Yahoo to Consider Sale of Asian Assets
Yahoo's board will consider a deal to sell its holdings in Alibaba Group and its Japanese affiliate back to their majority owners in a complicated tax-free deal valued at about $17 billion, according ...
Intel Shows Off Its Smart Phone and Tablet for 2012
Prototype devices show Intel chips running devices that could challenge the iPhone and iPad early next year. — The era of the personal computer dawned thanks in no small part to the chip maker Intel...
Here's The Damning Letter A Massive AOL Shareholder Just Sent Tim Armstrong
Investment firm Starboard Value LP, which owns 4.5% of AOL, just sent a remarkably polite letter to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong telling him he is blowing it and that he needs Starboard's help.
RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP-Addresses
Over the past week we've had fun looking up what governments, Fortune 500 companies, and even the most dedicated anti-piracy groups download on BitTorrent. All we had to do is put their IP-addresses ...
2012 Marks Final CES Keynote for Microsoft
Our industry moves fast and changes faster. And so the way we communicate with our customers must change in equally speedy ways. To ensure it does, we constantly challenge our assumptions. For exam...
How hackers gave Subway a $3 million lesson in point-of-sale security
Update: this story has been corrected and amended based on information received from Richard James of sendpace.com — For thousands of customers of Subway restaurants around the US over the past few ...
Here's the World's First Steve Jobs Statue
Here is a tutorial for public relations professionals: Some of you think that sending pitches with the subject line IN ALL CAPS is a good idea. Others send out mass emails that begin “Item?” Most of...
Google Voice for iPhone updated; adds multi-recipient texting, Sprint support and more
Google has pushed live a new update for its Google Voice iPhone application, bringing iPhone users up to speed with features that have been present in its Android equivalent.
Ex-Google Man Sells Search Genius to Rest of World
MC Srivas brings Google's ‘secret sauce’ to everyone else. Photo: MapR — M.C. Srivas is amazed by Google's search engine. And he helped build Google's search engine. — He's amazed that if you se...
IPS Tablet Display Technology Shoot-Out Amazon Kindle Fire - Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet - Apple iPad 2
Introduction A new wave of Tablets has arrived just in time for Christmas... But as we have seen many times before, most new Tablets are poorly thought out contenders that just wash away with the next...
Another $40 million for Jawbone from Kleiner Perkins, Deustche Telecom
Jawbone, a San Francisco-based company that makes mobile lifestyle accessories such as Jambox and Up, a personal health device, has raised another $40 million in new funds from Deutsche Telekom, Klein...
TripAdvisor Dips Lower on First Day of Trading
TripAdvisor, which has collected more than 50 million reviews from travelers around the world, is facing a critique of its own on its first day trading on the Nasdaq. — The company, which was offici...
Meet Circa, The Stealthy ‘News Experience’ Startup From Ben Huh And SimpleGeo Founder Matt Galligan
As we heard in August, SimpleGeo founder Matt Galligan left the company to pursue other interests. SimpleGeo was then bought by UrbanAirship in November, and fellow co-founder Joe Stump left …
Kindle iOS app updated with new iPad UI for magazines, Send-to-Kindle cloud storage and more
The Kindle iPhone and iPad app were given a significant update, bringing it up to version 2.9 and introducing many new and highly requested features. — First up are a few iPad specific changes …
Verizon: ‘4G LTE service returning to normal’
Late last night we discovered that many Verizon customers were not seeing 4G service on their phones. Verizon support confirmed the issue, but it seems like the network is now back in business or at ...
Facebook and the Irish Data Protection Commission
The people who use Facebook take privacy and data protection seriously and so do we. We work closely with privacy commissioners and regulators around the world to demonstrate our compliance with lega...
What the heck is a ‘disposable’ iPhone camera?
Hipstamatic Disposable has only a tiny framing window. — A week ago, the Hipstamatic team added a new social camera app to its lineup, Hipstamatic Disposable. And today, Sincerely is launching Dott...
New Firefox for Android Experience Optimized for Tablets
Firefox for Android introduces a completely redesigned experience that is optimized for tablets and makes mobile browsing more intuitive. New tools in Firefox enable developers to create interactive ...
Self-healing electronics could work longer and reduce waste
Self-healing electronics. Microcapsules full of liquid metal sit atop a gold circuit. When the circuit is broken, the microcapsules rupture, filling in the crack and restoring the circuit. — « Cli...
Dear Congress: It's Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either
Did watching elected representatives debate SOPA last week without understanding some fundamentals of the internet rattle your nerves? Welcome to my world of watching the same thing happen about Goog...
HTC testing new models after patent case; shares jump
(Reuters) - HTC Corp has begun testing new phone models that work around technology cited in a patent lawsuit won by arch-rival Apple Inc, and HTC's chief executive voiced optimism over the company's ...
Sharing Scheduler App Buffer Raises $400,000, Gets Kicked Out Of US
First, the bad news for Buffer. The startup of European expats in San Francisco is being kicked out of the country due to our stupid, self-destructive immigration laws. They're temporarily relocatin...
Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is delayed in Congress, but it is definitely not dead. The media company lobbyists and their Congressmen (hello, Lamar Smith!) are simply regrouping. Some of the mo...
You knew the old Mozilla, meet the new Mozilla
One of the notable things about working at Mozilla over the last few years right now is that our aims have gotten much more ambitious, but perception moves slower than reality, even among people who s...
Streamglider Takes On Flipboard And Pulse With Sleek Social Interest And News Reader For The iPad
Streamglider is launching its iPad app today, hoping to disrupt the tablet news consumption and social reader space. Despite competition from Flipboard, Pulse, and many others …
The truth about Microsoft and CES
There's been a bit of back and forth today over Microsoft's announcement that it would be ending its long-standing CES keynote role, and will no longer have a booth at the show as it's done for many y...
Kindle Fire no longer blocks Android Market website
Earlier this week, I grilled Amazon for attempting to control web browsing activities on its Kindle Fire. Any attempts to browse Google's Android Market website were redirected to Amazon's own AppSto...
People: Steve Jobs awarded a Grammy
Steve Jobs has won a Grammy. — Which makes sense, since he revolutionized the music industry by managing to shrink everyone's record collection into something that will fit in their pocket, among ot...
Quality Coding Takes A Break For The Holidays. But Why?
by Fergal Glynn, Director of Marketing, Veracode — I recently read a blog post by CloudFlare and Shawn Graham that asked a fantastic (and timely) question: “Do Hackers Take The Holidays Off?” Cloud...
PSA: Verizon users reporting data outages across the US (update: back up)
If you're having trouble getting a data connection on your Verizon-branded handset this morning, you're not alone. We've been receiving a bevy of tips from disgruntled Verizon customers, due to an ap...
1 Million Articles Auto-Shared Daily, So Yahoo! Expands Facebook Integration To 26 More Sites
Facebook's Frictionless Sharing integration has been a huge win for Yahoo! News US. After just 2 months, 1 million articles are being shared to Facebook daily leading to 500,000 daily referrals.
Yahoo Intensifies Search for CEO (With Hulu's Kilar as One Dream Unicorn Candidate)
Whatever you want to call him or her — a silver bullet, the cure or, as I like to say, the last unicorn — Yahoo's ever-seeking and never-deciding board has now renewed its focus on finding a new CEO.
Nielsen And comScore Put An End To Their Patent War, Enter Cross-Licensing Agreement
Online audience measurement and Web analytics companies Nielsen and comScore have settled their patent disputes, according to a joint statement released this morning. — Nielsen filed suit against it...
Apple fixes App Store bug on iOS 3.1.3 devices, you can hold off on that upgrade
Well, it looks like Apple hasn't completely left behind older iPhones and iPod touches stuck on iOS 3.1.3 just yet. After a few days of not being able to download or buy apps directly on the device d...
Archos fights Kindle Fire with $199 Honeycomb tablet
Archos, one of the earliest media tablet makers, continues to mature its product lineup. The company announced on Tuesday an updated 7-inch slate, called the Archos 70b (PDF); a Google Android Honeyc...
Chinese Computer Hackers Hit U.S. Chamber of Commerce
WASHINGTON - A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America's top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its...
Startups Return To Reality TV: Producer Of Bloomberg's TechStars Readies New Show
Startup founders are the new reality TV stars. No, really! Today, the producer of the TechStars TV show on Bloomberg TV, Cameron Casey, is announcing his plans to film a second startup-focused reali...
Irish Regulators Order Facebook to Boost Privacy Protections
In response to an audit by Irish data protection officials, Facebook has agreed to be more transparent about its facial-recognition feature and how its European users' data is used, the social network...
Vevo by the numbers: 3.7B views, $100M royalties
Vevo clocked 3.6 billion video views globally in October and is expected to have reached 3.7 billion views worldwide in November, the major label-owned music video platform announced today. In Decemb...