Technology

This spoof of Apple product videos for the iPad 2 is spot on. "You'll buy it no matter what we say." Great product launch and masterful performance at the launch by Mr. Jobs, though. Here's a link to Apple’s real iPad 2 video for what it's…

This thing is pretty cool. Steve Jobs definitely is staying ahead of the pack with the new iPad. It's the same price as the old one but with a dual processor ad faster graphics, dual cameras and all the bells and whistles. Here's a spec…

I am excited about the opportunities ahead that social networking presents. Right now, Facebook is shooting itself in the foot by compromising user trust with dubious moves on privacy issues. However, if Facebook plays its cards right and…

By Rick Bookstaber In a recent post I laid the blame for the inadequacies of neoclassical economics and behavioral economics on the failure to take into account human context. By context I mean that humans make decisions that are colored…

Paul Kedrosky told Bloomberg's Pimm Fox that he doesn't believe we are in a social media bubble yet and that Facebook's valuation could go even higher in coming months. Revenue is doubling year-on-year at Facebook and that has Kedrosky…

Internet search is broken. Battered by spammers, content farms and black hat optimizers, the typical Internet search is a horrible mess. Try basic search terms like "washing machine". Or try a term relevant to this site like…

If you saw the last round of data for the burgeoning mobile market, you would understand exactly why Nokia and Microsoft are banding together. These two companies are also rans in a market that has shifted away from voice communication to…

In case you don't have the time to read my text version of the AOL acquisition of the Huffington Post, here is the Taiwanese animated version.

AOL is buying Internet News site Huffington Post for $315 million. Here's what you need to know about the deal and what it says about the tech world, investing and the economy. Mergers are tough Most mergers fail because the 'synergies'…

Earlier this week Google disclosed that it had run a sting operation on its main search page which clearly ascertained that Bing, a competitor search engine by Microsoft, was using Google's search results to tweak its own search results.…