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Muddy Road Ahead for Yahoo? May 14, 2012 
Embattled Yahoo has a new interim chief executive. It announced Sunday that Ross Levinsohn, the company's global media leader, would take over as interim CEO following Scott Thompson's departure. Thompson's exit comes amid controversy over an unearned computer science college degree listed on his resume. Also leaving the company are several board members.
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Closing the Tech Ed Gap: Earning a Degree in Employability May 01, 2012 
The current brouhaha over the possible increase of federal student loan rates masks a greater problem: We are graduating a generation of people with college-level skills that our companies don't value. This is the root of the "jobless recovery." Businesses need capabilities that fresh graduates don't offer; thus the recent Huffington Post report that half of today's college graduates are under- or unemployed.
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Greenpeace Lambastes Apple, Amazon, Microsoft for Creating Foul Clouds April 17, 2012 
Behind every cloud there supposedly is a silver lining, but a new report from Greenpeace, titled "How Clean Is Your Cloud?" may mean stormy weather for Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. The three tech giants use "dirty" energy to power their data centers, Greenpeace said. It looked at 14 of the largest tech companies' data centers and offered assessments of how much power they required, as well as what type of energy they used.
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Will a Different Yahoo Be Good Enough? April 11, 2012 
When he announced plans to lay off 2,000 employees, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson said it was a necessary step in the company's strategic plan to move forward. Critics noted, however, that he had not explained exactly what that plan was. Now, via an internal memo made public, Thompson has obliged. Beginning May 1, the company will be divided into three core divisions: Consumer, Regions and Technology.
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Best Buy and CEO Brian Dunn Part Ways April 11, 2012 
News of Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn's resignation has resulted in some raised eyebrows, to say the least. There were no disagreements, Best Buy said -- the company and Dunn came to a mutual agreement that it was time for new leadership. Director G. Mike Mikan will serve as interim CEO while the company searches for a new chief.
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Venture Capital Today: Recycle Your Sock Puppet April 06, 2012 
If your friendly sock puppet is made of recyclable materials, use it now to write a check! The Internet boom is back, but in an interesting new-millennium twist, it is followed closely by the clean technology sector. Earlier this year, the National Venture Capital Association reported that Internet storage company Dropbox received the largest single private investment of the fourth quarter of 2011 with a $250 million funding round.
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Yahoo Lops Off a Limb April 05, 2012 
Rumors that Yahoo was prepping for a huge round of layoffs have turned out to be true. On Wednesday, the company announced it would lay off 2,000 employees under a plan designed to prepare it for the future. Scott Thompson, the company's recently appointed CEO, said Yahoo's larger goal was to focus on its core competency of online advertising -- and it was the pursuit of that goal that required the company to eliminate so many positions.
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Sarbanes-Oxley - Not Just for the Big Fish March 24, 2012 
Why should you care about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? If you are the CEO or another executive within a large public company, the answer is obvious: because you have to. If you don't, your business -- and you -- will face serious repercussions, including possible jail time. Not good.
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Facebook Locks and Loads 750 IBM Patents March 23, 2012 
Facebook has reportedly purchased 750 patents from IBM in an effort to build its portfolio for better defense against patent suits. The social network giant, which plans to kick off an IPO in a matter of weeks, is in an especially vulnerable position against intellectual property suits.
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Is Yahoo Trolling? March 14, 2012 
Yahoo on Monday launched a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the social
network infringed 10 patents relating to online social networking and
advertising. The move garnered a significant amount of criticism. Its
timing comes just before Facebook is slotted to make its initial public
offering, and the nature of the suit has even raised concerns that Yahoo
is acting like a patent troll.
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Apple Forgets Steve Jobs and Announces a Non-Magical iPad March 12, 2012 
Over the years, I've watched company after company lose its invaluable edge because executives critical to its success moved on, or died, and didn't pass on critical skills. Only IBM really made a massive effort not to screw this up, and even it eventually forgot, forcing a massive reset -- which almost caused it to fail -- in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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The Privacy Shell Game, Part 1 March 07, 2012 
With much fanfare, the Obama administration recently unveiled a blueprint to improve consumer privacy protections online in the United States. Components of the plan include an online consumer privacy bill of rights and a stakeholder-driven process to specify how those rights apply in specific business contexts.
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Yahoo May Turn Loose Thousands in Massive Reorg March 05, 2012
Yahoo may be readying for a significant change in corporate structure -- and headcount. CEO Scott Thompson is getting ready to restructure the company in a move that will entail layoffs that could number in the thousands. "The indications are that the layoffs will be massive," said David Cadden, a professor of management at the Quinnipiac University School of Business.
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ACTA Action, Part 3 March 02, 2012 
With SOPA and PIPA out of the picture for the foreseeable future, ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, has becomes the world's eminent piece of online piracy legislation. Many countries, including the U.S., have signed the agreement, but questions linger. In Part 3 of our three-part podcast about ACTA, TechNewsWorld speaks with Maira Sutton from the U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation
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White House Puts Privacy Under Bright, Hot Lights February 27, 2012 
Internet privacy appeared on the big stage last week when the Obama administration unveiled its plans on the subject, which included a bill of rights for consumer privacy. The President's privacy framework evoked reactions from stakeholders ranging from enthusiastic to guardedly optimistic.
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Apple's Board Embraces Democracy February 24, 2012 
Much of the activity at Apple's annual shareholder meeting was business as usual, according to reports. The company's directors and CEO Tim Cook were endorsed by a very wide margin. There was talk of the issues facing the company, such as what to do with that cash hoard, and why Apple hasn't handled the treatment of the factory workers issue better.
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ACTA Action, Part 2 February 24, 2012 
The U.S. Congress buried the Stop Online Piracy Act and its cousin, the Protect IP Act, following a wave of public protest earlier this year. With those pieces of legislation effectively taken off the table, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has gained attention. A slew of countries, including the U.S., have signed the agreement, but skepticism rages on.
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When in the Cloud, Trust - but Verify February 22, 2012 
Quite a lot has been written about the importance of due-diligence in a cloud environment. Sometimes the importance of security and compliance-related vetting in the cloud is easy to justify, like when you're evaluating an off-premises public cloud hosted at a new service provider. Other times, executives might take some convincing.
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