Wal-Mart Stores’ acquisition of the VUDU online movie service may presage more efforts by the world’s largest retailer to goose sales of digital entertainment… Tweet This Post

Facebook dominates the social networking landscape when it comes to membership and mindshare, but many have speculated that the company’s focus on user growth has strained its ability to ever turn a profit. On Tuesday, those concerns were momentarily quieted as Facebook announced that it’s now free cash flow positive… Tweet This Post

Print has its advantages. In addition to its portability, a magazine or newspaper is easy to flip through to find what you’re looking for, or run across articles or ads you didn’t know you’d want to read. Whatever other advantages the Web has, and notwithstanding Dave Winer’s “river of news” concept, this kind of quick [...]

Kai-Fu Lee became famous in 2005 when the engineering whiz left Microsoft, where he had created Microsoft Research Asia, to head search giant Google’s operation in China. Microsoft sued, charging that he violated a noncompete agreement, but eventually settled. This time, as Lee leaves Google, he’s sure to avoid a lawsuit, because he’s starting his [...]

Samsung Electronics surprised the world in 2002 when its market value surpassed that of Sony’s. It marked Samsung’s emergence as a truly important player in the electronics industry and its brand image has since improved consistently. Now the Korean electronics giant, which is the world’s second largest semiconductor maker after Intel, is within reaching distance [...]