Twitter: All grown up, but can it find a job?
No need to question Twitter's bona fides as a useful service, but can Costolo, Dorsey and team figure out how to start paying the rent? The first in a series of articles leading up to Fortune...
View ArticleWhy mobile payments can't come soon enough
Services from Google, Square and Intuit are already simplifying consumer credit. But it's the long-term changes that will redefine how merchants, banks and consumers interact. This is the second in a...
View ArticleZynga's Pincus on mobile, gambling and over-paying
Mobile is key to gaming company's future. FORTUNE -- Zynga CEO Mark Pincus understands that investors want his company to improve its mobile revenue generation, but he thinks the pieces are in place...
View ArticleEMC and VMware hope to repeat success with Pivotal spin-off
Data storage giant EMC EMC did extremely well running VMware VMW as an independent subsidiary. Now the company is hoping to repeat that success with a new company, Pivotal, headed by Paul Martiz, a...
View ArticleMicrosoft CEO: ‘Until we really change culturally, no renewal happens’
Microsoft must change. Microsoft should focus on its coreand Xbox isn’t it. Microsoft has to differentiate itself in the marketplace, and productivity is the way to do it. Microsoft could really do a...
View ArticleObama’s and Romney’s economic advisors tussle, but find some common ground
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs major change. Real tax reform is unlikely to happen. Yet another variation of Bush vs. Clinton is the most likely electoral scenario in 2016. These were the...
View ArticleHow Microsoft plans to court startups
If you ask startup founders and their investors about Microsofts software and services, many will say the company simply isn’t relevant to them. Satya Nadella, the newly installed chief executive of...
View ArticleDespite high tech, the future of marketing is exactly the same: focus on...
ASPEN, Colo.Six marketing experts gathered here at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference to discuss the future of marketing, one infused with technology. “Marketing reimagined,” said one. “Marketing...
View ArticleGreat product design? It’s about empathy and delight
ASPEN, Colo.Design matters. Period. That much was clear at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference on Tuesday, when executives from Yahoo, Atlassian, Cornerstone OnDemand, and Lytro gathered to explain...
View ArticleBuzzfeed’s CEO has advice for The New York Times
With its engaged audience of 150 million young readers, BuzzFeed has been the envy of many traditional media companies. Earlier this year, the company has even attracted an acquisition bid from Disney...
View ArticleRent The Runway unveils a Netflix subscription for your closet
Since the inception of Rent The Runway in 2009, nearly five million women have joined the service to borrow some $300 million worth of dresses and accessories. Almost overnight, the startup became the...
View ArticleThree types of cybersecurity threats (and two employees) to worry about most
ASPEN, Colo.For corporations, the cybersecurity landscape has changed. The threats are coming from new places. They’re aiming at different targets. The executives tasked with stopping them? The...
View ArticleSandberg on Facebook: ‘We are our own biggest risk’
Near the top of Facebook’s most recent annual report--which, I should warn you, runs nearly 100 pages long--the social networking company FB outlines its biggest business risks. The first is a tenet of...
View ArticleWhy stories, not software still rule marketing
Ever searched for a product online, only to be bombarded soon thereafter with a flood of related suggestions in your Facebook news feed or Google search results? Now imagine the dinner conversation in...
View ArticleIn 2015, Fortune will hold its Brainstorm E conference in Austin, Global...
Fortune announced Monday two additions to its slate of live events in 2015: a new conference, Fortune Brainstorm E, and the return of the Fortune Global Forum. Brainstorm E will take place Sept. 28 -...
View ArticleWhy Marc Benioff really, really loves Fitbit
When Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech dinner in Las Vegas Monday night, he used the opportunity to profess his love for Fitbit, maker of wearable activity...
View ArticleIran’s nuclear deal and Apple Pay launches in the UK–5 things to know today
Hello friends and Fortune readers. Wall Street stock futures are mixed this morning as euphoria over the Greece rescue deal fades. Crude oil futures are down 2% at $51.13 a barrel after Iran reached a...
View ArticleVida Health and AstraZeneca launch new app for post-heart attack recovery
Vida Health and AstraZeneca have teamed up to launch a new app for recovering heart attack patients that should help people recover faster from and better cope with the trauma associated with such...
View ArticleChina’s GDP and Yellen talks to Congress– 5 things to know today
Hello friends and Fortune readers. Wall Street stock futures are a fraction higher this morning, while crude oil is slipping again after finding strong support late Tuesday after a sell-off on the Iran...
View ArticleHow First Data embodies KKR’s approach to tech investing
First Data, a payments processing company, is going public. Private equity firm KKR KKR bought the company at the height of the deal boom eight years ago for $28 billion and then, in an unusual move,...
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