Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dropped the ax today, and it landed on Kevin Johnson’s neck. Johnson, Microsoft’s soon-to-be ex-President of Platforms &...

networks, acquisitions, deals Gregory T. Huang wrote: Nobody’s going public these days, but the acquisitions market is certainly heating up. A day after...

All things green are proving to have such a solid audience now that for many larger companies, "green" properties are proving to be tasty and timely acquisitions. ...

Anthony Kaufman from Indiewire has more on Netflix's decision to shut down the Red Envelope Entertainment division, Netflix Folds Red Envelope; Exits Theatrical...

Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the...

Glam Media has hired Michael Adair, most recently Google’s head of North American sales finance, as their new VP Corporate Development and Finance. Prior to Google...

Biotech, deals, Rituxan Luke Timmerman wrote: Big biotech news came yesterday from Basel, Switzerland, where pharmaceutical giant Roche announced an unsolicited...

***The recent economic upswing was the first economic recovery since the 1960s in which the number of women in the workplace fell. (New York Times) ***I didn’t know...

Yahoo! Inc. announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company's 2008 annual meeting of...

deals, acquisitions, Devices Wade Roush wrote: Attleboro, MA-based Needletech Products, which manufactures needles used for range of medical procedures such as...

Eric "Scoop" Eldon is reporting that corporate podcasting service PodTech has been acquired by ViewPartner for less than� one million dollars. Eldon notes,...

Interesting win-back from the browser for WPF.  Whats are the two take-aways for public sector developers and decision makers?  First, user experience...

Filed under: MetaFor most of us here, at some point the sensation of breaking the news takes hold and turns into something else, something much more like an addiction. It...

The biggest gaming business in Eastern Europe, Prague's 1C Company, is buying its partner BUKA for $80M. BUKA is based in Moscow and is owned by private equity investors...

deals, acquisitions, Education Wade Roush wrote: Boston-based ConnectEDU, which provides online tools to help high school students, parents, and counselors...

What would you do? My friend Andrew Goodman, in an open letter to Jerry Yang, was kind enough to offer a few suggestions. Do you have any ideas? What would you focus on?...

Originally uploaded by miso,@m0nty called the iphone jumpn the shark, and yes its about the 500 apps, and yes its about the freemium app upsell, but i just wish they'd...

This week TechCrunch announced an open API for its CrunchBase database of tech organizations and related information. The quickly growing repository contains structured...

Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war. According to a statement, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and...

I am going to write this in 5 minutes. I recently visited HP R&D Labs in Bristol, and the trip was worthwhile. What did I learn? HP has a notion called Everything...