Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels [Email]
As we just stated in our previous post, there was clearly an email sent by angel investor Ron Conway to a group of super angels who were likely involved in the Bin 38 “AngelGate” meeting that Mike stu...
More Details on Today's Outage
Early today Facebook was down or unreachable for many of you for approximately 2.5 hours. This is the worst outage we've had in over four years, and we wanted to first of all apologize for it. We al...
Facebook Said to Be Working on Phones With INQ for AT&T
Facebook Inc. is working with mobile-handset manufacturer INQ Mobile Ltd. on two smartphones that may be carried by AT&T Inc., according to three people familiar with the matter. — The devices, whic...
Verizon Wireless Readies Tiered Data Pricing
Verizon Communications Inc. Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said the company's wireless arm expects to introduce its own form of tiered pricing, possibly over the next four to six months. — But Mr. ...
DROID 2 Global Benchmarks and System Info, Hello 1.2GHz Processor
We first showed you our exclusive shots of the Droid 2 Global and now have even more goodies from this amazing looking device. Who wants some Quadrant system info and benchmarks? Unfortunately we do...
Apologies
My Big American Foot is in my mouth. Yesterday, I made an awkward joke with a reporter in Toronto about Americans (like me) being self-absorbed relative to Netflix pricing in Canada. I was wrong to ...
More Hotmail updates on the way
We've kept ourselves busy this summer. A few months ago, we released a re-invented Windows Live Hotmail designed around what people said they wanted—a more efficient service to help them manage clutt...
Concept Series: Seabird - A Community-driven Mobile Phone Concept
Since Mozilla Labs launched the Concept Series with an open call for participation we've had thousands of people join in, share ideas and develop concepts around Firefox, the Mozilla projects and the ...
iPhone vs. Windows Phone 7 (Video)
In this video, we compare the interface of Windows Phone 7 with that of the iPhone. Previously we showed you a web browser and email comparison between iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7. This is ...
Dell Evaluating Internet TV Devices and Google TV Software
Dell on Thursday said it is considering the development of devices beyond PCs that would stream Internet content to regular television sets. — The company is evaluating new devices from set-top box ...
Netflix May Launch Streaming-Only Plan in the U.S.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings doesn't usually reveal future plans, but he decided to throw us a bone today after two days of bad publicity, hinting at the option of a cheaper subscription plan that comes ...
T-Mobile G2 Pre-Order Is A Go For Tomorrow, Release October 6th!
We'll just make this a super quick post but the T-Mobile G2 with Google will be available for pre-order starting tonight and running through October 4th with a release date on October 6th. I can't sa...
LinkedIn Agrees to Buy Business Reviews Startup
The purchase of ChoiceVendor is the networking site's second acquisition — LinkedIn, the largest networking site for online professionals, bought ChoiceVendor Inc., a website for reviews of business...
Microsoft joins Apple in stance against Blu-ray
Apple has a surprising ally in its campaign of apathy against Sony's Blu-ray disc format. Microsoft, of all companies, has also stepped out with a passive-aggressive stance against the standard, as U...
Gmail Creator: Facebook Has The Potential To Be Worth More Than Google
I love Quora. I don't know what it is about the service, but something makes interesting people give very interesting answers to a huge range of questions. Take Paul Buchheit, for example.
Here it comes: ‘Super WiFi’
Microsoft, Google and other tech companies won a key victory in Washington, D.C., today as the Federal Communications Commission moved to open up vacant spectrum between television channels for unlice...
Apple Passes PetroChina to Become Second-Largest Stock
Apple Inc. overtook PetroChina Co. to become the second-biggest company in the world by market value, lifted by investors betting on growth prospects for the iPhone, Macintosh and iPad. — Apple, val...
New features for the Chrome Web Store developer preview: Google Checkout integration & previewing for your apps
We're excited to share with you some new features that we just added to the developer preview of the Chrome Web Store: — Starting today, you can sign up for a Google Checkout …
Will Nokia build Windows phones?
According to a trusted source, Nokia is now likely to use Windows Phone 7 as an additional platform for its phones. Also, Nokia's board has given new ex-Microsoft CEO Stephen Elop the green light to ...
Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000
Facebook is an amazing success as a social network. Anyone who can get 500 million people to connect, share photos, and click on little cows in Farmville deserves major kudos. — But the bulls**t mo...
Facebook: At the Movies with the Winklevosses
The twins, early Zuckerberg collaborators turned foes, give their take on The Social Network — “It's a little surreal,” says Cameron Winklevoss, standing outside the Sony (SNE) office building in mi...
A Bite of the Apple
Stumble into Apple's App Store and you are greeted with literally thousands of applications you can download for your iPhone. The reason is simple: in a world of constant mobility and interactivity, ...
Facebook Phone: All You Need To Know + New Details
Of all the recent technology news, the one that's held most of my interest is the existence of the Facebook phone. Why? Because I'd been aware of a project to build a phone based on Facebook for qui...
Digg.com redesign alienates users
The Internet can be a fickle creature, but if there is one lesson that seems to consistently ring true it's this: don't alienate your core users. — It's a lesson that digg.com is learning the hard w...
Apple exploring shrunken audio jacks for even smaller iPods
In its continuous pursuit to create smaller, more compact devices, Apple has shown interest in creating headphone jacks for iPods and iPhones that will take up even less space inside a device. — A n...
Side-by-side: Flip UltraHD vs. iPhone 4
Is the iPhone 4 a Flip killer? That's a question we've been asking ourselves ever since Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the latest iPhone generation with HD recoding capability in June. Well, it loo...
Zuckerberg: Social Is Not A Layer You Add (*Cough* Google *Cough*)
Earlier this afternoon, we posted our most recent interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The talk is full of gems of information, such as Facebook's thoughts about social phones. But a more ge...
YouTubeSocial Lets You Simultaneously Watch Videos With Friends
I/O accelerator company SocialVision, purveyors of white-label “Viewing Party” software today launch YouTubeSocial as their first consumer facing product. Similar to Clipsync, YouTubeSocial combines ...
Verizon CEO hints iPhone not coming soon
NEW YORK - Comments from Verizon Communications Inc. CEO Ivan Seidenberg on Thursday left little room for the possibility of a Verizon version of the iPhone any time soon. — Speaking to investors at...
What Netflix CEO hopes U.S. won't notice
‘Self-absorbed’ Americans may ignore Canada price disparity … The Hollywood Reporter: You're looking beyond the U.S. border for growth. Where will you expand next after Canada? — Reed Hastings: For...
Facebook Sells Your Friends
How Facebook plans to leverage its 550 million users into the greatest advertising juggernaut since ... O.K., only since Google. That's still huge — There were two obvious winners at the FIFA World...
HP Slate Tablet Rears its Square-Edged Head in Leaked Video
Admittedly, we're more keen on HP's webOS tablet, or even the ditched Android tablet (basically, anything other than Windows 7!), but this leaked Slate video does suggest that maybe it will wind up in...
iPad, Apple's ‘Mac of the masses,’ predicted to sell 21M in 2011
One prominent Wall Street analyst has increased is forecast for iPad sales in 2011 to 21 million, citing expansion of the device's availability, as well as rapid adoption in the enterprise sector.
Exclusive interview: The teens who took over Twitter
A teenage prank on Twitter turned into the hack heard round the world Tuesday — and VentureBeat now has the story behind it. Through an exclusive interview with the two New Zealand kids whose code sp...
Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy After Online Rivals Gain
Blockbuster Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to quickly adapt its movie- rental model from storefronts to mail-order and online technology pioneered by rivals such as Netflix Inc.
‘One app for all’ effort launches
The effort is meant to supplement, rather than replace, existing app environments — A European project to develop an application environment for every internet-connected device has received 10m euro...
FCC Votes to Open Vacant TV Airwaves for $4 Billion Wireless Market by U.S
Federal regulators cleared the way for technology companies to use vacant television channels for wireless data and Internet services that may be worth more than $4 billion a year.
Wikipedia Introduces Article Feedback Tool
Wikipedia, the massively collaborative online encyclopedia, has started testing an article feedback tool that allows Wikipedia users to rate articles on four primary characteristics. — The tool allo...
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Why We Just Launched Peek 9 Into The Insanely Crowded Mobile Device Market
We launched Peek 9 this week, into the obviously very busy market for mobile devices, smartphones, tablets, various qwerty phones that have some apps, and all the rest. — We must be nuts, right?