Peter Burrows
I've covered the high-tech industry since 1989. Since joining Business Week's Silicon Valley bureau in 1995, I've covered Apple, Cisco, Microsoft and a broad range of markets, companies, people and technology trends.
Apple Buys More Than Airtime With Latest Ad
When Apple’s “Think Different” campaign came out in 1997, the ads didn’t sell a specific product, but an idea: The company wanted to change the world, just like Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr. and the other “crazy ones.” It...
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Courtesy Ooyala
There's no shortage of athleticism on Ooyala's team, which includes (left to right) Sean Knapp, Bismarck Lepe, Jay Fulcher and Belsasar Lepe.
Ooyala Raises $35 Million as It Picks Up the Pace in Digital Video
(Updated to correct amount raised by Ooyala in sixth paragraph.) If the migration of old media to the Internet is more of a marathon than a sprint, then the management team at Ooyala Inc. has the legs for it. Sean...
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Motorola Vice President John F. Mitchell shows off the DynaTAC portable radio telephone in New York City in 1973.
Motorola’s History Lesson for Google
(This blog was corrected. An earlier version misattributed a comment in the 16th paragraph.) With Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility now complete, a saga that Brad Stone and I explored in this week’s issue of Businessweek, a closer look at...
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Bill Clerico, seen here in July 2011, is CEO of WePay, which just raised $10 million.
PayPal Rival WePay Raises $10M
Back in his days at Boston College, Bill Clerico knew how to stand out in a crowd. He did it by donning a costume of the school’s mascot, an eagle. Now as co-founder and CEO of WePay, one of many...
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Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc.,
The Temptation of Tim: What Does Dividend Say About Apple’s Future?
Steve Jobs didn’t spend much time worrying about shareholders’ complaints. I recall talking with him in 2008 about some mini-crisis that had caused Apple’s stock to dip. “Who gives a s– about the stock price,” he let slip before getting...
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Roku devices give subscribers access to a TV version of Rovio's Angry Birds game.
Roku to Raise as Much as $50 Million
Roku’s sales tripled to $100 million last year — in part because it bought radio and billboard advertising for the first time. To garner more brand recognition for its hockey puck-sized TV-set top box, the company intends to seek as...
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Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller founded the company in 1999.
With Oracle’s $1.9 Billion Deal to Buy Taleo, Is Cornerstone Next?
And then there was one. Last week, Oracle announced a $1.9 billion deal to buy Taleo, which offers software-as-a-service to companies that no longer want to run all of their own programs for managing the workforce. That follows SAP’s $3.4...
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Skyhook CEO Ted Morgan on stage at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference 2010 in San Jose, California.
Amid Feud With Google, Skyhook Still Sees Opportunity With Android
In Silicon Valley, there’s an old saying that it’s risky to pioneer new markets because pioneers are the ones that end up with an arrow in their back. Eighteen months ago, Skyhook Inc., which provides location-tracking technology, looked as if...
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