionaire investor Ron Burkle, who has accumulated 19% of B&N’s shares and had hoped to get three new directors on the board.READ»
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is deliriously rich--richer than the Apple CEO, even--and contrary to what a certain movie might tell you, is charitable enough to donate $100 million to Newark schools.READ»
Apple negotiated with Facebook for more than 18 months to launch Ping, its new social network. How much heads up did they give to record labels? Absolutely none.READ»
This video shows an unscientific but intriguing battle between Adobe Flash and HTML5 on mobile devices. For all the talk about HTML5 being the savior of Web video, you might expect it to not get trounced so thoroughly.READ»
Steve Jobs, ninja throwing stars, and a verbal tussle with Japanese border guards: Components of a fabulous Net news piece. And, inevitably a CGI re-enactment by the awesome folks at Next Media Animation.READ»
Steve Jobs directed righteous anger at Adobe this year, because Flash on iOS devices became a hot issue in the media. Then Apple backtracked, and now a Flash developer's thanks has highlighted one surprising side-effect of Job's tirade: Flash may have gotten a boost.READ»
