Chicago: Young people want their music, TV and movies now - even if it means they get these things illegally. A recent Columbia University survey found, in fact, that 70 per cent of 18- to 29-year-olds said they had bought, copied or downloaded unauthori

Two years ago, Hollywood talent agent Ari Emanuel made a remarkable statement about the future of media. He said he could see a time when certain movies premiered on Facebook instead of in theaters. After a decade of war with Silicon Valley, big chunks o

James Marshall Reilly set out to capture the insights of today's brightest business and nonprofit leaders. He conducted in-depth interviews with Tony Hsieh (Zappos), Blake Mycoskie (TOMS), Shawn Fanning (Napster, Rupture, Path), and Jessica Jackley (Kiva

Michael del Castillo is a freelance reporter for Portfolio.com. Privacy measures put in place by Apple have apparently been undermined by surreptitious Google code. Just days after Apple said it would crack down on apps that collect user data without per

Two years ago this month, Apple Computer released a small, sleek-looking device it called the iPod. A digital music player, it weighed just 6.5 ounces and held about 1,000 songs. There were small MP3 players around at the time, and there were players tha

Today’s Mountain Lion announcement introduces an important new security feature, called Gatekeeper, in addition to the “sandboxing” feature that premiered in Lion. I’d like to talk a little bit about it, and why it’s important to all Mac users. Malware i