The Twitter Platform
Enduring Value — When we discuss the future of Twitter, we focus on the mechanisms through which we can build a platform of enduring value. The three mechanisms most important to building such a pl...
Wal-Mart slashes iPhone price to $97
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, plans to slash the price of Apple's 16GB 3GS iPhone to $97 beginning Tuesday. — Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) is widely expected to unve...
Google finally reveals AdSense cut: 68% on content
At last, Google is revealing its split on AdSense: 68% to publishers for content ads, 51% for search ads. — I had two primary complaints about Google in my otherwise admittedly and obviously wet-kis...
A New Type of Phishing Attack
The web is a generative and wild place. Sometimes I think I missed my calling; being devious is so much fun. Too bad my parents brought me up with scruples. — Most phishing attacks depend on an or...
17 Percent of Verizon Customers Would Upgrade to iPhone
AT&T's (T) iPhone exclusivity deal hasn't yet expired, nor has Apple (AAPL) announced plans to sell the device through a second U.S. carrier, but that's not stopping analysts from speculating about wh...
The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man - 4.82 million hours
When Google launched its Pac-Man logo on Friday, we immediately heard amused groans in our tweet-streams. “Well, so much for my morning,” said one. “Google's Pac Man logo just ruined millions of dol...
Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 with Keynote Address on Monday, June 7
Apple® will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address by CEO Steve Jobs on Monday, June 7 at 10:00 a.m. This year's WWDC sold out in a record eight days to over...
Twitter's Free Love Era Comes to an End: Time for Developers and Publishers to Pay Up
Twitter isn't just booting other ad networks out of its stream. It now plans to tax some start-ups and publishers that are making money from the service. — That's a pretty significant change for th...
Video: Android 2.2 (Froyo) Web Browser Speed Test and Comparison
According to Google, the web browser in Froyo beats every other mobile browser available right now. That's a lofty claim, and in this video, we put Froyo up against Safari on the iPhone and Opera Mob...
Yahoo, Nokia To Launch Co-Branded Services Around The World
While we already knew the subject of this news, Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz officially announced Project Nike, a distribution partnership with Nokia this morning. Nokia will build Yahoo email, search, an...
Pandigital's new $200 Novel color e-reader powered by Android, Barnes & Noble
If you know Pandigital, you probably know it for its photo frames. But now the company is moving into the hot e-reader market with a device that a lot of people have been waiting for: an affordable c...
IBM buys Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 billion
IBM on Monday acquired Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 billion. Big Blue said it will lump Sterling Commerce and its 2,500 employees in with its WebSphere middleware unit. — The move means tha...
Flash 10.1 on Froyo goes tete-a-tete with Flash Lite 4 on Eclair: butter vs. stutter (video)
Believe it or not, your newly-upgraded Nexus One isn't the first Android smartphone to have Adobe Flash video capability, nor even the first to play said content on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU …
Intel officially outs Core i3, i5 and i7 ULV processors for those ultra-thin laptops
We can't say this one is much of a surprise, but it sure is good to get the official details on Intel's latest ultra-low voltage Core i3, i5 and i7 processors. Just as we had heard …
Amazon's Kindle 2.5 software update begins to roll out
We knew it was destined for a late-May release, and it looks as if Amazon's going to make its deadline after all. Following a preview of the 2.5 software update a few weeks back, we've got pictorial ...
Apple's Incredible Efficient Growth (AAPL, CSCO, GOOG, MSFT, INTC)
Organic growth is the term coined for growing internally, not via merger or acquisition. Apple has embraced this strategy over its existence, averaging only about 1 acquisition per year during the pa...
Rivals Seize on Troubles of Facebook
Correction Appended — It sounds like a kamikaze mission: an upstart with a meager number of users and no capital squaring off against Facebook, a social networking juggernaut with more than 400 mill...
TweetUp Launches “AdSense For Twitter” Product At #TCDisrupt
TweetUp, the Twitter-focused search and advertising startup that was incubated by idealab - the original Overture founders - is launching today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City.