George Clooney led his team of ingenious Las Vegas thieves through all sorts of tricks in the “Ocean’s” series of casino heist movies, Val Kilmer tangled with the Russian mafia in “The Saint” to steal the secrets to cold fusion,...
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Behind the Scenes: What Happens After You Place an Order at Zazzle
For Zazzle, Cyber Monday was madness. Like many online retailers, the company spent the day processing many thousands of orders. But unlike most shopping sites, these orders were for customized items, such as T-shirts, skateboards and even pacifiers. The closely-held...
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What began as a jocular exchange over the company's name became a serious etymological discussion.
Lost in Translation: Former McAfee CEO’s Debate Over Company Name
When Dave DeWalt was doing a world tour in 2007 after he was named CEO of antivirus vendor McAfee, he got into a debate in northern Europe that he wasn’t expecting. A television interviewer challenged him on the pronunciation of...
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A customer inspects mobile devices at a kiosk selling Samsung products in Ambience Mall in Gurgaon, India.
A Spotlight Foxconn Is Willing to Share With Samsung
Foxconn doesn’t like to be compared with Samsung. Founder and Chairman Terry Gou has gone out of his way to tell audiences how the world’s biggest assembler of electronics is better and can defeat its South Korean rival on multiple...
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Ahn Cheol Soo, chairman of Ahnlab, withdrew from next month's presidential election.
How S. Korea’s Presidential Race Affects Friends and Family in Tech
Ahn Cheol Soo, the founder of South Korea’s biggest anti-virus software maker, dropped out of the country’s presidential race. But he wasn’t the only one affected by his unsuccessful bid to lead Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. Stock in his company, Ahnlab, tumbled by...
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Jawbone's UP wristband tracks the wearer's physical activity.
Jawbone Fitness Band Could Use Some UP-Dating: Rich Jaroslovsky
When I first reviewed Jawbone’s UP fitness wristband a year ago, I cautioned that it would soon come to seem remarkably rudimentary. A lot’s happened since. Problems with the band’s durability forced the company to stop production for most of...
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It’s a good time to be Amazon.com or EBay, but it can be lonely at the top. This year, shares of Amazon and EBay, two of the largest e-commerce companies in the U.S., have increased 35 percent and 59 percent,...
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For all those reluctant holiday shoppers who hate long lines, Heddi Cundle has a suggestion: Give the gift of travel. Cundle is the founder and self-titled “big cheese” of myTab.co, a website she launched last year to help consumers, as...
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At least one other company is betting on the success of Windows 8. Online electronics retailer Newegg is gearing up for the holidays by promoting tablets and laptops running on Microsoft’s new operating system. It doesn’t have much of a...
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Experian, the credit-reporting giant, is being probed by Irish authorities after a series of data breaches.
Experian U.S. Data Breaches Prompt Investigation by Irish Regulators
Experian Plc, the credit-reporting giant with financial information on more than 740 million consumers, is being investigated by Irish regulators in the wake of a series of breaches of the company’s databases. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, which...
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