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Farewell to Fast Forward (01 August 08:49) |
| This is my farewell column. Fast Forward has been a weekly labor of love, mostly, since early 2002. Now I'm taking an extended leave from Fortune to write my book, The Facebook Effect. |
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From Brainstorm: Our new $1 million prize, and more (26 July 01:30) |
| Fortune this week announced the Legatum Fortune Technology Prize, an annual $1 million award intended to reward for-profit efforts to provide products and services to the poor through the us... |
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HP's grand vision: measure everything (18 July 09:04) |
| Imagine walking down the supermarket aisle with a cheap device you could hold up to a tomato. If the sensor detects a pesticide residue, you'd know the "organic" label is a lie. Similar tool... |
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Brainstorm survey: What tech leaders want (12 July 12:31) |
| As the iPhone 3G emerges, Apple's mobile device has captivated the leaders of the tech industry. That's the most certain conclusion Fortune reached after surveying 325 industry leaders who w... |
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Why Microsoft will win Yahoo (08 July 12:26) |
| In the end, Microsoft is almost surely going to end up owning Yahoo's search business. That's the only conclusion I can come up with, having spent months talking to Microsoft's senior leader... |
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We want Brainstorm Tech to rock! (27 June 10:27) |
| In just three short weeks, we launch the next phase in Fortune's Brainstorm conference series, Brainstorm Tech. The original Brainstorm ran in Aspen from 2001 until 2006, and this one will r... |
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How one CEO Facebooked his company (13 June 09:27) |
| When Jeremy Burton arrived as CEO at private-equity-owned Serena Software last year, he found a respectable but boring 25-year-old firm still profitably churning out mainframe-oriented produ... |
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Computer games as liberal arts? (09 June 03:43) |
| Though many adults imagine the frightening Grand Theft Auto when they think of video games, kids appear to be subtler thinkers on the subject. Not only do many of them intuitively realize th... |
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With Microsoft, OLPC may finally succeed (16 May 03:59) |
| Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative announced Thursday that the Windows operating system would soon be available on the so-called XO, also known as the "$100 laptop." In... |
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Big tech: A shelter in the storm (16 May 03:17) |
| Technology is different. Despite pervasive economic uncertainty, that's the message that many of the industry's big firms are sending in their latest earnings reports. We may be buying fewer... |
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Why Microsoft isn't buying Facebook (09 May 08:56) |
| When Microsoft walked away from its blockbuster bid for Yahoo, the media sought desperately to keep the news coming even when there wasn't much left to say. That seems to be how The Wall Str... |
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Microsoft: Decidedly not R.I.P. (02 May 09:58) |
| Oh how frustrating when the mighty haven't fallen. |
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Mimic nature - invent faster (25 April 08:30) |
| I'm sitting at a dinner table at Fortune's just-completed Brainstorm Green conference in Pasadena. Janine Benyus, the high priest of a new field called biomimicry, has drawn a little sketch ... |
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Is Facebook worth your time? (19 April 12:37) |
| Facebook, the 71-million-member social network, has attracted lots of adults during the last year as it became a global technology cause celebre. But I'm hearing more and more of these grown... |
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Why contrarians should consider AMD (08 April 08:25) |
| Advanced Micro Devices, the little PC chipmaker that couldn't, then could, then couldn't, is struggling again. What has it tried repeatedly to do? To compete both successfully on product wit... |
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Muhammad Yunus on tech, profit and the poor (03 April 08:20) |
| "Technology is making more changes in our way of life than ever in human history," says Muhammad Yunus. "The way the Internet and the mobile phone are spreading, you cannot compare with any ... |
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Comcast-BitTorrent: The Net's finally growing up (28 March 05:11) |
| Something remarkable happened on Thursday - an Internet service provider and a peer-to-peer software company announced a collaboration and agreed to work together. |
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Why tech stocks have a glorious future (28 March 12:52) |
| As a financial writer, I spend a lot of time looking at numbers. Right now, the numbers say that the world has a huge and unremitting hunger for technology, communication, Internet access, a... |
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Help Wanted: Adults on Facebook (22 March 12:08) |
| It's already hooked America's youth, and now Facebook is set on winning the hearts of two potentially lucrative demographics: Adults and the rest of the world. |
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The socialist state of ThoughtWorks (14 March 08:02) |
| Roy Singham wants you to know that ThoughtWorks, the Chicago-based software company he founded 15 years ago, and where he is now chairman of the board, is a growing and profitable enterprise... |
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Branson: 'There aren't very many virgins left...' (04 March 11:16) |
| The delightful Richard Branson proves yet again that you don't have to toe the line in order to be a successful businessperson. In launching another intriguing business, this time to make pr... |
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Geography, social media and breakfast (29 February 10:23) |
| The next big thing is the integration of location-based information with social networking applications. At least that's one conclusion I took from a high-energy "social media" breakfast for... |
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Microsoft is finally growing up (22 February 11:31) |
| Microsoft is at a critical moment in its history and is taking brilliant steps to remake itself. Thursday's announcement that it would open itself up to far greater interoperability with oth... |
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Video games meet the China Olympics (15 February 10:47) |
| Ted Owen, CEO of Santa Monica-based GGL Global Gaming (GGL), has told Fortune he has signed a deal to make video gaming an official welcome event of this summer's Beijing Olympics. A Chinese... |
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Searching for online video's holy grail (04 February 08:26) |
| A seemingly endless number of companies are engaged in creative ways to make money from online content by displaying advertising. But an up-to-now stealth startup called iAmplify is coming o... |
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Google's new headache (02 February 04:46) |
| With Google's stock already down considerably in recent weeks, the Web's next two most powerful players today struck a powerful blow for equality and influence in the increasingly-important ... |
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Author Paulo Coelho's profitable Net obsession (02 February 02:59) |
| In 1999, best-selling author Paulo Coelho, who wrote "The Alchemist," was failing in Russia. That year he sold only about 1,000 books, and his Russian publisher dropped him. But after he fou... |
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Why Microsoft's Yahoo bid makes sense (01 February 10:50) |
| With Google's stock already down considerably in recent weeks, the Web's next two most powerful players today struck a powerful blow for equality and influence in the increasingly-important ... |
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Old media meets empowered customers (24 January 09:14) |
| Right after the close of the DLD tech/Net/media conference in Munich this week, I was running on a treadmill, looking out at the cathedral and church spires, the only things higher than the ... |
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Oracle and Sun - Two software paths that converge (18 January 10:32) |
| Oracle and Sun both made impressive acquisitions of software companies this week. For its part, Oracle in buying BEA Systems is making the last great stand for licensed software - old school... |
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Dead aim at the cable industry (08 January 11:09) |
| When it comes to outsize ambition, you gotta admire the guys at Building B. This until-now secretive startup is making a flat-out assault on the cable TV industry. The company talked a littl... |
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Technology and peace: What's the connection? (05 January 12:35) |
| As 2008 gets underway we don't have peace. (Just look at this depressing list in Wikipedia of ongoing conflicts worldwide.) But Daniel Stauffacher doesn't get depressed. Instead he thinks te... |
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2007 in tech (and in this column) (28 December 09:09) |
| It's not risky to be an optimist when it comes to predicting tech trends. This past year, like every other recently, was one of stunning advancements as well as further empowerment for ordin... |
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Second Life still living its first one (21 December 03:56) |
| In our culture of hype, the Second Life virtual world had its day in the sun. Almost a year ago, I contributed to the hubbub with a big story in Fortune about how even IBM CEO Sam Palmisano ... |
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Why you'll finally use LinkedIn (14 December 10:11) |
| For years, I've been befuddled by LinkedIn. I knew it was supposed to be the social network for work, but to me it was like war. "What is it good for?" I asked myself repeatedly, even as I o... |
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About Face(book) (06 December 12:50) |
| "The press rarely grants an autumn reprise for those it loved in the spring," once wrote the great New York Times columnist Russell Baker. How true in the case of Internet-darling-turned-rev... |
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A talk with the new video game king (04 December 10:53) |
| The $19 billion merger announced Sunday of Activision with the gaming division of French media company Vivendi creates a company that Bobby Kotick, soon to be its CEO, says is unlike any tha... |
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The best tech company you've never heard of (27 November 04:06) |
| The Internet will never be fast enough. While under ideal conditions a packet of data travels over the network at the speed of light, it turns out that's too slow to deal with the complexiti... |
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Amazon 'Kindles' readers' imagination (21 November 08:01) |
| Who knew faster cellphone networks would result in a new form of book? |
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So Google's down? That means BUY (16 November 09:07) |
| When any company has been as successful as Google it's tempting to believe it has nowhere to go but down. And many point to potential weak spots: growing internal bureaucracy, insurgent sear... |
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Facebook's strategy: More than ads (09 November 07:21) |
| Don't compare Facebook's new ad system to anything you've seen on Google, television, or any other advertising medium you can think of. |
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Facebook's new strategy: More than ads (09 November 03:41) |
| Don't compare Facebook's new ad system to anything you've seen on Google, television, or any other advertising medium you can think of. |
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Disruptive technologies cross continents (31 October 09:57) |
| Abhishek Nayak just turned 20 yesterday, and he spoke on a panel of young people here in Delhi at the Fortune Global Forum. He's a committed programmer who hands out a business card that sho... |
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Microsoft signs two-part Facebook deal (25 October 06:57) |
| With its $240 million equity investment announced Wednesday, along with a commitment to expand its pre-existing relationsip as exclusive third-party representative for advertising on Faceboo... |
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Tech's time of tumult (19 October 10:15) |
| This is a historic moment in the history of technology. All at once, we are shifting to a mobile, ad-supported, on-demand, socially-connected, truly global network. |
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Why Google should invest in Microsoft (12 October 07:59) |
| Of course Google's not investing in Microsoft or Yahoo. But Google has a big and growing problem that more successful competitors and a more balanced market could help it solve - an ever-gro... |
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The $100 (well, almost) laptop is here (05 October 10:55) |
| There's only one other device out there right now as cool as the iPhone, and until recently it was impossible to get your hands on one. But now you can buy the greenest computer there is, wh... |
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Facebook CEO visits Seattle, Microsoft schemes (27 September 04:39) |
| Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was spotted Tuesday in Seattle, headed for meetings with executives at Microsoft. That lends credence to the unattributed reports in various papers this week tha... |
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Where MySpace and Facebook are headed (22 September 04:06) |
| For all of Facebook's recent successes, MySpace continues to thrive. That's the theme of my recent big Fortune story on the MySpace/Facebook battle, "As Facebook takes off, MySpace strikes b... |
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eHarmony does what tech ought to do (14 September 10:31) |
| Most dotcoms don't arise from anything so touchy-feely as a desire to lower America's divorce rate. But eHarmony is a singular Internet company -- one that shows how many great business oppo... |
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