Intel Is Alive And Well: An Interview With CEO Paul Otellini
Think Intel is in trouble? Think that tablets are going to kill PCs? Better think again.
Eric Savitz, Forbes StaffThink Intel is in trouble? Think that tablets are going to kill PCs? Better think again.
Eric Savitz, Forbes StaffThough oil is still king in this country, nearly every major auto company is making a push to develop and manufacture electric cars. General Motors has the Chevy Volt, Ford produces an electric Focus, Mitsubishi manufactures the i-Miev, Toyota will soon offer a plug-in Prius, and Nissan--which recently had to stop taking orders until production and shipping could catch up with demand--puts out the Leaf. read »
Japan-based mobile gaming company Gree has acquired mobile social gaming network OpenFeint for $104 million. read »
A follow-up to my story yesterday about a recent study on Latino influence by NM Incite. Among other things, the study found that Latinos are under-represented on LinkedIn. This is surprising because Latinos over-index on Twitter and Facebook. I speculated that (a) perhaps Latinos are not self-indentifying on this network, and (b) that Latinos on LinkedIn might come forward if we simply asked the question, "where are they?" read »
A lot can change over the course of a year. Last year, the game industry faced a harsh economy and increased scrutiny as the U.S. Supreme Court decided to formally consider the legality of a California law restricting the sales of violent video games. The industry was hedging its bets on new hardware from Sony (PlayStation Move) and Microsoft (Kinect for Xbox 360) and hoping that Activision could serve up another hit with its Call of Duty franchise. read »
Written By Gene Zaino read »
I don't get out much, preferring to hole up more often than not in my evil compound. But I'm spending the week in Santa Clara, Calif., at Where 2.0. read »
Polycom (PLCM) shares are trading sharply higher in late trading on better-than-expected Q1 results. read »
After narrowly escaping the Congressional hatchet during last week's budget battles, the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has returned to a full-court press in pursuit of breakthrough advances in clean-energy technology, announcing plans yesterday to invest more than $100 million in five additional high-risk, high-reward research programs. read »
SanDisk (SNDK) this afternoon reported better-than-expected Q1 results. read »