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Apple is probably the best business competitor in the world. And when you win, eventually you will have to deal with anti-trust accusations, much as Microsoft dealt with in

It's hard to pick stocks in cloud computing, because so many of them have become absurdly overvalued. So what I do is look at a handful of them, learn

RightNow (Nasdaq: RNOW), the best little technology company in Montana, today is powering to new all-time highs fueled by excitement about cloud applications and its recent success in garnering

Riverbed Technology, a company we've covered closely over the last year, is beefing up its clould services product portfolio in a bid to become the leader in cloud networking

Silicon Valley startup ConteXtream (yes, the company name spelling is that silly!) announced yesterday that it landed $14 million in Series B funding to go after a big problem

Yesterday I was invited onto CNBC to discuss "Cloud Computing," an incredibly broad topic that somehow got boiled down to four stocks, thanks to the magic of television.

After months of talking to smart people and taking notes, my latest notebook is filled. Usually what I do at this point is read back through the whole thing

BIG SKY, MT -- RightNow Technologies (Nasdaq: RNOW), a provider of customer-service software, today launched an ambitious new platform to open up the way customer service applications are built

Service-as-a-software (Saas) company Marketo is riding the trend of real-time analysis of customer behavior, making it one of the fastest enterprise software companies in the venture market and a

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,

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

If you think about what's happened the last 4-5 years in smartphones, it's truly remarkable. Apple has created an entirely new, multibillion-dollar franchise. Nokia and RIM's dominance have been

There are wide-ranging reports, including this one from the San Jose Mercury News, that Intel and the Federal Trade Commission are in settlement talks and a resolution may be

LAS VEGAS -- You've heard about the "cloud," yeah? That's a fancy marketing term for connecting to computer services over a wire. In the old days they called that

LAS VEGAS -- I entered the show floor here at Interop, a long-running IT and networking technology conference, only to be bombarded with the words "cloud computing." For those

Yesterday, Palm (PALM) shares traded up on lots of option-buying activity and chatter that it could be acquired. Today, the shares are backing off. Financial reporters, traders, and stock-message

Not Lady Gaga, just Gaga. Admob is out with its latest metrics report and it says that smartphone traffic is growing like mad, on pace to nearly triple in

Service provicers are spending the most time testing the Blackberry OS, but Android-based phones are gaining and the Microsoft Windows and Symbian OS continue to lose share with developers,

Okay, so I'm superficial. I like to simplify things, boil them down. Also, I'm not in Barcelona, so I can afford to make aloof comments about news developments thousands

Today there's a barrage of news streaming from the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona (I miss the tapas), and I see two news items dominating: The new HTC

A big focus at CES in Las Vegas this week is on the growing smartphone wars, as a number of mobile manufacturers gear up to battle the dominance of