NETFLIX CEO REED HASTINGS: Here's Why We Let Starz Walk Away...
Here's what he said: — Starz has been a great content partner for many years and we are thankful for their support.
Apple CEO Tim Cook promotes iTunes/iCloud chief Eddy Cue to senior VP of Internet Software and Services
9to5Mac has learned that Apple's iTunes chief Eddy Cue has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, reporting directly to Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple.
Michael Arrington launching venture fund
America's most powerful tech blogger is taking a major step into the world of venture capital. — Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, is raising a venture capital fund to invest i...
Apple Puts Legacy Final Cut Studio Back on Sale
Apple has put the previous version of its Final Cut Studio video editing suite back on sale after a mixed reception to the new and completely redesigned Final Cut X. We received word that Apple had is...
Groupon PR to peHUB: Call Us Before You Write Another ‘Nastigram’
For a company that's in registration to go public and thus forbidden from pumping up the company stock in advance of an IPO, Groupon is having an awfully hard time keeping quiet. Last week, of course...
Suspects in iPhone prototype case plead not guilty
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Two men pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor theft charges in a case involving an iPhone 4 prototype the pair are accused of selling to gadget blog Gizmodo last year. At an arraignm...
Anonymous Roars Back With 3GB Leak of Texas Police Chief Emails: “That stupid bitch got what she deserved”
Anonymous, after a relatively large period of doing nothing, are back with a vengeance. Even without their (arrested) de facto leader Topiary, they've punched Texan law enforcement squarely …
A note from @jack to Twitter developers
As Twitter developers, you are a fundamental part of our DNA. Thank you for your many contributions to the Twitter ecosystem. Our ongoing commitment is to give you the structure, tools, resources, a...
Judge Throws Out $1.3 Billion Judgment Against SAP as “Grossly Excessive”
A judge in Oakland has overturned a $1.3 billion judgment against software company SAP that had earlier been awarded to rival Oracle in a copyright infringement lawsuit. — Calling the award “grossly...
Here's What Really Happened to Yelp Deals
While Yelp's daily deal segment got off to a strong start, things have been getting worse ever since. But, in August, things got dramatically worse as revenue declined 52% based on Yipit Data. — So...
Best Buy slashes up to $150 off of BlackBerry PlayBook
BlackBerry Playbook gets big Best Buy price drop — Best Buy hinted at possible sluggish sales of the BlackBerry PlayBook by starting a new sale on RIM's tablet. The deal takes $50 off of the 16GB a...
Oregon Dentists And Chiropractors Ban Groupons
Hoping to get a steal on your next filling or crown? — If you live in Oregon, you're sh*t out of luck. — The Oregon Board of Dentistry has banned the use of Groupons by the state's dentists becaus...
Facebook Also Quietly Rolled Out A Like Button Chrome Extension
Yesterday, we noted that Google quietly rolled out their +1 Button Chrome extension a couple days ago. It's more powerful than it may seem because you can now easily +1 any page you're browsing on th...
Digg's Kevin Rose And Foursquare's Dennis Crowley Discuss Growing Pains And Web Domination
Digg founder Kevin Rose interviewed Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley on his show, Foundation. — They talked about their love of Prodigy, how they became entrepreneurs, what scaling issues they had,...
Lenovo U300s Ultraportable Laptop Revealed
This week the folks at Lenovo are revealing a handful of devices for those that love their computers to fly away at a gust of wind - first of all there's the “spectacularly slim” U300s Ultrabook, a lu...
Motorola Deal Could Give Google A Huge Tax Break
Google not only gets patents, a phone business, and a set-top box business from buying Motorola. — It could also get a huge tax break. — According to calculations by tax expert Robert Willens, who...
Pages That Display Tweet Buttons See 7x More Social Mentions
In a recent report released by BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO company, stats were released showing correlation between social buttons and social shares. Data showed that pages that displayed the Tweet...
The #1 Predictor of Startup Failure: Premature Scaling
In the wake of Solyndra's revelation of an impending bankruptcy filing, the latest report from The Startup Genome Project makes for a timely read. — The report, published this week, crunches data fr...
Feature: How AT&T conquered the 20th century
It was January 1982. Despite a nasty recession, the personal computer revolution was in full swing. The Apple II had been on the market for five years. IBM launched its PC in 1981, and Compaq relea...
Sprint: AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Would Destroy Jobs, Here's A Study To Prove It
It's no surprise whatsoever that Sprint isn't down with the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, and with good reason. There's no telling just how severe the effects of this deal may be on Sprint, but we know for s...
Move Over, Craigslist: Airbnb Launches Sublets for Longer-Term Rentals
Airbnb, the fast-growing online accommodations service, is expanding an offering to allow users to more easily book longer rentals of a month or more. — The San Francisco-based company said in a pre...
Netflix offered $300 million-plus, but Starz wanted higher consumer prices
Starz didn't just want Netflix to pay more money for its content. It wanted Netflix consumers to pay more too. — Netflix offered Starz more than $300 million per year to renew their agreement …
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 launched at IFA 2011: Super AMOLED Plus display, 7.9mm thickness, and Android 3.2
The Samsung Android tablet family today welcomes a new member in the form of the Galaxy Tab 7.7. As with the Tab 8.9 and 10.1 that came before it, this slate's name is derived …
Google touts daily deal on home page, a first
(Reuters) - Google Inc promoted a Groupon-like daily deals offer on its home page on Wednesday for the first time, a rare instance of the Internet giant using its prized online real estate for adverti...
Hackers may have stolen over 200 SSL certificates
Source say DigiNotar breach generated fraudulent certs for Mozilla, Yahoo and Tor, not just Google — Computerworld - Hackers may have obtained more than 200 digital certificates from a Dutch company...
My Neighbor, Steve Jobs
This article first appeared in Palo Alto Patch. — My neighbor, Steve Jobs, has been in the news lately. The talk of the town is the recent announcement he will be stepping aside to let other seeds ...
A Parallels World Where Windows Zips on Macs
Apple's Macintosh computers have long been able to run Windows, in addition to their native operating system, Mac OS X. But the process has sometimes been clumsy, slow or taxing to the machine and it ...
Biz Stone Goes Back to College, This Time as Adviser to M.B.A.s
Twitter Inc. co-founder Christopher “Biz” Stonedropped out of college—twice, from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Boston—yet this fall he'll be advising M.B.A. students at...
LinkedIn Takes A Deep Data Dive On Startup Founder Profiles
LinkedIn has taken a number of deep data dives on the profile information of its 120 million members to highlight trends. The company has compared men and women networkers, professional names and mor...
T-Mobile USA CEO's internal memo seeks to rally the troops in light of endangered AT&T deal
Philipp Humm, CEO of T-Mobile's US business, has circulated an email to the company's employees today encouraging them to stay upbeat through the Department of Justice's attempt to block …
Anonymous Roars Back With 3GB Leak of Texas Police Chief Emails: “That stupid bitch got what she deserved”
Anonymous, after a relatively large period of doing nothing, are back with a vengeance. Even without their (arrested) de facto leader Topiary, they've punched Texan law enforcement squarely …
Nielsen: Android takes 40% of U.S. smartphone market in July; iOS flat, RIM down a point
Google's Android platform gained once again during the three-month period ending in July, increasing it's share by 1% over second-quarter totals to grab 40% of the U.S. smartphone market.
Lost iPhone 5 Prototype: SFPD Says It Has No Records of Investigation
Yesterday we related an interesting scoop that popped up on CNET: the tech-news site reported that a prototype of Apple's latest iPhone model had been lost in a San Francisco bar, echoing a similar in...
Google May Be On The Verge Of Resurrecting “GDrive”
In 2006, Google was internally testing a project codenamed “Platypus”, an online storage service. When it was accidentally disclosed during an analyst meeting as “GDrive”, it quickly captured the web...
IBM to Buy Risk Analysis Company Algorithmics for $387M
IBM plans to acquire risk analytics company Algorithmics for US$387 million, a deal that IBM said on Thursday will bolster its risk management offerings in light of increasing regulation in the financ...
Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator
The random-number generator uses digital circuits to stump the smartest hackers — Imagine that it's 1995 and you're about to make your very first online purchase. You open your Netscape browser, si...
Samsung Galaxy Note unveiled at IFA: 5.3-inch Super AMOLED display, WXGA resolution, and S Pen stylus
Ever heard of a 5.3-inch Super AMOLED screen with 1280 x 800 resolution and a pixel density of 285ppi? The answer, now that Samsung has removed the veil of mystery from its new Galaxy …
PlayHaven gets real-time with mobile marketing platform
While the web is dynamic and real-time, mobile marketing is often not. And that causes a lot of headaches for developers who look to ads to not only monetize, but also market their apps and build rel...
In fortified data center, NYSE runs ‘gated’ trading cloud
NYSE's ‘community cloud’ is aimed at financial services firms — Computerworld - LAS VEGAS - Hurricane Irene mattered not to NYSE Euronext's large data center, which is built on land high enough to a...
Why a $25 PC? Because it's the price of a textbook
There is growing interest surrounding the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their promise of a PC that will cost just $25. We've seen how the OLPC has struggled to deliver a $100 laptop for developing coun...
Updated: Mosaid Will Manage 2,000 Nokia Patents For A Cut Of The Proceeds
One more development today that shows the patent race—and the many millions of dollars that are going into defending and settling around them—is still in full stride. The Canadian company MOSAID has ...