Silicon Valley's Undertaker: 'We're Anticipating a Major Fallout'
As longtime readers know, we occasionally like to check in with Sherwood Partners in Palo Alto, long known to industry insiders as “the undertaker” because its primary role is to efficiently shutter c...
Games in Google+: fun that fits your schedule
My family has a games closet. Inside you'll find a few decks of cards, two decades' worth of board games and a Twister mat for those times when we're feeling limber. Playing games is a great way for...
Slicing an Apple
How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung? — APPLE doesn't make the iPhone itself. It neither manufactures the components nor assembles them into a finished product. The components come from a vari...
Exclusive Leak: First Android Ice Cream Sandwich Screenshots, Plus More ICS Details
No, it's not a joke, prank, or some cruel attempt to make you click things. This is for real. The first screenshots of Android Ice Cream Sandwich have been leaked to us as well as RootzWiki …
LinkedIn ‘does a Facebook’ - your name and photo used in ads by default
I'm not a LinkedIn user - at least not yet, though I suspect that like many of my friends and colleagues I may eventually feel compelled to “be there or be square”. As a non-user I haven't been track...
‘Angry Birds’ Maker Seeks $1.2B Valuation
Rovio Entertainment Oy, the Finnish creator of the “Angry Birds” mobile-phone game, is in talks to receive funding that would value the company at about $1.2 billion, two people with knowledge of the ...
UK Govt. to meet Facebook, Twitter and RIM about their responsibility to not fuel riots
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has today made a statement in Parliament, following the riots that have plagued London and many other parts of England this week. — It seems that the Government …
Response to Mark Zuckerberg
Yesterday, we quietly released Chill.com—a site to watch video together—not expecting much more than to test out the user experience with a couple thousand friends. — That was wrong. — Many more s...
Digitally Fatigued, Networkers Try New Sites, but Strategize to Avoid Burnout
WHEN Jessica H. Lawrence left her job with the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council in Redlands, Calif., to pursue a new life in New York City, she arrived in late January without a job, an apartment o...
Chinese authorities find 22 more fake Apple stores
(Reuters) - Authorities in China's southwestern city of Kunming have identified another 22 unauthorized Apple retailers weeks after a fake of the company's store in the city sparked an international s...
Why Zynga Might Buy Angry Bird's Rovio
Zynga walked away empty-handed last month after bidding unsuccessfully for PopCap, which went to Electronic Arts. — So what's next for the acquisition-hungry company? — What about an even tastier ...
Google Chromebooks molt, grow fresh browser
Two month olds get new lease on life — Google has released a new version of Chrome OS - the browser-based operating system that first arrived less than two months ago - offering VPN hooks, 802.1x se...
IBM executive says PC era is in its twilight
On the eve of the IBM PC's 30th anniversary, Mark Dean says the PC era is on its last legs. As one of the IBM engineers who helped create the original PC, he is certainly qualified to make this claim...
Gartner Q2: Nokia Still On Top Overall, Android Killing It In Smartphones
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is losing its market share in phones at an alarming rate right now. But despite all the profit warnings, drastic strategic shifts, and massive strides being made by the likes of Goo...
Amazon's Cloud Reader Still Doesn't Take the Web Seriously
Late on Tuesday, Amazon deployed its new Cloud Reader, a multiplatform HTML5 web app for reading and buying Kindle e-books in a web browser. Wednesday morning, the company issued a press release abou...
The Case for Software Patents
It's become popular lately to call for the elimination of software patents. Tim Lee at Forbes sounded the call last month (link), and this week Mark Cuban joined the chorus (link): … I have a ton of ...
Gizmodo ‘not motivated by financial greed’ in iPhone case, D.A. says
The San Mateo district attorney's office has opted not to charge Gizmodo and writer Jason Chen for buying an iPhone prototype from a man who found it in a bar last year, months before the device was m...
Infographic Of The Day: Google's Hotel Finder Is D.O.A.
Travel booking, more than most industries, is primed for a game-changing disruption. Consider: Orbitz, Travelocity, and Hotwire have all merely rearranged the deck chairs on a pretty crappy user expe...
Today's Weather Channel Forecast: a Chance of Tweets
Twitter has a new way to make money from the online messages known as tweets, courtesy of The Weather Channel. — The online-messaging service on Thursday will begin to give TWC access to users' twee...
Sifteo launches intelligent blocks as a new form of entertainment
Sifteo, a table-top game startup, is announcing today that it has begun selling intelligent blocks known as Sifteo Cubes. These devices are like little dominoes with displays on one side.
Daily deal site Zulily raises $43 million at huge valuation of more than $700 million
Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens in front of the company's expanding employee photo wall — Plopped in the middle of Zulily's Seattle office is a colorful cardboard rocket ship marking the entrance to the c...
August Capital, Google Ventures Put $18.5M In Online Legal Service Rocket Lawyer
More big money for online legal services. After LegalZoom raised $66 million from Kleiner Perkins And IVP, competitor Rocket Lawyer is also announcing a new round of funding.