Apple's Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay
Last year, during his best three-month stretch, Jordan Golson sold about $750,000 worth of computers and gadgets at the Apple Store in Salem, N.H. It was a performance that might have called for a bot...
Why Judge Posner pulled the plug on Apple v. Motorola
In a ruling sure to be widely cited, an influential jurist put his finger on the problem with Steve Jobs' threat to go “thermonuclear” on Google's Android — FORTUNE — Toward the end of his long anal...
Katherine Losse, the Woman in the Facebook Frat House
An early staffer recalls the raucous days of a company in transition from Harvard dorm room to Silicon Valley — The author joined Facebook in 2005 as one of the first members of the company's nascen...
Google Maps API Gets Massive Price Cut In The Wake Of Developer Defections
Ever since Google introduced limits to how often developers could ping its popular Maps API for free and started charging developers for usage above these limits, we've seen a slew of prominent develo...
Google to launch Amazon, Microsoft cloud rival at Google I/O
Google is very likely to launch a cloud services platform at its annual developer conference, Google I/O next week in San Francisco. It was one of the topics of discussion in the hallways of our Stru...
Sony to make $623 million investment in Olympus, Nikkei says
Struggling camera manufacturer Olympus may soon find relief from Sony, according to a new report from Nikkei. The two firms are said to be negotiating a $623 million investment from Sony Corp., which...
Hands-Off: Microsoft Surface Tablet Review
After seeing yet another “hands-on” review of the Microsoft Surface tablet, I thought it would be interesting to shed more light on what exactly the journalists who assembled in Hollywood this week fo...
Amazon Studios goes head-to-head with Netflix, selects first four original TV projects for production
Just a month after we brought you news that Amazon Studios was calling for original comedy and children's series projects, the company announced today that it has selected its first four projects …
Google Says These New Local Ads Will Increase Click-Through Rates By 100%
Google has redesigned its local ad formats for Google Maps for Mobile. The company says the new formats have performed well in tests, increasing click-through rates by 100%. — The calls to action, ...
The Bitcoin Richest: Accumulating Large Balances
Everyone is familiar with Forbes 400 as the definitive list to wealth in America. But few people know about the world's up-and-coming bitcoin richest and what motivates them to accumulate and maintai...
The next-gen MacBook Pro with Retina Display Review
Apple makes the bulk of its revenue from devices that don't look like traditional personal computers. For the past couple of years I've been worried that it would wake up and decide the traditional M...