In business, trust is everything. As Michelle Nichols said in Businessweek, "When your customers trust you, you can charge higher prices than your competitors do, offer a different feature set than your customers are looking for, and require a...

  Long gone are the days when having a social media presence mean creating a Facebook page for your business and posting something useful once in a while.   Now the competition is as fierce as ever, so if you...

  Starbucks says mobile payments are taking off in a big way and it’s already handling almost 7 million a week at its U.S. coffee shops. That accounts for 16 percent of all transactions at its stores and, the company...

Yahoo can't hide behind Alibaba anymore.   The Web giant's profit soared in the third quarter, after earning $6.3 billion from selling part of its stake in Alibaba (BABA, Tech30), the Chinese e-commerce giant. Alibaba debuted last month on the...

    Microsoft is actively developing a meeting-room application designed to streamline the entire process, including sharing data and recognizing participants, according to company co-founder Bill Gates.   The disclosure is buried inside a lengthy personality profile of Microsoft executives...

In a post on Google+ this evening, Google has announced that starting today users in the United States can now pre-oder feature films from Google Play. This  means that customers can get their copy of movies before they’re released digitally...

  A report from The Information (subscription required) claims that Google tried to buy Cyanogen, Inc, the maker of the custom Android ROM CyanogenMod. According to the report, Cyanogen's chief executive told shareholders that Sundar Pichai, the head of Chrome...

  Pre-orders start Oct. 10, available Oct. 17   Earlier this month it was discovered that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus would be delayed in China due to regulatory hold ups when Chinese authorities decided that they were not...

CEO Larry Ellison has stepped aside to become executive chairman and CTO of the vendor, with co-presidents Safra Catz and Mark Hurd named co-CEOs.   CIO asked its panel of thought leadership experts, all of whom are former CEOs or...

Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to appear at a new technology conference hosted by The Wall Street Journal this October called WSJDLive.    Apple executives including Steve Jobs have appeared at past “D” conferences hosted by former WSJ employees...