Business Pundit

Image: Chuck Coker/Flickr Innovate or die. Those words hold especially true in today’s globalized, hypercompetitive and recessionary business environment. Unless you’re lucky enough to have innovation in your DNA, however, it won’t come by… Read more

Today’s much-hyped Apple iTunes announcement revolved not around cool new features, but the end result of a long legal battle. After ten years, Apple has finally managed to add The Beatles’ music to iTunes. I’m not sure this Apple… Read more

Google has released Hotpot, its new recommendations engine that lets you search and rate businesses you’ve patronized. Hotpot is also smart: it collects data on your frequent reviews, then uses that information to give you more targeted… Read more

Image: SkyFire After the hubbub with Steve Jobs and Flash earlier this year, SkyFire, the new Flash browser for iPhone, has proven that iPhone users were actually desperate for Flash. SkyFire raked in $1 million in the single week that it’s… Read more

Netscape founder and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen is back in the web browser rink with Rockmelt, a new browser that integrates search with Facebook. Rockmelt features your social networking activity on sidebars while you browse the Web…. Read more

Tesla Motors has announced that Panasonic bought a $30 million stake in the company. The stake gives Tesla promising access to new battery technology–crucial for reducing electric vehicle costs–as well as another prominent backer (current… Read more

Image: Esa Sorjonen/Wikimedia About a decade later than you’d think they would have, Sony finally stopped manufacturing the Walkman portable cassette player whose current incarnation is, arguably, the iPod Nano. Sony was still making the tape… Read more

If you’re an entrepreneur, the Great Recession isn’t the time to stick your head in the sand. Take Switchflops’ Lindsay Phillips, who turned her interchangeable flip-flop strap idea into a $30 million fashion company between 2007-today. AOL… Read more

Today’s Google.com logo has a special feature: It scatters into multicolored dots when you mouse over it, then rebuilds itself when you keep your cursor away. Google hasn’t yet told anyone why the logo is different today, leading to mass media… Read more

Today’s Apple announcement revolved around the iPod Touch 4, a new line of redesigned iPods, iOS 4, and more (see the NYT’s complete liveblog here.) Apple, aside perhaps from its Apple TV, is once again leading the industry in product… Read more

Google, which has most recently been trying to divert users away from Skype by integrating Google Voice with Gmail, just added another innovation to its stable: Priority Inbox. TechCrunch has more: Google has built a system that figures out… Read more

Sprint-owned Clearwire, a wireless ISP service that currently provides 4G services Sprint phones like the HTC EVO 4G, will offer pay-as-you-go 4G access. The service, nicknamed “Rover,” will charge by the day, week, or month for users who buy a… Read more

Focus on your core competency. Prioritize. Do one thing at a time. Business has used these mantras for at least the past 20 years. But Cisco SVP Inder Sidhu wants to ask you this: What if you can do both? As in, pursue both new and existing… Read more

I ran across TaskRabbit, which matches you with people who can run your errands for you–or hooks you up with people who need errands run–while reading this excellent Wall St. Journal article on work-at-homers. With TaskRabbit, you put up a… Read more