Massuccis Take

This month, Facebook made a sneaky change to its privacy settings, and the new policy is generating a fierce backlash. The social network's default privacy setting now allows anyone to see a user's personal information. While users are permitted to change those settings, through an option to limit...

Why do you think Twitter matters? Why should I use Twitter? Will Twitter be around in five years? As I've become more involved using the online microblogging service this year, these are questions I'm often asked about Twitter. The answer to the first two questions is simple: because Twitter is...

As a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, William Poole has a highly informed view of the Fed and the kinds of problems it has to grapple with. Right now, Poole says, the biggest challenge facing the U.S. economy is the "too-big-to-fail' issue." The government has taken on an...

From zero to a billion in nine months: iTunes customers have now downloaded one billion applications from its App Store, Apple said Friday in a press release. How did we live without our Apple (AAPL) iPhone apps 10 months ago? At first naysayers said, Who needs 'em? Now it's, How many do we...

Can Apple carry the technology group on its back, and maybe move it higher even after its shares have rallied 44 percent this year? Is Steve Jobs coming back? Did he ever leave? How is he feeling? Will he make a surprise appearance on the company's earnings conference call? Here are seven items to...