Exclusive: Wal-Mart Paid $300 Million-Plus for Kosmix
According to sources close to the situation, Wal-Mart Stores paid just over $300 million for Kosmix. — The six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company-which has built a social media platform th...
Twitter Tries to Widen Appeal to More Users
Twitter Inc. is in advanced talks to buy TweetDeck Inc. for around $50 million, people familiar with the matter said. — TweetDeck is one of the add-on programs that help Twitter users view and manag...
DROPBOX: We'll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To
This is nothing groundbreaking, but Dropbox has updated its security Terms of Service to say that if the government asks, they will have to decrpyt user's files and turn them over. — That's standard...
Capture and Share Panoramas Anywhere You Go with the Photosynth App
What does a beautiful mountain pass, your favorite coffee shop, and your blossoming backyard garden all have in common? They're all places you would love to capture and share, but a single photograph...
T-Mobile Officially Announces G-Slate Release For April 20th
After what seems like an unnecessarily long wait T-Mobile has finally gone and announced the arrival of the T-Mobile G-Slate for April 20th. While we've speculated this for quite some time as all sig...
Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line of Phones and Tablets
In the latest intellectual property suit to hit the smartphone industry, Apple is suing Samsung, alleging the Galaxy line of phones and tablets infringe on a number of the company's patents and tradem...
Mass production of Apple's A5-, Qualcomm-powered iPhone 5 rumored for Sept.
Apple's iPhone 5 will feature “slight modifications” from its predecessor, including an 8 megapixel rear camera and a Qualcomm baseband for both GSM and CDMA models, and will go into production in Sep...
A Myspace Founder Builds Again, Buying Gaming Companies
Just days after the online gaming company MindJolt moved into its Los Angeles headquarters in March 2010, rain started to pour through the ceiling. — Christopher T. DeWolfe, the chief executive, and...
ITC Staff Recommends Siding With Nokia, HTC in Apple Case
HTC Corp. and Nokia Oyj shouldn't be found liable of infringing Apple Inc.'s patents, the staff of the U.S. International Trade Commission recommended. — A staff lawyer, Erin Joffre, disclosed the p...
NYC's Top VC Fred Wilson Is Rich . . . and Grumpy
Last November, Fred Wilson had the privilege of sharing a stage with John Doerr, the wealthiest venture capitalist in the world, a man Amazon's Jeff Bezos once called the “center of gravity in the Int...
THE TRUTH ABOUT SMARTPHONES: Our Exclusive Survey On iPhone vs Android
Recent news that Android has blasted past the iPhone in smartphone market share triggered a huge brawl among fans in both camps about whether the numbers were accurate and which platform would reign s...
Streaming growing, but consumers still love DVDs
Online and digital video options continue to grow in popularity, but people still love their “old fashioned” physical discs. According to new data from market research firm NPD Group, the overwhelmin...
Groupon Acquires iFund-Backed Pelago; Founder to Head Up Product Development
Groupon has acquired Pelago, the makers of a mobile application called Whrrl that allows people to check in to locations and discover new restaurants and local businesses. As part of the acquisition ...
Next Up for Netflix: Family Plans
Netflix will introduce additional streaming plans later this year that will offer the ability to stream to multiple devices simultaneously, according to a FAQ for investors published on the company's ...
First look at the OGT Tablet — the world's thinnest Android tablet
the world's thinnest Android tablet — Ask any analyst, technophile, or blogger — this summer we expect a plethora of Android tablets. Some will be good, some not so much, but the OGT Tablet is somet...
New MacBook Pros push Apple's US sales up 47% year over year in March
Driven by strong sales of the new Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Pro lineup, domestic Mac sales are estimated to have increased 47 percent year over year in the month of March. — The new estimates fro...
Apple May Have Tweaked App Store Ranking Algorithm, Making Downloads Matter Less
(Updated: Added comments from Glu Mobile, Gameview Studios, W3i and more data about apps that have seen ranking shifts.) — It looks like Apple made a number of changes to the app store's ranking sys...
What on Earth Happened to BlackBerry?
Research in Motion's new tablet is a misguided mess. — First, a confession: I haven't used the BlackBerry PlayBook yet. The seven-inch tablet computer is scheduled to go on sale next week, and I ho...
Saying Apple Will Never Do Something: Always Dangerous
For years, there's been a persistent, as-yet-unrealized rumor that Apple will start making HDTVs. Received wisdom, however, has generally argued that it's not going to happen. TVs are too commoditiz...
Microsoft Office 365 Beta Opens for Business: What's Inside
Now anyone can try Office 365, Microsoft's cloud productivity package for businesses. The service opened Sunday night for beta testing, coming a step closer to its final launch, which will occur some...
Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day
Dropbox will announce a number of milestones on Monday morning, we've learned. The file backup and sharing service was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. It was in one of the early ...
Another Statement About Search Engine Algorithm Changes
It's hard to imagine a company more focused on the connection between consumers and content than Demand Media. That point of connection gives us the opportunity to inform, engage and serve the consum...
Internet mistake reveals UK nuclear submarine secrets
The document assessed the options for power reactors for a new generation of submarines — The Ministry of Defence has admitted that secret information about the UK's nuclear powered submarines was m...
Identifying Influencers on Twitter
One of the perks of working at LinkedIn is being surrounded by intellectually curious colleagues. I recently joined a reading group and signed up to lead our discussion of a WSDM 2011 paper on “Ident...
Veer launch party scheduled for May 2; Update: AT&T confirmed?
We've been hearing “spring,” “soon,” and most recently “very soon” with regards to when the minuscule HP Veer smartphone is supposed to launch. Of course, all this vagueness means little without a co...
What Happens To Your Email Address If It Is Stolen?
Over the past few months, many high-profile companies have had their customer details compromised by attackers, targeting the third-party marketing firms that hold email addresses and many other perso...