It's Friday, so rather than do any real work, I've been soaking in the news, networking, and catching up on all the gossip surrounding the developing sale of Slide

The engine of value creation, economic growth, and mortgage payments is jobs. To build stuff, you still need to hire people. Unfortunately this morning's jobs report was a bit

You have to commend the Wall Street Journal for assigning the resources and churning out the investigative pieces as part of the "What They Know" series. But I thought

There is a lot of buzz, hype, critical analysis, and downright drivel out there about trends in marketing and ad spending. Some have even asked whether advertising is dead.

Well, who doesn't like to say, "I told ya so?" I certainly do, which is why I'm pointing out that Intel has settled (again) with the Federal Trade Commission

At the Rayno Report, we are always looking at hot new growth trends. Why not rehab? Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan are doing it.

A great why to find advantageous companies is to look at those driving key technology market trends and generating good business results when the rest of the market is

RightNow Technologies, a scrappy CRM company that is starting to become a more serious competitor with CRM giants such as SAP, Oracle's Siebel, and Salesforce, just announced a solid

The bandwagon story of the day is Google looking into creating a "Facebook competitor" by talking with popular online gaming companies (Wall Street Journal). That's funny, I thought Facebook

Very interesting article by Peter Kafka in AllThingsD this morning about Time Inc.'s frustration with Apple. Apparently Time executives are mystified as to why Apple won't give them control

Calix shares got hammered pretty hard on Friday after the company issued weak earnings guidance on the quarter. But investors might have been panicking about a whole lot of

Tech earnings reports are rolling in like Budeweisers in a NASCAR infield, and we've got it covered. What's striking is the range of results, from earnings bombs like Netflix,

Broadband equipment maker Calix is rallying on its first post-IPO earnings release, after it announced that revenue increased 50%.

One thing becoming clear in as the volatile stock market marches into they unknown world of bank stress tests, serious government intervention, and bank roulette -- technology is set

Funny how fortunes swing. Just a few weeks ago, BP was racing quickly to the bottom as Apple was contemplating world domination. This week, their fortunes have reversed --

Just because an economy is crummy, or just sub-par, does not mean you cannot make money. Plenty of companies have proven that innovation can create value even in a

One of the themes we've been following here is the buildout in more telecom connectivity -- whether it be Ethernet connections or all those data connections to mobile-phone towers

Yesterday, I pointed out that it's absurd to consider Microsoft a declining company when in fact it's been making an average of $15B a year in profit and has

Today's headlines are filled with the usual obsessions: bank risks, online video, iPhone's and search.

Following the reports yesterday of dysfunctional data downloading on the iPhone 4 via AT&T's network, AT&T sent us an email today with an offical response -- saying it's a

It had become popular in the mainstream media to popularize the "dying" of Microsoft. This is absurd. What is common with a "dying" company is a deterioration of its

Word on the street is that more iPhone 4 users are complaining about mobile data upload caps (hat tip to Gizmodo). Shocking, isn't it, that as carrier networks are

After a long, drawn-out bidding process, Google has finally scooped up ITA for $700 million.

Apple and Google Android application development communities continue to flourish while others languish.