Sidestepping Apple: From Amazon to Condé Nast, Companies Rethink App Strategies
We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks...
View ArticleCompetitive Advantage: Microsoft’s Post-Wintel Strategy
Reading my RSS and Twitter feeds Tuesday night, I turned to a tech writer friend and said, “the Wintel Era just ended, and half of these people are fighting over whether demo tablets should have fans.”...
View ArticleBeating Expectations: A Short History of Amazon’s Future Tablet
On Wednesday, Amazon is holding an invitation-only press event in New York. It starts at 10 a.m. Eastern. We’ll be there. Nobody thinks they’re coming to write about anything with an E Ink screen....
View ArticleSamsung Takes a Bite out of Apple Down Under
Samsung and Apple have been doing a little kangaroo boxing in Australian courts these past few months, and Wednesday Samsung landed a haymaker when an appeals court overturned a ban on sales of their...
View ArticleA Split Decision With Google Earnings: Profits Up, CPCs Down, and an Odd...
In a letter to investors posted during Google's first-quarter earnings call on Thursday, CEO Larry Page announced plans for a dividend for owners of Google shares in the form of a new class of...
View ArticleBig Tech | Microsoft May Be Late to Tablet Fight, But Has the Cash to Keep...
Microsoft may be more than two years late to the tablet fight, but Windows and Office still spew so many billions every year that the world's third-largest company can still afford not to be great.
View ArticleBig Tech | Microsoft Dives Head-First Into Mobile Hardware With Two Tablets
Microsoft took the wraps off its best effort to take on Apple's iPad, dubbed Surface. Can Windows 8 and Windows RT models plus slick accessories like these keyboard/covers make a dent in Apple's total...
View ArticleBig Tech | If Surface Tablets Fail to Post Monster Sales, MSFT May Not Care
Microsoft's core business remains licensing software to partners who make the machines that run it. Which raises the question: Does Microsoft even care if the Surface sells? Some analysts don't think so.
View ArticleBig Tech | Google Better Bring More Than Cardboard Tubes to This Gunfight
Amid the cardboard tube fighting at its annual developer conference, Google I/O, the Mountain View company faces the challenge of topping two major rivals to see who owns June.
View ArticleBig Tech | Anil Dash: With the Surface Tablet, Fist-Swinging Microsoft Jumps...
In a world where Apple's white logo glows angelically in our shopping malls and Google exhorts us not to be evil, I'm ready to embrace a big tech company that's not afraid to get mean. And the Surface...
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