Exclusive: Myspace to Be Sold to Specific Media for $35 Million
Closing another chapter on one of the Internet's most iconic properties, Myspace has been sold to to Specific Media, an advertising network, for $35 million. — Sources close to the situation said th...
Google Now Lets Those In Google+ Offically Invite Others
Already in Google+ and want to let others in? Google's now allowing this. — Just look to the bottom of the right-hand side of your stream. You should see an invite icon, like this: — Select that...
Apple officially responds to Final Cut Pro X complaints with new FAQ website, next ‘major release’ coming with fixes
By now, most people that are interested in Apple and/or video editing have heard about the ongoing criticism towards Apple's latest professional movie making software …
TouchPad Needs More Apps, Reboot To Rival iPad
A small army of multitouch tablet computers has been launched this year to take on Apple's iPad, which has managed to sell 25 million units and attract 90,000 tablet-specific apps in just about 15 mon...
Square Raises $100 Million Round At $1 Billion Valuation, Led By Kleiner Perkins
Square, the mobile payments company led by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is raising $100 million in new financing, led by big-time VC firm Kleiner Perkins, the WSJ reports. — The round values Square ...
New MacBook Airs with OS X Lion, Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge in mid-July
Apple's new MacBook Air line has been expected for weeks now, with evidence supporting a refresh coming by way of constraints at global retailers and most recently at major Apple reseller BestBuy.com.
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HP Is In Talks to License WebOS Software
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), the world's largest maker of personal computers, is in talks to license its webOS mobile software, Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker said in an interview. — “We are ta...
Amazon: associates program in California to be terminated (Update: Gov. signs tax law)
Amazon announced today that its Associates program is to be terminated in California, in response to a new sales tax bill there. The move appears to be pre-emptive hardball to try and avert the bill ...
The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable
The first Thunderbolt compatible peripherals—Promise's Pegasus RAIDs—starting shipping on Tuesday. Using the RAIDs with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac, though, requires a rather expensive $50 cable that ...
Audio: Microsoft's Ballmer gives a bellowing response to calls for his dismissal
You'd think that the Seattle Rotary Club might be friendly turf for Steve Ballmer. But it didn't take long for a Rotarian to toss a hardball question to the Microsoft CEO after he finished formal rem...
Site-ready HTML5: Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers
IE10 Platform Preview 2, the same HTML5 engine seen in the recent public “Windows 8” demos, is now available for download. With this update, IE10 continues to deliver support for site-ready HTML5 tec...
After Spurning Android, HP May Offer Windows 8 Tablets
For Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, which heads to market on Friday, the company avoided using Android at all costs. Well, actually, at a very specific cost: HP spent $1.2 billion last year to acq...
AmazonFresh app debuts on Microsoft's Windows Phone
AmazonFresh, the online retailer's grocery delivery service, released a mobile app today, developed on its behalf by digital agency Metia/Seattle. Nope, it's not for Android, or even iPhone, neither ...
Thunderbolt RAID dramatically faster than FireWire 800
A first lab test of the Promise Pegasus R6 — The wait for Thunderbolt-ready peripherals is over. Four months after the debut of Thunderbolt in Apple's revamped MacBook Pro lineup, storage devices t...
New: Find Flights that Have Wi-Fi!
At Hipmunk, we're travel nerds, but we're also nerd nerds. That means we like the Internet, especially on our flights. — We've heard that many of you like wi-fi on your planes, too—either when you'...
Microsoft Delivers Office 2010 SP1 Upgrade
Along with today's launch of Office 365, Microsoft also released the first service pack for its Office 2010 business productivity suite. — Microsoft had previously said it would ship Office 2010 Ser...
Samsung files ITC complaint against Apple:long-time partners heading for ugly divorce?
The ITC website shows that yesterday Samsung filed complaint no. 337-2824 concerning the following types of products: Mobile Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices …
Global pulse
During major events, people use Twitter to share news and thoughts with friends, family and followers around the world. Messages originating in one place are quickly spread across the globe through R...
Animoto raises $25M to invest in mobile video creation
Cloud-based video creation startup Animoto is ready to invest heavily in its growing business with a new round of funding it's announcing Wednesday. The company has raised $25 million, led by Spectru...
Groupon Cedes Share of Daily Deals to LivingSocial, Yipit Says
Groupon's share of online daily deals slipped to 48% in May, from 52% in April, as rivals including LivingSocial closed in on its market lead — (Bloomberg) — Groupon Inc.'s share of online daily dea...
Twitter to launch site for platform developers
Twitter, the San Francisco-based social messaging service, is working to develop and launch a dedicated site for developers working on the Twitter platform. The new site could be launched sometime in...
Roku 2 line passes through the FCC with modest hardware updates and a reset button
It hasn't even been a year since Roku last updated its line of streaming media players — but nine months is a long time in the gadget world. So it was pleasant, though not entirely surprising …
Apple iPhone 3GS to be free on contract following iPhone 5 launch, analyst says
Apple is set to finally hit the $0 on-contract mark with its entry-level iPhone 3GS once it launches the next-generation iPhone 5 later this year. In a note to investors on Wednesday, RBC Capital Mar...
Facebook Locks Down an Important Patent on Social Gift Giving
Facebook has been on a roll of late, nailing a number of patent grants that will help it retain dominance in social networking by creating barriers for competitors. Yesterday came patent number 7,970...
Samsung files ITC complaint against Apple:long-time partners heading for ugly divorce?
The ITC website shows that yesterday Samsung filed complaint no. 337-2824 concerning the following types of products: Mobile Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices …
After a Long Flight, Angry Birds Make Landing on Windows Phone
It has taken some time, but the Angry Birds have finally slingshot their way onto Windows Phone. — Expectations for the beloved birds' arrival were first set when the app was inadvertently listed on...
MediaMall's PlayLater Promises To Be A DVR For Internet Video, Enters Limited Beta
MediaMall, the folks behind the popular PlayOn media software, just announced the closed beta of PlayLater, a so-called DVR for online video. The service, which is available in a closed beta starting...
AntiSec Slams Arizona Cops (Again) with Super Personal Data Spill
Looks like last week's “Chinga La Migra” strike against the Arizona Border Police was only part one—the sequel's landed today, and this time it's personal. Like, really personal: Anonymous is claimin...
Google Sites Now Allows You To Create A Mobile Landing Page
Google has long offered Google Sites, which gives businesses and consumers a way to quickly build their own websites with no HTML knowledge required, making it relatively easy for anyone without a tec...
Specific Media CEO Talks MySpace and Justin Timberlake
‘We Intend to Make MySpace What It Was Supposed to Be,’ Tim Vanderhook Says — Not only did little-known ad tech company Specific Media acquire the once-mighty MySpace from News Corp. for $35 million...
Everyone Loves Hadoop, So Cloudera Makes It Easier to Manage
Name a Web company of any size doing anything reasonably complex, and chances are it's using Hadoop. The open source software makes working with big data sets practical in distributed computing envir...