Groupon IPO Shares Pop 40% On First Trade, Debuts At $17.8B Market Cap
After some timing drama, daily deal site Groupon finally has begun trading on the NASDAQ this morning, in the most hotly anticipated and largest Internet company IPO since Google. The company — which...
European Commission investigating Samsung over possible abuse of FRAND patents against Apple
Samsung's various attempts to shut down Apple products — most recently the iPhone 4S — with patents declared essential to the 3G industry standard have now given rise to an antitrust investigation by ...
Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers
The iPhone maker spends lavishly on all stages of the manufacturing process, giving it a huge operations advantage — About five years ago, Apple design guru Jony Ive decided he wanted a new feature ...
The Long-Term Failure of Web APIs
Years ago, when developers such as myself started the transition away from OS-specific APIs to web APIs, we believed that doing so would empower our software and save it from the confines of the deskt...
Exclusive: Majority of YouTube views from Non-English audience
Talk about a truly global audience: 60 percent of all video views on YouTube come from users who select a language other than English as the site's display language, a Google spokesperson told us Thur...
Samsung Takes Top Spot as Smartphone Market Grows 42.6% in the Third Quarter, According to IDC
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. November 3 2011 - The worldwide smartphone market grew 42.6% year over year in the third quarter of 2011 (3Q11), despite a slowdown within key mature markets.
The Code of the Winklevii
Remember the Winklevoss twins? The golden-boy Harvard rowers who claimed that Mark Zuckerberg had stolen the idea for Facebook from them? They spent years suing him, won a settlement that is current...
AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook
McLEAN, Virginia (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day. — At the agency's Open Source Center, a tea...
Sprint CEO Hesse: “We Stand for Simplicity and Value”
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said his company has eliminated 85 percent of the possible rate plan options in recent months in an effort to make things easier for customers. — “We stand for simplicity and va...
BPI Asks BT To Block BitTorrent Site Pirate Bay, Or It's Court Time
A new twist today in the battle of media companies trying to stop their content from being distributed by illegal means online: the UK's main music trade body, the BPI, has today teamed up others in t...
Hands-On With The Samsung Focus S For AT&T
If the Samsung Focus Flash had you even remotely excited, then the Focus S is sure to leave you thrilled. With almost all the same specs as baby brother, the Focus S brings a slightly larger screen a...
China scorns U.S. cyber espionage charges
(Reuters) - China on Friday dismissed a U.S. report on online spying as “irresponsible,” rejecting the charge that China uses cyber espionage to steal lucrative U.S. trade and technology secrets. — ...
My five favorite pitches from the TechStars Seattle Demo Day
TechStars Seattle today concluded their three-month long startup bootcamp as 10 companies presented their business ideas to a packed crowd at the Showbox Sodo in Seattle. — It's been a long, hard vo...
Ex-Googlers Raise $5.8 Million to Help Retailers Track Foot Traffic
Euclid Elements is hoping to be the Google Analytics of the physical retail world. — The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company helps brick-and-mortar retailers track shopping behavior by putting sensors i...
Motorola Mobility won a formal injunction against Apple
UPDATE: it's not “totally symbolic” — Apple knows what it's like to win injunctions against rivals. It won four of them against Samsung (two in Germany, one in the Netherlands and most recently one...
Apple gives most of its top execs $60M bonuses
It's bonus season at Apple. — A flurry of new filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission show Apple's top executives getting bonuses that with big payouts that hinge on them staying with th...
European Commission investigating Samsung over possible abuse of FRAND patents against Apple
Samsung's various attempts to shut down Apple products — most recently the iPhone 4S — with patents declared essential to the 3G industry standard have now given rise to an antitrust investigation by ...
Developer of Twitter for iPhone departs company
Loren Brichter, the founder of Atebits, the creator of the iPhone app Tweetie and the mastermind behind Twitter for iPhone, has completed his last day at Twitter. — “Today was my last day at Twitter...
In-flight WiFi coming to 300 United and Continental aircraft beginning in mid-2012, entire fleet covered by 2015
Planning to fly on United or Continental at any point over the next few years? Then it looks like your odds of having in-flight WiFi will be getting increasingly better.
Eric Schmidt: Google Does Not Dominate Search, Mobile
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, appeared on Capitol Hill in September to answer questions about whether his company's products are anti-competitive. He denied that Google gives its own pro...
AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook
McLEAN, Virginia (AP) — In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day. — At the agency's Open Source Center, a tea...
It's Not Just for Baby Photos Anymore
Why your Facebook feed is crammed with visual gags. — On a normal day, the Facebook page for NYC Pride, the organization that puts on gay and lesbian pride events in New York, gets about 10 new fans...
Real Security in Mac OS X Requires Apple-Signed Certificates
The Mac needs to be as secure as the iPhone. The good news is Apple already has the tools. The bad news is they are forcing developers to use the wrong ones. — There are three primary ways Apple i...