What Are Hulu's Owners Really Selling?
Yes, Hulu is for sale. The video site hired bankers from Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners last week, people familiar with the company tell me. They've just started asking potential buyers if t...
American Express Teams With Foursquare
Foursquare, which made its debut in 2009, quickly began popularizing the idea of “checking in,” or using a cellphone application to tell friends that you are at a particular restaurant, bar or park. ...
PopCap Games To Be Acquired For $1 Billion+
Update: We've heard from multiple sources that the buyer is Electronic Arts. — Huge news in the gaming world: PopCap Games, the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled, is in the...
Winklevoss twins abandon appeal of Facebook ruling
(Reuters) - The Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling upholding a $65 million cash-and-stock settlement reached with Facebook Inc. ...
Verizon's new data plans broken down in complete detail
Having a hard time wrapping your head around the upcoming changes to Verizon's smartphone data plans? We just got all the dirty details dropped in our laps. Charts, e-mails, the whole kit and kabood...
Apple Bid to Bar Amazon ‘Appstore’ Will ‘Likely’ Be Denied
Apple Inc. will “probably” lose its court bid to stop Amazon.com Inc. from using the term “Appstore” for a service selling programs for Android devices, a federal judge said. — Apple, whose top-sell...
Apple's Tim Cook Visits China Mobile to Discuss 4G LTE iPhone
Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is spotted in China Mobile headquarters this morning. A Chinese reporter from First Financial Daily (one of the most prosperous financial papers in China) manag...
The Verizon iPhone Halted Android's Surge. The iPhone 5 Could Reverse It.
Nearly a year ago, I wrote a post titled “Is Android Surging Only Because Apple Is Letting It?”. Not surprisingly, it fired people up. About 1,000 comments later, there was a full-on fanboy war betw...
Apple granted patent on webpage scrolling behaviors, media granted patent on crazy
So Apple got yet another patent granted today, and now there's yet another media firestorm over whether it means Cupertino will be able to sue every other phone manufacturer out of business …
Apple Said to Prepare Faster IPhone for September
Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to introduce a new iPhone in September that boasts a stronger chip for processing data and a more advanced camera, according to two people familiar with the plans. — The devi...
Amazon to launch tablet PCs in August-September, say Taiwan component makers
Amazon is poised to step into tablet PCs and will launch models as son as August-September, with targeted global sales of four million units for 2011, according to Taiwan-based component makers.
Samsung has to wait for iPad 3 and iPhone 5, but Apple may have to wait for a preliminary injunction
Last week I reported on Apple's staunch opposition to Samsung's request for early access to product samples of (and packaging and marketing materials related to) the next generation of the iPad and th...
Q&A: Meet the 15-year-old who just sold his tech startup
Daniil Kulchenko in the KIRO-FM studios (Erynn Rose photo) — Our guest on the latest GeekWire Podcast was Daniil Kulchenko, the 15-year-old sophomore from Kenmore, north of Seattle, who last week an...
Shazam Raises $32M to Push Into Television
Shazam, the popular mobile music look-up service, has raised $32 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins and Institutional Venture Partners. — The company has more than 140 million users (p...
RIM cuts internal PlayBook sales estimates by more than half
Canadian smartphone vendor RIM has reportedly cut internal sales estimates for its BlackBerry PlayBook by more than half for its second quarter, from 2.4 million units to 900,000, reports Digitimes.
Best Buy puts your music in the cloud, goes where others have gone before
Google, Amazon, and Apple have been hogging the headlines when it comes to storing your tunes in the internet either. That doesn't mean there isn't room for another musically inclined cloud contender...
Shopkick Looks Beyond The Big-Box: First 1,000 Small Businesses Get Free Installation
Shopkick, an almost year-old check-in/rewards app for shopping, has been very successful so far getting big, nationwide chains to use it: Partners include Best Buy, Target, Macy's, Crate and Barrel …
Ford to expand in-vehicle smartphone connectivity
(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co will expand the use of its on-board smartphone applications for the 2012 model year, the automaker said at a safety and technology show for reporters. — The Ford Sync commu...
Vizio Tablet gets detailed, we go hands-on (video)
Way back in January at CES, we managed to sneak in a little bit of hands-on time with the Vizio tablet, the TV manufacturer's straightforwardly-name foray into the ever-popular space. The tablet runs...
Will Nokia Launch Its First Windows Phone on Oct. 26?
SHENZHEN, CHINA—Nokia set the date for its annual Nokia World conference on October 26-27 in London, fueling speculation that this will be the venue for the company to announce its first Windows Phone...
Bootstrapping the CNN of tech: the story of TWiT
It all started with boredom. Leo Laporte had a few gigs with TV and radio networks back in 2005, but his work schedule left him with nothing to do half of the month. So he started an audio podcast c...