Google Announces First Quarter 2011 Results
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2011. — “We had a great quarter with 27% year-over-year revenue growth,” said Patrick Pichette, CFO of Go...
Trouble @Twitter
Boardroom power plays, disgruntled founders, and CEO switcheroos are clipping the wings of this tech high flier. — FORTUNE — In March, shortly after Jack Dorsey went back to work for Twitter, the co...
The Google-Microsoft Fight About FISMA Certification - Updated
If you were as puzzled as I was by the blog fight, as Geekwire calls it, between Google and Microsoft over whether or not Google was FISMA certified, then you will be glad to know I gathered up some o...
The Tragic Death of the Flip
Day before yesterday, my jaw hit the floor, and I still haven't managed to get it back up again. Cisco is killing the Flip camcorder. Let's see if I can get this straight. Only two years ago, Cisco...
Nokia W7 and W8 tipped as first Windows Phone models
If you can accept what we're about to tell you as rumor, and nothing more, then we'd like to let you in on the latest scuttlebutt surrounding Nokia's first dip into the shallow Windows Phone waters. ...
Apple Says White iPhone 4 Is Coming This Spring
Customers who have waited nearly 10 months for the white version of the iPhone 4 won't have to wait much longer. … Apple said Thursday the white iPhone was would be released in the spring, reiterating...
Upcoming changes to Spotify Free/Open
Spotify's aim from the very beginning was to make music on-demand available to all. To give you the power to listen to, discover, share and manage your music the way you want to - simpler, faster, be...
Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. — Today, its co-founder...
Multiple Sources Confirm New Nintendo HD Console
Gamers have been waiting years for Nintendo to finally release its Wii successor, and Game Informer has heard from multiple sources that the company will unveil it at E3 this summer if not sooner. — ...
Microsoft Data Center GM Timmons Heads to Apple
Microsoft data center executive Kevin Timmons speaks at a 2010 event in Quincy, Washington. — Kevin Timmons, who helped build the data centers that power Microsoft's global cloud computing operation...
Kinect support for Netflix
Today we released an update to the Netflix experience on Xbox 360. The next time you start up Netflix, you'll be prompted to accept the update which introduces Kinect support for Netflix. — That me...
Rent anything from a couch...to a country!
If you've been a member of our community for awhile, you've probably know you can rent anything from a couch for a night, a treehouse for week, or a boat for a month. Well, as of today, you can now r...
April 16 Declared @Foursquare Day in NYC
New York City is proud to join Foursquare's founders and fans in celebrating the first global social media holiday. Mayor Bloomberg has issued the following official proclamation declaring April 16, ...
Groupon to Pick Goldman, Morgan Stanley to Lead IPO
Groupon Inc. is expected to pick Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley as its two lead underwriters for a planned public offering later this year, people familiar with the matter said. — The I...
Google: 3 Billion Android Apps Installed; Downloads Up 50 Percent From Last Quarter
On Google's earnings call today, Jeff Huber, Senior VP Commerce and Local, revealed that there have been over 3 billion Android apps installed. And downloads of Android apps are up 50 percent from Q4...
Firefox Add-on ‘Undoes’ U.S. Government Domain Seizures
The seizures of file-sharing related domain names by the US Government in recent months have stirred up a lot of controversy. Despite heavy critique from various sides, the end is not yet in sight.
Intel: USB 3.0 in 2012 with ‘Thunderbolt’
Intel went on the record today saying that its silicon will support USB 3.0 in 2012 and urged developers to target both USB and its new “Thunderbolt” technology. — “Intel is going to support USB 3.0...
Zoom, zoom: Zipcar is a $1 billion company!
No profits, no problem. — Car-sharing service Zipcar (ZIP) is having a huge first day on the public markets, with its stock climbing 70% above its $18 per share IPO price at one point. As of last c...
Intel and Micron shrink NAND flash
Companies hope to bring more storage capacity to tablets and smartphones — Intel and Micron Technology on Thursday said they had shrunk NAND flash memory in size, which could help add more storage a...
A BlackBerry Tablet, but Where Are the Apps?
Listen, I'll be straight with you. I realize that tablets are crazy hot right now, that 2011 is the Year of the iPad Clone and that every company and its brother is rushing one to market. But I'm so...
Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.
In our State of the Union blog post, I mentioned that we've been working on some iOS proof of concept / research projects here in the Panic Office. It's been a lot of fun for us. — In fact, we like...
In The Post-Client Era, Did Tweetbot Just Swipe Twitter's iPhone Crown?
Don't focus on making new Twitter clients. — The message has been very clear — well, moderately clear — for weeks now. If you're a third-party looking to develop in the Twitter ecosystem, you shoul...
[Updated] Exclusive: Vulnerability In Skype For Android Is Exposing Your Name, Phone Number, Chat Logs, And A Lot More
Update: Skype is investigating the issue, we've been told. — The safety of our personal information is often a concern of mine -who has my email address, my phone number, my date of birth?
The ruthless Rose
Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg, says he won't spend Milk Inc.'s VC money keeping bad products on life support. — FORTUNE — A month ago, Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg...
Global PC Market Contracts in the First Quarter, But Swaths of Growth Remain, According to IDC
A myriad of factors contributed to the first contraction in the worldwide PC market since the end of the recent recession. Global PC shipments declined 3.2% during the first quarter of 2011 …
Bill Gates Was Puzzled By Gmail, Book Reports
Many people love the seemingly infinite amount of space Gmail provides. — Bill Gates, at least initially, didn't see the need. — In his new book In The Plex, Steven Levy details Bill Gates' reacti...
Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore?
Microsoft is today showing off pieces of the next version of Windows (we're all calling it Windows 8 ) but I'm wondering if anyone cares anymore about Windows in the tech enthusiast space. — Why do ...
About That Lawsuit...
including being ridiculed as the “dumbest lawsuit ever” — I am hesitant to take any time away from aggregating adorable kitten videos to respond.
Android Provides More Eyeballs to Advertisers, While iPhone Offers Most Revenue to App Creators, Study Finds
There are many ways of measuring smartphone success, but using almost any metric shows both the iPhone and Android doing pretty darn well. — That said, new numbers …
The New Rules of Raising Cash
Raising money for start-ups is relatively easy in Silicon Valley these days. But longtime entrepreneurs and venture capitalists say it is still nowhere near as simple as it was in 1999 and 2000, when...
Spotify Halves Free Allowance Ahead Of U.S. Launch
Spotify, which had previously slimmed the amount of music users could play for free, is now making a further curtailment that's aimed at wringing more paid subscriptions... - Free listening hours wil...
The Netflix Effect: When Software Suggests Students' Courses
When Netflix suggests movies based on how much previous renters liked them, all that's at stake is a night's entertainment. Now a handful of colleges have begun using similar recommendation systems t...
Why is Chrome so important to Google? It's a ‘locked-in user’
Google's Chrome browser historically has looked like just another side project for the company. Sure Chrome is a speedy browser. Sure Google has garnered impressive market share in a short time. An...