Apple's Next Event to Be Held on October 4, Starring Its New CEO
That's the day Apple is currently expected to hold its next big media event, according to sources close to the situation, where the tech giant will unveil the next iteration of its popular iPhone.
Facebook Employee Reveals Killer Facebook Music Feature In Deleted Tweet
Facebook Music is launching tomorrow. This, everyone knows. But not everyone knows exactly how it will work, since Facebook been tweaking things right up until launch. But tonight one Facebook empl...
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Being Considered for HP CEO Job to Replace Apotheker
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is being considered by Hewlett-Packard directors as a possible candidate for CEO, in a move that would replace its current leader Léo Apotheker, according to several source...
Sean Parker: Agent Of Disruption
Pointed toward his 18-acre compound in Marin County, Sean Parker rips through the night fog on the Golden Gate Bridge in a stealthy Audi S6 that masks a Lamborghini engine, one pale hand on the wheel,...
New Pandora for All
Today is a big day for Pandora: after more than a year of planning, design, engineering, and beta testing we're launching an entirely new Pandora website. — In late 2010 we started with a clean shee...
Introducing multiple sign-in and preferences on Gmail for mobile
Posted by Posted by Dominic Leung, Mobile Software Engineer — The Gmail for mobile team works hard to bring you features that make you more productive on the go. Today, we will highlight some new f...
Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy For A Ghost Town
Google+ is opening up. The service that the enthusiastic and curious once begged to join is now open to anyone with a Google account, except those unfortunate Apps users (what's up with that?). User...
Congress doesn't get Google, and it doesn't get Congress
Is Google evil? Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights tried to decide that today in a hearing on Google's market power and whether it is be...
The Man Who Would Have Facebook
PAUL CEGLIA IS A PUDGY 38-YEAR-OLD, with greasy black hair and creases around his light brown eyes, a serial small-time entrepreneur who could sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. “He's got tremendous confi...
Sprint Capping Phone as a Modem to 5GB Starting October 2nd
And the cutbacks continue! We've seen ETFs increase, Sprint Premier go away, upgrade fees raised, what next? We can now add Phone as a Modem to the list. Our beloved Super Spies have been bringing ...
Adobe forges ahead with Flash 11 as industry turns away
Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 are announced just as Microsoft chooses HTML5 over plug-ins like Flash in Metro version of IE10 — Adobe has moved forward with its Flash-based strategy, announcing today Fl...
LivingSocial Weighs $6B Funding Instead of IPO
LivingSocial may raise more than $200 million in funding that would give it a valuation of as much as $6 billion, rather than proceeding with plans for an initial public offering, people with knowledg...
Google spurns Oracle $2.2 billion Android damage claim
(Reuters) - Google Inc urged a federal judge to reject an Oracle Corp expert's recommendation that it pay more than $2.2 billion for infringing on patents for Java technology used in the Android opera...
Where's Mango? An update on timing
Hi everybody. Given all the recent speculation around the timing of our Mango update, I wanted to bring you up to speed on what to expect next. — For months, we and dozens of our partner companies ...
Twitter to launch political advertising
Trying to capitalize its status as a hub of the national political conversation, the social networking giant Twitter is beginning for the first time this week to sell political advertising, executives...
Amazon launches Kindle book-lending service with 11,000 US libraries
We knew that Amazon was working to launch its own Kindle Lending Library service but today the internet retailer has taken the wraps off its book borrowing service that will see Kindle users be able t...
Apple finds a use for some of those first-generation iPads
Donates thousands to teachers in America's poorest schools — Teach for America might sound like a fun way to spend a couple years after college, but it's a pretty tough gig. With just five-weeks tr...
Stitcher gets $10M to personalize Internet talk radio
Stitcher, the Pandora of Internet talk radio, has raised $10 million as it capitalizes on the opportunity in non-music streaming radio. The San Francisco company raised the money from New Enterprise ...
Remember Kazaa? They Just Built An iPhone App To Compete With Spotify
Kazaa, perhaps the most popular peer to peer music piracy service circa Y2K, just announced the availability of its brand new iPhone app. — Except there's no piracy even remotely involved here …
Netflix, Discovery Ink Expanded Two-Year Licensing Agreement
Even more news from the Netflix camp, which has just signed an agreement with media juggernaut Discovery Communications to renew and expand their licensing deal. — The companies this morning announc...
Google draws a big blue Google+ ad on its homepage
Have you visited Google.com today? — Now that Google+ is available to everyone in the world, the company is making it crystal clear in reminding its users it's now open to the masses. Check out the...
AT&T launches new global messaging plans, lets you comfortably roam
The largest GSM carrier in the country is popular amongst travelers because you can use nearly all of its phones anywhere in the world. Messaging whilst abroad, however, has always been an expensive ...
New law bans warrantless cell phone searches
Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online ...
Gilt Groupe Investor Matrix Partners Leads $33M Round In Fashion Retail And Styling Platform JustFabulous
JustFabulous, a fashion retail and styling platform, has raised $33 million in Series A funding lead by Matrix Partners (who also invested in flash sales giant Gilt Groupe) …