Spotify Becomes a Music Platform
At a posh press event in Manhattan's Greenwich Village on Wednesday, freemium music subscription service Spotify revealed the “new direction” at which it has been hinting: a new API (application progr...
AT&T Mulls Joint Venture With T-Mobile's Parent
AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG, the parent of T-Mobile USA, have discussed forming a joint venture that would pool network assets from the two U.S. wireless carriers as an alternative transaction i...
Alibaba-Led Group Said to Prepare Yahoo Bid
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Softbank Corp. (9984) are in advanced talks with Blackstone Group LP (BX) and Bain Capital LLC about making a bid for all of Yahoo! Inc., said three people with knowledg...
Internet sales tax fight returns to Congress
eBay is preparing to amplify its attack on a proposed law that would usher in sales taxes on Internet shopping, CNET has learned. — The online auctioneer plans to tell a congressional panel consider...
You Bet Apple TV Is Coming, Says Apple Guru Gene Munster — Here Are The Details
Here Are The Details — Apple analyst Gene Munster just reiterated his belief that Apple is going to launch a TV next year. — He made the comments at our IGNITION: Future of Media conference this mo...
TL;DR: Facebook Increases Status Update Character Limit From 5K to 60K+
Facebook said today that it has increased the maximum character count in status updates to over 60,000. This is 12 times the original character count of 5,000. The change was originally spotted by A...
Netflix Viewing Seen Swelling U.S. Cable Bills
Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) and U.S. pay- TV companies, weighing how to profit from surging Internet demand spurred by Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and Hulu, are on the verge of instituting new fees on Web-ac...
Whitman: HP Decision on webOS Coming Within Two Weeks
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman just gave an interview to Le Figaro, a French newspaper, saying that a decision on what to do with HP's webOS software will come within the next two weeks. — Here's t...
Android 4.0 for x86 processors released to developers
Google's Android development team has released Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.1) for x86 chipsets as part of their promise to open up Android for Intel and AMD systems. The release isn't fully stabl...
Chart of the day, Apple valuation edition
Andy Zaky at Bullish Cross has a great post on Apple's valuation, showing the astonishing degree to which the market is discounting the value of a dollar of Apple's earnings today, compared to just tw...
New Apple Board Member Bob Iger Buys $1M In AAPL Shares
Newly appointed Apple board member and Disney president and CEO Bob Iger purchased 2,670 shares of Apple stock on the open market, according to a filing with the SEC. The average purchase price of the...
MTA hands Apple ‘unique’ lease at Grand Central
Apple is poised to reap a bonanza in Grand Central Terminal — but it won't be sharing any upside with the landlord. — As reported by The Post, the money-minting iPad maker is gearing up for a splash...
Bing Bans Holiday Deals Sites, Including One By Group That Created Cyber Monday
Ironically, the trade group that created the Cyber Monday concept had its own CyberMonday.com site lost in cyberspace this week. Lost, that is, if you tried to use Bing to find it.
Samsung unveils Cortex-A15 2GHz Exynos 5250 SoC
Samsung has just unveiled a new System-on-chip (SoC) for future mobile devices. It's the Exynos 5250 that boasts two Cortex-A15 chips clocked at 2GHz. The dual-core Exynos 5250 is created using a 32...
Dell Will Drop the Flashy Vegas Act for CES This Year
Dell's presence at the Consumer Electronics Show the past few years has been hard to miss. This year, it may be hard to find. Sources say the company is scaling back its participation in the annual t...
Japan rumor: LTE iPad 3 coming in summer 2012, LTE iPhone 5 in Fall
According to the Japanese blog Macotakara, which relayed a Nikkei Business story, Apple is gearing up for a 2012 release of both 4G LTE iPhone and iPad on NTT DoCoMo, the predominant mobile phone oper...
Announcing YouTube Analytics - the next generation in Insight
Video can transcend language and cultural barriers. It can showcase real human moments all across the globe, even the silly ones. Take the video of the talking twin babies. That video was shot in B...
Exclusive: Zynga aims for $10 billion valuation in IPO
Facebook games developer Zynga Inc is seeking a lower-than-expected $10 billion valuation for its initial public offering, which is to be priced on December 15, two people close to the process said on...
Microsoft: No Silverlight 5 release in November
Summary: Microsoft didn't make its own deadline of releasing to the Web version 5 of Silverlight. And there's still no word as to when and if the Softies will talk about the platform's future. — Mi...
100Plus Raises $1.25M From Greylock and Band Of Angels To Make You Live Longer
Less than a month after securing $500K from Founders Fund, health prediction service 100Plus has brought its funding up to $1.25 million. The new $750K in funding comes from Reid Hoffman and John Lil...
Early Termination Fee Be Damned — I Want My iPhone
I Want My iPhone — How badly do some folks want a new iPhone? — Badly enough to eat an early termination fee to get one. — A survey by newly-founded Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP)...
Windows author Ed Bott and partners launch ‘digital first’ book publishing company
Ed Bott, the independent writer known for his books and blog posts on Microsoft Windows, is one of the founders of a new company aiming for a sweet spot between blogging and print publishing …
Is Daily Deals Dashboard Frugalo The Cure For Groupon Fatigue?
There is a lot of money riding on the daily deals phenomenon. Consumers are able to take advantage of special discounts offered through the service based upon bulk sales. Businesses get large spikes...
Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple's iOS
To date, the user tracking controversy surrounding Carrier IQ has focused primarily on Android, but today details are surfacing that the company also may have hooks into Apple's iOS. Well-known iPhon...
Announcing YouTube Analytics - the next generation in Insight
Video can transcend language and cultural barriers. It can showcase real human moments all across the globe, even the silly ones. Take the video of the talking twin babies. That video was shot in B...
Introducing Path 2, the Smart Journal
Over the last year, you have told us about the ways you've been recording and sharing your lives on Path — things like summer road trips and high school graduations, a baby's first words, and hundreds...
FCC report slams AT&T's proposal to buy T-Mobile: the highlights
Although AT&T has withdrawn its application to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion while it regroups and evaluates its options, the FCC isn't letting it go without a spanking: the Commission and its staf...
It's War: Former SGI Surprises Apple with another Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Late last week, Apple filed two separate patent infringement lawsuits against Graphic Properties Holdings Inc. (GPH), formerly known as Silicon Graphics. One was filed in San Francisco and the other ...
Impending crisis for Microsoft: Office tablet pricing
Summary: If Microsoft is readying a version of Office for the iPad, it better be prepared for the ripple effect in its other business. — ZDNet reported yesterday that Microsoft is getting a version ...
Adobe Acquires Efficient Frontier To Boost Its Digital Marketing Solutions
Adobe this morning announced its acquisition of Efficient Frontier, a digital marketing company, without disclosing the financial terms of the deal. — Adobe says the acquisition of the company will ...
Salesforce Debuts The New Radian6-Powered Social Marketing And Monitoring Cloud
Radian6, which was acquired by Salesforce for $326 million earlier this year, has offered some of the world's largest brands a web-based social media monitoring platform. Brands like Dell, GE, Southw...
Mark Pincus on What Makes Zynga Hum: Short Attention Spans
A booming business in virtual goods adds up to huge profits for the online gaming company. — Online games company Zynga is planning to raise $1 billion by selling a small portion of its shares in an...
Nerds need redesign love too! Announcing the brand new foursquare developer site
From apps that create soundtracks of our lives to ones that help plan our travels, answer our burning questions, and even feed our dogs, we're constantly inspired by the amazing things built on the fo...
Steve Jobs Was Right: Google IS Turning Into Microsoft
Last spring as Larry Page was preparing to retake the helm at Google, he asked Steve Jobs for advice. — Jobs told him to focus on fewer things and do them really well. — Jobs later recounted the c...
Sonos software updates bring Android tablet support, Slacker and Spotify upgrades
Wireless music streaming kingpins Sonos rolled out a number of software updates tonight, including System Software 3.6, which brings added controls to Sonos Wireless HiFi, integration with Slacker …
Paul Allen calls for ‘open science’ and wider sharing of data
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen makes the case for broader sharing of scientific data — an “open science” model - in a newly published opinion piece (subscription required) in the Wall Street Journal,...
United Nations hacked - email addresses and passwords leaked
Passwords and login details belonging to the United Nations have been published on the internet by a hacking group who believe that the UN is guilty of corruption. — The TeaMp0isoN hacking gang has ...
How Cisco Spinoff Agari Aims To Finally Kill Phishing
As head of security technologies at the startup Ironport in 2007, Patrick Peterson was once so obsessed with tracking a group of drug-hawking spammers that he spent day and night in front of a compute...
Some Fear a Glut in Tech ‘Incubators’
The number of tech incubators has skyrocketed. And that has investors and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs such as Max Levchin concerned. — Mr. Levchin, the PayPal co-founder who later sold start-up Sl...
Amazon Says It Has 20,000 CDN Customers; But What Does That Really Mean?
On Tuesday, Amazon announced via their AWS blog that the company now has 20,000 active customers for their CloudFront CDN service. In addition, Amazon believes that their 20,000 customers would make ...
Jive Sets Price Range For IPO At $8 To $10 Per Share, Valued At Over $500M
Social enterprise giant Jive has just set the terms of its IPO in a new filing. Jive, which aims to raise a little over $100 million in a public offering, has set the range between $8 and $10 per sha...
Don't Trust Your Instincts? Wal-Mart Uses Algorithms to Find Gifts People Want.
Wal-Mart has launched its first Facebook application that helps people buy better gifts for their friends. — The application, called Shopycat, makes product recommendations based on the items people...