Apple Puts New Engineers On Fake Products Until It Can Trust Them
Apple is so obsessed with secrecy, it sometimes puts new hires on fake products until they can be trusted. — Adam Lashinsky reported this tidbit in his new book “Inside Apple,” and a former Apple em...
Obama and Romney Campaigns Adopt Square for Funding
Social media was the game-changing technology that altered the course of the 2008 presidential election.In 2012, mobile payments could be the transformational technology, as millions of political supp...
How Americans used their phones to assist with purchasing decisions this holiday season
Main Findings — How Americans used their phones to assist with purchasing decisions this holiday season — More than half of adult cell phone owners used their cell phones while they were in a stor...
Angry Birds boss: ‘Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business’
Rovio's Mikael Hed tells music industry audience that embracing pirates can attract new fans — Rovio Mobile learned from the music industry's mistakes when deciding how to deal with piracy of its An...
Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software
The meeting took place a week before Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, and the topic was open source software. — It was the summer of 2008, and for years, the open source community had viewed Micro...
Feds: Megaupload User Data Could Be Gone Thursday
Federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday. — U.S. prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated million...
Web Second, Mobile First
Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. — The titles were: — Mobile First, Web Second — Mobile First, Web Second (continued) — If you're in t...
Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off
Summary: Microsoft is making available to select testers the technical preview of Office 15 client, server and services as of January 30. — Microsoft is kicking off the technical preview for its Off...
Apple Fuels Hiring Amid Bubble 2.0 Concern
Hiring in the technology sector is gaining momentum. — Among U.S. technology companies with a market value of more than $100 million, almost 50 increased employment by more than half in the most rec...
Where's the Fire? Kindle Sales Pushing Six Million for the Quarter.
Has anyone seen one of Amazon's new Kindle Fires in the wild? I haven't. But evidently they're everywhere. You just need to know where to look to find them — like Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Roh...
Farewell, Yahoo Apps, We Hardly Knew Ye: Deals, News Plus Eight Others Gone
Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo's house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO's tenure, the internet company is pulling support for 10 of its less-...
Apple predicted to sell up to 40M iPhones on China Mobile, China Telecom in 2013
Investment bank Morgan Stanley believes Apple will partner up with both China Telecom and China Mobile “over the next year” to make its iPhone available on all three Chinese carriers, a move …
Kayak's Web Site Takes Its Influence From Mobile for Its Latest Design
Travel comparison site Kayak.com has redesigned its Web site so it looks like its mobile app — not the other way around. — “We run the iPhone and iPad teams separately from the Web team, and the Web...
BlackBerry Under Siege in Europe
The iPhone has taken a big bite out of the BlackBerry in a market where the older phone once dominated: business customers in North America. — Meanwhile, in Europe, Samsung is poised to do the same ...
Buffalo Studios blasts Zynga for copying Bingo Blitz social game
Nimblebit drew some blood last week when the developer of Tiny Tower cast a stone at Zynga, via an infographic, for copying Tiny Tower in an upcoming mobile game called Dream Heights. — Buffalo Stud...
Google, Facebook, Twitter Execs Grilled By UK MPs On Privacy
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives got a rough ride from a House Of Commons committee on Monday, when they declined to systemically filter law-breaking web pages from search results. — Associate general...
Blogging Declines Across the Inc. 500
A new longitudinal study at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth focusing on the online activities of the Inc. 500 has found a huge drop in the number of companies maintaining corporate blogs ...
Verizon shared data plans show up in employee training materials, still on track?
Verizon said it was working on a shared data solution for 2012, and according to an anonymous tipster, the new packages could be rolling out soon. We've been told that training material for an update...
Interview: Tumblr founder David Karp
The chief executive of one of the fastest-growing startups on the internet says he lied about his age and experience to woo clients — David Karp, the founder of the blogging platform Tumblr, was 17 ...
Facebook (Eye)PO: Tracking the Truth of the Biggest Deal of Web 2.0
As AllThingsD.com wrote two weeks ago it would be — Facebook is close to filing its documents for a long-expected public offering that is on track take place in late May. — The Wall Street Journal s...
Upload King's Quiet Steps
Megaupload Ltd. founder Kim Dotcom, who flaunted his playboy lifestyle, became the public face of file sharing when he was arrested 10 days ago on charges of online piracy. But one of his main rivals...
Samsung Galaxy S Advance gets official: 1GHz dual-core CPU, Super AMOLED and Gingerbread
Samsung added a new star to its Galaxy universe today, with the release of the Galaxy Advance S. Powered by a 1GHz dual-core CPU, this handset boasts a four-inch, 480 x 800 Super AMOLED display …
Glooko raises $3.5M to sync diabetes glucose meters to iPhone app
Glooko has raised $3.5 million in a new round of funding that will enable it to release new versions of its solution to help people with diabetes monitor their glucose intake more easily. — The roun...