Silver Lake Consortium Is Said to Seek Yahoo Stake
A consortium of investors led by Silver Lake and Microsoft is one of several parties that will be submitting a plan to take a minority stake in Yahoo, according to people briefed on the matter. — TP...
Apple outs new iPad (iPad 2,4) in iOS 5.1 firmware
In the just released beta of iOS 5.1, Apple has outed yet another new device. We recently brought you the first references to the upcoming, faster Apple TV internally dubbed 3,1, and now we have iPad...
Facebook Targeting IPO For Between April and June 2012
Facebook is targeting dates between April 2012 and June 2012 for an initial public offering of its stock. The company is exploring raising $10 billion in an IPO that could value Facebook at more than...
Watch a VC use my name to sell a con.
Normally I just ignore navel-gazing tech-industry articles like this, but people keep sending it to me, so I guess this guy is famous or something. Michael Arrington posted this article, “Startups Ar...
Grooveshark email: How we built a music service without, um, paying for music
Grooveshark deliberately set out to build a huge online following without paying for the music it streamed and shared in order to establish a stronger negotiating position with record labels, accordin...
Apple iPhone spontaneously combusts aboard flight in Australia
An Apple iPhone spontaneously began smoking and emitting a red glow while aboard an airplane in Australia. Passengers aboard Regional Express flight ZL319 were welcomed to their destination in Sydney...
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime - First Look
Welcome to the first ever Ritchie's Room TV segment! Here we take a look at the new Transformer Prime from Asus. Read on below for lots more detail and images. — The Transformer Prime is easily th...
AT&T's 11th-Hour Plan to Save Its Deal With T-Mobile
About an hour after AT&T announced its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile in March on a Sunday afternoon, I got a call at home. It was Randall L. Stephenson , AT&T's chairman and chief executive. M...
“Music Everywhere”: Spotify's “New Direction”
Hey! Remember last week, when Spotify sent out that cryptic announcement about a press conference they're holding this week, and said they're headed in a “new direction”? — Here's what the music se...
Google Catalogs is now available for Android tablets
For many of us, the arrival of piles of catalogs marks the start of the holiday shopping season. But what if you could have all your favorite catalogs in one place, with the latest issues always avai...
Malls stop tracking shoppers' cell phones
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Two malls are axing their plans to track shoppers' cell phones, after a U.S. senator raised privacy concerns over the weekend. — As CNNMoney first reported last week, the Prome...
Apple Founding Contract Signed by Jobs Could Fetch $150,000 at Sotheby's
On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs got together with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to draft a three- page contract that established Apple Computer Co. — Next month, the contract, with the three founding ...
Confirmed: Verizon Galaxy Nexus LTE release date; pre-order Tuesday
What's the deal with the LTE Galaxy Nexus on Verizon Wireless? When's the release date, and when can we pre-order it? After all the foggy rumor shenanigans over Black Friday, we now have enough tria...
Ad Targeting — Both Facebook And The European Commission Have Explaining Left To Do
Both Facebook And The European Commission Have Explaining Left To Do — The European Commission is going after web companies over their failures to explain how their ad targeting systems work. But it...
U.S. leads the way in LTE subscribers — but not for long
but not for long — North America has taken the early lead in Long Term Evolution smartphone and modem subscribers, according to a new study by TeleGeography. That should come as little surprise give...
How many iOS devices will be sold in 2012?
There are several methods I turn to when estimating device sales. — Top-Down Demand analysis — The first is to look at so-called top-down views of the demand. This method takes a view of the over...
It's A Cyber Monday Internet Stock Sell-A-Thon!
Wow, that was an awesome day for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 291 points, or 2.6%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite up 3.5%. — At least, it was an awesome day as lon...
The evolution of search in six minutes
This summer we posted a video that takes a peek under the hood of search, sharing the methodology behind search ranking and evaluation. Through this methodology, we make roughly 500 improvements to s...
HTC says to tough out downturn, new models coming
(Reuters) - HTC Corp promised competitive new models early next year and said it would stick to its strategy in the face of its biggest challenge since rising to prominence in the smartphone market. ...
Best Buy cancels BlackBerry PlayBook orders, pulls listings
Best Buy sheds PlayBook as others follow — Best Buy raised questions on Thanksgiving weekend after it suddenly started cancelling Blackberry PlayBook orders. Shoppers have frequently reported order...
Facebook faces a crackdown on selling users' secrets to advertisers
Facebook is facing a crackdown on how it exploits vast amounts of its users' most personal information to create bespoke advertising. — Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg must address privacy concerns or fa...
Why The PayPal “Mafia” Was So Great: Yammer CEO David Sacks Explains
David Sacks is one of the earliest members of the so-called PayPal “mafia,” a group of PayPal employees who went on to unusual positions of influence and power in Silicon Valley. — But his first st...
Crunch Time For Apple's Rivals: iPhone Sales In UK Grew Again In October
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) acolytes will probably be saying “told you so” when they hear of this: sales of the iPhone, which had been in decline in the last several months, turned around and grew in the month...
Apple Suppliers Starting to Ship 4" Screens for Next iPhone?
Macotakara claims that Hitatchi Displays and Sony Mobile Display Corporation have begun shipping 4-inch LCDs for a new iOS device: According to Asian source, Hitachi Displays, Ltd. and Sony Mobile Dis...
Apple now offering free shipping on all U.S online orders until December 22
Apple has begun its seasonal sales push by offering free shipping on all items purchased via the US portal of the online Apple Store or via its official iOS application, running the promotion until De...
Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Mobile Software Developer SPB For $38 Million
Last week, Yandex, one of biggest search and advertising companies in Russia, announced that it would be teaming up with Microsoft, Nokia, HTC and Samsung to become the default search engine on both n...