Google Music Label Talks “Going Backwards”
Google has spent a year trying to build a music service that could compete with Apple's iTunes. But those efforts seem to have stalled again. — Google's negotiations with the big music labels are “...
LivingSocial Financials Exposed: $2.9 Billion Valuation, $50 Million In Revenue Per Month
There's nothing like full disclosure during the negotiating process in an acquisition deal. LivingSocial acquired SocialMedia for just $3 million in stock, we reported earlier today.
The Trouble Bubble
We founded Twitter, Inc. in March of 2007 and while we have long said it's about the users, not the service, we have nevertheless enjoyed favorable media coverage. What took so long for somebody to w...
iPad Resellers Now Camp Overnight at Apple Stores
On Wednesday morning I stopped by the SoHo Apple store in New York City to purchase an iPad for a family member. As I had anticipated, a store clerk said they were out of stock and recommended that I...
Poker Websites Targeted in Federal Crackdown
NEW YORK—Eleven people, including the founders of three of the largest online poker companies doing business in the U.S., have been charged in the latest crack down on Internet gambling by U.S. author...
Shawn Fanning And Sean Parker Are Back With An Ambitious New Project; Investors Abound
Longtime collaborators Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker are back together working on an ambitious new project, we've learned. — In 1999, Fanning and Parker introduced the world to Napster.
Windows 8: Portable Workspace allows you to run Windows from a USB device
Adobe throws in towel, adopts HTTP Live Streaming for iOS
Adobe previewed some new streaming video capabilities of its Flash Media Server at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show, including new compatibility with iOS devices like the...
White iPhone 4 shows up in Verizon's inventory
It's real this time. After several false hopes along the way, Apple will finally release the white iPhone 4 very soon. We've been expecting an AT&T version since summer 2010 and reports of a Verizon...
The Betrayal of Bnter
We filmed this week's Ask a VC on Tuesday, and I started out by asking Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital about the danger of venture capitalists investing in competitors. There was no ulterior motive on m...
It's official: Asia's just run out of IPv4 Addresses
Well, that was fast. The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has just released the last block of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses in its available pool. We knew this was comi...
Apple and Google Capture U.S. Video Game Market Share in 2010
Last year, Flurry reported that iPhone and iPod touch game sales surged from 2008 to 2009. From a standing start, and in just one year, iPhone games captured 5% of the mature U.S. video game market.
The Android Explosion: How Google's Freewheeling Ecosytem Threatens the iPhone
ndy Rubin needed a hit. It was January 2009, three years since Google had bought the company he cofounded, a little startup called Android. — Rubin had created a slick operating system for mobile p...
Cisco Displays New Cloud Data Center, Touts Efficiency
Data Center Hall in Cisco's new green data center. — Cisco today took the covers off a new Allen, Texas, data center that will serve as the foundation for Cisco's private cloud computing effort, whi...
Google: we want iPhone to grow
Google's Android platform might be in a fierce battle with Apple to dominate smartphone handsets and apps, but the search giant's APAC boss says iPhone is delivering so much mobile search traffic they...
RIM Said Weighing Bid to Top Google Offer for Nortel Patents
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) is considering a bid for Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ)'s portfolio of wireless technology patents that would top Google Inc. (GOOG)'s $900 million offer, two people fami...
Chatroulette Posts Lawyer's Notes In Privacy Policy For Your Entertainment And Edification
Note to startups: Don't publish your lawyer's notes about the various ways you may or may not profit off of user data. — Video chat site Chatroulette seems to have just done just that with its priv...
Mobile App Talent Pool Is Shallow
Companies Scramble for Engineers Who Can Write Software for Smartphones — This year, magazine publisher Hearst Corp. intends to add five software engineers to its mobile development staff. Social-n...
T. Rowe Price Invests in Facebook
Mutual-fund company T. Rowe Price has invested in Facebook Inc., according to recently released filings, underscoring traditional investment vehicles' growing interest in hot technology companies. — ...
Google Intros New Privacy Controls For Mobile Consumers
To date Google has not used the mobile handset UDID “device identifier” to target mobile advertising via its AdSense for mobile and AdMob networks. For several reasons that have to do with ad perform...
Wired's Newest iPad Issue Boasts Its Best Feature Yet: Free
Remember when iPad magazine apps-and Wired's app in particular-were big news? That was a year ago. — Now Wired would like to remind you that it's still publishing on the iPad, and the Conde Nast ti...
This Tech Bubble Is Different
Tech bubbles happen, but we usually gain from the innovation left behind. This one—driven by social networking—could leave us empty-handed — Phillip Toledano — As a 23-year-old math genius one ye...
Facebook wants to make daily deals more social
The social network hopes to leverage its news feed to help consumers discover their friends' interactions with Facebook Deals. The move is designed to distinguish Facebook's offering from competitors...
These People Sold Twitter For Just $5 Million Back In 2006
How would you feel if a company you sold for $5 million less than five years ago was now reportedly fetching offers as high as $10 billion? — That's almost exactly what's happening to the dozen or s...
Facebook for iPhone Now Pulls the News Feed From m.facebook.com
Earlier this month, Facebook released an update for the Facebook for iPhone mobile app that included an “Improved news feed”, but no one seemed to understand what had actually changed. We've determin...
RIM Chiefs Defend PlayBook Tablet Against Critics as Debut Approaches
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) co-Chief Executive Officer Jim Balsillie said criticism of the company's PlayBook tablet computer, which goes on sale next week, are misguided because they ignore RIM's b...
Secret Tasty Labs Prototype Unleashed To A Select Few
Delicious founder Joshua Schachter always had a funny answer when we asked him what his new startup, Tasty Labs, would focus on. … But a few months have gone by, the company raised a nice store of cas...
mSpot offers Netflix-like movie club for new streaming movies
Netflix has made a big splash with its library of movies for low fixed monthly subscription fees. Now mSpot, which provides streaming movie services for a bunch of big carriers, is offering similar m...
MeeGo Gets A New Look At IDF Beijing 2011
IDF Beijing 2011 isn't a show where MeeGo is hiding meekly in the corner. Today there was an announcement from Tencent and Intel launching a joint Innovation Centre in Shanghai. The partnership isn'...
Microsoft's latest WP7 chassis spec includes second-gen Snapdragon, optional gyroscope
The minimum specs for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS have taken a nice bump upwards, it has been revealed at this year's MIX. Current WP7 handsets are all running the Qualcomm MSM8x50 Snapdragon …
Google Faces Antitrust Complaints in South Korea on Popularity of Android
Google Inc. (GOOG), the largest Internet- search company, is facing antitrust complaints in South Korea as mobile phones using its Android software gain dominance, adding to global scrutiny of the com...
FCC boss says wireless spectrum allocation is key to making mobile broadband competitive
Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski said today he is hopeful that the government will be able to reallocate spectrum to satisfy the insatiable appetite for mobile broadband c...
T-Mobile G2x now available online for $200, hitting stores April 20th
T-Mobile's Android roster is growing in number and sheer benchmarking virility today with the launch of the LG-produced G2X. This handset runs bone stock Android (Froyo today, Gingerbread in the futu...
The Business Market Plays Cloud Computing Catch-Up
The big spenders on technology are businesses and government agencies. They buy about 75 percent of the computing goods and services sold worldwide. Yet it is increasingly evident they are not drivi...