Netflix Gets Into The Original Content Game, Buys Upcoming Show For A Rumored $100m
Netflix got its start as the red-envelope movie rental service, later turning into the video streaming authority (bankrupting Blockbuster in the process), and now may be making yet another major move:...
The internet is over
Oliver Burkeman went to Texas to the South by Southwest festival of film, music and technology, in search of the next big idea. After three days he found it: the boundary between ‘real life’ and ‘onl...
Amazon Kindle: Bundled Free In UK, And The iPad Effect
Looks like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is looking to cast its retail net ever wider in the hunt for new Kindle users: the e-reading device is now being sold in the UK by Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK, an...
Happier people tweet together
As the old adage goes, “birds of a feather flock together” - and it seems to be true even when tweeting. Scientists who have studied millions of tweets on the micro-blogging service Twitter say they ...
Special report: A PlayBook for fighting Apple
(Reuters) - Once upon a time, BlackBerry was king. Then came the iPhone, followed by Android. And BlackBerry seemingly lost its way — if not quite its throne. — Research In Motion is holding on to...
Beware the spyware model of technology - its flaws are built in
Computers are increasingly designed to control and spy on us - the question isn't whether these control measures will fail but when, and who will hijack them — Technology regulation is notoriously t...
San Francisco Doing Everything It Can To Drive Zynga And Twitter Away
Update: See San Francisco Controller Publishes Candid Report On How Badly They Need Twitter — San Francisco, unlike most other cities in Silicon Valley, has a 1.5% payroll tax. And even more stunni...
100 Percent Fresh Exclusive!: Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes in Acquisition Talks With Yahoo and Others
Flixster-the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV-is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sourc...
Source: Seed-Stage Rounds Up 50 Percent in New York; Valuations Up 30 Percent
How hot is the New York tech scene? Maybe a little too hot, suggests Owen Davis, managing director of NYC Seed, a three-year old seed fund that provides up to $200,000 to New York startups via a part...
New Facebook Patent: the Huge Implications of Curated Search
For some time, Facebook has been interested in semantic search — using its social graph and immense amount of information about its users to deliver search results. Some have dismissed the effort, bu...
Finra Warns About Facebook Pre-IPO Investments
Private market trading of Facebook stock has garnered so much attention lately that the social network is cited as an example in a warning by a financial industry regulator. — The Financial Industry...
2.3 Million Downloads of IE9 in the first 24 hours
Internet Explorer 9 has now been downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours since its Monday night release. That is over 27 downloads every second, or over 240 downloads every 9 seconds. Wo...
Microsoft Is More Ethical Than Google, Apple, Or Facebook
Google's motto may be “do no evil,” but that hasn't fooled an organization that rates the most ethical companies in the world. — This year, the Ethisphere Institute named Microsoft to its list of it...
Little Speakers, Big Bet: Andreessen Horowitz Invests $49 Million in Headset-Maker Jawbone
Little speakers, big bet: VC shop Andreessen Horowitz is putting $49 million into Jawbone, the company best known for its slim mobile headsets. — There aren't any other investors joining Andreessen ...