RIM CEOs to Give Up Top Posts in Shuffle
WATERLOO, Ontario—After 20 years together at the helm of Research In Motion Ltd., Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the company's co-chief executives, said they planned to turn over the top job early ...
A Post PIPA Post
On my way from a breakfast meeting to the office yesterday I got a phone call on my cell phone with a 202 area code on it. I picked up the call and on the other end of the line was someone in Congres...
Hong Kong Freezes Megaupload Assets
HONG KONG—In an enforcement action Friday, Hong Kong Customs froze more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars (US$39 million) in assets held by the popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com, which was shu...
Disruptions: The Sloshing Sound of Tech Valuations
On a recent Thursday night, I stood motionless and perplexed on the dance floor of a San Francisco club. As I looked around, 300 or so people danced and darted back and forth to a free open bar while...
Europe to issue tough new data-protection rules soon
(Reuters) - The European Union will propose tough new rules in the coming days on how corporations handle Internet users' personal data, a long-awaited move that could have far-reaching implications f...
The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
Editor's note: Mark Hendrickson is the founder and CEO of Plancast, a social site for planning events, which he has decided to stop working on full-time. In this guest post, Hendrickson takes us thro...
Uploaded.to Blocks US Visitors After MegaUpload Shutdown
Uploaded.to, one of the most popular file-hosting sites in the Internet, has closed its doors to US visitors. The move is most likely a response to the FBI crackdown on MegaUpload two days ago. US v...
Developer Is Building An App Store For Banned Android Apps
An Android developer by the name of Koushik Dutta is building an alternative Android app store which will house the apps that have been banned from Google's official Android Market. These will includ...
Are there too many gadget choices?
At CES last week, I took to one of the many stages upstairs inside the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center for a panel dubbed “Argue The Future.” Joining me for the discussion was our site'...
DLD 2012 - @Jack Dorsey: “Twitter Has A Business Model That Works”
Earlier this fine Sunday afternoon, Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey took the stage at the DLD Conference, the annual pre-Davos meeting of minds held in Munich, Germany. — In an interview with...