The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New Show
With Netflix's foray into original, high quality programming today, the streaming TV network wants to turn into the HBO of Internet TV, but can the network afford it? Putting together a big productio...
Super Bowl plans to handle 30,000 Wi-Fi users at once—and sniff out “rogue devices”
and sniff out “rogue devices” — Where the Super Bowl—and a gigantic Wi-Fi network—awaits 73,000 fans. — Superdome.com — When 73,208 fans file into the New Orleans Superdome for the Super Bowl on ...
The Verge Hires Writer Who Quit CNET in Protest
Greg Sandoval, the CNET senior writer who resigned in protest when the site's parent company, CBS, interfered with its editorial coverage last month, has been hired by The Verge, the Web site that fir...
New $1.6 billion supercomputer project will attempt to simulate the human brain
In what is the largest and most significant effort to re-create the human brain to date, an international group of researchers has secured $1.6 billion to fund the incredibly ambitious Human Brain Pro...
Sycamore Networks: From $45 Billion to Zilch
There was a time when Sycamore Networks Inc. was the next big thing—a leader in the race to direct digital traffic across the Internet. — This is not that time. On Friday, Sycamore all but went out...
The Big Money Behind Hit Game Minecraft
It takes 3,000 employees for Zynga —the largest social-gaming company in the world—to generate some $200 million in annual cash flow. — From an office in Stockholm, a largely unknown company brought...
InfoArmy Retreats After Crowdsourced Research Business Goes Through The Floor. All Reports Now Free
InfoArmy — a startup built on the “Data 2.0″ concept of crowdsourced competitive intelligence — has today sent out a letter, printed in full below, to its researchers informing …