Official: TweetDeck Has Been Acquired By Twitter
I am extremely happy and proud to let you know that TweetDeck has been acquired by Twitter. We completed the deal on Tuesday and are now in the process of “joining the flock”. — The past three year...
Hedge fund star calls for Microsoft CEO to go
(Reuters) - Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn called for Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the software company's long-time chief was stuck in the past. — ...
Reed Elsevier Leads $6M Investment in GigaOM
Reed Elsevier Ventures — the London-based venture arm of Reed Elsevier, one of the largest publishing companies — is leading a $6 million investment in the parent company behind GigaOM, GigaOM.tv, Gig...
China using prisoners in lucrative internet gaming scam
Labour camp detainees endure hard labour by day, online ‘gold farming’ by night — As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in...
Nokia's Smartphone Chief On Microsoft Alliance, Future Windows Devices
Ask Jo Harlow how it feels to have one of the most difficult jobs in the mobile industry and you're likely to get a good-natured laugh in return. As Nokia's recently-appointed head of Smart Devices …
iPhone 4S to be revealed at WWDC? Invites appear to confirm it...
But if that's the case, why is Apple's public relations department …
Why email is crucial to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. These three companies rule webmail with Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, the three largest email services on the Internet. — What might escape a lot of people, though, is...
Check-ins and rating places get easier with Google Maps 5.5 for Android
We've made it easier to check in and out of places, rate various locations, and get transit information with Google Maps 5.5 for Android. This release adds ‘check in’ and ‘rate and review’ buttons to...
Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start Businesses
It sounds like a reality show pitch: The legendary Facebook investor, PayPal founder, and thorn in the side of college deans everywhere announces what happens when 24 people, picked to live among ment...
How Tech Legend Bill Gross Blew The TweetDeck Deal
With today's news that Twitter has acquired TweetDeck for ~$40 million, it has become clear: UberMedia's Bill Gross - the Bill Gross who's famous for inventing search advertising as we know it - seems...
Sony says hacker stole 2,000 records from Canadian site
IDG News Service - The problems keep coming for Sony. On Tuesday the company confirmed that someone had hacked into its website and stolen about 2,000 customer names and e-mail addresses. — Close t...
Mining patterns in search data with Google Correlate
It all started with the flu. In 2008, we found that the activity of certain search terms are good indicators of actual flu activity. Based on this finding, we launched Google Flu Trends to provide t...
YouTube Is Six Years Old and Huge: Three Billion Views a Day
Last year YouTube made a big deal of its fifth birthday, with a special Web site, special messages from the likes of Conan O'Brien, etc. — This year's commemoration is more muted. Basically, just a...
Microsoft backpedals from Ballmer's Windows 8 comments
One analyst, betting on late 2012, early 2013 release, says Microsoft has “one chance” to get next version of Windows right — Microsoft backed away from comments made yesterday by CEO Steve Ballmer,...
BofA, JPMorgan, Wells form JV for online banking services
REUTERS - Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co have teamed up to create a joint venture for online banking services. — The move comes as eBay Inc unit PayPal and the world'...
Twitter About To Hit 500 Employees (And 5% Of Them Still Have The Default Avatar)
Back in February I wrote about Twitter's escalating employee count, which back then was closing in on 400 members of staff. Way back in May 2009 - when Twitter was black and white and made out of woo...
Twitter European boss Tony Wang warns UK tweeters
Tony Wang has been appointed European Twitter boss — Twitter's new European boss has suggested that users who broke a legal embargo to reveal Ryan Giggs' name could face the UK courts. — Tony Wang...
Apple MacBooks top all Consumer Reports laptop categories
If you were wondering how good Apple's MacBook line of portable computers are, the answer is simple — they are the top computer every category on Consumer Reports. — Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air scor...
AT&T rolling out 4G LTE in Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio this summer, 10 more markets in H2 2011
AT&T's president and chief executive John Stankey made some interesting 4G LTE-related announcements this morning at the Barclays Capital Global Communications, Media and Technology Conference.
Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 “lion's den,” rips into lions
“I just arrived at the Tuileries for the #eG8, already a hoot. Unfounded smugness to rival the World Economic Forum.” — John Perry Barlow—EFF co-founder, Grateful Dead lyricist, and, improbably, no...