Alex Daley's Contributions

The past few weeks have seen the tech and business media abuzz about a not-so-little warehouse in Tennessee. That's because this distribution center, opening its doors with a burst of fanfare and...

Water is not scarce. It is made up of the first and third most common elements in the universe, and the two readily react to form a highly stable compound that maintains its integrity even at temperature extremes.

Peter Schweizer is probably one of the few Americans who truly understands how deep the cronyism runs in our political system, and he's revealed a lot about that and what he thinks mainstream citizens can do to start counteracting it in his book Throw Them All Out .

It is not news that our capacity to gather and store immense amounts of data has grown by leaps and bounds. A few years ago, it was unthinkable for a free email account to offer more than 10 or 20 megabytes of storage.

The development of converged networks is one of the hottest trends in technology today. Packets, packets, it's all about the packets...

In the world of finance, there is always talk of bubbles - mortgage bubbles, tech stock bubbles, junk bond bubbles. But bubbles don't develop only in financial markets. In recent years, there's been another one quietly inflating, not capturing the attention of most observers: a Liberal Arts bubble.

There is no question that biotechnology is a hot sector right now. The anecdotal evidence is everywhere, from attendance at industry conferences to coverage in the mainstream financial press. But recent data from the biotechnology analysts at the respected trade journal Signals say it just might be the hottest the sector has ever been.

Details on Microsoft's acquisition of Skype from a technology experts point-of-view.

This Sunday, AT&T and T-Mobile USA operator Deutsche Telekom AG made a huge merger announcement. AT&T, the United States’ second largest wireless operator, agreed to acquire the fourth largest provider, T-Mobile, for $39 billion in cash and stock.

What started as an exciting announcement for Goldman Sachs – that it would lead a major investment round in fast-growing social network Facebook with its renewed focus on banking is quickly turning into a public relations nightmare for the firm.

With talk of quantitative easing round 2 (or QE2 for short), the potential government bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and mounting problems with state finances, government pension funds, and funding for social programs all coming to a boil ahead of this election season, one thing seems to be abundantly clear: there is much more federal spending still to come. Hundreds of billions more.