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Founders Gain Clout in Venture World
As venture-capital firms pile into deals in order to find the next Facebook or Twitter, some entrepreneurs are calling more of the shots, picking and choosing whose money they will take and at what price.
- Top 50 Start-Ups | Video | Methodology
- Web Is Money Magnet
- Veteran Investor Defends Start-Up Boom
- Which VC Firms Hold Top Bragging Rights?
- How Last Year's Winners Are Faring Today
- Investors Pile on Social Media
Sony Picks Possible CEO Successor
In a sign Sony has anointed a possible successor to Howard Stringer, the company plans to combine its videogame and consumer electronics businesses and promote Kazuo Hirai to oversee the unit.
- Stringer Interview: Hirai Is 'Leading Candidate'
- Sony's Hirai, in His Own Words
Bill Would Curb Data Gathering
Sens. McCain and Kerry are circulating proposed legislation to create an "online privacy bill of rights," a sign of bipartisan support for efforts to curb the Internet-tracking industry.
- More on Privacy: 'What They Know' Series
- Five Aspects of Online Privacy
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H-P Under Fire for CEO's Role in Selecting Directors
Hewlett-Packard's board is again coming under fire, this time from a shareholder advisory group that contends H-P's new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was too actively involved in remaking its board.
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NetApp Buys Storage Unit From LSI
Data-storage gear maker NetApp agreed to buy LSI's external storage systems business for $480 million, the latest acquisition in a series of deals in the data-storage business.
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Mexican Phone, TV Firms Raise Ante
Three powerful billionaires, lambasting one another as "monopolists" and "duopolists," filed complaints against each other, ratcheting up a battle over Mexico's $35 billion telecommunication and broadcast markets.
Techies Get to Work at Hacker Dojo
Hacker Dojo in Mountain View is space where computer techies find a friendly place to work or participate in sessions on advanced data mining or old-fashioned lock-picking. And yes, they do have a happy hour.
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Nokia Siemens Deal Delayed by China
Nokia Siemens said its planned acquisition of most of Motorola Solutions' network-equipment assets has been delayed as Chinese antitrust authorities review the deal.
Digital 'Magazine' With One Subscriber
A new iPad app crawls over half a million Web domains to find specific reading material that would be of interest to users, according to their social network and online reading behavior.
- digits: Better iPad App: Zite or Flipboard?
- Video: Zite Makes Keeping Up With News Easier
Micromax Cuts IPO Size
Indian mobile handset maker Micromax Informatics has cut the size of its initial public offering by about 30%, reflecting the turbulent Indian stock markets this year.
Move Over, Apple! My Tablet Cost $200
How to convert a Barnes & Noble Nook Color into a fully functioning tablet computer.
- digits: Hacking the Nook to Make an Android Tablet
- Vote: Does this make you more likely to buy it?
Tata Consultancy Hopes to Recoup Iceland Loans
India's Tata Consultancy Services said it remains a creditor to Iceland's Kaupthing Bank Hf, which went bankrupt in 2008 while the software exporter was offering some technology outsourcing services.
Sprint in Talks for T-Mobile USA
Sprint Nextel is again discussing options for combining its business with rival T-Mobile, as the two struggle to keep customers from defecting to larger rivals.
- Heard: T-Mobile Deal Is Marathon Not a Sprint
- Digits: Sprint/T-Mobile Deal Talks
- Spectrum Pressures Spur Partnerships
Warner to Offer Movies via Facebook
Warner Bros. said it will start renting movies via Facebook, the latest effort by movie studios to find new revenue sources as consumers buy fewer DVDs and spend more time online.
- Digits Live: Facebook Tests Movie Rentals
- Companies Test Video Models
Google Backs Mandela Project
Backed by Google, Nelson Mandela's foundation is putting thousands of documents about the battle against apartheid online.
- Photos: Mandela's Writings
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TiVo to Offer Debt to Fund Litigation
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Texas Instruments Narrows Guidance
Google Takes Heat Over App Security
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Hitachi Deal Marks Streamlining
Wyoming Plays It Cool
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Spotify Hits Subscriber Milestone
TV's Next Wave: Tuning In to You
China Media Push Into the Web
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Skype to Roll Out Ads
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Google Buys Web Video Start-Up
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Net's Memory Figures in Google Face-Off
Mahindra, Cisco Sign Pact
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AOL Closes Deal for Huffington Post
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Savvis CEO Says Hasn't Hired Bankers
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Chinese Firm Settles Piracy Suits
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Nokia to Sell Qt Business
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Writers Get Close in Video Interviews
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Facebook Dominates European
New Browser From Firefox
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Europe Weighs U.S. Mobile Technology
Google Cranks Up M&A; Machine
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Ciena's Loss Widens
Internet Access Blocked in Libya

The Evolved iPad 2
The new iPad 2 is thinner, lighter, faster and more powerful than the original, says Walt Mossberg. It offers an excellent balance of size, functionality and price, and keeps Apple ahead in the tablet race, at least for now.

Samsung, LG Refuse to Lie Down in 3-D TV Fight
Maybe 3-D TV makers should invest in more comfortable sofas. Then they might have seen the uproar coming over whether users can watch while lying down.
Loyal3 Pushes Customer Loyalty Through Stock Sales
Many companies have customers and stockholders. A San Francisco startup called Loyal 3 hopes to help turn the former into the latter.
Digits Live Show: Is Tablet Market at Risk for Bubble?
A new report from J.P. Morgan warns of a possible over-build of tablets in 2011, predicting that some tablets won't sell well against the iPad 2.
Companies Ask Workers to 'BYOT'
An increasing number of companies are asking employees to bring their own smartphones to work, pulling back from the standard practice of procuring and assigning company-owned equipment.
Email Emotion-Checker Cools Down
Since last year, a Canadian startup called Lymbix has offered a program that examines the emotional tone of a person's emails for aggressive and otherwise unprofessional language, just like spell-checkers look for typos. Now Lymbix is refining its product to be a little less pushy itself.
Silicon-based Light Bulbs a Big Step Closer, Startup Says
NEC's New Remote Control: The Human Arm
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Bakery Gives Rise to Web Following
Popular San Francisco bakery Tartine has attracted a devoted online following of home bakers whose obsession prompts them to share every crumb of their new hobby in online forums.
Here, Tweeting Is a Class Requirement
Businesses including Sprint Nextel, Levi Strauss and Mattel are sponsoring college classes and graduate-level research to get help with their online marketing from the young and hyperconnected.
Apps to Trade Funds on the Go
Mutual-fund companies, investment and research firms are all rolling out more smartphone applications that give mutual-fund investors a better mobile experience.
- Podcast: Buying and Selling Gets Easier
Reply All: The Button Everyone Loves to Hate
You know that feeling: You hit Send—and your heart nearly stops. After almost two decades of constant, grinding email use, we should all be too tech-savvy to keep making the same mortifying mistake. Sadly, we are not.
- News Hub: The Perils of 'Reply All' | Audio

Technology Report

Top 10 Life-Changing Apps
From a handy way to store a range of passwords to an application that will help keep track of ongoing alcohol consumption, The Wall Street Journal Europe presents 10 apps you can't live without.
Even Better Than the Real Thing
"Augmented reality" is the latest buzz technology to grip the digital world. The commercial opportunities for companies that embrace it are vast, even if not immediately obvious.
Pinning Down the Cloud
It's been likened to the Industrial Revolution in terms of its potential to change lives. But just what is cloud computing and how can companies turn it to their advantage?
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What They Know

Your Apps Are Watching You
IPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. 13th in a series.
Online Trackers Rake In Funding
Venture capitalists are plowing money into companies that help target online advertising, despite public concern about privacy and potential government restrictions.
S.F. Bay Area
Facebook Woos Future Neighbors
Facebook is hoping to win over its new neighbors in Menlo Park by engaging the community early in its move. But some residents remain wary of the company's impact on the city.
Tech Innovation Awards
2010 Technology Innovation Awards
Among the winners: computer screens that can bend, adjustable eyeglasses, a low-cost genetic test, an online marketplace for receivables and a new way to battle malware.
- The Winners, Category by Category
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Paper-Thin Screens With a Twist
The Gold award in The Wall Street Journal's 2010 Technology Innovation Awards goes to Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute for technology that brings the commercial development of high-quality flexible displays closer to reality.
The Winners, Category by Category
From computing systems to wireless, the most innovative technologies in 17 categories, as chosen by the judges.
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They Won. And Then What?
An update on past winners of the Journal's Innovation Awards.

Venture Capital Dispatch

Double-Down On Fusion-io May Pay Off For NEA
How do you turn a $2.5 billion venture capital fund into a success? Perhaps, like New Enterprise Associates has done with Fusion-io, by doubling down on the best companies in your portfolio.
The Next Big Thing: Which VC Firms Hold Top Bragging Rights?
Today, The Wall Street Journal published its second annual list of the 50 most-promising venture-backed companies. Which venture capital firm owns the most of them?
Zite Goes After Flipboard With Digital Tablet Magazine
Start-up Worio originally launched a service that would help to redefine search engines by helping people discover items that were related to what they were searching for. Now, under the new name of Zite, the company is using the same machine learning technology from Worio for a new product.
The Daily Start-Up: InCube Parts Ways With DFJ Network
Google Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Give HubSpot $32M
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Solar: Jefferies Sees Sunny Side Of Italy
In the wake of new rules in Italy last week regarding solar energy installations, Jefferies & Co. renewable technologies analyst Jesse Pichel late yesterday sent a note to clients summarizing some observations from a a conference call yesterday with two individuals involved in the market: lawyers Carsten Steinhauer and Anna Vesco with McDermott Will & [...]
Semtech Up 5% On FYQ4 Beat, Q1 View
Shares of mixed-signal chip maker Semtech (SMTC) are up $1.40, or 6%, at $23.90 after the company reported fiscal Q4 revenue and earnings ahead of estimates, and forecast the current quarter's results comfortably ahead as well. Revenue in the three months ending in January rose 36%, year over year, to $116 million, beating the average [...]
NTAP To Pay $480M For LSI 'Engenio' Storage Unit
Storage networking equipment vendor NetApp (NTAP) this afternoon said it will purchase the Engenio business of chip maker LSI (LSI) for $480 million in cash to boost its standing in products supporting video and high-performance computing applications. Engenio's rack-mountable storage devices feature multiple ports for fiber channel and SAS data transmission and software that LSI [...]
Netflix: A 'Sell,' Though Not A Short, Says Gabelli
Shares of Netflix (NFLX) came under pressure today, falling $2.45, or 1.3%, to $193, which was in part just the weak overall market and in part the current trend to identifying competition that could stem the company's growth in online streaming subscribers. Yesterday, as I noted, Goldman Sachs spoke negatively about the threat from Warner [...]
IBM: Price Targets Up All Around Following Analyst Day
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