Exclusive: First Image of a BlackBerry 10 Superphone!!
BOOM! Last week's leaked 2012 BlackBerry Roadmap slide deck brought with it a ton of goodies for the new year, but one thing that was missing was a fresh look at a BlackBerry 10 [Smartphone] Superpho...
Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?
Why did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money?
Facebook's Sandberg in Spotlight En Route to IPO
Facebook Inc.'s Sheryl Sandberg recently threw a fundraiser for President Obama, dining with Lady Gaga and the president himself. Last week, she was a highly visible co-chair of the World Economic Fo...
Changing our privacy policies, not our privacy controls
Last week we heard from members of Congress about Google's plans to update our privacy policies by consolidating them into a single document on March 1. Protecting people's privacy is something we th...
Apple hires former Dixons CEO John Browett as retail chief
Apple announced today that it has appointed John Browett, former Dixons CEO, as Senior Vice President of its retail operations, responsible for the company's retail efforts worldwide. Browett, who pr...
Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against Samsung
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether Samsung Electronics has abusively, and in contravention of a commitment it gave to the European Telecommunications Standards...
The Coming Tech-led Boom
Three breakthroughs are poised to transform this century as much as telephony and electricity did the last. — In January 1912, the United States emerged from a two-year recession. Nineteen more fol...
Twitter's Dick Costolo on Ads, Censorship and Google (Video)
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo kicked off D: Dive Into Media with a bang on Monday, defending its ability to block tweets by country, rejecting the need for a stock offering and declaring 2012 to be the yea...
Salesforce launches Desk.com, slick social customer support software based on Assistly
Enterprise cloud powerhouse Salesforce has launched Desk.com, a savvy customer support application that connects agents with e-mail, phone calls, and social channels, the company announced Tuesday.
Thousands Line Up For Foxconn's Jobs in Zhengzhou (video)
On the 30th of January, thousands of hopefuls stood for hours outside a labour agency located in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. The lines stretched more than 200 meters along the road, and the people...
German appeals court upholds Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction — but on different legal basis than Apple's design right
but on different legal basis than Apple's design right — This morning, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (an appeals court) announced that it has upheld a preliminary injunction against the Samsun...
Feds: We obtained MegaUpload conversations with search warrant
One of the most curious aspects of the U.S. government's case against MegaUpload is the large number of the company's internal communications acquired by the FBI. — Kim DotCom — In one exchange, M...
Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011
Amazon Web Services just reported jaw-dropping growth in the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 year over year. — “As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon...
Obama calls on Congress to pass bill aimed at helping startups
President Obama photo: Dave Brenner/Flickr — A day after showing his techno savvy with an appearance in a Google+ hangout, President Obama is calling on Congress to pass new legislation that would a...
Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with multicam, broadcast monitoring
Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with multicam, broadcast monitoring — Apple on Tuesday updated its professional workflow application, Final Cut Pro X, adding a number of significant features.
Unannounced HTC Ville with Android 4.0 and Sense 4.0 shown off in leaked video
HTC's upcoming smartphone code-named the HTC Ville just stared in a leaked video ahead of an official announcement, which is expected to come at next month's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcel...
Country-Specific Blogger URLs
Google found an interesting trick to defend Blogger blogs against local laws: redirect readers to country-specific domains and only remove those URLs if required. — “Over the coming weeks you might ...
Mexicans overcharged billions for phone, web: study
(Reuters) - Mexicans have been overcharged $13.4 billion a year for phone and internet services as the industry dominated by billionaire Carlos Slim gouges customers and keeps the economy from growing...
Verizon's Tangled Web
As Phone Giant Battles Cable in FiOS Fight, Wireless Unit Supports Comcast — As Verizon Communications Inc. pushes for more cable-television and high-speed Internet subscribers, a new competitor is ...
Visa leads $40M in TrialPay's alternative payments business
Visa has led a $40 million investment round in TrialPay, one of the leaders in alternative payments known as offers. — Mountain View, Calif.-based TrialPay will use the money to expand into new mark...
Can these four superheroes rescue RIM?
Research In Motion's newly appointed CEO Thorsten Heins said during his first day on the job that hiring a new marketing boss and revamping the company's marketing strategy was among his first orders ...