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Macmillan, one of publishing's Big Six, has become the first company to fight Amazon's pricing of e-books. Amazon lost this battle, but it's going to be a long and costly war, with other publishers and with Apple, which unveiled its iPad last week.

Power lists are, by their nature, kind of stupid. The idea that something as subjective as influence can be empirically measured and rank-ordered is inherently contentious: Lists are meant to provoke arguments, not agreement. But some power lists are stupider than others. And perhaps the...

There's a new kid in town, iPhone. It's the Palm Pre and it wants to fight. There are many reviews of the Palm (PALM) Pre cell phone, which is being sold at Sprint (S) and Best Buy (BBY) as of June 6. Since I don't have a Pre to review, here's the bottom line from the reviews I've read: The Pre is...

Twitter would have to consider selling itself, if it is best for the company, co-founder and Chairman Jack Dorsey told DailyFinance. "We have to put the product and the service that we're building first," Dorsey said in an exclusive interview with DailyFinance today after he spoke at New York...

Sounds like AT&T (T) has been fairly criticized by its Apple (AAPL) iPhone customers for poor network performance. The telecom giant wasn't quite ready when the iPhone launched, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told the audience today at the "D: All Things Digital" conference in Carlsbad,...

The only thing hotter than Twitter's internet service this year are rumors the company will be sold. Twitter founder Evan Williams said he will still be running Twitter in five years when asked by Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg. Williams and co-founder Biz Stone were...