Maybe one of the biggest blunders in the history of American business was when former Pepsi executive John Sculley and the Apple board of directors fired Steve Jobs . The ensuing nose-dive almost put Apple out of business. The decision put Apple years and  years behind the likes of Microsoft.  Now back in charge of [...]

On the June 7 episode of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Microsoft’s search engine—whoops, “search delivery system” Bing—had one of the better in-show promotions I’ve seen in a long time. Basically each time Stephen Colbert said “Bing” Microsoft would donate $2,500 to cleanup and relief efforts in the Gulf Coast. Stephen—and guests James Carville [...]

Twitter has just announced that they are banning third-party ad networks from using the Twitter API to insert ads into a user’s stream. “Why are we prohibiting these kinds of ads? First, third party ad networks are not necessarily looking to preserve the unique user experience Twitter has created. They may optimize for either market [...]

These are just staggering numbers. According to Google’s AdPlanner stats, Facebook is the number one most-visited destination on the web. Weighing in at an unfathomably heavy 570 billion page views and 540 million users, the ubiquitous social network outranks every other non-Google site, taking more than 35% of all web traffic measured.