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With IPO Buzz Building, RingCentral Hires New CFO

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 14 at 1:12 pm PT

The cloud-based phone service adds to its pre-IPO buzz by landing a CFO from a public company.

Why Honeywell Is Suing Nest Labs

Lauren Goode in News on February 7 at 11:04 am PT

Will a fight over thermostat technology heat up?

Picking the Brightest, Most Efficient Bulb

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 17 at 3:41 pm PT

Katie offers a brief guide to the latest energy-efficient light bulbs.

2012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin’ and Security Gets Spendy

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 8, 2011 at 8:59 pm PT

Tech prognosticator Mark Anderson is back in New York with his annual predictions for the world of tech in 2012.

GE Comes to Silicon Valley to Build Software

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on November 16, 2011 at 9:58 pm PT

You’ve probably never thought of General Electric as a software company. And yet, it kind of is.

Thoughts on the First Day of Apple’s Era Without Jobs

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 6, 2011 at 5:56 am PT

Today Apple faces its first full day without Steve Jobs. His greatest legacy may be the potential that still lies ahead.

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RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Stands A Chance…in 2012

Sarah Rotman Epps and Ted Schadler, Senior Analyst and Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research in News on April 18, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Business has changed since the first BlackBerry smartphone hit the enterprise in 2002. Individual workers, rather than CIOs and IT departments, have more influence now: Forrester’s data show that more than half of U.S. employees say they have better technology at home than at work, and 37 percent of U.S. information workers bring technology to the workplace that they use first at home.

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Intel's Otellini Named to Obama Jobs Council

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 18, 2011 at 10:52 am PT

Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini is not one of the liberal tech leaders who helped President Barack Obama get elected. But he is nevertheless heeding the administration’s call.

Hulu Rolls Out a Highlights Show–”The Morning After"

Peter Kafka in Media on January 17, 2011 at 11:27 am PT

Miss last night’s Golden Globes? Hulu has a summary, along with everything else you missed on TV last night. But maybe you’re better off reading about it.

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Hand-Wringing in Comcast-NBC Deal

Amy Schatz and Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 14, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Major media companies are raising concerns that government conditions on Comcast Corp.’s impending deal to acquire control of NBC Universal from General Electric Co. could put them at a disadvantage in future negotiations to shape the burgeoning online video market.