One lesser-known aspect of Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility: It brings the technology giant a step closer to offering a Google baby monitor.
You may have noticed that the appeals to go paperless from banks, credit card issuers, and brokerages have reached fever pitch lately.
In the technology world, a form of breaking bread can involve sharing hardware schematics.
AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA from telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom for an estimated $39 billion in cash and stocks, the companies said in a joint release Sunday.
In late 2010, the words "New! ChaseMilitary.com" suddenly popped up on J.P. Morgan Chase's homepage. The new site offers one-stop shopping -- and a much higher profile -- for Chase's offerings to the military. That may have something to do with the continued success of financial services company United Services Automobile Association (USAA), which caters to military members and their relatives. From its 1922 start insuring officers, USAA has expanded into many other areas, including adding a banking unit, USAA Federal Savings Bank, that has grown to $43.6 billion in assets and is now the country's 31st-largest bank in terms of deposits.
If clamping down the privacy settings on your Facebook page isn't enough to help you sleep at night, take a cue from the youth of America.
Matthew Callahan's laptop is sitting in its case, which is most likely where it will stay for the next nine months he's on the road.
It seems the internet has its share of digital wallflowers.
Google has quietly been stocking up on tools it will need to challenge Facebook in the social networking game, and says it's on the verge of launching a "social component" to a number of its core products.
It's been two weeks since Facebook users took to blogs and message boards to voice their concerns about Places, a location-based service that allows people to check in to gathering spots via the social network.
Hasbro Inc., the nation's No. 2 toymaker, said Thursday it is not having discussions regarding the sale of the company, contradicting a published report that briefly drove the company's stock higher.
Facebook unveiled a host of changes at its f8 developers conference that are already ruffling some users' feathers.
A year ago, when all sorts of investments -- stocks, bonds, commodities -- were being tossed on the scrap heap, dyed-in-the-wool bargain hunters who had the courage to sift through the market's ruins were richly rewarded.
If you watched the Grammy Awards Sunday night, it would appear all is well in the recording industry. But at the end of last year, the music business was worth half of what it was ten years ago and the decline doesn't look like it will be slowing anytime soon.
The great and good from the world of social media met Wednesday at Davos and agreed their medium still hasn't reached its full potential, with one speaker joking that the really cool stuff wouldn't happen "until we're dead."
Carolyn Fletcher's honeymoon started heading south the moment she and her husband landed in Cancun. No one was there to pick up the newlyweds.
On second thought, maybe you should leave home without it.
These days, it seems that most Americans carry three things in their pockets or purses at all times: keys, a wallet and a phone.
A battle is brewing over U.S. state sales taxes on online purchases. Internet retailers Amazon.com and Overstock.com are scaling back their operations in states that demand they collect these taxes. While this won't dent their revenues much, it foreshadows a larger clash over the taxation of internet commerce. Cash-strapped states are firing the first shots.
The tech industry, once one of the hottest sectors for job seekers, is falling victim to dried up spending as the recession takes its toll.
Recession notwithstanding, U.S. consumers seem pretty addicted to online commerce: The U.S. Census and Forrester Research both expect total sales of goods and services procured online will reach $235 billion this year, up about 15% from 2008 spending.
A decade ago Marc Benioff declared that software was dead. In 1999, while on leave from his job at Oracle, he convened a group of developers in his downtown San Francisco apartment building to build Salesforce.com. Soon thereafter he paid the quirky rockers the B-52's $250,000 to perform at a bash where he distributed buttons with the word "software" crossed out, Ghostbusters-style. And that was all before he had signed up a single customer.
Affluent customers have started to use the internet for purchasing expensive products. But not all the premium brands have joined the party
E-commerce is expected to rise a robust 17 percent this year, despite a sluggish economy that has bruised many brick-based retailers, according to an annual survey
Is your airline telling the truth about the weather?
When Henry Harteveldt looks to the future of travel, he sees fees. Lots of fees.
Texting your boss that you'll "brb" (be right back) can save a lot of time and energy, but chances are it won't save you money.
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Some people are taking the law into their own hands by using cell phone jammers. CNN's Kiran Chetry discusses the issue.
Diesel has cultivated an edgy image by selling pricey jeans and other apparel to urban hipsters, but when it came to the web, the company, like so many fashion brands, was behind the curve.
Back in 2000, the handheld electronic book was thought to be as much a part of the future as MP3s, broadband video, and ad-supported websites. That year, Forrester Research predicted $251 million in sales of e-book content by 2005. It seemed a modest goal, but today the market is so small that Forrester doesn't even track it. Held back by a lack of available titles and stifling copy protection, the e-book reader gathered dust while other dotcom-era innovations flourished.
The creative minds behind such TV shows as "Thirtysomething" and "My So-Called Life" are launching a Web-based show, hoping to find the artistic freedom online that they say is lacking on broadcast networks.
Online shopping recommendations are the Internet's answer to the old-fashioned up-sell. "You like that red Prada hobo bag? You'll love this black canvas number from Dolce & Gabbana." And apparently they work. Consumers last year spent $220 billion online, according to Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru, who estimates that recommendation systems can account for 10% to 30% of an online retailer's sales.
Here's a familiar scene: Lunch hour at the bank, and you're waiting in line for a teller. You're there to deposit a few paper checks, as well as to ask about a service charge you noticed on your last statement (which annoyingly wipes out any interest you earned). The minutes tick by as your stomach growls, and you begin to think: There's got to be a better way.
Online shopping recommendations are the Internet's answer to the old-fashioned upsell. "You like that red Prada hobo bag? You'll love this black canvas number from Dolce & Gabbana."
Retail prices can be confusing. What does "list price" mean if nothing ever actually sells at list? When is a sale a genuine deal? Money Magazine explains why things cost what they do - and how to use that knowledge to get a better deal.
It arrived on a Tuesday morning. I flipped open my buzzing Motorola cell phone and found a text message from someone called Casey@fullrate.dk. "Hush hush wink wink," it began, "Castleguard Energy (...
Right about now, the number of mobile-phone subscribers in the United States is closing in on 225 million - a number equal to 75 percent of the population.
ONCE UPON A TIME, SMALL BUSINESS WAS seen solely as the domain of idiosyncratic, iconoclastic outsiders, willing to forgo the security of corporate life to venture out on their own. But ...
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The typical business today is awash in e-mail, from the critical to the mundane to the absolutely worthless.
Cutting out the banking middleman has long been touted as the next big thing for consumer lending.
The software that runs businesses' sales, finance, and operations, has never been the most exciting field - but lately, it's been downright sleepy. Thanks to a merger frenzy over the last few years, Oracle, SAP, and to a lesser extent Microsoft dominate enterprise software sales to the world's largest companies, and annual sales growth in this arena has slowed to a 3 percent trickle.
"Push media," a long-forgotten late-'90s Internet buzzword, is making a comeback on cell phones.
American TV viewers are no strangers to product placement. They've been seeing it in the past few years on everything from 24 to American Idol. The hottest trend: "brand integration," where product...
American TV is already packed with product placements.
There's some money you just don't want to take a chance with at all. Maybe it's your rainy-day fund or your kid's college tuition for fall or just a piece of your portfolio that you want on the sid...
First came IT outsourcing. Now comes investment banking.
Geoffrey Bowker, executive director of a research institute at Santa Clara University, remembers a time when going to academic conferences meant leaving office concerns behind, hearing provocative lectures and getting to experience a new city. He especially liked visiting art galleries.
At first glance, the numbers don't look good for organized labor. In the 1960s, unions represented a third of U.S. workers. Today total involvement is about 17 million out of a workforce of 142 mil...
A rebuilt New Orleans may emerge with a state-of-the-art communications infrastructure, according to a published report.
Let the battle begin.
Online retailer Amazon.com is preparing to offer a digital-music service, according to a published report.
We're all subject to life's little frustrations. Take, for example, those annoying subscription cards that fall out of magazines. It's enough to drive you batty.
The government took its first steps towards President Bush's 10-year plan for a national health care network that would push the $1.6 trillion industry away from paper records and create electronic files for all Americans, according to a news report.
Just as legal music downloading is taking off in earnest, the major record labels are in talks to raise the price they charge online retailers for song downloads, a newspaper reported Monday.
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Cell phone service providers Sprint and Nextel announced plans to combine in a deal valued at about $35 billion Wednesday.
More and more Americans are skipping the mall and shopping online.
If you're using Wi-Fi, chances are you're doing it from your home office or a coffee-shop hotspot. Corporate IT departments have shunned wireless networks, mostly because Wi-Fi can open a huge secu...
Online retail sales are expected to grow 27 percent to $144 billion in 2004, but the pace of growth marks a slowdown from last year's robust 51 percent increase, according to an annual industry report Tuesday.
Jobs in the service industry are moving overseas to India, China and other countries at a much faster pace than had initially been expected, a study said Monday.
More and more Americans are skipping the mall and heading online to shop. In each of the next five years, sales via the web will grow at a 19 percent clip, says Forrester Research. By 2008, consumers will spend nearly $230 billion or 10 percent of all retail sales online.
The last thing a company wants in its factories, trucks, or corporate offices is a layer of dust. But "smart" dust? That's a different story.
It's undeniable: Paying your bills online pays off. It's fast. It's easy to set up. It's cheap, if not free. It means fewer late fees. It saves you hours a month. Plus, you can cut down on the pape...
Year after year of double-digit insurance-premium hikes have some small businesses fearing for their health. Some have stopped providing health insurance. But an increasing number are offering "con...
THE SKINNY ON FATTY FOODS At a recent meeting of the British Medical Association, talk of imposing a 17.5% value-added tax on fatty foods to curb the country's obesity problem died quickly. Strange...
Coldplay, my favorite band, is performing on a Saturday Night Live rerun tonight, but I wouldn't have known about it had I not gotten an e-mail this morning. The message came from something on AOL ...
By all rights, E-Trade should be a goner--just like eToys, eAuto, and every other company founded on the belief that the prefix "e" exempted it from all the rules of business. So why is E-Trade not...
ECONOMY Budgeting for the Military
The music business is trapped in a new-economy time warp. While the rest of us plod through Scandal Summer 2002, record companies are still dealing with "paradigm shifting technologies," talk of ca...
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Quick. Name the country's fastest-growing online brokerage firm. I bet you're wrong. I was wrong too. Because it's not Ameritrade, E-Trade, TD Waterhouse or any others that you see advertised on TV...
Like many a fad, the Internet has succumbed to the law of journalistic physics--we boosted it on the way up, now we badmouth it on the way down. How we swooned in 1998! The Net! The Net! It would c...
Here's a smidgen of Christmas cheer to brighten up what's been a pretty bleak year so far: The online retail business is finally hitting its stride. Really.
Best invention that'll change life as we know it. Enjoy your home? Sure you do. But how about one that turns on lights, heats your dinner and tells you the neighbor stopped by while you were out? I...
Seeking financial advice is a natural impulse. Expertise, confirmation, confidence--we want all these things at different times in our lives. But seeking advice is fraught with uncertainty: Will it...
Deutsche Bank took out a big ad in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago. Its headline: IDEAS ARE CAPITAL. THE REST IS JUST MONEY. J.P. Morgan Chase, in its debut annual report, proclaims in bold...
ROBERT STERLING Senior analyst, Jupiter Research
Picture this: You're watching your favorite prime-time TV show and are suddenly taken with the Cosbys' living room set. With a few clicks of your remote control, you get information on the make, mo...
The numbers are, of course, mind-numbing. E-commerce is a $20 billion industry now. The best market researchers' estimates--which (unlike, say, dot-coms' IPO red herrings) tend toward the conservat...
These days, you can pretty much throw a rock in any direction and hit a forecaster predicting that this year's online holiday shopping season will be the biggest one yet. Sure, the numbers are impr...
Where do small businesses go wrong on the Web? As far as Larry Pearl and Sandeep Thakrar are concerned, the biggest pitfall is ignoring the basics of marketing, which they know a little about. The ...
In recent months the action in the Internet sector has provided a whole new definition for the word "volatility." Since their April highs, eBay, Amazon.com, Yahoo, AOL, and E*Trade have combined lo...
Don't feel stupid if you're baffled by the recent spate of telecommunications deals. Though some of the pacts are quite deft, the majority are brainbusters. They pose incredibly confusing questions...
Information technology has created more wealth faster than anything ever. The market value of Yahoo, just three years public, has grown from $34 million to $27 billion--more than the entire U.S. st...
Without a doubt, online brokers are changing the way America invests. They've made buying and selling stocks cheaper, faster, easier and--dare we say--more fun. Investors are adopting the same do-i...
Online companies such as bookseller Amazon.com and auctioneer eBay may be showing the Internet's potential to transform consumer retailing, but the real action is in a less-hyped area: business-to-...
Since concerns about security, privacy or scams linger around Internet shopping, it's no surprise that an industry has popped up that aims to assuage those fears with a seal of approval. But the me...
Some 110 or so national Internet service providers (ISPs) would like to be your gateway to cyberspace (with another 4,900 regional players at the fringes), and what largely separates one from the o...
When USWeb, a $60-million-a-year outfit that helps companies integrate the Web into their corporate networks, recently merged with CKS Group, a firm that specializes in online marketing, it was eas...
Wichita Falls, Texas, has long been known for its Hotter 'n Hell Hundred cycling tournament--but not for groundbreaking telecommunications law. That changed on New Year's Eve, when a judge in the W...
Until recently, there was no such thing as truly paperless bill paying: Even if you paid your bills online, you still had to get a bill in the mail first. But now, thoroughly computerized bill payi...
Executives at AT&T hope that bringing in the new guard marks the end to another annus horribilis, one marred by free-falling market share in its core long-distance business, a botched merger attemp...
Believe it or not, people still subscribe to Prodigy--you remember, the original online service, the one America Online left in its dust? In fact, there are 600,000 such souls, lonely but still log...
With all the hype about online stores such as bookseller Amazon.com, which recently raised $54 million in an initial public offering of stock, you may be wondering if it's time to take the plunge a...
Buying a PC that costs much less than average (currently $2,000 or so) used to be a risky proposition. Computermakers riveted together yesterday's technology and knocked a couple hundred dollars of...
If you've considered shopping in cyberspace with your credit card, you've probably also worried that a hacker might steal your account number, leaving you stuck with a huge tab for charges you didn...
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