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Microsoft can’t beat Apple or Google playing their game by their rules – and that’s exactly what it seems intent on doing.

Want to know if a technology company is on its way up or down? It’s easier to tell than you think.

It’s said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. But sometimes, what we learn from history teaches us that repeating it may be the best idea after all. And nobody knows that better than IBM.

Everyone knows Apple’s smartwatch is coming but nobody knows what it is. Here are some predictions.

This is how the high-tech industry taught the world about innovation and entrepreneurship.

Is activist investor Dan Loeb’s plan to spin off Sony Entertainment a good idea, and would it help Sony revive its consumer electronics brand? 

Never before in history have people been so polarized about what those three letters represent. This separates the reality from the hype.

Facebook’s mobile ambitions should be bigger than a phone.

A new study from Sourcefire delineates the number of vulnerabilities – or software flaws – in the smartphone industry over the last 25 years.

Have you flipped to being a bull yet? The current rally doesn’t want to quit. I can’t help thinking, though, it’s doomed to fail.

Move over China and Russia: With friends like South Korea, who needs enemies?

Maybe Microsoft should ditch software for marketing sports ware, since, at the rate some founders are going, you'd think antitrust folks were watching.

With breakthrough products and services to launch this fall, Apple will finally prove it hasn’t lost its innovation mojo.

The less information you disclose, the fewer points of access predators/collectors have to breach your personal or business life. 

Everyone debating the merits of the deal and its valuation is missing the point: It’s a high-risk move born of desperation by Zuckerberg and company.

Five years ago, a tech pundit predicted, “Apple without Steve Jobs is Sony.” On the contrary, Apple is about to have a very big year.

After a five-month search, the software giant is poised to name enterprise chief Satya Nadella as its third CEO – but is he the right choice?     

There is no escaping the reality that the consequences of cyber attacks are costly, on the rise, and uncomfortably cheap to conduct.  It is more important than ever then for companies – especially at the C-suite level – to become knowledgeable cybersecurity consumers.

Zynga founder Mark Pincus is turning the CEO reins over to Don Mattrick of Microsoft. But can Mr. Xbox really turn around the troubled game company? 

CEO Steve Ballmer intends to reinvent the software giant as a devices and services company. For him and the company, the stakes couldn’t be higher.