The convergence of tech giants and social networking features continue. Just as rumors are swirling that MySpace is developing its own webmail service, both Google and Yahoo have rolled out new additions to their social networks or social network-like services. The Google news is probably more inter...

Here’s the latest action: The Steve Jobs saga continues — Talk about the Apple chief executive and his health issues remain everywhere you look. Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons says the media’s coverage of Apple “bites.” As you might expect after their heated exchange the ...

I’ve talked about the regrettable 3-D TV trend at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in a separate post. But I spotted some other trends among the 2,700 exhibitors at the show as well. Gesture control and multi-touch screens: Part and parcel of good industrial hardw...

Here’s the latest action: Yahoo troubles hit Flickr — George Oates, one of the Yahoo-owned photo site’s early employees, is among the latest layoffs. Apple to build 3D desktop? — It’s exploring the possibility, according to patent filings published by MacRumors. Palm ma...

I’m not sure which classic rock song best describes the latest in the Microsoft / Yahoo battle: “The Song Remains the Same” or “Saturday Night’s All Right (For Fighting)”? Both apply in their own right as yes, Yahoo has rejected yet another proposal by Microsoft, ...

Adobe, Google and Yahoo are about to make it easier to build rich multimedia websites in the Flash file format (SWF) without sacrificing any “Google juice” (and, um, whatever the Yahoo equivalent is). Both search engines have been developing ways to fully index Flash content without requ...

After a crazy 13 weeks, Yahoo hopes life will start to calm down — That’s the gist of this message to company employees from Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang, after he and its board of directors rejected Microsoft’s purchase offer. Yahoo may get punished in the stock market today, ...

The past two decades have seen some great second acts in business – people or companies that were up so high, then fell so low to the point of possible extinction, only to come roaring back to the top again. Donald Trump and Apple are two that immediately spring to mind. Soon, we may have to ...

Company earnings reports involve a lot of numbers. Unless you’re a student of Wall Street, or are following a company closely, it can be hard to decipher exactly what these numbers mean. Usually a good way to know how well a company did is to look at a stock price once the numbers are out. Las...

Here’s the latest action: Cleantech investments laugh in the face of recession — Everyone knows the economy is in the dumps, right? (Heck, it even says so in The New York Times.) Well, no one told the VCs putting their money in cleantech. The Cleantech Group reports that cleantech invest...