Facebook in Privacy Breach
Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the F8 developer conference this spring. — Many of the most popula...
A Renewed Mark Zuckerberg
If you've seen Mark Zuckerberg speak at some point over the past few weeks, you've probably noticed something different about him. It's not that he's just more charismatic, but for the first time it ...
Angry Birds for Android gets over 1 million downloads in 1 day
There is no denying the Angry Birds phenomenon. Rovio Mobile, the developers behind the multi-platform Angry Birds app, have just announced a staggering stat — over 1 million Android downloads in 1 d...
300,000 Apple apps? Not so fast!
The iOS App Store is large and dynamic market place, and measuring its size can be tricky — On Sept. 1, Steve Jobs announced that there were more than 250,000 apps to choose from in Apple's (AAPL) A...
Why Groupon Is No Ebay
Chicago-based Groupon is certainly one heck of a startup. Like Zynga it sort of came out of nowhere in 2009. Even last December I was sort of only vaguely aware of how fast it was growing. — But i...
Google's First Personalized Doodle
Google found a nice way to wish you Happy Birthday. If you visit Google's homepage when you are signed in and it's your birthday, you'll see a special doodle that links to your Google profile. When ...
What would you do with gigabit internet speeds?
South Korea is already ahead of the global technological curve but it is looking to forge even further ahead by boosting broadband speeds across the nation. — It is not aiming at 100, 200 or even 50...
Major Torrent Sites Go Down After Attack on Hosting Provider
A massive attack on the hosting provider Reality Check Network took down several major BitTorrent sites today. The attack corrupted many servers on the network and at the time of writing TorrentReact...
News Corp. Tries Fox.com, Hulu As Pawn In Retrans Battle With Cablevision
Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) internet customers lost access to Fox.com and Fox programming on Hulu for a time Saturday afternoon—the result of a misguided effort on News Corp.'s part to cut off online view...
Yahoo to Offer Media Links
Yahoo Inc. plans to mimic a strategy used by rival Facebook Inc. to help drive traffic to its site, people familiar with the matter said. — The Sunnyvale, Calif., company soon will roll out a featur...
Intel, Microsoft, and the curious case of the iPad
“That tablet thing? Yeah, we'll get back to you on that.” That's a crude but fairly accurate encapsulation of the attitude Microsoft, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices have toward the iPad and the t...
Facebook charity app wins investors
Causes, a for-profit company that lets Facebook Inc.'s users give money to charities, raised $9 million in new funding and began selling gift cards in supermarkets as it tries to bring more philanthro...