Into the cloud and away with property rights

VMware today demonstrated its new cloud computing service that takes on the 800-pound gorilla, Amazon.

In Zynga's fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Pincus got a question about how his company is going to recreate the awesome viral effects it used to have on Facebook as players shift to mobile. That is the question for Zynga.

The cash register rings. Who gets the credit? That's the crucial question in advertising these days—particularly in Internet advertising, where it's easy to track clicks and links but often hard to pin down exactly which view of an ad drove a sale.

Now that Facebook's IPO is well into the past, and user-growth has stalled a touch, it's easy to sit back and take the incredible story of Facebook for granted. Don't.

A report that Instagram's user numbers were plummeting spooked Facebook investors so badly that the stock dropped 3 percent this morning.

By Osman Gulseven:Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently addressed a friendly tech audience. During his address, Zuckerberg claimed "Facebook is all about mobile." While the markets welcomed this slogan, Facebook faces serious problems with a declining growth in new active users and revenue.