Today, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, best known as founder of the Netscape Web browser in the 1990s, made a statement regarding prolific rumors about a new dot-com bubble.

“”I don’t see a bubble,” Andreessen said.  ”I think people are confusing success with a bubble.  Maybe stuff is just working.”

Maybe stuff is just working, indeed.

Fourth Quarter Earnings Soar

On Tuesday, Barnes & Noble reported it sold three times the number of digital books through its website as it did physical books during the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011.

The rise in sales of digital books through the company’s website and corresponding decline in sales through its physical bookstores during the fourth quarter follows a report from February, in which B&N announced it was selling two times more ebooks than physical books. Despite the ratio of ebook sales to physcial book sales, the physical books still get the most sales volume.

Earlier this month at Apple Inc’s annual World Wide Developer’s Conference as the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the highly anticipated  iCloud,  – a new cloud storage solution designed mostly for consumers. With iCloud, iTunes account holders who use Mac OS X Lion or iOS 5 will be able to sign up for a free email address @me.com, manage backups without any effort, store photos and music in the cloud, and more.