Silicon Valley's hottest startup Silicon Valley operates on potential. Employers may not like it, but talented engineers switch jobs like Pony Express horses so they can be at a company that has a shot at dominating the future. Google and Apple (after the return of Steve Jobs) were those kinds of companies. Today, places like Facebook have people lined up knocking on the door to get in. Publ.Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:44:12 EDT Source: CNN.com
Indie labels rebel against MySpace MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have always portrayed themselves as champions of independent music. The company is fond of pointing out that it has been a springboard for such once-obscure bands as the Arctic Monkeys, which records for independent label Domino. Publ.Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:08:29 EDT Source: CNN.com
MTV rediscovers its musical mojo Judy McGrath, the CEO of MTV Networks, remembers the first time she saw one of the plastic fake guitars that are used in the video game "Guitar Hero." "I'm like, are you kidding me?" she recently recalled. Publ.Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:20:50 EDT Source: CNN.com
Everyone hates ComScore Last winter, when Google lost a third of its market value, analysts blamed a small web-research company based in Reston, Va., called ComScore. The firm had issued a report that said Google's domestic paid clicks - the number of times people click on an ad - had flattened. Analysts initially went berserk. Oh, my God! they gasped (we're paraphrasing here). Google's ad business is tanking! Publ.Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:34:37 EDT Source: CNN.com
Apple's stock hit by Web rumor Apple shares fell sharply Friday morning after an erroneous Web report saying founder and CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack. Shares quickly recovered after it became clear the rumor was not true. Publ.Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:09:15 EDT Source: CNN.com
The techie's new $1,600 throne The latest object of technophile lust is a sight to behold, with an exoskeleton climbing up its singular back and enough levers and knobs to land a Cessna. Herman Miller's much-anticipated office chair, the Embody (list price: $1,595), is finally rolling out this month. Six years and millions of dollars in the making, the Embody is ready to one-up its iconic predecessor, the Aeron, which in 1994 revolutionized the act of sitting down. Publ.Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:39:58 EDT Source: CNN.com