Exclusive: Tim Cook e-mails Apple employees: “Apple is not going to change”
Tim Cook has already stepped up to reassure Apple employees that the company isn't going to change, according to an internal e-mail seen by Ars. Sent early Thursday to all employees in the company …
Samsung's New Galaxy S II Won't Be Carried by Verizon
Samsung Electronics Co. will introduce its Galaxy S II smartphone next week—considered its best shot at cutting into the iPhone's market share dominance—but the company will have to do it without the ...
Max Levchin to Leave Google As Slide Is Shut Down
Slide, the social apps company that Google bought just over a year ago for about $200 million, will be dissolved, and its esteemed leader Max Levchin will depart Google, sources close to the matter to...
Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda Resigns From Slashdot
from the steve-got-front-cutsies dept. — After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, it's finally time for me to say Good-Bye to Slashdot. I created this place with my best friends in a run down...
Next Gen Windows Slate Device Revealed at TechEd 2011 NZ
At TechEd 2011 New Zealand Jeff Johnson and Patrick Hevesi showed off some new Windows “Slate” style device in the WCL101 Come and see the latest and greatest in Windows Devices session. — Below is ...
Tampa Bay Buccaneers buy each player an iPad to hold playbook, videos
TAMPA — Every year on every NFL team, the Turk nervously ambles next to players in the locker room, dorm room or cafeteria, his role a designated dream killer whose only job is to signal the death kne...
Comex, the Hacker Behind JailbreakMe.com, Hired as Apple Intern
Comex, the hacker behind JailbreakMe.com, is joining Apple as an intern. JailbreakMe.com made it extremely easy for iOS users to jailbreak their devices simply by visiting a website. He announced th...
Exclusive: Groupon's Mason Tells Troops in Feisty Internal Memo: “It Looks Good.”
Facing a barrage of negative press about its upcoming IPO, Groupon CEO and Co-founder Andrew Mason took up a pen to counter critics of the social buying service. — Especially under scrutiny …
Social media magazine Flipboard pursues TV, films
(Reuters) - Internet video is getting even more crowded. Flipboard, the social media magazine whose investors include actor Ashton Kutcher, plans to add television shows and films to move it beyond t...
Java developers, meet Heroku
Heroku, the popular Platform as a Service offering initially for Ruby developers only, now supports Java. Actually, Heroku has added support for both the Node.js framework and the Clojure programming...
Local Business Reviews Site Angie's List Files For $75 Million IPO
After Jive's $100 million IPO filing yesterday, local business reviews site Angie's List is throwing its hat into the ring, filing an S-1 this afternoon. The company will raises as much as $75 millio...
Despite Y Combinator Growth, Paul Graham Still Coding
Incubator Y Combinator held its twice-yearly Demo Day this week for its new batch of companies to pitch to investors. Top angels, venture capitalists and even celebri-angel Ashton Kutcher were on han...
Facebook Announces f8 Developer Conference: September 22
Facebook has just started sending out invitations to f8, its semi-regular developer conference during which it typically rolls out its most important features. — This year's event will take place on...
Tumblr Investment Values Start-Up at $800 Million
Blogging service Tumblr has a funny name and scant revenue. It has also convinced investors it is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. — The New York-based company is poised to raise $75 million ...
Pandora Posts Record Revenue Of $67M In First Quarter As A Public Company
In its first quarter as a public company, music streaming service Pandora posted record revenue in Q2 2012. For the second quarter fiscal year 2012, total revenue was $67 million, a 117% year over ye...
WikiLeaks publishes tens of thousands more cables
(Reuters) - The WikiLeaks organization said on Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished U.S. diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified. — “We will have relea...
Users First, Brands Second
I like simple ways to think about things. Like mobile first, web second. These kinds of constructs work for me. One that I've been using a lot lately to describe what we like and don't like as much...
Analyst: Google Would Be the ‘Most Compelling’ Buyer of Hulu
“The buyer that is probably most compelling is Google,” …
Diffbot Sees The Web Like People Do, Now Free For Developers
Diffbot is a geeky and incredibly interesting technology that uses bots, algorithms, computer vision and artificial intelligence to process the content on the Web the way a human being can. “The enti...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, Galaxy Note, and Wave 3 launching at IFA on September 1st
Samsung's plans for this year's IFA trade show in Berlin have been unwittingly revealed early by the company's own teaser app for Android. A tipster of ours went digging around inside the Samsung Mob...
Verizon buys CloudSwitch to give itself a software play
Verizon is buying cloud computing startup CloudSwitch in a move that will give Verizon, as well as its cloud subsidiary Terremark, a software-development edge to complement its service-provider expert...
AOL Huddles With Top M&A Team But CEO Armstrong denies any deal in the works
AOL has retained two of the biggest names in mergers and acquisitions, law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and investment banking company Allen & Company LLC. A team from those firms, including W...
HP's Todd Bradley Talks About PC Unit's Future, and His Own (Video)
There are lots of competing theories about the ultimate fate of Hewlett-Packard's $41 billion Personal Systems Group. Spinoff? Sale? Nothing at all? They're all on the table. — The unit's head a...
Microsoft confirms Mango front facing cameras, Skype soon [Updated: Video proof!]
At Microsoft Tech Ed in New Zealand Microsoft has finally confirmed that front facing cameras (as well as support for them) is officially coming with the Mango update which is due to hit soon.
Skype Launches Third-Party App Directory
Skype appears to have launched a new app directory in the cloud, allowing users to access all the third-party apps for both consumers and businesses built on top of Skype's API. — The site is fairly...
German Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction: upheld for the time being, ruling on September 9
I changed plans a few days ago and didn't travel to today's court hearing in Düsseldorf on the Apple v. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Community design inringement case. After the suspension of the enforcem...
Music Search Startup SoundHound Partners With Spotify For Instant Streaming
Music search and discovery company SoundHound has inked a deal with digital music service provider Spotify to enable SoundHound users in Europe to instantly access the latter's catalogue (of over 15 m...
Ladies love e-readers; guys prefer tablets
Is it too early to assign gender stereotypes to gadgets? New Nielsen data suggests that e-readers are more popular with women while guys prefer their tablets. Smartphones are now equally popular bet...
Mozilla Abandons Version Number Removal Plans
We have to admit that we are a bit late reporting this one and are somewhat puzzled how we could have missed this one. Mozilla said that that it will not be pursuing the idea of removing the browser ...