Ecosystems The New Tech Buzzword For Fall

By Dana Blankenhorn: Steve Jobs spent his last years in an awful hurry, wanting to make Apple Inc. (AAPL) as large and as powerful as he possibly could.

By Dana Blankenhorn: The hardest thing for any technology company to do is to get beyond what first made it great.

By Intelligent Speculator: I've generally been very bullish about Google (GOOG), especially if you're investing with a 5-10 year horizon. One of the big reasons for that is the upside involved in some of its projects such as self-driving cars, Google glasses, the potential of the Android O/S dominance, etc.

By Dana Blankenhorn: While Amazon.com (AMZN) draws most of its revenue from its online stores, its stock trades like a tech stock, specifically a cloud computing stock.

One of the inevitable results of cost shifting (see the video below) is not just the compression of margins, but the rapid advancement of adoption by the masses. This rapid adoption causes users producers, and in the tech space - programmers and hardware OEMs to dump significant amounts of resources into the product in the race for revenue and proftis. The end result?

By Dana Blankenhorn: The decision by Amazon (AMZN) to publicly post the source code for its Kindle Fire, following Google's (GOOG) decision to post the code f

By Taylor Jordan:First and foremost, this is a rather speculative article. No one knows how products will be perceived, what is over the horizon, or how the world will look in five years. That said, there are some interesting trends in tech that are worth a closer look. Investors need to form their own opinions but hopefully this article can provide some catalyst for thought.

By MarkCampbell: Apple (AAPL) is due to report earnings next week. Google (GOOG) has already reported positive earnings which should build excitement for other stocks in the tech sector, such as Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), and especially Apple.