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A solar steam project built by a California company or Oman's largest oil producer has been running for months now and recently showed it was delivering more power than promised in the contract. Read more »

How much is the growth of freelancing driven by the desire for autonomy and personal achievement, and how much is escaping the prison of job dissatisfaction? Read more »

The crux of the government's case against Apple is that it acted as the "ringmaster" of a conspiracy among the publishers to raise the price of ebooks above what Amazon was selling them for. But what the government calls a conspiracy in restraint of trade, Apple calls standard operating procedure for entering a concentrated media market. Read more »

SAP has been the darling of enterprise software for many years, and dependence on it continues to this day. However, since the emergence of the SaaS space more than 10 years ago, and with the current rise of IaaS public cloud computing providers, SAP is getting some tough questions from its user base around its cloud-computing strategy. Read more »

Yahoo has stepped up its mobile shopping spree as it pursue its goal of becoming an aggregator of customized mobile content. But it must keep a few other factors in mind if its ambitious plan is to succeed. Read more »

SolarCity's first quarter financial results tell the story of the challenges that a solar installer faces as it tries to expand its reach and make money in a young market. Read more »

Talent is scarce, and file sharing and task management are here to stay. Read more »

While the proposed Unlocking Technology Act would certainly address the controversy of cellphone unlocking it would quite a bit farther than previous bills to deal will phone locks, and farther than the White House called for in its statement, both of which were narrowly targeted at allowing consumers to move their phones from one network to another. Read more »

With the migration of the data to cloud-based platforms, we have a better ability and greater opportunity to share more information. However, for most enterprises, it’s a wasted opportunity. Perhaps the value is misunderstood, or lost in the hype around “the cloud” that is focused on efficiency and agility. Read more »

Real-time bidding is well positioned to give the overall mobile ad industry a big lift in the next few years. But it will face serious challenges as more sophisticated — and more lucrative — advertising models come to mobile over the next decade. Read more »