Exclusive: Twitter Raises $200 Million at $3.7 Billion Valuation; Adds McCue and Rosenblatt to Board
Twitter has completed its latest round of funding-$200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation-with Kleiner Perkins as the lead investor, according to sources familiar with the situation.
New MacBook Pros with upgraded designs, Cheaper iMacs with new screen sizes in 2011
Digitimes reports that Apple is set to unveil upgrades to both their MacBook Pro and iMac lines in the first half of 2011. The report claims that Apple has four new MacBook Pro models in store …
The Internet Goes to War
If you weren't paying attention recently, the Internet has gone to war. — ABC News proclaimed “Welcome to Infowar, Version 1.0″. Fox warned of the “growing data war”. And the Guardian provided mi...
Time to loosen Google's grip?
In case you hadn't noticed, Google isn't just a Web search company any longer. In addition to online advertising, it's moving into operating system and application software, mobile telephone software...
Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg
On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because it's in the middle of a huge work space and has glass wal...
LG Optimus 2X: first dual-core smartphone launches with Android, 4-inch display, 1080p video recording
That's right, it's official. Needless to say, that LG Star we recently got our paws on is very real, though it won't go by that name at retail — just as LG's own release materials had suggested …
Hacksugar: Mac-based AirPlay service allows device-to-Mac playback
AirPlay is a very, very cool technology. Unfortunately, if you don't own an Apple TV 2 or other capable receiving device, it's not going to do you much good. (If you have the cash on-hand, for $99, ...
Smartphone Browser Landscape
Users expect websites to work on their mobile phones. In two to three years, mobile support will become standard for any site. Web developers must add mobile web development to their skill set or ri...
Transport for London Moves to Windows Azure
Today we have some great news to announce as Transport for London (TfL) has taken to the cloud by moving their Developers Area and new Trackernet data feed to the Windows Azure platform. This forms t...
Developer claims FBI implemented backdoors in OpenBSD
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation implemented a number of backdoors in the open cryptographic framework used in OpenBSD, according to a former developer of the operating system. — Gregory Perry...
An Android Phone That Says ‘Google’
As the year winds down, we've all got problems. Economic slump. Wars. Unemployment. — But look at the bright side: there's never been a better selection of really terrific cellphones. In fact, i...
Rogers first to bring back post-sale iPhone unlocking
Canadian carrier Rogers and its sub-brand Fido have brought back a system that would let customers more officially unlock iPhones after the sale, a possible leak of its strategy has uncovered. As par...
mSpot Brings Cloud-Based Streaming Music Service To iPhones
Mobile entertainment startup mSpot is bringing its free music cloud service that allows you sync your entire music collection across mobile phones and PCs/Macs to iPhones with the launch of a new app.
A Snapshot of the Public BitTorrent Landscape
In a few months BitTorrent will celebrate its tenth anniversary, and in these years it has become the preferred technology to share files online. Today we document a piece of BitTorrent history with ...
Bing's Dilemma: Explaining Why Users Should Switch From Google
Microsoft's search engine Bing has been adding so many features lately, it's hard to keep track. — This highlights the biggest dilemma in Microsoft's effort to grab market share from Google: average...
Facebook Sales Said Likely to Reach $2 Billion This Year, Beating Target
Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social-networking service, is likely to generate sales of about $2 billion this year, a faster pace than originally projected, according to three people familia...
An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc.
I just finished reading your demoralizing letter regarding recent layoffs at Yahoo over at All Things Digital. Although I'm only a Yahoo user, not an employee, I am a heavy user of your Flickr produc...
Facebook Tops Glassdoor's List of Places to Work
Engineers aren't just flocking to Facebook for a potential blockbuster IPO payout — apparently the social network is also a great place to work. Glassdoor.com announced that Facebook is debuting at t...
Hindsight2010: The Year's Most Retweeted Tweets
In this edition of #Hindsight2010, we reveal the 10 Most Retweeted Tweets of the year. — American TV personality Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) tops the list with a wry Tweet about the Gulf Oil Sp...
Home sweet Homepage
Starting today, you might notice a button on YouTube.com asking if you want to check out an experimental homepage we've been working on. It's an opt-in experiment, offering a homepage that has a real...
Twitter users may be diverse, but are they talking to each other?
At first glance, a major study released last week showing higher percentages of blacks and Latinos than whites using Twitter seemed like a cyberutopian's dream come true. The blogosphere applauded wh...
Google Realtime gets a page refresh. Cleaner display and Top updates featured.
If you're a fan of Google Realtime, you're going to love this. The search modifier, which looks across social media sites for updates in “real time” has gotten a completely clean new look that makes ...
Letting everyone do great things with App Inventor
In July, we announced App Inventor for Android, a Google Labs experiment that makes it easier for people to access the capabilities of their Android phone and create apps for their personal use. We w...
E-Readers With Color Open Door for Pictures
Millions of consumers have embraced black-and-white e-readers like the Kindle for reading simple novels or nonfiction — but books with color illustrations have generally remained better read in print....
What's new with Google TV?
It's been two months since the first Google TV device went on sale. Since then, we have been hard at work thinking about how we can make the platform even better for our users. In fact, one of the g...
In race with Nvidia, AMD launches its fastest new graphics chips
Advanced Micro Devices is introducing its fastest new graphics chips today for enthusiast gamers who want split-second 3D graphics performance on their gaming PCs. The move is part of AMD's latest ef...