Tablet Sales Expected to Surge, While Netbooks Fade Away

The tablet market is expect to dominate PC sales for a number of years to come, but forecasts about consumer electronics products are often wrong. It was only two years ago that the industry and researchers expected netbooks wo…

Groupon IPO Could Value Coupon Company at $15 Billion

Groupon is planning an initial public offering that would value the three-year-old online coupon distribution site at as much as $15 billion — more than double what Google reportedly bid on the company last year — The New Yor…

ITT Dismantles Its Empire, Ending the Age of Conglomerates

The 91-year old company was once the leading diversified industrial company, the product of hundreds of leveraged buyouts in the 1960s and ’70s. But its breakup is yet more proof that the conglomerate model makes little sense t…

How One Writer Is Riding the E-Book Revolution

A novelist realizes that a book she wrote 20 years ago — now out of print — can be revived today as an e-book. Here’s the story of how she took that old print volume and turned it into an e-book, complete with new title, new …