Brainstorm Tech: Getting down to business

Fortune's Brainstorm Tech, a three-day gathering this week in Half Moon Bay, Calif., focuses on changes in technology and their effects--good and bad--on the business world.

Neil Young to tech industry: You can do better

Singer-songwriter says the technology industry can do better than suffice with current MP3 quality.
(Posted in Coop's Corner by Charles Cooper)
July 23, 2008 2:19 p.m. PDT

Message to Microsoft: Google's gunning for ya--again

Text ads might be the present cash cow for Google, but CEO Eric Schmidt talks up display ad opportunities, which means new competition for Redmond sooner, rather than later.
(Posted in Coop's Corner by Charles Cooper)
July 23, 2008 1:13 p.m. PDT

MySpace Music to launch in September

Chris DeWolfe announces launch date of the service, which is backed by three of the four top music labels, during Fortune Brainstorm conference.
(Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)
July 23, 2008 1:48 p.m. PDT

You can't talk online advertising without the 'G word'

Panelists at Fortune Brainstorm session on the softening ad market almost succeed in avoiding talk of Google's digital dominance.
(Posted in Coop's Corner by Charles Cooper)
July 23, 2008 12:03 p.m. PDT

News Corp. COO: 'Scarcity' key to online advertising

News Corp.'s Peter Chernin says that premium Internet video will help Internet publishers create scarcity in a sea of online ad inventory. What that means: more money.
(Posted in Business Tech by Stefanie Olsen)
July 22, 2008 9:46 p.m. PDT

Greening the Valley, one tech giant at a time

Executives from Cisco, HP, and Sun talk at Fortune conference about how to prevent the tech industry's carbon footprint from growing to 3 percent by 2020.
(Posted in Business Tech by Stefanie Olsen)
July 22, 2008 3:49 p.m. PDT

Checking the horoscope of VC exits

A group of venture capitalists size up the tech market's outlook for the foreseeable future in an economic downturn.
(Posted in Business Tech by Stefanie Olsen)
July 22, 2008 5:46 p.m. PDT

Facebook's Sandberg: Growth before monetization

Sheryl Sandberg, the former head of global online advertising for Google, says at the Fortune conference that Facebook's in a sweet spot for brand advertising.
(Posted in Digital Media by Stefanie Olsen)
July 22, 2008 1:28 p.m. PDT

Viacom CEO: 'Great' content is king

Despite talk to the contrary, Viacom Chief Philippe Dauman argues that great content is never a commodity.
(Posted in Digital Media by Stefanie Olsen)
July 22, 2008 10:51 a.m. PDT

Fortune conference pitches personal submarines

A new place to sink your money, U.S. Submarines' Triton Model 1000 will take you and a friend 1,000 feet straight down.
(Posted in Crave by Rafe Needleman)
July 21, 2008 6:35 p.m. PDT

Bezos: Don't build Web sites like rockets

They can send a man to the moon, so how come they can't keep a Web service online?
(Posted in Webware by Rafe Needleman)
July 21, 2008 6:06 p.m. PDT

The Internet is making the world a better place...but not for CEOs

At the Fortune Brainstorm conference, business thinkers ponder the effects of the Internet.
(Posted in Webware by Rafe Needleman)
July 21, 2008 5:18 p.m. PDT