I bought Google in its early days because I figured out the business model, and that it was simply a ubiquitous newspaper with a gargantuan circulation that would make billions by selling ads around its content. But I didn't buy Facebook because I have never understood it. But here's another angle that bothered me.
What does Facebook sell? You could say advertising. They sell advertising to the tune of several billions of dollars each and every year. If Facebook is a media company, we then have to ask ourselves: What kind of media channel does Facebook provide and how does it compare to those other media channels?
This new digital age is increasing the employment opportunities for those with a liberal arts education. Many fields have been great at inventing new technologies and driving the cost down. But now that those technologies are mature, we need people who, with a light touch, can insert them into everyday life.
This app problem is just one skirmish in a long-brewing war between the ebook distributors. Consumers may not realize that ebook distributors have another weapon -- a dirty little secret actually -- to use in their fight: censorship. Yes, censorship.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Apple, already the world's most valuable company, hit the $600 billion level for the first time Tuesday.Only one other company has be...
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The company that began advertising for an incredibly lifelike Steve Jobs doll won't sell the figurines after all because of pressur...
I'm still not using the phone functions, taking calls or texting; but something else remarkable is going on. Have any of you heard of Siri? Forget about talking to people who don't listen! Now Apple makes talking to your phone completely worthwhile -- but more on that another time...
Shares of Apple Inc. reached a new all-time high Monday. The technology giant’s stock traded at $426.97 US, up $4.57, or one per cent late in the...
TORONTO - Without having insider information it's pretty much impossible to accurately predict the future direction of technology and the ideas that w...
Did Gore's premature announcement contribute to any potential iPhone customers not making a purchase that they otherwise would have? l Gore is an Apple board member and, as such, any public pronouncement he makes holds much more weight than rumours circulating on the internet.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) -- Apple Inc. is in talks with Hollywood studios about offering a system that would allow people to buy movies on iTunes and ...
Like the disappearance of the landline telephone, the withering of cable will be less about long-time subscribers making a bold shift than about successive generations below them simply failing to sign up for a service they see as an unnecessary encumbrance.
A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.
Some people hate Apple, and it is mostly based on how much other people love Apple. Apple products engender strong feelings, one way or the other. Any company can do this, though. It just requires that you take a chance upsetting some people and focus on what you love.
Although there will be many tributes and eulogies written about Steve Jobs, this one is simply my personal observations of how this one visionary man ...
TORONTO - A stream of fans and passersby stopped outside Apple stores across the country on Thursday to pay their respects to founder Steve Jobs, with...
The death of Steve Jobs resonated across all mediums that he touched . Thursday morning's front pages tried to take note of the legacy of Apple's co-f...
Steve Jobs, Apple's founder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56. An iconic figure, Jobs is credited with ushering in countless consumer techn...
To those familiar with "Soviet" Russia, it's startling to see the billboards advertising Western cars, Samsung electronics, Subway fast food, Italian clothes, Paris fashions. Quite a change from the Moscow I remember where billboards advertised "Glory to Soviet cement."
If you have a moment, spare a thought for Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the co-CEOs and largest shareholders of Research In Motion, Ltd., also kno...
PARIS - A French anti-racism group has threatened to sue Apple over an iPhone application called "A Jew or Not a Jew?" that allows users to consult a ...
Having the power to create an app that a brand or media entity can control, update and change on the fly (that isn't beholden to another media entity) not only makes sense, but points us to a new day and age where brands can develop their own media.
While I'm a firm believer that detoxification is an essential part of optimal health, I acknowledge there is a lot of misinformation on how to detox s...
Some of the country's best-known multinational corporations closely guard a number they don't want anyone to know: the breakdown between their jobs ...
