In Memoriam: Even in losing, how Digg won
The Digg Townhall meeting broadcast live from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. 2008. Photo courtesy of Eric Magnuson, via Flickr — Having spent a major part of the week sitti...
Vast Effort by F.D.A. Spied on E-Mails of Its Own Scientists
WASHINGTON — A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists utilized an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-ma...
How did the new MacBook Pros get Gold-level green ratings?
They may not stick. A recycling coalition says the notebooks flunk two key tests — FORTUNE — Apple (AAPL) may have thought it put the EPEAT kerfuffle behind it with the release of Bob Mansfield's m...
Innovative bookmarking service Spool is shutting down. Team joins Facebook
Spool today confirms its innovative bookmarking service is shutting down. — In an email, the Spool team says: … Spool was kind enough to attach all a user's bookmarks to the email and provided a han...
In Age of Twitter, NBC Rewrites Olympic Playbook
In NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters, workers were hustling Friday to transform the “Saturday Night Live” sound stage into a command center for coverage of the 2012 Olympics Games. — Much of thi...
A Show-and-Tell With Google's Hardware
Meet Eric Schmidt, Google's traveling salesman. — Mr. Schmidt, the executive chairman of the search giant, began a fireside chat with the media on Thursday at the Allen & Company conference with a b...
MobiTV Pulls $75 Million IPO, Citing ‘Unfavorable’ Conditions
MobiTV Inc. (MBTV) (MBTV), the maker of software that lets smartphone users watch live television, withdrew its plans for an initial public offering, citing “unfavorable market conditions.” — The Em...
The Facebook tweak that killed a billion-dollar industry
Facebook is known for operating in a perpetual beta state, making major changes not infrequently. Problem is, that can stifle a quickly growing niche. — FORTUNE — Mark Zuckerberg is famous for keep...
Japan's FujiFilm Sues Motorola Over Phone Patents
Japan's FujiFilm is suing Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary over four patents associated with digital camera and photo technology in cellphones. — The lawsuit has its roots in April 2011, when F...
Path's Consistency Of Tone
Editor's Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur and product designer who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. — ...
Exclusive: A first look at the “Agave” apps for Office 2013
Back in March this year, we reported that Microsoft was readying a Office web extensions platform called “Agaves”, which allows developers will be able to create an area within Office applications tha...