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2011 Tech Industry Graveyard

Fortunately for the tech industry, there’s a lot more living than dying, with 2011 seeing the birth of everything from Apple’s iPad 2 to the Google+ social [...]

Tech News Today 177: While My Guitar Hero Gently Weeps

Get all passwords off anyone’s iPhone, Facebook and Google want to buy Twitter, Activision kills all music games, and [...]

Technology Report / Activision to ax ‘Guitar Hero,’ cut 500 jobs; shares drop 8%

Shares of video-game maker Activision Blizzard Inc. fell the most in more than two years after its first-quarter forecast missed analysts’ estimates on shrinking sales of titles including “Guitar Hero.” Activision slid 8 percent Thursday to $10.75, after declining as much as 9.8 percent earlier in the day – the biggest intraday drop since [...]

Chegg’s Dan Rosensweig Talks About the Next Wave of Online Textbook Rentals and More! [BoomTown]

Earlier this week, BoomTown went down to Santa Clara, Calif., to the offices of Chegg, the online textbook rental leader, to pay a visit on longtime Silicon Valley exec Dan [...]

The Problem With Investing in Video Game Sector? Private Companies

If there’s one thing that’s driving me nuts as a technology investor right now, it’s that all the action is happening at private [...]

Who Should You Trust: Main Street or Wall Street?

When you’re looking to research a stock who should you listen to, Wall Street or Main Street? Wall Street has its analysts and they don’t have a good track [...]

Hea TMs Back: Dan Rosensweig on Becoming CEO of Chegg a ” and How He Feels about Yahoo Today

Uber-executive Dan Rosensweig, 48, has had more lives than most cats. Ten years ago, Rosensweig was still president of Ziff Davis, whereA he spent a total ofA 18 years.A He then went on to become the chief operating officer of Yahoo; a principal at the private equity firm Quadrangle Group; and the president and CEO of Red Octane, the Activision [...]

Dish takes aim at surging DirecTV

Satellite-television providers Dish Network Corp. and DirecTV Inc. usually unleash attack advertisements against their cable-TV [...]

EZCORP operating chief picked as successor to CEO

Pawnbroker and payday loan provider EZCORP Inc. said Wednesday that Chief Operating Officer Paul E. Rothamel is taking on the additional role of president and will become CEO when Joe Rotunda retires within the next [...]

Youth Media Movers & Shakers

Today we bring you another installment of Youth Media Movers and Shakers. We’ve culled through industry publications looking for the recent executive placements we think you should know [...]