Quoted: I gave a speech at Innovation Night at the Royal College of Art in London on Tuesday and here it is. It's my latest thinking on innovation and design. There are a number of bottom lines in it but perhaps...

Palm has now shown off their new Foleo Companion. It's basically a way of using your smart phone as a computing device. Foleo provides full size input for when you need it.

Quoted: Palm Advances Mobile Computing with Its First Mobile Companion Product. - CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building on its vision that the future of personal computing is mobile computing, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM - News) today announced the Palm® Foleo(TM), its first smartphone companion product.

Borders has decided to leave the Amazon fold and build their own site. It's interesting to see how many separate partners they are requiring to build their new site.

Quoted: Borders has relied on Amazon to operate its online business so far, but is now building its own e-commerce site.

StumbleUpon nearing potential $75 million acquisition. Not bad for a simple idea with $1.5 million in financing!

Quoted: First reported here at TechCrunch on April 18, eBay is now said to be close to finalizing its deal to acquire StumbleUpon for ...

Best Buy just bought Speakeasy. Noooo! I've always liked Speakeasy but my expectations are now appropriately and cynically lowered.

Quoted: Speakeasy offers superior Voice over IP (VoIP), T1, DSL and a range of broadband services customized for small businesses.

A very favorable, and more detailed article about the importance of Amazon's new web services on Read/WriteWeb. It's really great stuff and it's really catching on.

Quoted: Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus.

Amazon.com is being sued by IBM for not licensing obvius technology. Looks like Amazon.com may be being revisted by the ghost of Christmas past (it's 1-click patent).

Quoted: IBM Sues Amazon Over E-Commerce Patents. - BOSTON (AP) -- IBM Corp. alleged in two lawsuits Monday that important components of Amazon.com Inc.'s massive retailing Web site were developed and patented many years earlier at IBM.

I really like the direction Amazon.com has been taking in the last couple of years with their major initiatives in the Web Services space. This article has Jeff Bezos discussing these new services at the Emerging Technology Conference.

Quoted: By making a handful of Web services applications open to outsiders, Amazon.com is building additional sources of revenue while creating computing models for the future, the CEO said at MIT's ongoing Emerging Technologies Conference.

Microhoo!

Quoted: Microsoft has been in talks with Yahoo! about potentially acquiring a major portion of the company, according to a report published Wednesday.