What I Learned From Steve Jobs
Many people have explained what one can learn from Steve Jobs. But few, if any, of these people have been inside the tent and experienced first hand what it was like to work with him. I don't want a...
Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs
It's time for free software to find a new voice. Once again, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is putting his feet firmly in his mouth. This time, Stallman says that he's glad Steve ...
Yang eyes Yahoo buyout with private equity
(Reuters) - For the last few years, a widely circulated joke about Jerry Yang was that he had the best tan in Silicon Valley from all the time he spent on Stanford University's golf course. — But th...
Free Texting Apps Are Threat to Wireless Carriers
At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 ...
Google Must Be Feeling Burned For Investing In Intellectual Ventures
Yesterday, gigantic patent troll Intellectual Ventures sued Motorola for patent infringement over Android. — Google is in the process of buying Motorola in part to provide patent protection for Andr...
News Outlets Preserve Privacy by Giving Users Ways to Mute Facebook's Frictionless Sharing
Several news outlets are testing different interfaces that let their readers opt out of sharing their reading activity to Facebook. Since gaining the ability at last month's f8 …
Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The Post-PC Era
As we ponder what will happen to Apple without Steve Jobs, I keep coming back to a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a veteran Silicon Valley CEO who knew Jobs. This was just after Jobs had res...
Demand Media Is Cutting Back On Its Massive Volume Of Writing
In an email sent to Demand Media's thousands of freelance writers the company laid out a rather significant shift in strategy. — The so-called “content farm” is cutting back, a process it mentioned ...
HP set to release NAND flash replacement in 18 months
Exec tells IEF audience that Memristor chip developed with Hynix remains on schedule — A Hewlett-Packard senior fellow this week told attendees at the International Electronics Forum 2011 in Seville...
Grading the Digital School: A Classroom Software Boom, but Mixed Results Despite the Hype
The Web site of Carnegie Learning, a company started by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University that sells classroom software, trumpets this promise: “Revolutionary Math Curricula. Revolutionary Res...
American Express To Release An API For Digital Wallet Platform Serve; Focuses On Data And Personalization
Over the past year, American Express has been making several key payments partnerships with technology companies and launched its take on the digital wallet, Serve.
Tech: The worst IPOs of 2011
The tech industry has produced some of the fastest growing companies on the planet, from Amazon.com in online retail to Google in Internet search. But is tech the best place to park your money when l...
TechCrunch Disrupt Champion Shaker Shakes Down Investors For $15 Million
TechCrunch Disrupt champion Shaker, an Israeli virtual world startup, has closed a $15 million round of financing. The round was led by Shervin Pishevar at Menlo Ventures. CrunchFund was already an ...