eBay Inc. Buys Leading Payments and Classifieds Businesses, Streamlines Existing Organization To Improve Growth
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY - News) today announced two acquisitions that significantly extend the company's leadership position in online payments and classifieds.
iPhone Sales Drastically Surpass Q4 Consensus, Apple Reaches 10 million iPhone Goal
By ANDY M. ZAKY & TURLEY MULLER (Dual Authorship) — Based on the tremendous joint efforts by members at Mac Observer's AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity Board member howlongtoretire (aka HLTR)...
iPhone 2.2 Hidden Features: Google Street View, Emoji, Auto-Correction Off
It seems that Apple is taking further care in hiding new iPhone features in their beta releases. The most recent firmware beta seeded to developers listed “compatibility testing” in its release notes...
AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month
Yahoo is continuing its marathon merger discussions with AOL, sources close to the negotiations have whispered to us, and a deal could happen as early as this month. Is this just a rehash of the repo...
Free Vs Paid
My friend Howard was visiting me a few weeks ago and he said to me “free is over, I am only investing in services that customers pay for”. He said “freemium is dead”. I reminded him that freemium is...
Apple Stock Falls Under $90 (AAPL)
As of 12:55PM ET, Apple (AAPL) is down 8% and trading around $89, more than 50% off its high. — The stock's trailing P/E ratio is now 17X—still above the market's, but low for a stock with this wide...
Not So Secret Apple
Welcome to The Daily Beast: A Q&A with Tina Brown — The company's former (13-year-old) nemesis explains how Steve Jobs has suddenly gone soft. — I've had the dubious privilege of being on the fron...
We Have Completed $4.5 Million in New Funding
From time to time, I have shared with you the steps we're taking to build Giga Omni Media, the 27-month-old company behind this and the other publications that make up the GigaOM network. Today, I am...
The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT — because volume licensing agreements will allow ...
Exclusive: First Look at the BlackBerry Application Center!
This weekend was HUGE for leaked info on the BlackBerry Storm (thanks BG!). But while all the latest Storm OS eye candy has been sweet to look at and filled in some gaps on how the device's OS will f...
Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers
CARLSBAD, Calif.— When PJ Haarsma wrote his first book, a science fiction novel for preteenagers, he didn't think just about how to describe Orbis, the planetary system where the story takes place. H...
SAP: “Very Sudden And Unexpected Drop” In Business, Pressuring Enterprise IT Stocks
Adding fuel to the raging fire on which stock valuations are now burning, SAP (SAP) Co-CEO Henning Kagermann this morning warned in a statement that market developments of the last few weeks have been...
Microsoft planning add-on to SQL Server
Microsoft wants SQL Server to scale new heights, and it is hoping an add-on code-named Kilimanjaro will help. — Due out in the first half of 2010, Kilimanjaro improves SQL Server 2008 with a series ...
Announcing SEOmoz's Index of the Web and the Launch of our Linkscape Tool
After 12 long months of brainstorming, testing, developing, and analyzing, the wait is finally over. Today, I'm ecstatic to announce some very big developments here at SEOmoz. They include:
T-Mobile will introduce Cameo
T-Mobile soon will introduce a new service and a new device for its subscribers. It is not a phone, it is not a Bluetooth headset. What is it? A Picture frame with a sim card buit in. Back on Janu...
Analyst: Half of ‘social media campaigns’ will flop
Adam Sarner, an analyst with market research firm Gartner, has projected that over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with Web sites will have undertaken some kind of online social-networking initia...
Semantic Search Engine Hakia Now Says It Can Filter Results By How Credible They Are
On the Internet, nobody knows your site is a dog (to paraphrase the famous New Yorker cartoon). At least not yet. Semantic search engine Hakia wants to change that. Ask.com is not the only search e...
Asustek shipped 700,000 Eee PCs in September this year, says paper
Asustek Computer shipped around 700,000 Eee PCs in September this year, a new monthly high for the company. Total shipments for the third quarter reached around 1.7 million units, and since October a...
I.B.M. Releases Bluehouse for Collaboration
There's an arms race of sorts taking place among some of the world's largest technology companies as they scamper to control the next wave of office software. — Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, I.B...
Controversial ad company Jellycloud shuts down
The deteriorating economy, and cloudy horizon for the advertising industry, has claimed one more victim: Jellycloud, the ad company I wrote last month that was the latest incarnation of team that ran ...
New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret
Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get bac...
Ask.com Revamps Search Engine
Ask.com has a record of coming up with interesting innovations that are often copied by others in the Internet search business. Yet those innovations have done little to help the company expand its s...
October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu
October is promising to be a big month for open source releases. — As the page on the calendar turned, Acquia launched of its commercially supported version of the popular Drupal open source social ...
Scientist: Holographic television to become reality
LONDON, England (CNN) — Picture this: you're sat down for the Football World Cup final, or a long-awaited sequel to the “Sex and the City” movie and you're watching all the action unfold in 3-D on you...
Netflix Updates Third- and Fourth-Quarter Guidance
Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX - News) today announced updated guidance for the third and fourth quarters of 2008. — Third-Quarter 2008 — The company said it expects net income and EPS will be comfort...
Linux laptops see 4x returns compared to Windows
Do people who pay $299 to $399 for a Linux notebook suffer greater levels of buyer's remorse compared to those buying Windows machines? — According to MSI's U.S. sales director Andy Tung this seems ...
Are We Sure About Pending Collapse of Ad-Supported Internet?
The current economic crisis is already compared quite often to the Great Depression of 1930s. And while similarities are already here and probably we will have more of them to witness if the situatio...
Google Spreadsheets Redesign
One more step towards a consistent Google Docs interface: Google Spreadsheets has been redesigned and it now includes the same old-fashioned menu like the word processor and the presentation app. — ...
Mono 2.0 is out!
Today we released Mono 2.0 to the world. You can download sources and binaries from our download page. And our official release notes are up as well. This of course would not be possible without th...
Mozilla's Geode brings geographic Web to Firefox
Mozilla Labs plans to announce a plug-in called Geode on Tuesday that gives the Firefox Web browser a better ability to understand and use geographic information on the Web. — Geode details at this ...
Michael Moore on Slacker Uprising's Piracy ‘Problem’
Michael Moore decided to give away his latest film ‘Slacker Uprising’ for free, but only to people in the US and Canada. However, since he chose to use BitTorrent, and open trackers such as The Pirat...