The Paul Allen Suit: A Look at the Patents
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Interval Licensing is suing 11 companies, including tech giants Apple and Google, alleging patent infringement. Below, a look at the patents in the lawsuit. — Brow...
Condé Nast, I'm publicly offering to buy Reddit.
This was an email I sent to one of our sites, The Daily What: — Hi TDWers, I'm Ben Huh, and I run the Cheezburger Network (which includes The Daily What, if you were too Prop 19'd to notice). I hav...
Digg v4: release, iterate, repeat.
At Digg it's our job to try new things, analyze the usage data, iterate, and evolve. While not everyone is happy w/the new design, as of right now the usage looks extremely good (ie. more people regi...
Guess Who Is Trying To Trademark The Word “Face”? (And Guess Who Is Trying To Stop It?)
When it comes to trademarks, Facebook is proving to be a bully. It is going after Teachbook in court for using a similar name, and already forced Placebook to change its name. But that is only half ...
Google Buzz API adds Track and some improvements
Let's say you're really interested in coffee and tea and would like to know every time someone talks about them. You've been able to do that for the web with Google Alerts. Now you will be able to d...
Index Ventures Buys Into Etsy, Triples Valuation To Nearly $300 Million
Crafty commerce site Etsy just raised another $20 million in its fifth venture round (that would be the Series E). Index Ventures is the new investor leading the round, with partner Danny Rimer getti...
Yahoo Okays Revenue Streams in its Social Streams
Yahoo has removed the commercial restrictions on Yahoo Updates API, its social streams service that provides real-time user activity data. In addition, Yahoo increased the usage limits to make the pl...
Zuckerberg: Facebook Photos Used 5 Or 6 Times More Than Competitors — Combined
Combined — Yesterday, Facebook held a developer's garage event at their headquarters in Palo Alto. To kick things off, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to talk a bit about the history of Facebook.
YouTube Debuts New Movies Section With 400 Free, Full-Length Films (Updated)
YouTube has launched a fresh Movies category on its website, gathering about 400 full-length films for your on-demand viewing pleasure, all free of charge. — The renewed section, which is actually …
Brand New Details On the iPod touch 4G
According to a source who would have reason to know, the fourth-generation iPod touch is changing back shapes—sorry, readers who have been posting with love for the dome-like curved iPod touch 2G/3G b...
Apple-Centric Observers Get the Facts Wrong: H.264 Still Ain't Free
Addendum to the previous story: an “end user” and an “application” are not the same thing. Watching comments from some users dumping on Firefox and Opera because they don't understand this is painful...
Find out what's hot on search with the Google Beat
Every day, there are more than a billion searches for information on Google. Have you ever wondered what those searches are about—or whether what you're searching for also happens to be on the minds ...
Apple Upgrades iWork, Gives ePub a Boost
It is pretty clear by now that Apple's iWork productivity suite is an acquired taste. But soon, folks who are interested in publishing their content in the ePub format — an open eBook standard — migh...
SCVNGR Launches Support For Facebook Places
Tweet — Location-based game SCVNGR has had a big week of news, first with its partnership with AT&T and then the release of its secret social mechanics playdeck. Today the company has announced tha...
Kleiner Perkins Sitting Pretty In Event Of ArcSight Sale
ArcSight Inc. may be the next publicly traded technology company to give its venture capital backer a big reward for sticking with it. — The Wall Street Journal reports the security software company...
Lenovo to develop game consoles in China: report
(Reuters) - Lenovo, the world's No. 4 PC maker, has set up a unit to develop a video game console for the China market, a newspaper reported on Friday, pitting it against rivals such as Microsoft and ...
ViewSonic Android tablet: Pictures emerge
Earlier this week, we at Pocket-lint brought you the news that ViewSonic is planning a big (well, little in size but big in attitude) tablet launch at IFA. — And now we've been sent these pics from ...