Are the benefits of Apple’s App Store worth 30% of your revenue? Calculation of how much benefit you really get for 30% of your revenue What are you really getting from Apple’s Platform? Apple positions the value of its marketplace around afew key benefits: multiple platforms — including Apple Watch, Apple TV, iOS, iPad, and Mac—access to a worldwide audience, app and revenue analytics, no hosting fees, and Apple will handle all the payment processing....

In 2010 the fashion and luxury industry starred in the digital space, could the world of fine art be next? How could online interactions transform the way we discover emerging artists and buy art? There already have beenefforts to innovate and mix technology and art that get a lot of attention, most recentlyVIP Art Fair, a virtual fair featuring some of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries launched for the week January 22-30, 2011....

Billionaire entrepreneurRichard Bransonand his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard aVirgin Galacticplane on July 12. The event was hailed as thestart of space tourism, narrowly beating theplanned launch on 20 Julyby fellow billionaire business magnate Jeff Bezos and his firmBlue Origin. But does the 85km (53 miles), the altitude of the recent Virgin Galactic flight, actually count as space? And what are these companies likely to achieve going forward?...

The FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It’s part of a government effort to contain the continuing attacks on corporate networks running Microsoft Exchange software, and it’s an unprecedented intrusion that’s raising legal questions about just how far the government can go. On April 9, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas approved asearch warrantallowing the U....

Thisarticlewas originally published byMartin BanksonClean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. Is Air Power Blowing Over the Horizon? At the moment, the most viable mode of sustainable transportation is an electric vehicle (EV). With more and more automakers announcing new EV designs every year, it’s reasonable to believe that EVs are here to stay....