Apple starts patenting mobile app ideas
By now most of must us have heard about the problems U.S. patent system is facing. With software and business model patents, patent trolls and lawsuits, and patented things like one-click buying onli...
Discovering Who To Follow
With more than a hundred million users on Twitter, there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out there that will reflect your interests. The trouble is finding all of them. Today we're beginn...
Steve Ballmer on the iPad: The transcript
“We'll talk about about slates and tablets and blah, blah, blah, blah.” Ballmer at the financial analysts meeting. No, those aren't the notes of a reporter who couldn't keep up. That “blah, blah, b...
Facebook Said to Put Off IPO Until 2012 to Buy Time for Growth
Facebook Inc. will probably put off its initial public offering until 2012, giving Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg more time to gain users and boost sales, three people familiar with the matte...
An Open iPhone App Market That Doesn't Require Jailbreaking... And Which Apple Can't Stop
In all of the fuss, hype and obsession over the iPhone/iPad app store, people seem to forget that when the iPhone first launched, it had no app store and no ability for third party developers to creat...
Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent
Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many co...
Update and Clarification of Analysis of Mobile Applications at Blackhat 2010
This week at Blackhat, we released the first findings from the App Genome Project. Our goal with this research is to help make people aware of the capabilities of mobile apps so that they can be vigi...
The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets
A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on consumers. First in a series. By Julia Angwin — Hidden inside Ashley Hayes-Bea...
Lead Investors, Dips**t Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur
Sounds like a great conversation yesterday at Y Combinator's AngelConf in Silicon Valley. Anthony Ha of Venturebeat had a couple posts on it that I just read, one on Paul Graham's comments, and anoth...
New York Subway Stations Will Go Wireless, Catching Up With Tokyo, Berlin
After an almost three-year delay, work is set to begin on a $200 million plan to bring mobile- phone and Wi-Fi service to New York's subway stations. The project was rejuvenated after the group that ...
MoneyBall for Startups: Invest BEFORE Product/Market Fit, Double-Down AFTER.
My apologies... this is a long piece (~2500 words). Not for the faint of heart. If you want the short story, read the abstract below & 3 core assumptions, then cut to the conclusions at the bottom.
RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on IPad
Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc's iPad, according to two people familiar with the company's plan...
Motorola Droid getting Android 2.2 next week
We've just been dropped a brief note from Verizon that the original Droid will be getting the full Froyo treatment at some point next week. Considering the brevity of the announcement, it's entirely ...
Microsoft Will Take Steps To Block The Google-Yahoo Japan Partnership
Microsoft is going to try and block the Yahoo Japan - Google partnership, a company rep told us late last night. — “We plan to present evidence to the Japanese FTC explaining why we believe that thi...
Yelp CEO: “There is real tension” between Google Places and Yelp
Today at TechCrunch's Cruchup in Palo Alto, CA, Jeremy Stoppelman , Yelp's CEO and John Hanke , VP of Product Management at Google talked about the strain that is building up between Yelp and Googl...
The Real Cost of Netflix Streaming is the Movie, Not the Bandwidth
Everyone knows that Netflix's future is in streaming, and as a result, the company is investing heavily in titles for its Watch Instantly service. But a closer look at Netflix's financials underscore...
Barnes & Noble Planning Big Push to Increase Nook Sales
BARNES & NOBLE customers are about to see a lot more of the Nook. — In September, the chain will begin an aggressive promotion of its Nook e-readers by building 1,000-square-foot boutiques in all of...
The Inside Story: Flipboard's Crazy Launch And Its Plan To Save Media
Flipboard is a beautiful iPad app that looks at the content your friends are sharing on Twitter and Facebook and reformats it into a digital, interactive magazine. — The consumer reaction to the app...
Dave McClure Files For $30 Million Venture Fund: 500 Startups
In January, we broke the news that prolific Silicon Valley angel investor Dave McClure was to set up its own venture capital fund. — Yesterday, the man filed for the fund with the SEC, providing us ...
It's As If The iPhone 4 Was Created For DailyBooth; Their App Will Prove It
Even if not everyone will admit it, everyone likes taking pictures of themselves. I suspect it's the not-so-secret reason why users are addicted to DailyBooth — the service which asks you to take pic...