Surprise! Jeff Bezos explains to Amazon investors why no profits are a good thing
Can a public company prosper catering only to its customers? — Jeff Bezos' annual letter to Amazon investors is always worth reading, a peek into the mind of arguably the most important CEO in the t...
Cornell NYC Tech, Planned for Roosevelt Island, Starts Up in Chelsea
IF all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City and for Cornell University.
Justice Dept. to FCC: Give small carriers a chance in next auction
The Justice Department told the FCC in a filing Friday that as it develops rules for the upcoming incentive spectrum auction, it must make sure that smaller players, like Sprint and T-Mobile, get acce...
Google has a single towering obsession: It wants to build the Star Trek computer
I first came across Google's interest in Star Trek back in the summer of 2010. A company spokesman wanted to show me the firm's rapidly improving visual search and speech-recognition technology.
Designer Nicholas Felton Leaves Facebook After Pioneering Timeline Overhaul
Nicholas Felton, who came to fame through many super-detailed infographics and reports about his life as quantified through data, is leaving Facebook almost two years after being acq-hired to work on ...
You Lookin' at Me? Reflections on Google Glass.
It's the wrong question.
U.S., China agree to work together on cyber security
(Reuters) - China and the United States will set up a working group on cyber-security, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday, as the two sides moved to ease months of tensions and mutual...
Google, Yahoo executives back CISPA through lobbying group
The battle raging around the Cyber Intelligence Security Protection Act (CISPA) just got a little dirtier. — A lobbying group that counts top executives at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as board memb...
Following ban, the US House of Representatives can again listen to Spotify
In This Week in Asinine, good news: The House of Representatives can once again listen to Spotify. — As reported in Red Alert Politics, The House is back up and streaming again.
EU court decision heralds multi-country European music licenses
(Reuters) - Europe's music royalties societies must now allow artists to sign up to a society of their choice and make multi-country licenses available to the likes of Amazon and Apple after a court b...