Coming soon: make your phone your wallet
Today in our New York City office, along with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint, we gave a demo of Google Wallet, an app that will make your phone your wallet. You'll be able to tap, pay and sa...
Introducing the people widget
(Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog) — Email is just as much about the people you communicate with as it is what you communicate about. We think it can be helpful to view relevant informati...
PayPal Sues Google, Saying It Misappropriated Trade Mobile-Payment Secrets
PayPal Inc., the fastest-growing unit at online marketplace EBay Inc. (EBAY), sued Google Inc. claiming it misappropriated trade secrets from PayPal's mobile-payment business. — Osama Bedier, a form...
Microsoft board backs Ballmer over Einhorn
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's board stood behind Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer on Thursday, defending its longtime leader after influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn touched off a debate...
Amazon launches Mac Download Store
Amazon already has a mobile App Store, but the company on Thursday launched the Mac Download Store. — Competing directing with Apple's Mac Store, Amazon says its store has 250 of the biggest softwar...
Your photos and data on Flickr
We here at Flickr are photographers just like you and we know how important it is to feel your photos are safe once you upload them to the web. Today, we wanted to give you a little info on the polic...
Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge: Eating only what he kills (and yes, we do mean literally...)
Last year Mark Zuckerberg set out to learn Chinese. Now he's determined to get in touch with his food. If the goats, lobsters and chickens of Silicon Valley aren't trembling, they should be.
Now You Can See Twitter The Way I See Twitter
Twitter has just rolled out a nifty little feature. Now on anyone's profile, when click on the “Following” link, you'll be able to see exactly how they see Twitter. In other words, you can see the s...
Apple's Deals May Transform Digital Music
The company's plan for “digital lockers” is winning over the major music labels — Compared with buying e-books, building a digital music collection is a hassle. E-books zip directly to reading devi...
No More Offline Gmail in Google Chrome
Chrome 12, the upcoming version of Google's browser which is likely to be released today, removes a useful feature: the built-in Gears plugin. While most Google services dropped support for Gears and...
Facebook Slams Man Who Claims Ownership
Facebook on Thursday answered the New York wood pellet salesman who claims he owns a good part of Facebook. And it doesn't mince words. — On the heels of the Winklevoss twins, who have claimed for ...
The need for an Alternative to Facebook
For those of us that don't like to read, you can find a Summary of this post here. — Over the last few years, we have entered an important new era of digital communication. Social Networking is all...
Obama to name Twitter CEO to advisory committee
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — The chief executive at social media site Twitter is among the technology sector executives U.S. President Barack Obama plans to appoint to an advisory committee, according ...
Intel might make chips based on non-Intel cores
(Reuters) - Intel would consider making silicon for rivals, saying that any proposal to use its manufacturing capacity to make chips based on a non-Intel processor core would trigger an “in-depth disc...
Apple Files Lawsuit Against Teenager Who Sold White iPhone 4 Conversion Kits, Settlement Reached?
Last November, we highlighted the story of New York City teenager Fei Lam, who had managed to sell $130,000 worth of white iPhone 4 parts in just a few months to customers eager to get their hands …
Ballmer Details China Piracy Problems
BEIJING—Microsoft Corp.'s revenue in China this year will be about 5% of what it gets in the U.S. even though personal-computer sales in the two countries are almost equal, Chief Executive Steve Ballm...
Apple exploring improved outdoor LCD viewing with sunglasses-friendly screens
Apple has shown interest in creating an improved LCD display for devices like the iPhone and iPad that is not distorted when viewed by a user wearing polarized sunglasses outdoors.
Google Announces APIs Scheduled for Shutdown
Google made a number of API-related announcements at Google I/O earlier this month, including a new Books API, an API discovery service, and a more widely available Places API. — But as the list of ...
Microsoft Aims to Support Higher Prices for Window Phone Applications
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will support higher prices on mobile-phone applications from outside developers to encourage better products, rather than embracing the free or 99- cent apps common in other com...
[UPDATED] Problems signing into Skype and making calls for a small number of users
A small number of you may have had problems signing in to Skype. This predominantly affects people using Skype for Windows. We have identified the problem and will issue a fix in the next few hours.
Square's name and design were changed by a lunch at Apple
According to Jack Dorsey, payment service Square was almost called ‘Squirrel’ and the card reader dongle was made of wood and shaped like an acorn. Until he had lunch at Apple. Update below. — Dor...
How LinkedIn first raised money (and endured rejection)
LinkedIn went public last week, with investors falling over each other to buy shares at a market cap that now exceeds $9 billion. But it wasn't always so easy for the social network to raise money.
Samsung Galaxy S outsells the iPhone in Japan during Q1 2011
The Japanese mobile industry is one that's filled with ridiculous devices made by handset vendors that almost never sell their creations overseas. It's why many call Japan the Galápagos Islands of mo...
Rumor: Apple courting Samsung to build AMOLED displays for iPad 3?
File this one under the highly improbable drawer because there's little chance Samsung will let Apple get their hands on its active-matrix organic LED technology, better known as AMOLED, which is an i...
Amazon Repeats $0.99 Deal On Lady Gaga Album, Says Servers Won't Melt This Time
Earlier this week, Amazon offered the new album from superstar Lady Gaga, ‘Born This Way’, for a mere $0.99 in an effort to get people to discover its recently launched Cloud Drive / Player service.
INTEGO SECURITY MEMO - New Mac Defender Variant, MacGuard, Doesn't Require Password for Installation
Malware: OSX/MacDefender.F and OSX/MacDefender.G — Risk: Medium; effective SEO poisoning has led many Mac users to this type of malware, and no administrator password is required to install this new...
No More Offline Gmail in Google Chrome
Chrome 12, the upcoming version of Google's browser which is likely to be released today, removes a useful feature: the built-in Gears plugin. While most Google services dropped support for Gears and...
No Spotify inside Facebook, two record labels still needed for US launch
There has been some interesting speculation regarding the relationship between hot (at least in Europe) music streaming service Spotify and gargantuan social platform Facebook. Now Forbes is reportin...
Bubbles and Golden Ages
Update: This post has been republished on www.businessinsider.com. — I once watched an interview where angel investor Fred Wilson offhandedly noted reading a book which transformed the way he looked...
HTC to begin volume production of Puccini tablet PCs in June
HTC has entered the final stages of testing for its 10.1-inch Puccini tablet PCs, with volume production slated for June 2011. The tablet will be powered by a Qualcomm MSM8660 1.5GHz processor and ru...
Online Shopping Startup ProjectSlice Raises $9.4 Million From Eric Schmidt, Michael Birch And Others
Stealthy startup ProjectSlice is launching to the public today and announcing a $9.4 million Series A funding round led by DCM and Lightspeed Venture Partners with Michael Birch …
Kaboom! Kabam raises $85M for hardcore social gaming business
Here's a “kaboom” for all those social game skeptics out there. Kabam has raised $85 million in a fourth round of funding to fuel its business making hardcore games for social networks such as Facebo...
Some Thoughts On InvestorRank
Chris Farmer, a VC with General Catalyst, presented some interesting data yesterday at Disrupt. He ranked VC firms on the basis of what companies they invested in as the first VC investor. If you in...
Who Belongs to the API Billionaires Club?
We write a lot about the growth in the number of APIs on ProgrammableWeb. But how about usage? Some APIs see so many requests that they measure in billions. We refer to these companies as the API B...
Bank of America data leak destroys trust
The far-reaching fraud serves as a cautionary tale for all consumers who entrust virtually their entire financial lives to major companies. — Andrew Goldstein has been a Bank of America customer for...
Raptr Shows How Social Networks Can Get More Personal
Raptr, a social networking service for gamers with 8.5 million users, isn't about to topple Facebook anytime soon. But with its latest update today, it's showing some interesting ways in which it's u...
Mozilla Firefox, NVIDIA and YouTube Bring 3D HTML5 Video to the Web
Editor's note: Today, Mozilla, NVIDIA and YouTube announced support for 3D HTML5 video, available exclusively in Firefox. You can find the announcement here and read more details from Mozilla Directo...