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IBM Names Virginia Rometty First Female CEOIBM has named 30-year company veteran Virginia Rometty as its first female CEO. Rometty will succeed the outgoing Samuel Palmisano (both pictured) in the post on Jan. 1, 2012. Palmisano will remain chairman of IBM’s board. Rometty, who joined IBM in 1981 as a systems engineer, currently ser... Why Women Make Excellent Entrepreneurs in the Digital AgeNellie Akalp is CEO of CorpNet.com. Since forming more than 100,000 corporations and LLCs across the U.S, she has built a strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their business the right way. To learn more about Nellie and see how she can help... So This Is How Nokia N9 Is Made [VIDEO]Nokia N9 probably won’t be a best-seller among smartphones. It’s the first and only smartphone based on the MeeGo platform, and Nokia has no plans for ever making it available in the U.S. It’s a device that, unfortunately, serves mostly as a reminder of Nokia’s misguided s... Occupy the URL Takes OWS Protests to the InternetThe Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to cities across the world. Now they’re also spreading to banks’ websites. A program called Occupy the URL, launched Tuesday, will turn any website into a protest, complete with pop-up photos of Occupy Wall Street protesters. Users need onl... Google Blog Manager Flies to TwitterThe woman who started and managed Google‘s blogs will now be shaping Twitter‘s voice. For the past nine years, Karen Wickre has been senior media liason at Google, where she built the now more-than-150-strong Google blog platform. Here’s how she described her role in the blogs i... Can UNAIDS Crowdsource a Strategy to Combat HIV/AIDS?UNAIDS, the UN‘s branch dealing with HIV/AIDS, has launched a digital crowdsourcing campaign to combat HIV/AIDS across the globe. The campaign, CrowdOutAIDS, stems from the idea that young people will have the best ideas about how to stop the spread of the virus, which infects 3,000 people be... Apple Newsstand Drives 268% Increase in Digital Subscriptions at Conde NastDigital subscription and single-copy sales have spiked following the launch of Apple’s Newsstand app two weeks ago. Magazine publisher Conde Nast has seen a 268% jump in digital subscriptions sales per week on average, Monica Ray, Conde Nast’s EVP of consumer marketing, announced Tues... Steve Jobs The Movie: Sony Wants Aaron Sorkin to Write It [REPORT]Sony is moving forward on a cinematic adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, and is courting Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay, according to one report. The LA Times cites a source “briefed on the project but not authorized to speak publicly,” who says that ... Timeline: How Netflix Lost Two-Thirds of Its Value in 3 MonthsIt’s hard to believe that a mere three months ago, Netflix stock had reached its all-time high at $300 per share. After Monday’s announcement that the company lost over 800,000 subscribers due to its price hike, the stock took a sharp dip. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has admitted to the co... Meet Dot: The iPhone Panoramic Video Camera You FundedDot, a hardware attachment for capturing panoramic video on the iPhone, starts shipping Tuesday after a short but storied development — one that began with the help of more than 1,000 backers on crowd-funding site Kickstarter in May. Dot will also land on Apple Store retail shelves nationw... |