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Yahoo Restructures U.S. Ad Sales Force–With No New Head (But Apparently a Lot...
Yahoo announced today that it was restructuring its advertising sales force, after being without a head of its key U.S. unit since mid-March. Big news: No new top ad sales exec. Instead, several North...
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Was Apotheker HP's First Choice of CEO? [Updated]
Hewlett-Packard’s decision to appoint former SAP (SAP) chief Léo Apotheker as CEO was a move few industry observers saw coming. “It’s a bit of a head-scratcher,” one veteran software executive told me,...
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Analyst: RIM Vulnerable Ahead of OS Transition
The all-new QNX operating system that will debut on Research in Motion’s forthcoming PlayBook tablet may well rejuvinate the BlackBerry when it replaces the smartphone’s aging BlackBerry OS. And it may...
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Novell Patent Grab: "Cheap Defensive Insurance"
An interesting new development in the big Novell patent sale that went down in November. Turns out that CPTN Holdings LLC, the Microsoft-led consortium that purchased the 882 patent portfolio, includes...
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Seventh Person Arrested in Insider Trading Probe
The FBI has arrested another person in the ongoing investigation into the sharing of insider information with investors by consultants working for so-called expert firms. The latest to be arrested is...
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Qualcomm Makes It Official, Grabs Atheros for $3.1 Billion
Qualcomm, the chipmaker devoted to the wireless handset business, announced today the first major tech acquisition of the year, and the biggest deal in its history, saying it will pay $3.1 billion in...
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Early Adopter: The Daytum iPhone App Visualizes Your Life (and Lunch) as Data
For data nerds everywhere, the pinnacle of numerical navel-gazing has, at least since 2005, been Nicholas Felton’s beautifully designed “Annual Reports” on the numbers behind his personal behavior. He...
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Apple Analysts: Screw Everything, Everything, We're Doing $550
Evidently a 78 percent net income increase in Apple’s fiscal first quarter was all it took for the market to put aside concerns about CEO Steve Jobs’s indefinite medical leave. Analysts following the...
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Cisco Earnings Beat Estimates, but Only by a Little
Cisco Systems reported earnings that slightly beat the revised estimates of analysts for its fiscal second quarter. The company reported earnings of 37 cents per share on sales of $10.4 billion. The...
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HP Oldsmobiles the Palm Brand
Hewlett-Packard bought Palm for its technology and talent, not for its brand. So it’s hardly surprising that the Palm logo and name were nowhere to be found at HP’s big webOS event Wednesday. Not in...
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Exclusive: Nokia's Stephen Elop Talks About How He Made His Big OS Decision
In weighing the future of Nokia, Stephen Elop has had some tough decisions to make, but at least he has lots of people willing to offer up their two cents. Whether he is walking the halls of Nokia’s...
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Rackspace Is Not for Sale, but Thanks for Asking
Practically everyone who meets him asks Lanham Napier when his company is going to be sold. He’s the CEO of Rackspace, the Web hosting and cloud computing concern that’s one of several thought to be...
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HTC's One-Button Facebook Phones Headed to ATT
AT&T said on Tuesday it will have HTC phones later this year that include the Facebook button the Taiwanese cellphone maker showed off here in Barcelona. The phones may not be the exact Cha Cha and...
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Here's What Steve Forbes Is Telling His Staff About That Brutal Fortune Article
Fortune depantsed longtime rival Forbes today with a story detailing the business magazine’s finances, which have been terrible. Don’t worry about it, Forbes chairman Steve Forbes tells his staff, via...
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Motoogle: BOOM! The Mobile Business Just Got Completely Blown Up
With the entry of Google into the handset-making market, the search giant has just declared a number of things, most especially that its own future is all about mobile. With the $12.5 billion purchase...
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Larry Page Might Be Bill Gates+, But He Wants to Be Steve Jobs
Let’s face it: Everyone in Silicon Valley — one way or another — fashions themselves as the next Steve Jobs. And why not? Both the professional and even personal story of the legendary Apple CEO —...
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The Times of Its Troubled Life: A 2007 Visit to Kodak (Video)
In 2007, after its CEO, Antonio Perez, appeared on stage at the fourth D: All Things Digital conference, I was invited to visit the HQ of Kodak in Rochester, N.Y., to see up close the transition to a...
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HTC to Give Up on Quantity and Try Quality
HTC’s disappointing fourth-quarter earnings seem to have inspired a sea change at the company — or at least given it cause to reconsider its strength-in-SKU-numbers handset strategy. Rather than...
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Byte Me: Yahoo Files More Patent Claims Against Facebook
In spite of intense criticism against its patent infringement lawsuit in March, Yahoo filed additional claims against Facebook today. “Today Yahoo! filed additional claims against Facebook in U.S....
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Nathan Myhrvold Will Not Apologize for Patent Trolling: The Full D10...
At the 10th D: All Things Digital conference earlier this month, well-known tech exec Nathan Myhrvold wasn’t taking any guff about his controversial patent-portfolio company, Intellectual Ventures. “I...
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