AngelGate Is “100 Percent Accurate,” Says Michael Arrington
Last night, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reported that on Monday night, a group of high-profile Silicon Valley angels met at a San Francisco restaurant, where, Arrington said he later learned, “coll...
Facebook's Zuckerberg Now Richer Than Apple's Steve Jobs
Just 5 years after founding Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is worth more than Apple's iconic chief Steve Jobs. — Image via CrunchBase — This year, Zuckerberg, 26, added $4.9 billion to his fortune-vaul...
iWork for iPad adds file transfer, better Office support
Apple on Wednesday released updates to its three iWork apps for the iPad. Version 1.2 of Numbers, Keynote, and Pages feature improvements to file-format support and file transferring, adding the abil...
Netflix apologizes for using actors to meet press at Canadian launch
Video-streaming website Netflix Inc. closed down a Toronto street Wednesday and attracted dozens of onlookers for a splashy launch to promote its highly anticipated foray into Canada. Problem is, man...
Zuckerberg to Donate $100 Million to Newark Schools
Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder and chief executive of Facebook, is expected to announce a donation of $100 million to the Newark public school system this week, in a bold and aggressive bid ...
Buyers Send iPhones on a Long Relay to China
They show up in the early-morning hours: Chinese men and women, waiting silently and somewhat nervously outside of Apple stores in New York. On some days the lines they form can be a block long. — ...
Roku releases new video player boxes
For the last few days we've had a small black box with a sub-$100 price tag attached to the flatscreen TV in the Macworld offices. But this isn't Apple's forthcoming Apple TV box—it's the top-of-the-...
Twitter is releasing a real time analytics solution in Q4
At the Sports Marketing 2.0 Summit yesterday, Ross Hoffman shared with the crowd that sports leagues, teams, and players will have access to a real time analytics dashboard from Twitter. I had the op...
One place to find everything new from Google
If it seems to you like every day Google releases a new product or feature, well, it seems like that to us too. The central place we tell you about most of these is through the official Google Blog N...
Is the Web heading toward redirect hell?
Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it. — We're talking about the apparent need of every web service out there to a...
Facebook Hopes Credits Make Dollars
PALO ALTO, Calif. — For all its success, Google is often criticized for being a one-trick pony. After 12 years, the Internet search company is still struggling to find a significant new revenue sourc...
Suppliers say Apple will build first batch of CDMA iPhones in December
Apple is expected to build its first 3 million Verizon-compatible CDMA iPhones in December 2010, contacts in the company's overseas supply chain reportedly indicated. — Analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro with...
Exclusive: The real HTC HD7 revealed!
Unfortunately its not an actual picture, but for a black slab the schematic s close enough. Above is the real successor to the HTC HD2, the HTC HD7, previously of course the HTC HD3, featuring the ne...
Australian 17-year-old takes blame for Twitter chaos
SYDNEY — A 17-year-old Australian schoolboy said on Wednesday he unwittingly caused a massive hacker attack on Twitter which sent users to Japanese porn sites and took out the White House press secret...
Microsoft Launches A New Loyalty Program: Bing Rewards
Prior Microsoft search loyalty programs, SearchPerks and Cashback, were retired. But maybe the third time's the charm: today Microsoft is rolling out Bing Rewards Preview (beta). It's a credit card ...
Oracle Growth Plans Worry Rivals and Customers
SAN FRANCISCO — Each year, Oracle's presence looms over this city for a week, during the company's Open World customer conference. About 41,000 people arrived this week to discuss business software i...
Programming for Dummies: Dissastisfied, Some Wall Street Technologists Flee for Start-Up Life
Google's Schmidt to Colbert: Comment About Kids Changing Their Identity ‘Was a Joke’
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on “The Colbert Report” for a “Google Chat” last night. As Stephen would say, “At least that's what it said when I looked it up on Bing.” — Colbert and Schmidt discussed...
TripIt's Pro Plan Now Pays For Itself, Will Track Flight Itineraries For Price Drops
TripIt, the site that creates customized travel itineraries from travel confirmation emails, is upgrading its premium version today to be even more useful. Now TripIt Pro will track any pro member's ...
Now that the Recession Officially Ended....Whatever Happened to that Other Shoe?
With the news this week that the recession officially ended in June 2009, there's a ton of commentary about how it still feels like we're in recession. But from where I sit, it never felt much like a...
The first step to fixing the Android Marketplace has nothing to do with the Android Marketplace
Much fuss has been made about the user experience of the Android Marketplace and how it compares to the iOS App Store but, while there are many points to be made about how the Marketplace's design …
US hunters shoot down Google fibre
Repairers forced to ski in to Oregon back woods. — Google has revealed that aerial fibre links to its data centre in Oregon were “regularly” shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cabl...
Tecca, Best Buy's New Shopping App, Isn't a Best Buy Shopping App
Here's another shopping app: Tecca promises to “help you find, buy and get the best from personal technology.” It's available for Apple's iPhone, Google's Android as well as Web browsers.
Google Campaign to Build Up Its Display Ads
Google, the online search ad giant that rarely advertises, has decided it needs to advertise the fact that it is in the online display advertising business. — And if that is not enough advertising a...
Dropbox BlackBerry Now Available for All, Android and iOS Apps Get Updates
BlackBerry/Android/iOS: BlackBerry addicts, your days of emailing yourself files are nearly numbered. File syncing service Dropbox has released its previously closed beta BlackBerry app into the open...
Verizon Taps ‘Intuitive’ McAdam to Lead in Era of Apple, Google
In 2008, Lowell McAdam, head of Verizon Wireless, introduced an unlimited wireless calling plan for $99.99 a month that sparked investor concerns he was starting a price war. — The company argued th...