Apr 16 Twitter Hopes to Turn Tweets Into Profit Twitter may be one of the world's fastest-growing social media tools, but the question of how the 140-character micro-blogging site could turn tweets into dollar signs has gone unanswered since its launch in 2006. Until now. The San Francisco-based company… Continue reading
Apr 16 Paul Solman Takes a Trip Down RAM Memory Lane By Carolyn O'Hara On Thursday’s NewsHour, Paul Solman spoke to Dan Pink, author of a new book “Drive,” about what motivates behavior and innovation in the modern workplace. PAUL SOLMAN: Executive pay and Wall Street bonuses,… might not enhance,… Continue reading
Apr 16 A Trip Down RAM Memory Lane By Business Desk Editor’s note: On Thursday’s NewsHour, Paul Solman spoke to Dan Pink, author of a new book Drive, about what motivates behavior and innovation in the modern workplace. PAUL… Continue reading
Apr 15 Space Watchers Critique President Obama’s Proposal for NASA’s Future President Obama traveled to Florida's "Space Coast" Thursday to sell his plan for a new direction for NASA. The president's proposal would end the return-to-the-moon Constellation program begun under President Bush, a program many critics say… Continue reading
Apr 15 Terabytes of Tweets Headed to Library of Congress More than 6 billion public tweets -- the entire 'corpus' of the micro-blogging site Twitter -- are headed to the Library of Congress in the next few months. Martha Anderson, the director of the Library's national digital information… Continue reading
Apr 08 Hominid Species Discovery Shows Transition Between Apes, Humans Two years ago, nine-year-old Matthew Berger accompanied his dad, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, to an archeological excavation site in South Africa. Running after his dog, he noticed an interesting-looking bone protruding from the ground. He thought it might be from… Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch Future of Net Neutrality Debated After Ruling A federal court has ruled in favor of Internet provider Comcast in a victory that raises questions about the Federal Communications Commission's power to regulate the Web. Jeffrey Brown gets two points of view on what it could mean for… Continue watching
Apr 06 Court Rules Against FCC in ‘Net Neutrality’ Case A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the Federal Communication Commission overstepped its authority in 2008 when it sanctioned Comcast for slowing down some customers' Internet access, effectively reining in the agency's push for so-called net neutrality. Continue reading
Apr 05 iPad Roundup: What the Bloggers Have Said So Far Senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown takes the NewsHour's new iPad for a spin on the set. Photo by Kate Gardiner. Sixty-five days after it was announced, the iPad went on sale Saturday, selling more than 300,000 units… Continue reading
Apr 05 Silicon Valley Story: Applied Materials Executive Relocating to China By Spencer Michels SAN FRANCISCO | Silicon Valley is looking deeply inward and finding things are not as they were. The valley, where firms like Google, Apple, Intel and Applied Materials have their headquarters, is losing steam and perhaps the innovative spirit… Continue reading