Pirate Bay Founders' Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected
November 2010, the Swedish Court of Appeal found three people behind The Pirate Bay guilty of criminal copyright infringement offenses. — Although Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström …
Form S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT — Facebook, Inc.
Facebook, Inc. — Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement. If any of the securities being regis...
Samsung confirms Galaxy S3 delay No show for quad core powerhouse at MWC
Samsung has confirmed to TechRadar that the Galaxy S3, its much-hyped successor to the S2, won't be appearing at MWC 2012. The phone was fully expected to launch at the flagship event in Barcelona la...
Microsoft Slams Google Privacy Changes With “Putting People First” Ad Campaign
Last September, Google CEO Larry Page warned Google's biggest threat was Google itself. His words are ringing true, as Google arch-nemesis Microsoft is seizing on Google's recent missteps to score so...
Apple reportedly shopping for TV display components from major supplier
Apple has contacted at least one major Asian supplier about purchasing television display components, checks by one analyst have revealed. — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster told investors on Tuesday th...
Brazil becomes 2nd country on Twitter, Japan 3rd Netherlands most active country
Geolocation analysis of Twitter accounts by Semiocast — Semiocast's latest studies reveals a new order in top countries on Twitter. The U.S. still top at the 1st place on Twitter in terms of accoun...
Apple Loses German Court Bid to Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone
Apple Inc. (AAPL) failed to get a preliminary ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus mobile phone from a German court. — The Munich Regional Court rejected the motio...
Ukraine government websites attacked after piracy crackdown
(Reuters) - The websites of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and the former Soviet republic's interior ministry were put out of action on Wednesday as disgruntled Internet users hit back at the g...
Amazon filing shows $558M loss for LivingSocial in 2011
How much does it cost to bulk up and compete with the likes of Groupon in the daily deals market? Amazon.com's annual Form 10-K filing, made public this morning, reveals detailed financial informatio...
EA digital revenue climbs 40% to $274M in holiday quarter
Electronic Art's digital revenues — which includes those from social games — came in at $274 million for Q3 FY12, up over 40 percent from the same quarter last year. Non-GAAP digital revenue grew by ...
Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
On Monday, I trained it up to New Haven to meet a Yale professor named Dina Mayzlin and talk to her class. I thoroughly enjoyed talking to Dina's class as it allowed me to work on some new material i...
Windows 8 may have an edge over Android on tablets, ARM CEO says
Warren East speaking during Tuesday's earnings conference call. — In the wake of a solid earnings report, ARM's CEO Warren East said Microsoft may have some potential advantages over Android in the ...
Device Usage on the Social Web
We use our phones differently than our laptops, and our tablets differently than our gaming devices. We decided to take a deep look into the bitly data to figure out exactly how differently, and we f...
Form S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT — Facebook, Inc.
Facebook, Inc. — Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement. If any of the securities being regis...
Go the F**k Back to Sleep, Silicon Valley: Facebook IPO Likely to File Later Today at Earliest
Like political junkies waiting up for election returns (losers!), Silicon Valley folks, including tech journalists (losers!), are up this morning to await and then pounce on the long-expected IPO fili...
Beyond ACTA: next secret copyright agreement negotiated this week—in Hollywood
in Hollywood — One of the worst parts of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was its ridiculous secrecy, under which it was easy for negotiators and industry reps to see draft text, but im...
“Think Profit.”
When Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld in 1998, he did something unusual. For the first time in any presentation he had ever given, he ended with a slide reading, “Oh, and one more thing...” This...
Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By PayPal Founders Peter Thiel, Elon Musk
Off of Ramona Street in Palo Alto, down a narrow alcove lined with potted plants and flowers, is a small office hidden by hanging leaves that passersby might confuse for a misplaced country cottage.
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Dropbox Is The Best Overall Startup
This year's fifth annual Crunchies Awards has just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri ...
Apple forcing IT shops to “adapt or die”
Many IT departments are struggling with Apple's “take it or leave it” attitude, based on discussions last week at MacIT, which is Macworld| iWorld's companion conference for IT professionals. Much o...
ZFS Comes to OS X Courtesy of Apple's Former Chief ZFS Architect
Apple's flirtation with ZFS, the file system backed by Sun, has been well-documented with rumors and speculation dating back to 2006. The interest was fueled in mid-2007 by a claim by Sun CEO Jonatha...
Sony confirms Kazuo Hirai as new President and CEO, replacing Howard Stringer
Sony has just confirmed Kazuo Hirai as its new CEO and President, validating rumors that have been swirling for a few weeks now. Outgoing CEO Howard Stringer, meanwhile, has been appointed Chairman o...
The Trouble With Popularity
Way back in 2008, we had Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, the founders and co-creators of Reddit, on the Stack Overflow podcast. We chatted about a bunch of stuff, but one of the things they said th...
AOL Beats Low Expectations, Increasing Ad Revenue and Slowing Total Decline in Q4 (Plus Charts!)
AOL said it earned 23 cents a share for the fourth quarter on revenue of $576.8 million, compared to 65 cents per share on $596 million in the same quarter a year ago.
40,000 Apple fanbois demand ethical iPhone 5
But we do care a lot, claims CEO — Favourite aggregator of anti-corporate campaigns, SumOfUs, has started a petition calling for an “ethical” iPhone 5, and has already garnered more than 40,000 sign...
Redbox Puts the Kibosh on WB's 56-day Waiting Period
While Netflix is happy to kowtow to Warner Brothers Studio's title-delaying demands, Redbox is having none of it. The curbside video rental chain just let its contract with WB expire over the issue—a...
Google in talks with Chinese authorities to keep Google Maps operational there
Google is in discussions with the Chinese government as it seeks the granting of license required to continue to operate its Google Maps service in the country. — This morning, Chinese media reporte...
Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0
Six months ago we open-sourced Twitter Bootstrap, an extensive front-end toolkit for developing web sites and applications.Since then, Bootstrap has grown to be one of the most popular projects on Git...
Acta goes too far, says MEP
Kader Arif, the lead Acta negotiator in the European Parliament, says Acta potentially cuts access to lifesaving generic drugs and restricts online freedom — The French MEP who resigned his position...
New Identified Research Reveals Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies
In our latest edition of the “Revenge of the Nerds” white paper research series, Identified has discovered that a growing number of company founders and CEOs today are far more likely …