The day has finally come as many has long predicted and hoped: Facebook today filed its S1 registration . We're combing through the numbers at present--we'll update as we get a better grasp on the figures--but here are the initial highlights. Net income for 2011 reached $1 billion in 2011, on revenue of $3.7 billion, up from $606 million on revenues of $1.97 billion in 2010
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The step-by-step guide to using Google's best offerings, but spreading your online eggs into more than just one big basket out in Mountain View, California. Google has a new universal privacy policy taking effect March 1.
Read More »Why Your Company Needs To Hack Itself
Computer security expert Jeremiah Grossman thinks that traditional cybersecurity doesn't have what it takes to fight off today's wired intruders; he advocates companies and governments invite hackers to find weak spots in their systems. Although the year has just started, 2012 is turning out to be an annus horribilis for cyberattacks. Shortly after the New Year, 24 million Zappos customers found out that hackers had accessed their personal information.
Read More »True Crime: Founders Gone Astray
News flash: Entrepreneurs are people too. And as with any group of people, it includes a few bad eggs--and some downright rotten ones
Read More »What Does The Perfect Mobile Interface Look Like? (Don’t Ask Siri)
Why we’re still waiting for the perfect mobile interface. Illustration by Robert Samuel Hanson Shortly after the iPhone 4S went on sale this fall, its marquee feature, the Siri voice assistant, sparked a heated debate in the tech world: Was Siri a great computing interface, or was it the greatest?
Read More »The Great Tech War In India
In our last India edition of The Great Tech War of 2012 , we noted how Facebook was emerging as a clear winner. Since then, things have gotten more competitive.
Read More »Do You Have a Privacy Problem?
Google, Facebook, and others have made consumers particularly sensitive about their privacy online. That means you need to be sensitive about it too. Big tech companies are no strangers to privacy problems
Read More »Generation Flux: Danah Boyd
Our talk with danah boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She studied at Brown, MIT Media Lab, and UC Berkeley, and was named "High Priestess of the Internet" by the Financial Times
Read More »What a CES Booth Actually Costs
The exposure is tremendous: 140,000 attendees and 5,000 members of the press. But the costs are steep.
Read More »Land More E-mail in Your Targets’ Inboxes
With the acquisition of OtherInbox, e-mail deliverability company Return Path hopes to help businesses do just that.
Read More »Microsoft Bids Farewell to Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with Preview of Windows 8 and Two-Way TV
LAS VEGAS Microsoft kicked off the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Monday night here much as the company has done since its first CES keynote in 1998 extolling the virtues of Windows and promising big things from its operating system in the future.
Read More »3 Ways to Outwit Your Competition
Is it time to wage battle, leverage your business model, or just poke fun of your rival? Here's how to tell
Read More »A Sneak Peek At The TVs Of The Future
Each year begins for technologists and geeks with the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for CES . It's easy to write off this massive technology trade show as an outdated, overrated, and overhyped gizmo-fest. But I think it's incredibly valuable, and often results in real marketplace knowledge ahead of the curve.
Read More »New Start-up for Bill Gates’ Successor
Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up.
Read More »New Start-up for Bill Gates’ Successor
Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up
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