When tech writer Alex Salkever issued his five tech predictions for 2010 last year, he boldly proclaimed that India’s nascent tech sector would see its first blockbuster startup emerge. That blockbuster turns out to be MakeMyTr…
A year ago, few expected Angry Birds or Groupon to be among 2010’s stars, but the underlying trends that powered their success were plain enough. So picking individual companies to rise or fall this year isn’t worthwhile. What …
Ever since rebuffing Microsoft’s takeover bid, Yahoo has been keen to placate angry shareholders, and Carol Bartz’s latest moves are doing that still. But by failing to keep up with true social networking a la Facebook, Yahoo r…
The story of WikiLeaks illustrates how the Internet is changing cyber warfare. In the battle to control the political conversation, independent groups can now get information out as easily as governments can, and it’s harder th…
Look out, Demand Media: Here comes another cheap content-creation competitor. Meet BlueGlass, the newest entrant in the rapidly expanding field of producing low-cost text and video articles designed specifically to snag search …