An update from the Chairman
When I joined Google in 2001 I never imagined—even in my wildest dreams—that we would get as far, as fast as we have today. Search has quite literally changed people's lives—increasing the collective...
T-Mobile Confirms Sidekick 4G, Samsung Galaxy S 4G
T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm confirmed today that 4G HSPA+ versions of the T-Mobile Sidekick and the Samsung Galaxy S phones will be “coming soon,” according to a slide presented at a press breakfast...
Tweets can now become Techmeme headlines or discussion. So tweet away.
For as long as newsmakers have used Twitter, tweets have broken news stories. And yet for Techmeme, linking directly to tweets was never imperative - after all most newsworthy tweets are blogged with...
Google to Launch Groupon Competitor [EXCLUSIVE]
Google is preparing launch Google Offers, the search giant's Groupon competitor, Mashable has learned. We have the documents to prove it. One of our sources has sent us a confidential fact sheet str...
Apple's Diabolical Plan to Screw Your iPhone
Expecting to be one of the first people in the world to buy the iPhone 4, I was dispatched to Japan for its release last June. Much to the dismay of thousands of Japanese with similar intentions, my ...
Meet Apple's New Boss, The Most Powerful Gay Man in Silicon Valley
It looks increasingly like Steve Jobs' reign at Apple is over. If the CEO doesn't return from his third, indefinite medical leave, COO Tim Cook will succeed him, marking a new era not only for Apple ...
Email Evolution: Web-based Email Shows Signs of Decline in the U.S. While Mobile Email Usage on the Rise
Growing Number of Communication Channels Prompts Shift in Consumers' Email Behavior — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results …
Verizon's First iPhone Commercial: It Begins
Well that didn't take long. Here it is, the first Verizon iPhone commercial. — As you can see, the focus is on clock — the first one on 11:59 — implying that people in all different walks of life a...
Neverware Means Never Buying a New Computer Again
There is something odd about the computer Jonathan Hefter keeps at his desk in the Dogpatch Labs tech incubator just off of Union Square. The space is filled with employees from some of New York's mo...
SkyFire Pulls In Another Million Bucks With The Launch Of SkyFire For iPad
Up until recently, the revenue model for SkyFire's smartphone browser (you know, the one that converts Flash Video on-the-fly for playback on handsets that otherwise could never touch it?) wasn't too ...
Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
Part of Twitter's appeal is that people can ‘connect’ and engage with celebrities online, even if most of them consider it to be, and treat it like, just another push marketing channel rather than a m...
NY Times to Charge Less Than $20/Month for Web Access
New York Times Co. will charge readers less than $20 a month for full access to its namesake newspaper on the Web when the company introduces its paid service, a person familiar with the matter said. ...
Meg Whitman, Patricia Russo Among Five Joining HP Board
Former EBay CEO Meg Whitman, and former Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo were among five new directors named to the board of directors at Hewlett-Packard. The other three at Shumeet Banerji, CEO of ...
New YouTube homepage launches to all users
You may have noticed we've been experimenting with a new YouTube homepage. After countless user studies and community surveys, one thing came in loud and clear: the homepage in its current form doesn...
Mass shipments of iPad 2 now expected in April
Although Apple was rumored to launch the iPad in February or March, a new report from Digitimes claims Apple's next-gen tablet will hit the mass shipment stage in April of this year. In addition, App...
With anti-Zynga strategy, Kabam raises $30M for social games
The social gaming Gold Rush continues, and not all of the money is flowing into the pockets of Zynga, the biggest social game company on Facebook. Kabam, which has built its business in a very un-Zyn...
LinkedIn Said to Be Worth Almost $3 Billion in Secondary Sale
LinkedIn Corp. shares are being sold in an auction by secondary exchange SharesPost Inc. for $30 apiece, valuing the professional-networking website at almost $3 billion, according to three people fam...
Eric Schmidt: All of Google's Strategic Initiatives in 2011 are Mobile
In the latest Harvard Business Review, guest contributor Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, writes about the company's plans for the coming year, saying “as I think about Google's strategic initiatives in 2...
Microsoft and Google in a War of “Nines”
Last week, Google issued a controversial announcement, claiming that the Gmail portion of its Google Apps service had achieved 99.984 percent uptime in 2010. That's a pretty fantastical claim, especi...
Google Ventures Leads $600K Investment In LawPivot, A Quora For Startup Legal Advice
There's no doubt that the success of startups like Quora have propelled the Q&A space into the spotlight. And there seems to be room for other niche Quora-like sites, such as enterprise-focsued Opzi ...
FaceTime, Camera and PhotoBooth Icons Confirm Camera in iPad 2
Apple's developer release of iOS 4.3 Beta 2 has provided more visual evidence confirming that the next iPad will carry a front facing camera as well as the Apple Camera App and Photo Booth App.
An update from the Chairman
When I joined Google in 2001 I never imagined—even in my wildest dreams—that we would get as far, as fast as we have today. Search has quite literally changed people's lives—increasing the collective...
Google Voice Is About To Take Off: Number Porting Coming Soon For $20
We've been huge fans of Google Voice for quite a while now — it makes screening calls and managing multiple phones a breeze — but there's always been a huge thorn in its side: it didn't allow people t...
HTC to launch Flyer tablet PC in March
HTC plans to launch three tablet PCs in the first half of 2011 with the first model, the Flyer, to begin shipping in the US market in March, according to sources at handset component suppliers. The F...
Facebook Billionaire Eduardo Saverin Leads Qwiki's $8 Million Round
TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki has closed its $8 million series A financing, which I first reported a couple weeks ago when it was midway through the round. Now we know the investors, and it is a ve...
In the US Market
Zokem's industry leading Mobile Life panel in the US from the year 2010 reveals that iPhone scores 84% higher in loyalty ratings than the nearest competitor, Google Android.
Coming soon: A new way to hack into smartphones
By breaking into the phone's radio firmware, hackers can take control of iPhone or Android devices — More than three years after the iPhone was first hacked, computer security experts think they've ...
Twitter Hits Nearly 200M Accounts, 110M Tweets Per Day, Focuses On Global Expansion
Twitter has reached nearly 200 million users registered accounts who post 110 million tweets per day as of the January 1, 2011, Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner tells me.
Apple's Making It Impossible To Open Up Your iPhone By Secretly Swapping Its Screws
Apple's products are notoriously difficult to open and repair—surprise, they want you to buy new stuff!—but this is especially ridiculous. During repairs, they're replacing the iPhone 4's Philips scr...
Preview of Sony Ericsson Vivaz 2 (MT15i/Halon) GSM/UMTS Phone
Sony Ericsson has made some interesting phones in the recent past and some of them enjoyed at least acceptable sales. However, some of the models had disadvantages that were not justified taking into...
Apple Sues Nokia in London Over Patent for Touch-Screen Scroll
Apple Inc., maker of the iPad tablet and iPhone, sued Nokia Oyj in the U.K. over claims that one of the Finnish company's European patents for scrolling technology on touch-screen handsets is invalid.
Neverware Means Never Buying a New Computer Again
There is something odd about the computer Jonathan Hefter keeps at his desk in the Dogpatch Labs tech incubator just off of Union Square. The space is filled with employees from some of New York's mo...
Kongregate Exile Raises Questions About the Android Market
UPDATED. Flash-based game site Kongregrate found itself excluded from the Android Market today, but it's still trying to figure out whether its exile is going to be permanent and if so, why it's bein...
BitTorrent Inventor Demos New P2P Live Streaming Protocol
Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol that revolutionized file-sharing, is finalizing the code for his new P2P-live streaming protocol. With his efforts he aims to develop a piece of co...
AOL Is Launching A Flipboard-Killer, “Editions”
AOL is getting ready to launch its own iPad magazine called “Editions.” — The tag line for the magazine is “The Magazine That Reads You.” — We don't know much about it, but it sounds like it will ...
How ‘Cyberlockers’ Became The Biggest Problem In Piracy
Since Napster exploded into the public consciousness when it was founded 12 years ago, the world of digital piracy has been associated with a particular type of software—"peer-to-peer" download servic...
Amazon to acquire LoveFilm, the ‘European Netflix’
LoveFilm has announced this morning that Amazon is to acquire the remaining shares in the movie rental and streaming service, which is similar to Netflix. — Amazon already has a significant minority...
“Gamification”: A Growing Business to Invigorate Stale Websites
A new breed of consultants, working for the likes of NBC and Playboy, promises to boost business by adding game elements to humdrum sites — Rajat Paharia is a new breed of business consultant.