Verizon iPhone Pre-Orders to Start at 3am ET on February 3rd, Offering AT&T iPhone Trade Ins
Verizon has begun sending out information to corporate customers with more details about their iPhone launch. Verizon is offering existing customers a chance to buy the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd...
Mark Zuckerberg Facebook fan page hack: who was behind it?
There are some clues left by the person who hacked Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page on Wikipedia - but what do they add up to? — I decided to follow up some of the trail left in the Mark Zuckerbe...
Sony's next PSP, codenamed NGP
Betcha didn't think this day would come, but it finally has. Sony has just come clean with its next-generation PlayStation Portable. It's actually codenamed NGP and will revolve around five key conc...
Apple, News Corp to hold event to launch The Daily
Apple and News Corp sent out invitations on Thursday to press for the launch of the Daily, a newspaper designed specifically for iPads. — According to the invitation received by The Loop on Thursday...
Hulu Plots New Script
Just as the digital wave transforms the television industry, Hulu, a pioneer of Internet TV, is in internal discussions to dramatically transform itself. — The free online television service has bec...
Nokia smartphone market share shrinks to 31 percent, operating profit takes a beating too
Stephen Elop's first quarterly results as Nokia CEO have just come out, and while the company's still growing, others seem to be speeding ahead of it. Nokia's reporting its converged mobile devices …
Introducing the new version of Skype for Mac
We've just released a new version of Skype for Mac, removing the beta label and introducing group video calling as part of our Premium package, as well as a number of user interface and other improvem...
Twitter Hires Bing's Principal Scientist Away From Microsoft
Alek Kocz, Principal Scientist at Microsoft's search engine Bing, appears to have left the company and joined Twitter this week. Kocz's Twitter messages are protected and he hasn't changed any of his...
Netflix Gets Social: “Extensive” Facebook Integration is Coming
Netflix revealed it is in the process of implementing “an extensive Facebook integration” on Wednesday, marking a significant change from its previous absence from the social Web. — Netflix's dramat...
Larry Page's Google 3.0
The company co-founder and his star deputies are trying to root out bureaucracy and rediscover the nimble moves of youth — Every Monday afternoon at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., more tha...
Demand Media's Planet of the Algorithms
Fresh off its IPO, Demand Media is blanketing the Web with answers to millions of questions you didn't know you had. Is that a business? — “We are thinking through the implications of, ‘How do you ...
HTC's newest Android flagship phone revealed
Why bother waiting for its official Mobile World Congress reveal in February when you can view the newest HTC flagship today? The touchscreen slate prototype (notice the serial number stamped along t...
Here Comes Another Web IPO: LinkedIn S-1 Filing Imminent
LinkedIn, the online business networking site, is likely to file regulatory documents for an initial public offering as early as today, according to sources close to the situation. — Sources said Li...
Microsoft sues former GM over departure to Salesforce.com
In a case that promises to reignite the debate over the enforceability of non-compete agreements, Microsoft today filed suit and won a temporary restraining order against one of its former general man...
What Stops Female Founders?
The lack of women in tech startups seems a perennially hot topic. I'm keenly aware of this problem because I see so many founders, and so few of them are women. I'm delighted to have 6 women at YC t...
Clinton Defends Use of Facebook and Twitter as Egypt Erupts in Protest
As Egyptian authorities struggled to quash anti-government uprisings yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the longtime U.S. ally to unblock social networking sites that have been us...
10 Mobile Trends for 2011
In its annual mobile technology report, Forrester Research has outlined the trends it expects to see in the coming year. Technologies like 4G and LTE, Near Field Communication (NFC), barcodes and aug...
Facebook denies to launch branded phones with HTC
(Reuters) - Facebook has no plans to launch Facebook-branded phones with Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC, it said on Thursday, following reports that it planned to launch an official tie-up next month....
Hulu may use live TV, lose free ABC and Fox to iTunes
Hulu is considering a major shakeup of its business model that could move away from its free format and towards a paid service with live TV, insiders claimed early Thursday. While it wouldn't drop th...
Google, Amazon Vets Bank On Jumio To Revolutionize Mobile Payments
Much of what Jumio is building is still very unclear, but chances are this will become one of the hottest startups in 2011, and not just because they hire opera singers to tease their upcoming mobile ...
Are Location-Based Services Ready to Turn the Corner?
Despite reports that location-based services are far from mainstream, new research by Microsoft suggests the technology is gaining adoption and may be poised to follow in the footsteps of the ATM, whi...
Egypt Leaves the Internet
Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international conne...
Microsoft Considering Whether to Bring Office to Apple's Mac App Store
Microsoft says it continues to be pleased with sales of the Mac version of Office, but has not yet decided whether to offer the product or any of its components in the Mac version of the App Store, wh...
Amazon's Jeff Bezos: “We Had Our First $10 Billion Quarter”
Amazon just released results for its for its fourth quarter ending December 31, 2010. The company's sales came in at $12.95 billion, which is up 36 percent from $9.52 billion in fourth quarter 2009.
LivingSocial Closing the Gap
Let's face it, $6 billion is a lot of money, especially considering the hyper-innovation we're seeing in the social buying space. — In a previous post less then two months ago we analyzed the differ...
Netflix Performance on Top ISP Networks
Hi there. This is Ken Florance, Director of Content Delivery here at Netflix. — As we continue to stream more and more great movies and TV shows, we find ourselves in the unique position of having ...