Why Amazon Should Be Split into 3 Separate Businesses

By Jim Brody:Six reasons why the iPhone will soon have processors built by Intel. Apple (AAPL) needs to have the best technology to continue to provide cutting edge products and to be able to charge the premium they have charged in the past.

In the past 12 months, Microsoft has generated $1 billion in revenue from its cloud computing platform, Azure, and other software used to build clouds, Curt Anderson, finance chief for Microsoft’s server and tools unit told Bloomberg

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In what must surely be the most fascinating article published so far this year, Kevin Drum of Mother Jones takes a long look at the relation between lead — aka Pb(CH2CH3)4 — and crime.

By Dana Blankenhorn: How often does a company double street estimates on earnings and then get hammered?Not often. But that's what is happening to Amazon.Com (AMZN).

Guest blog post by John Fernandez, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic DevelopmentLike President Obama, the top priority of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s new Secretary John Bryson is jobs. Advancing innovative economies is key to achieving sustainable job creation. Today I traveled to Columbus, Ohio to address innovators, technology business leaders and economic development professionals to discuss ways to accelerate America’s innovation economy to create good jobs and increase our global competitiveness. I was joined by my colleagues Phil Singerman, Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Sean Greene, Associate Administrator for Investment and Special Adviser for Innovation at the Small Business Administration at a conference hosted by State Science & Technology Institute (SSTI) – an organization that seeks to improve the economy through science and technology.  We discussed how under President Obama’s leadership federal agencies are making the smart investments needed to promote American innovation and support entrepreneurship and small business development.

By Paolo Gorgo: Get out your crystal balls: join several analysts in today's guessing game, giving Amazon's (AMZN) AWS cloud computing unit a revenue run rate. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provide companies with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. The company started offering these services in 2006, but only recently analysts have started considering the unit worth a closer look.