HP's Turnaround Effort Fails To Plug Leaks
Has it been only one year since Meg Whitman took the reins at HP? The latest in a daisy chain of top executives, Whitman…
Articles by Kevin Kelleher
Fri, 14 September 2012
Tue, 21 August 2012
How eBay Turned Around a Dying Business (Secret Word: Mobile)
As Yahoo plots a new course under CEO Marissa Mayer, it may want to study what's happened with eBay in recent years. After a long and…
Wed, 15 August 2012
Amazon Pursues Growth at the Risk of Brand Identity
It's a fundamental law of tech business: Grow or die. Few online companies are better examples of that maxim than Amazon, which has made a…
Thu, 19 July 2012
How AT&T & Verizon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Data Hogs
If you can't beat 'em, charge 'em: Not long ago, AT&T execs criticized smartphone users as data hogs. Not anymore. With a series of…
Wed, 18 July 2012
What's Killing the Printer Business?
The printer, once an indispensible peripheral, has become so peripheral that sales are in decline. How did the printer business reach this…
Tue, 17 July 2012
Amazon Gets Ready for Sales Taxes
It was a good run, and a long one: After nearly two decades of largely tax-free e-commerce, a growing number of states are forcing online…
Mon, 16 July 2012
Tablets & PCs: One Industry or Two?
It's old news that tablets are eating the lunch of old-line PC makers, but the size of the bites can be surprising. A series of reports last…
Mon, 9 July 2012
Kayak Tests the Post-Facebook IPO Market
In the wake of the troubled Facebook public offering, Kayak is finally launching its own IPO into uncertain waters. The move seems…
Clearwire on the Ropes: How a Broadband Contender Can Succeed by Failing
Clearwire is a big player in a growing industry, but it hasn't made a cent of profit. The Bellevue, Wash., broadband provider has lost…
Thu, 28 June 2012
RIM Reports Losses, Layoffs, and Further Blackberry 10 Delays
RIM CEO, Thorsten Heins, at BlackBerry DevCon Europe 2012 The news from Research In Motion just gets worse and worse. The maker of…
Wed, 27 June 2012
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Facebook Quiet Period Ends. Analysts Say: Meh [Updated]
The government-mandated quiet period surrounding Facebook's initial public offering has ended, meaning Wall Street investment banks that…
Microsoft: The Method to Its New Meanness
Much of Microsoft's 30-year history is a tale of bulldozing the rest of the world into doing what's best for Redmond. Although the company…
Tue, 19 June 2012
Spotify Turns Up the Volume on Pandora
Spotify is getting serious about building its audience in the U.S. The London-based music-streaming service said today it's introducing an…
Face.com: Facebook Reinvents the Kodak Moment
After weeks of rumors, Face.com confirmed yesterday that it has been acquired by Facebook, a move that underscores the growing role of…
Mon, 18 June 2012
Pandora: Time for a Bowie-Style Reinvention
File sharing, MP3 players and online stores transformed the way we listen to music. Now the cloud is bringing even bigger changes. Pandora…
Thu, 14 June 2012
Apple's Opportunity: Disrupt the Credit Card Business
Apple has never been shy about bringing change to complacent industries. Its products have reinvented music distribution, mobile phones and…
Wed, 13 June 2012
Dell Sheds $2 Billion in Retreat From PC Business
Less than a decade has passed since Dell was the gold standard in PC sales. Eschewing retail stores in favor of a website where shoppers…
Tue, 12 June 2012
Why Twitter May Have the Edge in Online Ads
For all their popularity, social networks have turned out to be barren soil for advertisers. Facebook famously has 901 million users, but it…
Fri, 8 June 2012
Sony's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Once upon a time, Sony was what Apple is today: The premier brand in consumer electronics, a wellspring of innovative products that…
Wed, 6 June 2012
Nasdaq Tries to Wipe Mud Off its Face Using $40 Million Wad of Cash
An apology and $40 million. That was the first step Nasdaq OMX Group took toward making amends for the unprecedented trading delays and…
Can Airtime Revitalize Facebook?
It's hard to look at Airtime, the video-chat service founded by Napster bad boys Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, and not think…
Tue, 5 June 2012
Why Facebook Was More Valuable as a Private Company
Facebook was worth a lot more as a private company than it has been since going public. What do retail investors know that private…
