The Go-Go Growth Days Screech to a Halt at Netflix
A first look at Netflix's Q3: Revenue of $822 million and earnings $1.16 a share. The Street was expecting around $811 million and about $0.94 a share (bear in mind that “consensus” actually varies d...
Steve Jobs Would Annoy Jony Ive By Taking Credit For His Design Work
Jonathan “Jony” Ive, Apple's design maestro, was regularly frustrated with his good friend, and boss, Steve Jobs taking all the credit for Apple product's design. — “I pay maniacal attention to wher...
Hi, Tumblr.
It's nice to meet you. — There are lots of reasons we're excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign's new Tumblr today. But mostly it's because we're looking at this as an opportunity to creat...
Google Removes The + Search Command
Google has quietly removed one of the older search operators, the + search operator. Now if you try adding a + sign in your query, Google will ignore it. — Why did Google remove the old search oper...
Siri Co-Founder Kittlaus Departs From Apple
Dag Kittlaus — the co-founder and CEO of the company that created the Siri voice control feature, which Apple launched to much acclaim recently — has left the company, according to sources. — There ...
Motorola: Ice Cream Sandwich devices coming 6 weeks after release (Update: devices confirmed)
Whoa there, Motorola! Getting aggressive, aren't we? While other manufacturers are “looking into” device updates to Ice Cream Sandwich, these guys are not playing it safe. The company has decided t...
Piper Jaffray: Apple is already building prototype TV sets
The solution Steve Jobs said he “finally cracked” could be a $6 billion business by 2014 — Click to enlarge. Source: www.patentlyapple.com — In a note to clients released Monday, Piper Jaffray's ...
Zynga's IPO due week before Thanksgiving: sources
(Reuters) - Zynga Inc is currently planning to price its initial public offering and have its shares begin trading the week before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on November 24, two sources briefed on ...
Sprint and Apple are working on a ‘nationwide issue’ with iPhone 4S data speeds
To say that the iPhone 4S has been well received on Sprint and AT&T is a bit of an understatement, as it set opening day sales and activation records for both carriers. Unfortunately, iPhone 4S users...
Google Links Music Store, Social Networking
Google Inc. is building a music-download store that would work closely with its Google Plus social network and could launch it within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. ...
How Much the iPhone Camera Has Improved
When the first iPhone came out, the camera was an afterthought, only tossed in to feature match its competitors. Fast forward four years and it's an entirely different story, Apple has made it a poin...
Exclusive: Aneel Bhusri's Workday Raises $85 Million at a Whopping $2 Billion Valuation
It's beginning to look like this whole enterprise software-in-the-cloud thing might just go somewhere. For the latest evidence, look no further than Workday, the fast-growing provider of human resour...
Groupon Sues Google Offers Employees - Report
After Groupon spurned its $6 billion offer last year, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided to launch a deal-of-the-day site of its very own. It looks like the hard feelings will continue—Groupon has filed a l...
Apple Retail Stores to Offer In-Store Pickup of Online Orders
Apple is making plans to roll out a new pilot program that will allow customers to pickup orders placed through the company's online store at one of their local retail stores. The program, reportedly...
Google eyeing fiber network for Europe
A Google executive said the search giant is pondering a fiber network in Europe, perhaps based on its experience building out a gigabit fiber to the home network in the U.S. Google's dedication to bet...
Nokia Windows Phone Likely to Miss Holidays in U.S.
Struggling Handset Maker Pursues Europe-First Strategy on Windows Phone Launch — The leading smartphone manufacturers have already unveiled their holiday wares — Apple's iPhone 4S, Samsung's Galaxy ...
China Mobile says has 10 million iPhone users
China Mobile , the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers, has 10 million iPhone users even though it does not yet have an agreement with iPhone maker Apple , its chairman told Reuters on Monda...
Oracle Buys Cloud-based Customer Service Company RightNow For $1.5 Billion
Oracle this morning announced that it has acquired RightNow - both companies are listed on NASDAQ - for $43 per share or roughly $1.5 billion net of RightNow's cash and debt. With the acquisition …
Siri ported to iPad, still getting silent treatment from Apple servers
Developers wasted no time bringing Siri to the iPhone 4, and nine days later, it's been brought to the iPad as well. This version, running on a first-generation jailbroken Apple tablet, suffers from ...
Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is turning to the software engineer who built iTunes to help lead its development of a television set, according to three people with knowledge of the project. — Jeff Robbin, who h...
When Steve Met Bill: ‘It was a kind of weird seduction visit’
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were the ultimate frenemies. Read about the roots of their relationship in this exclusive excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new book, Steve Jobs, which hits bookstores today. ...
Apple upgrades MacBook Pro line with faster processors, graphics cards, and more storage
Without the usual fanfare of taking its online Store down, Apple has made some gentle upgrades to its MacBook Pro laptop lineup. The entry level 13-inch MBP now starts off at a speed of 2.4GHz …
Netflix to Launch Service in the UK and Ireland for Streaming Movies and TV Shows in Early 2012
Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the leading global Internet movie subscription service, today announced it will expand to the United Kingdom and Ireland in early 2012, offering unlimited TV shows …
Obama Campaign Experiments With Tumblr for '12
It's no secret that President Obama's victory in 2008 was helped by his adoption of Twitter and other social media platforms. For 2012, Republicans and other politicians are flocking to these service...
Apple's Lower Prices Are All Part of the Plan
Something unexpected has happened at Apple, once known as the tech industry's high-price leader. Over the last several years it began beating rivals on price. — People who wanted the latest Apple s...
Larry Page Ousts Mark Zuckerberg As Most Popular On Google+
It looks like adding a suggested user list to Google+ has finally paid off in solving its “Mark Zuckerberg problem.” Facebook's CEO is no longer the most popular person on Google+, having just now be...
Apple's Newsstand: Wait for 2.0
Can Apple crack the digital news market the way it did with music? The comparison might not be relevant. Here is why: — Today, in the new business, imperfect as it is, the transition from print to ...
Ice Cream Sandwich supports USB game controllers and HDMI, turns your phone into full game console
Take that, Xperia Play. USB gamepads are already supported in Honeycomb, so we had plenty of hope that Android 4.0 — also lovingly referred to as Ice Cream Sandwich — would offer the same functionali...
Wikileaks suspends publication of secrets amid ‘financial blockade’
Summary: Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, said today that the organisation would cease publication of secrets to focus on lifting the “financial blockade” by major U.S. banks. — LONDON - Julian...
Facebook Will Probably Be More Profitable Than Amazon This Year
In the first six month of 2011 Facebook had $1.6 billion in revenue and abou $800 million in operating income, says a source I trust a lot. That revenue number has been reported before. And the 50% ...
Groupon Now!, Groupon's Bet on the Future, Off To a Disappointing Start
With Groupon's IPO roadshow kicking off on Monday, Groupon executives will be spending the next two weeks busily pitching investors on the future prospects of their company. — Groupon recognizes tha...