Business

"What made Instagram worth $1 billion to Facebook?" When asked this question recently, I responded with an immediate, "Nothing." I'm not usually so terse or emphatic with my answers, as any longtime reader knows. But in this case,…

I thought I would mix it up a bit with this clip of a Volkswagen factory in Dresden, Germany. The factory is very cool.

Here’s a cool graphic from the EIA on what drives the price of a gallon of gasoline in January 2012. We paid $4.20 last night in California!

Apple has released a report on working conditions in its suppliers’ factories. It highlights a form of control fraud that criminology has identified but rarely discussed. I write overwhelmingly about accounting control fraud because it…

Stunning! Guess it’s time for our annual physical with Dr. iPhone.

In the ongoing series of posts on technology's threat to existing labor roles, Global Macro Monitor highlights this video on robot farmers.

Apple has introduced a 'music locker' service which does away with the need to upload most of your music. I have tried it out in addition to Amazon and Google's competing services and I like it, especially the part about not having to…

Here's the message from AA: "American Airlines filed for reorganization under Chapter 11. We took this action as part of our efforts to secure our long-term success in delivering the highest standards in air travel. We are committed to…

Here's Steve Jobs from the start-up phase at NeXT after he had been forced out of Apple in 1985. In this video, he is very much the passionate visionary we knew him to be in his second stint at apple, and with less bluster and more of a…

Walt Mossberg takes a look at Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet. How does it stack up against the iPad and the new Nook Color?