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December 12, 2011

Zynga IPO Tests CEO's 'Fearsome' Negotiating Style

Mark Pincus's prowess helped set the course for a $1 billion initial public offering. His challenge now is keeping up the same intensity at a publicly held company

December 5, 2011

IBM Analytics Help Memphis Cops Get 'Smart'

Software enabling IBM to find patterns in crime data is one of thousands of so-called smart-city projects aimed at improving urban services around the world

October 31, 2011

Autodesk Shifts R&D Spending to the Cloud

A top research and development spender is vowing not to cut back as it focuses on innovative delivery for its software

October 18, 2011

Speech Smack-Down: Siri vs. Android Voice Actions

Apple's Siri personal assistant app on the iPhone 4S can do even more than Google's Voice Actions and provides intelligence that Android doesn't yet match

September 26, 2011

Oracle Eyes Industry-Specific Software Buys

Co-President Mark Hurd says acquisitions could help Oracle intensify its focus on such vertical markets as financial services, banking, and telecommunications

September 12, 2011

Hewlett-Packard Rolls Out Security Software From Acquisitions

September 7, 2011

Getting a Handle on Big Data with Hadoop

The flood of information from social media and elsewhere is propelling companies' use of free and customizable software called Hadoop to manage it

August 15, 2011

Now Common in Five of Six Mobile Platforms: Total Control

Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility underscores the shift in the mobile market toward Apple's vertically integrated business model

August 1, 2011

Hiring Like It's 1999

The tech boom is fueling a surge in jobs and creative recruiting

July 6, 2011

Can Android Be Microsoft's Next $1 Billion Business?

Thanks to patent licensing deals with Android phone manufacturers, Microsoft is on its way to making big money with Google's mobile operating system

July 6, 2011

Getting People with Disabilities Back to Work

Companies and advocacy groups are stepping up efforts to provide jobs for the rising number of unemployed people with disabilities

July 5, 2011

'Do No Evil' Has No Place in IP Warfare

On the intellectual-property front, Google's loss at the Nortel patent auction may lead to more setbacks for Android in the mobile patent wars

June 24, 2011

Disappointing Hardware Sales Hit Oracle Stock

(Bloomberg) Oracle Corp. dropped in late trading yesterday after reporting a decline in hardware sales, fueling concern the top maker of database software may ...

June 8, 2011

Can the FT Help Publishers Quit Their Apple Addiction?

Ever since the iPhone and iPad arrived, publishers have spent millions building dedicated software to try to cash in on the app boom. Everyone who was ...

June 7, 2011

Virtual Shopping in 3D

Linda Smith walked on stage at the Spring 2011 Demo Conference in Palm Desert, Calif., on Feb. 28 and tried on clothes. Looking at herself in an interactive mirror, ...

June 7, 2011

Microsoft Kinect Lures Hackers

(This story was corrected to show that the developer kit will be available at a later date.)Matt Bell moves about an elevated podium in a conference room overlooking ...

May 27, 2011

Comics Should Embrace iOS Subscriptions

Magazine apps appear to be enjoying quite the bump, thanks to the introduction of in-app subscriptions to select titles. Wired, for example, is the fifth top-grossing ...

May 2, 2011

Quincy Cashes in on the Cloud

Inside a white metal fence laced with barbed wire on the outskirts of Quincy, in central Washington state, a construction crew maneuvers excavators that scoop up giant...

April 19, 2011

Tablet Market May Surge to $49 Billion

Apple (AAPL) and other electronics makers will generate $49 billion in sales of tablet computers by 2015, amid booming demand for devices that bridge the gap between ...

April 12, 2011

Starting Up: A Generation of Zuckerberg Wannabees

(Bloomberg) The Facebook application High School Memories lets people share recollections of their teenage years. It might surprise some users to learn that ...

March 31, 2011

Microsoft Wins Over Developers

Microsoft (MSFT) has delivered 1.5 million downloads of a tool kit to make applications for Windows Phone 7, a sign the operating system may be winning over developers...

March 24, 2011

Google Holds Honeycomb Tight

In the great mobile-device wars, Google (GOOG) has portrayed itself as the open-source crusader doing battle against the leaders in proprietary software—Apple ...

March 15, 2011

Apotheker Pushes HP into Cloud, Software

(Bloomberg) Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Léo Apotheker, announcing his strategy for the first time since taking the helm, plans a deeper push ...

March 3, 2011

Google's Android Spurs More App Jobs Than iPhone

Software engineers skilled in making applications for Google's (GOOG) Android mobile-operating system this week became more sought-after than developers for Apple's ...

February 25, 2011

Four Signs of Honeycomb's Rush to Compete With Apple's iPad

Now that the Motorola (MMI) Xoom is available, the first of many Google (GOOG) Honeycomb tablets is poised to battle Apple's (AAPL) iPad for consumer dollars and ...

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