Author: Jon Fortt

Google's 7-inch Android tablet is real — it's even being passed around inside the Googleplex   Read More

Google may have paid $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility because of the patents. But now that the deal has closed, Google will have to face the toughest management challenge in its history.   Read More

Last month, Mark Zuckerberg unilaterally decided to shell out $1 billion for Instagram, a social network based on mobile photos. By end of day Friday, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg will have even more money to throw around. So what is Facebook going to do with all that cash?    Read More

With the benefit of hindsight, Facebook's IPO might be most significant because of what comes after it.   Read More

The problem with Sony's reorganization is it seems structured for yesterday's problems, not tomorrow's    Read More

Google is all but certain to deliver pretty good news when it announces results this afternoon. Unfortunately for the online giant, this is one of those quarters where a downside surprise would matter a lot more than an upside surprise.    Read More

Yahoo's all-hands meeting today is more than a garden-variety pep talk. It's a chance for new CEO Scott Thompson to set the agenda at a pivotal moment for the struggling company.   Read More

If you’re a top executive at Apple, all that hard work is definitely paying off. In hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stock.    Read More

You might have heard about a mini-controversy surrounding the battery on the new iPad. It turns out that when it reads 100 percent, the battery may or may not be at full capacity. Is it a big deal?    Read More

The first thing to know about the new iPad is that it's different. Not just different from the first iPad: different from other products on the market.   Read More