- Tue Dec 18 2001 DVD service delivers online
Mail-order rental service NetFlix has found success online by sticking to old-fashioned business principles: customer loyalty and word-of-mouth marketing.
- Tue Dec 18 2001 DVD service delivers online
Mail-order rental service NetFlix has found success online by sticking to old-fashioned business principles: customer loyalty and word-of-mouth marketing.
- Thu Sep 3 2009 No money? AffordIt can get you a PS3, anyway
Company finances purchases for people on hand-to-mouth budgets. Just don't look closely at the terms, which reveal how bad a deal it is.
- Thu Aug 12 2004 Adware anxiety gives Claria cold feet
There's profit in software that spawns pop-ups, but a postponed IPO shows it's a risky business, too.
- Thu Mar 26 2009 Buzz Out Loud 939: Blue Brain and buckyballs
While Twitter has announced a sort of a business plan, President Obama is ripping off Digg for an Internet town hall meeting, and Windows 7 may be getting a release candidate in May, we really don't c...
- Mon Nov 17 2008 Buzz Out Loud 854: Death to the Moon
We thought about calling this podcast graves in space, or delicious Yak, or Jason makes the earth move. But soup_n_salad in the chat room nailed it. A new company wants to send 5,000 capsules full of cremated remains to the moon for burial.
- Fri Jul 4 2008 Week in review: Microhoogle intrigue
Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash is becoming easier.
- Tue Jun 19 2001 Red Hat meets estimates
The top seller of the Linux operating system becomes profitable by some measurements while meeting analyst expectations for the most recent quarter.
- Sat Jan 11 2003 A help line for European telecoms
After an ambitious expansion effort in the last decade--and a big pill to pay for acquiring 3G licenses--Europe's telecom operators are at a crossroads. Researchers at McKinsey say the incumbents are understandably retrenching to lower costs, but warn against the risk of behaving too conservatively.
- Mon Jun 4 2001 Gated communities on the horizon
The new Internet may be dominated by a handful of megacorporations able to promise the safety and convenience of paying for Web usage in one place.


