David Stern is on a mission to make the NBA a global league, and he gave us a glimpse of his European expansion plans earlier this year. In 2007 the league appointed Timothy Chen, the former head of Microsoft’s China division, to oversee NBA China. Although the Chinese market represents the fastest growing group of NBA fans, the broadcast of playoff games have been suspended. Read the full story

Microsoft won’t be happy until everybody in the world is hooked up to one of their products 24 hours a day. They’re hoping to turn us into a planet of cyborgs with every man, woman, and child walking around staring at screens instead of sitting at home.. staring at screens. Read the full story