Wired Business

Hackathons, those energy-drink-fueled all-nighters, can have business purposes that have absolutely nothing to do with hacking.

Square transactions have spread across the US. Here’s a one-hour snapshot from a recent Thursday afternoon.

Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel is offering to be a peacemaker between Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Strange for a guy more used to spewing invective than holding hands.

The ghost of Steve Jobs haunts All Things D.

I had been certain that the bubble would pop. But I was disappointed. For weeks, print and pixel had been dominated by news, overwhelmingly uninformed or stale, about the long-awaited and presumptively historical Facebook IPO.

When Luke Skywalker first pushed the button on his light saber in 1977, what also hummed to life was a merchandise empire that shows little sign of slowing.

Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced the layoff of 27,000 employees Wednesday, or 8 percent of the company’s workforce. The painful move is part of Whitman’s strategy to refocus the hardware and software giant to take advantage of what Whitman describes as “some of the biggest shifts in technology that I have seen in my career.”

There is a lot of misguided focus on which Facebook employees and investors are amassing what size pile of money, says Meagan Marks, a former Facebook employee, and a shareholder. “What this IPO is really about is the company now has more money to go out and make more acquisitions and build more interesting products.”

Mark Zuckerberg is following the example of Bill Gates at Microsoft and Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Google, in building Facebook to do nothing less than dominate.