Netflix Says Its Price Hike Will Clip Revenues For a Quarter
A quick first look at the Netflix Q2: Revenue of $788.6 million, earnings of $1.26 a share Wall Street was looking for $791.5 million and earnings of $1.11 per share. Analysts are unlikely to be happ...
HTC's Chief Innovation Officer, Horace Luke, resigns for personal reasons
BGR has exclusively learned that Horace Luke, former Chief Innovation Officer at HTC, has left the company as of April 30th 2011. “Horace Luke, HTC's chief innovation officer, has left HTC for person...
Bing Becomes a Distraction for Microsoft
Microsoft needs to concentrate on a different kind of search: finding a buyer for Bing, its online search business. Bing is the industry's distant No. 2 after Google. It has become a distraction for...
Facebook blocks access to hidden iPad app
Full-blown iPad app could be activated on ‘jailbroken’ tablets, said researchers — Computerworld - Researchers over the weekend uncovered a Facebook app for Apple's iPad, and showed how “jailbroken”...
First Glimpse of Apple's Plans for Grand Central Terminal
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials offered …
AT&T preps for early to mid-September iPhone 5 launch
BGR has exclusively learned that AT&T has begun communicating launch plans internally for Apple's next-generation iPhone 5 handset. We have been told that AT&T has begun informing employees across th...
Report: Web Applications Attacked Every 2 Minutes
Data security company Imperva released research today that says Web applications are probed or attacked 27 times an hour, or once every two minutes. At the peak of attacks, some Web applications see ...
Sidestepping Apple: From Amazon to Conde Nast, Companies Rethink App Strategies
We all knew that once Apple starting enforcing new rules for in-app purchases, it would change how media companies do business on the iPhone and iPad. Now, we're beginning to see just what that looks...
Boot to Gecko: Mozilla Plans a ChromeOS Rival for Mobile Devices
Mozilla today announced Boot to Gecko, a very ambitious project that aims to create a “complete, standalone operating system for the open web.” This project's goal is to develop what seems like a Chr...
Report: Amazon To Use Two-Finger Touchscreen To Keep Tablet Competitive With The iPad
Details about the Amazon tablet are slowly emerging as its supposed release draws closer. The latest news out of the Chinese manufacturing scene is that Amazon, like others, are opting …
Call it GlobalVille: Zynga to launch version of CityVille on Tencent's network in China
In its biggest diversification beyond Facebook to date, game maker Zynga is announcing today that it has partnered with social network Tencent in China and is launching a version of its CityVille game...
Google On The Nortel Loss, Patents As Government-Granted Monopolies, And Plates Of Spaghetti
Back in early April, Kent Walker, Google's Senior Vice President & General Counsel, wrote a post on the Google blog titled “Patents and innovation”. The reason behind the post was clear …
With Monetization And The Mainstream In Mind, Twitter Adds To Senior Management Team
While Twitter was busy last week making some quick, but big cuts in an attempt by Jack Dorsey to streamline the product side of things, this week they're doing the opposite — at least on the sales and...
Facebook's iPad App Is Hidden Inside Of Their iPhone App
There are things out there all around us that we often miss because we're just not looking. This is perhaps most true in the tech world, where thousands of secrets are out there in the wild, hidden i...
I talked with Google VP Vic Gundotra tonight (disclaimer, he used to be my boss at Microsoft).
He says he is making some tough choices and that he will be judged over time how those choices turn out.
Chinese city orders closures of two fake Apple shops
(Reuters) - Chinese officials in Kunming ordered two fake Apple shops to close, a local newspaper reported on Monday, an apparent reaction to a storm of media attention about an unauthorized and elabo...
Airbnb Bags $112 Million In Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst
The scrappy apartment sharing startup has just raised $112 million at a one billion plus valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. We're hearing that the split is around 60 million from Andreessen …
Research In Motion Limited (RIMM) Cuts 2,000 Jobs and Announces New Upper Management Positions
Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) today provided an update on changes in responsibilities amongst the company's senior management team, as well as additional details about the cost optimizatio...
Amazon's next billion-dollar business eyed
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business and analysts will be watching for clues on how fast this secretive unit is growing when the Internet retailer ...
Town Turns to iPads in Cost-Cutting Move
While Apple started selling iPads to the public only 15 months ago, the 1.5-pound tablet computers seem well on their way toward ubiquity. This year, Alaska Airlines began issuing them to pilots to r...
Google engineer Steve Lacey victim of Kirkland car wreck
Google engineer Steve Lacey, 43, a veteran of the Seattle region's tech community who worked for more than a decade at Microsoft, died Sunday in a car crash in Kirkland. — KING 5 News reports that t...
The man who mapped Kazakhstan
Itching to reconnect with his native country a couple of years ago, University of Minnesota graphic design student Kyril Nagoda decided to look up his hometown of Shakhtinsk, Kazakhstan, on Google Map...
Looky Here, It's Me, In an Ad, On Facebook! Is This Legal? Allowed? Who Knows?!
In the past 12 hours, about ten friends (and counting) have sent me a copy of this ad on Facebook for a company called “AppSumo.” I have nearly 5000 “friends” on Facebook, a problem I've written abou...
The Complete List of Top Instagram Apps
You know an app is on its way to going mainstream when a major brand like Starbucks has its own account. There's simply no denying Instagram's popularity. In fact, it looks like the app just got a l...