Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox
We're pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at ...
Exclusive: Amazon weighed buying RIM but interest cooled:sources
(Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own, according to p...
Apple Rolls Out ‘Complete My Season Pass’ for TV Shows
While Apple has long offered a “Complete My Album” feature in the iTunes Store to allow users who have previously purchased individual tracks to upgrade to the full album at a discounted price reflect...
ITC Initial Ruling: Motorola Infringes Single Microsoft Patent, but Not Six Others
Microsoft won a partial victory in its patent dispute with Motorola, as the International Trade Commission issued an initial ruling that certain Motorola products infringe on one of the software maker...
Facebook Sponsored Story Ads To Appear In The Web News Feed In 2012
Starting in January 2012, Facebook will gradually begin showing Sponsored Stories social ads in the main news feed of the web version of the site, a representative of the company tells us.
Nokia and Microsoft fingered over comments on adverse Lumia review
An Indian site's ‘reviewing’ of the Nokia Lumia 800 phone purely on its specifications was a strange thing to do - but anonymous commenting apparently from Nokia and Microsoft staff didn't help matter...
T-Mobile to get seven-year 3G roaming deal, 128 markets of AWS spectrum from AT&T
Deutsche Telekom now is detailing the consolation prize it's getting from AT&T in the aftermath of its failed acquisition of T-Mobile — and in looking through the details, calling it a “consolation pr...
Kickstarted: How one company is revolutionizing product development
Kickstarter is funding an era of product development uncompromised by focus groups and committees — The million dollar idea. We've all had it at one time or another, with very few luxuries to show ...
Google halts Nexus S Android 4.0 updates, Galaxy Nexus hit
Google Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus hit by battery bug — Google's Android 4.0 update for the Nexus S stalled out Tuesday. The company posted on its forums that it was holding the update to “monitor fee...
Source: Groupon Doesn't Have The Cash to Build Its New Data Center
In the run up to its recent IPO, a number of outlets reported that the daily deal giant Groupon was running short on cash. Over at the Motley Fool, Evan Niu noted that the company had $243.9 million ...
Oracle Falls Short on Weak Software Sales
Software giant Oracle reported quarterly results that fell short of the expectations of analysts, as licenses for new software rose only slightly and sales were $430 million below what analysts had fo...
This Week In Douchebaggery: AllThis
Well, it's Monday - I guess that means it's time for another douchebag to create a startup on the Internet. — Introducing, Allthis.com. They list themselves as being in “beta” on their website and ...
Verizon Wireless Probed Over Cable Deals
Verizon Wireless's deals for spectrum with cable companies are under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for their potential to hurt competition in the wireless and cable industries. — Gina...
Ninth Circuit Puts Lump of Coal in UMG's Stocking, Affirms DMCA Safe Harbors for Veoh
Today the Ninth Circuit handed the Internet a bittersweet and crucial victory by affirming a district court's holding that the safe harbors created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) …
LightSquared Asks FCC to Declare GPS Interference Not Its Fault
Aspiring wholesale wireless provider LightSquared wants the Federal Communications Commission to declare that any interference between its network and GPS systems is the fault of the way those systems...
Half a billion dollars: why Apple's acquisition of Anobit matters
Apple reportedly acquired the Israeli flash memory design firm Anobit in a deal that cost the company $500 million dollars. Anobit management told its staff of the acquisition this week, according to...
Sony sued over PSN “can't sue us” clause
Following the huge security breach of the PlayStation Network, Sony realized that not only did it require better security for PSN, it also needed to protect itself as a company from millions of gamers...
First Round Capital rings in the holidays with “Friday” spoof
First Round Capital is famous in these parts for its irreverent, awkward and often hilarious holiday e-greetings. — This year, the team and its family of startups pitched in to create an elaborate s...
Meta-Twitter Analysis Shows Happiness Trending Down
Using Twitter, a team of scientists from the University of Vermont has created a happiness graph, which shows happiness has fallen over the last few years. — “After a gradual upward trend that ran f...
The Law of Online Sharing
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will eventually have to deal with the fact that all growth has limits. — The idea of limitless growth gives sleepless nights to environmentalists, but not to Facebook foun...
iPhones, iPod Touches still on iOS 3.1.3 can't download new apps directly from the App Store
While fragmentation is a rare(r) problem on iOS there's still quite a few users rocking older versions on their devices. Unfortunately for them, ever since a recent update on the 16th …
Lamar Smith Says ‘Just Joking...’ About Tomorrow; SOPA Markup Postponed
Well, look at that. There's been a lot of back and forth over the past few days concerning whether or not Lamar Smith was serious about holding the continuation of the SOPA markup tomorrow morning.
Apple Indeed Replacing Recalled iPod Nano Units with Current-Generation Models
Just hours after we reported that Apple appeared to have begun shipping out current-generation iPod nanos as replacements for recalled first-generation units, users are beginning to report in that the...
Apple Claims Samsung Tablet, Phone Cases Infringe Patents
Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., which on Dec. 9 lost a bid to keep Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1 tablet out of Australia, claims the case for the device and cases for Samsung phones infringe...
Health 2.0 startup Keas gets $6.5 million in new funds
Keas, a San Francisco-based startup co-founded by veteran technologist Adam Bosworth and enterprise software entrepreneur George Kassagbi, has raised $6.5 million in new funds from existing investors ...
Publishing Insider Tipped Law Firms About E-Book Price Fixing Conspiracy
The decision by major publishers to strike a pricing deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been the source of speculation and several antitrust investigations. Now, a new court filing suggests someone ins...
Distimo's Year-End Report Shows Why Developers Love iOS: iPhone 4x Android Revenue, iPad 2x
There are now over a million mobile applications available across the top seven major app stores, according to mobile analytics firm Distimo in its year-end report for 2011.
Apple reportedly puts the final ink on $400-500 million purchase of Anobit, an Israeli flash-storage company
Last week's big Apple rumor was Apple's purported talks to purchase an Israeli flash memory firm called Anobit. Now, Israeli news website Calcalist reports that the rumored deal has actually been fin...
YouTube in 2011: Over 1,000,000,000,000 Playbacks, 140 Views for Every Person on Earth
We'll leave it up to the cultural anthropologists of the future to unravel the significance of the fact that Rebecca Black's “Friday” was the most watched video on YouTube in 2011.
Amazon Finally Releases OTA Kindle Fire Update To Address Performance And Touchscreen Issues
Great news, Kindle Fire owners. Amazon just announced the long overdue Kindle Fire update that's said to resolve many of the issues with the budget tablet. Most of the common complaints are addresse...
The parable of RIM
Here are the highlights from RIM's latest quarter: — 14.1 million BlackBerry smartphones shipped, 13 million sold through — 150k PlayBook shipped with sell-through slightly higher. 800k PlayBooks sh...
After Years Of Patent Litigation, Nuance Acquires Vlingo
In what Vlingo CEO Dave Grannan calls a ‘good outcome’ on Twitter, the voice-to-text technology company has just been acquired by speech recognition king Nuance. — Notably, Nuance has repeatedly sue...
Kindle Fire On Track For Hundreds Of Millions Of Monthly Ad Impressions; Growing Faster Than The iPad In Early 2010
Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing its monthly data for November. While Millennial, which is the largest independent mobile ad network, has focused on tracking iOS …
Facebook is suing Mark Zuckerberg
Summary: Israeli entrepreneur Rotem Guez has legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg. It's his latest response to a legal battle he's fighting with the social networking giant over his Like Store...
‘Wolverine’ Pirate To Serve Year In Prison
LOS ANGELES - A New York man who admitted illegally uploading to the Internet a pirated, nearly final “workprint” copy of the movie “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was sentenced this afternoon to one year ...
Andy Rubin announces: 700,000 Android devices activated every day
He made the announcement via Google Plus and notes: ...and for those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don't count re-sold devices), and “activations” means you go into a store, buy a ...
Hyperbolic Headlines: Five Ways the Zynga IPO Changes Everything!!!
The Zynga IPO changes everything!!!! Well, not really but the last few days have been a torrent of conjecture about the future of social games, tech IPOs and Mark Pincus' management style.
Google Puts $94M In Solar Projects; Clean Energy Investments Nearing $1B In Total
Google is ending 2011 with an investment that brings its total of renewable energy investments to an impressive $915 million. The online search and advertising juggernaut this morning announced …
Cable News Finally Realizing That SOPA And PROTECT IP Are Bad News
Well, well, well. We've noted in the past that while the serious concerns about SOPA and PROTECT IP (PIPA) have been all over the web and newspapers, they've mostly been mostly been absent from cable...
The Hottest Holiday Gift Just got Hotter
It's not too late to order Amazon's most popular gifts in time for Christmas - customers who order by 8 pm PT on December 21 will receive free two-day shipping on the $79 Kindle …
Groupon Launches Anti-Amazon Promotion of Sorts
Daily-deals site Groupon is firing back at Amazon by encouraging shoppers to buy local, not online. — Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, on Dec. 10 offered customers discounts if they used...
Dave McClure: “We will Invest in atleast 5-10 Indian Startups in 2012”
As part of GOAP (Geeks on a Plane) trip to India, we had a conversation with Dave McClure on his India trip and importantly 500Startups' India plans. In this short discussion, Dave talks about his In...
U.S. Considers Combating Somali Militants' Twitter Use
NAIROBI, Kenya — The United States government is increasingly concerned about the Twitter account of the Shabab militant group of Somalia, with American officials saying Monday that they were “looking...
The End of the Web? Don't Bet on It. Here's Why
Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. The money slide is the graphic below. — The chart shows three scarce resources and their imp...
Netflix Lines Up BBC For Early 2012 Launch In UK, Ireland
Starting in early 2012, when Netflix is set to make its debut in the UK and Ireland, registered members will be able to instantly stream available content on their television sets, tablets, game conso...
Interview: Cornell's Dean Huttenlocher, On Expanding Into NYC And Building A Tech Ecosystem
Cornell University has won the bid to build the big new technology campus on Roosevelt Island that New York City has been looking to create. The plan is to foster a strong technology ecosystem …
Samsung officially announces Ice Cream Sandwich for Galaxy devices, coming in Q1 2012
Samsung has finally confirmed the release timeframe of Ice Cream Sandwich OS for its range of Galaxy devices. Apart from Galaxy Nexus that already runs Android 4., Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note …