Signpost, a community-powered local deal site that enables neighbors to find and share deals expands beyond New York City. Formerly Postabon, it will spread out to three other major cities namely: Boston, Chicago and Los...»

A plan that claims to save New York City $50 million over the next 5 years was announced today in the joint effort of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and NYC Mayor Bloomberg. Microsoft will do...»

Juniper Networks today released a report of their financial results in a three-month period, ending September 30, 2010. The company experienced a third quarter increase of 23% on a year-over-year basis, and 3% increase sequentially, at $1,012.4 million. ...»

Rakuten, one of Yahoo's close competitors in Japan, has filed a petition to the Fair Trade Commission against the search engine tie-up between Yahoo Japan and Google. This goes in opposition to Yahoo Japan's...»

Widgetbox started by making widgets—little pieces of the web you could post just about anywhere.  It was liberating, and it was fun.  But it didn’t last.  Open social networks freed much of the content once reliant on...»

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about crowdsourcing and whether or not the benefits suggested by proponents are overstated. It’s not that crowdsourcing doesn’t have value, the problem I have with it when applied to generalized questions is

Today's announcement that Intel will invest $8 billion in new chip fabs in Arizona and Oregon is part of a trend that brings back more chip manufacturing to the US. It's because labor costs are not a factor