‘Know Your Meme’ Acquired By Cheezburger in Seven-Figure Deal
By now, it's pretty clear there's a real business in the hocking of internet culture. And when it comes to the business of documenting—and merchandising—the latest memes bubbling up from the internet...
Legends Of The Fall, Apple Style
This past weekend, we broke the news that iOS 5, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, was likely being released in the fall. This would break the tradition of a summer release. And...
Today I'm thrilled to get back to work at @Twitter leading product as Executive Chairman. And yes: leading @Square forevermore as CEO.
iPad 2 Coming to RadioShack Tomorrow?
A MacRumors reader has just sent us the above photo claimed to be of an internal notice from RadioShack announcing that the retailer will begin carrying the iPad 2 at 500 of its locations around the U...
Kindle Subscribers Will Be Able To Access NYTimes.com For Free
Amazon has just announced that Kindle users who subscribe to The New York Times on their device will receiving access to news site for free. The date in which this access will hit has not been determ...
Surprise: RealNetworks CEO Kimball resigns
Bob Kimball has resigned as president and CEO of RealNetworks, a little more than a year after succeeding founder Rob Glaser to oversee an attempted turnaround of the longtime Seattle technology compa...
Color App Hack Lets You Spy On Anyone's Photos Anywhere
For anyone sketched out by the privacy implications of Color, the highly hyped, highly funded, and highly public iOS and Android social media app that launched last week, now would be a good time to r...
Stealth Payment Startup Stripe Backed By PayPal Founders
There isn't much information out there about Stripe, a new payments startup cofounded by brothers Patrick Collison and John Collison (last seen selling their startup Auctomatic to Live Current Media f...
It's official: Sprint says AT&T's T-Mobile deal stinks
We knew that Sprint wasn't happy about AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, based on comments by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse about the deal. But the company today made it official, announcing that i...
Elop Fights Nokia Traditions in Race to Ship Microsoft Phone
Every summer for the last four years while Apple Inc. (AAPL) shipped a new iPhone, Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) managers vacationed at their lake cottages in Finland. — “In mid-July, Nokia House is a ghost tow...
Video Advertising Company Adap.tv Raises $20 Million
Video advertising company Adap.tv has raised $20 million in funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Gemini Israel Funds, Redpoint Ventures and Spark Capital also participating in the round. Thi...
Java founder James Gosling joins Google
Gosling announced his new Google employment today on his blog. “I don't know what I'll be working on. I expect it'll be a bit of everything, seasoned with a large dose of grumpy curmudgeon,” he said...
Amazon courting Apple's iOS developers to port apps to Kindle
Amazon is actively enticing Apple's iOS App Store developers to bring their efforts to the Kindle platform, particularly educational apps, in a strategy that attempts to push ebook readers up into com...
Sina Corp, Large Chinese Portal, Drops Google As Search Provider
Sina Replaces Google Search Engine On Portal from the Wall Street Journal reports Google has just lost a major search syndication deal with one of Chinese largest portals. — In 2007, Sina Corp partn...
Intel doubles capacity, drops price in refresh of popular SSD line
Solid-State Drive 320 series offers up to 30% drop in price; capacities increased by up to triple that of X25-M drives Intel announced today a new line of consumer-class solid-state drives based on it...
Predicting iPhone sales for dummies
Apple's second fiscal quarter has just ended. Time for analysts to put forward their predictions for the quarter's report (due in about 3 weeks.) If history is a guide, the estimates will range quit...
Microsoft releases Windows Thin PC public test build
Microsoft has made available for download, as of March 28, the first Windows Thin PC Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build. — Although the final product will be available only to Software As...
Amazon Appstore for Android Test Drive hands on: surprisingly cool, but still US-only
When Amazon Appstore for Android launched last week, one of its primary features — Test Drive — was disabled just a few minutes after it opened. With no try-before-you-buy, no refund process …
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 6 at Moscone West in San Francisco
Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 6 through June 10 at San Francisco's Moscone West. At this year's five-day conference Apple …
eBay to buy GSI Commerce for $2.4 billion
eBay announced Monday that it will acquire GSI Commerce, an e-commerce marketing services company, for $29.25 a share—which will likely come out to be around $2.4 billion. — To put things into persp...
Benchmark battle: Chrome vs. IE vs. Firefox
There's no doubt the latest crop of stable browsers from Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are the best the companies have ever produced. But how do they perform when tested under identical conditions? ...
Ethical Quandary for Social Sites
Two days after using Flickr to display photos of police officers from Egypt's feared state security force, Hossam el-Hamalawy watched in disbelief as they vanished, one by one, from the popular social...
American Express Launches All-New Digital Payments Platform to Attack PayPal's Bread and Butter
American Express, which is better known for its briefcase-toting corporate users, is unveiling a new business today that addresses a much wider market while also competing head-on with PayPal and othe...
LG to produce Nexus tablet for Google, suggests rumor
According to intel acquired by blog Mobile Review, LG has been tasked with producing a pure-Google, Nexus tablet for the Mountain View-based Android maker. Details are scarce (and unconfirmed), but t...
Will the Web have a place in a world full of apps?
This essay is part of Farhad Manjoo's continuing series on the future of innovation. Read the series introduction, Manjoo's story on the future of mobile gadgets, and readers' predictions on the futu...
MySQL.com and Sun hacked through SQL injection
Proving that no website is ever truly secure, it is being reported that MySQL.com has succumbed to a SQL injection attack. It was first disclosed to the Full Disclosure mailing list early this mornin...