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FSB: Control the cloud

For years the online-software company HotSchedules had its head in the clouds.

A trip into the secret, online 'cloud'

One day, while uploading yet another text file to the Google Docs Web site, I started to wonder: When I save this file online, where does it actually go?

Fortune: Tech stocks: Back in style

When markets waver, growth investing is a high-risk, high-volatility proposition. But when they roar back to life, the momentum is rocket fuel for stocks that out-earn their peers.

U.S. government sets up online 'app store'

The Obama administration has unveiled a government "app store" designed to push the federal bureaucracy into the era of cloud computing.

Fortune: Marc Andreessen puts his money where his mouth is

Ben Horowitz was toiling as an unheralded product strategist at Netscape Communications when he opened a scathing e-mail from his boss, Marc Andreessen. It was the winter of 1996; Netscape's public offering, several months earlier, had ignited the dotcom craze, and co-founder Andreessen had just appeared on Time's cover, sitting on a throne, feet bare -- the very portrait of a cocky 24-year-old tech wunderkind.

CNNMoney: Cloud computing is for the birds

Thinking of floating your small business on the software-as-a-service cloud? Maybe it's time to step back down to Earth.

Fortune: The penny pincher's tool

It used to be that only a few CEOs were known for their obsessive love of cost-cutting -- guys like Mark Hurd at Hewlett-Packard and Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase. But these days, with revenues everywhere grinding to a halt, everyone's getting into the act. Not surprisingly, a new breed of enterprise software has emerged to help the bean counters.

Fortune: Technorati mark April Fool's with gags

The tech world loves a good prank. Today is the day when the world's propeller heads show us what they've cooked up in their secret April Fool's labs and it turns out that the funniest "gotchas" circulating online happen to come from companies that typically don't have much of a sense of humor at all.

Fortune: HD for everyone

Whether it's watching Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart trade blows on Hulu, or catching up on the latest from the Disruptors series (shameless plug, I know) more and more video is getting delivered via the Internet.

Fortune: Salesforce hits its stride

A decade ago Marc Benioff declared that software was dead. In 1999, while on leave from his job at Oracle, he convened a group of developers in his downtown San Francisco apartment building to build Salesforce.com. Soon thereafter he paid the quirky rockers the B-52's $250,000 to perform at a bash where he distributed buttons with the word "software" crossed out, Ghostbusters-style. And that was all before he had signed up a single customer.

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