Four Yahoo Board Members to Depart, Two New Ones Arrive and Three More on the Way (Like I Said)
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo will announce the impending departure of four of its longtime board members, including chairman Roy Bostock.
Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins.
If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to add their own affiliate tracking code. If someone clicks th...
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
[Update] — Dave Morin, the CEO of Path has responded in the comments and I've pasted it below. As an aside - never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this to blow up like this. I hope we can keep ...
Adobe: Chrome for Android will not get Flash support
When Google today launched Chrome for Android in beta they did so without support for Adobe Flash. For many users this seemed surprising given the strong push for Flash on Google's mobile OS after St...
OneNote Mobile for Android is now available worldwide
For all of you who've been asking (and patiently waiting) for a version of OneNote for your Android phones, we have great news: OneNote Mobile for Android is now available! Download it from the Andro...
Chrome For Android: The Browser For The 1%
My title is literal, figurative, and facetious all in one. I just hope Google has a good sense of humor about it — because they have a good product on their hands. — First of all, yes, Chrome for A...
Exclusive: Nokia Lumia 800 Microsoft Store bundle launching February 14th for $899
Microsoft will launch Nokia's Lumia 800 device in the US as a special bundle item priced at $899. That's the word from sources close to Microsoft's Lumia launch plans, who have confirmed the bundle …
Google Said to Plan to Assure That It Will License Motorola Patents Fairly
Google Inc., the largest maker of smartphone software, plans to send a letter to standards organizations reassuring them it will license Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. patents on a fair and reasonabl...
LinkedIn Is Acquiring Contacts Start-Up Rapportive
Rapportive, which makes a browser plugin that overlays Gmail with contextual information about email contacts, is being acquired by LinkedIn, sources said. — LinkedIn declined to comment, while Rapp...
Apple's iTV and the carrier question
Evidence is slowly emerging that Apple could be working with operator partners for the introduction of its upcoming iTV product. Last week, Bloomberg reported that Apple may get access to programs th...
Amazon and Viacom close to Web video deal
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Ne...
Software apps have triggered half a million U.S. jobs, says study
The surge in mobile software and other apps has also led to a surge in jobs, almost half a million added just in the U.S., says a study out today from CEO network TechNet. — Dubbed the “app economy,...
In a suspect move, LightSquared calls for GPS design standards
In its ongoing fight to launch its nationwide LTE service, LightSquared on Tuesday asked the Federal Communications Commission to impose the first-ever standards on GPS device design, claiming such r...
Exclusive: First Windows Store games for Windows 8 revealed
Microsoft is readying its Windows Store for a public preview and the “Consumer Preview” version of Windows 8 will provide access to a number of launch games for the company's latest operating system.
BlackBerry App World stats: six million daily downloads, higher profitability than Android
Alec Saunders, RIM's VP for Developer Relations, used the BlackBerry DevCon Europe stage today to “bust a few myths” about the state of the BlackBerry app ecosystem.
FTC Warns Makers of Background Checking Apps
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to the makers of six mobile apps used for background checks, saying the apps may violate a consumer credit protection law. — The FTC has se...
Motorola wants patent royalties from Xbox, Windows 7
Florian Mueller, an intellectual property analyst who tracks worldwide patent disputes in his Foss Patents blog, says a court in Germany seems inclined to side with Motorola in the company's patent fi...
Hacker releases Symantec source code
(Reuters) - A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of c...
Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane
The must-have app on the iPhone is not iMessage. It's not iTunes or Safari or even Find My iPhone. It's Instagram, the photo-sharing app that once described itself as “quirky.” Cultish would be mor...
Jive Swings To A Loss, But Revenue Up 53 Percent To $22.5M In First Quarter As A Public Company
Enterprise software company Jive has just reported fourth quarter results, which represent the company's first earnings report as a public company. Q4 total revenue came in at $22.5 million, up 53% y...
Silicon Valley Recovering Faster Than Nation
Even before Facebook Inc. goes public, Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in jobs and per-capita income, in contrast to the weak economic situation dogging the rest of the nation. — According to...
Windows 8 on ARM: The desktop is still there
Summary: A new Microsoft blog post strongly implies that both Metro-style and Desktop apps will be supported on Windows 8 on ARM, as Microsoft originally promised. — This is kind of a back-handed wa...
Renesas, Fujitsu, Panasonic to merge system chip ops: report
(Reuters) - Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp, Fujitsu Ltd and Panasonic Corp have begun discussions toward integrating their system chip operations, the Nikkei business daily said. — As a first step...
Judge denies EMI's bid to halt resale of digital music
ReDigi, a music marketplace for used digital tracks, will have its day in court. — EMI's The Capitol Records building in Hollywood. Capitol Records is the EMI label represented in EMI's copyright s...
For $99 per Month, Socialflow Will Help You Publish Your Tweets at the Right Time
SocialFlow, which analyzes your Twitter and Facebook stream and followers to help you get the maximum exposure for your status updates, came out of beta today. After a bit more than a year of slowly ...
2.1 Million Streamed the Super Bowl, NBC Says
More than 2.1 million people turned on the live Internet stream of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday night, NBC said on Tuesday, citing data from two measurement firms, Omniture and mDialog. — NBC said in a...
Chrome for Android beta launches with place shifting, faster rendering, and card view
Chrome for Android — the long-rumored, oft-requested grand unification of Google's mobile and desktop browsing technologies — has just been announced today, and it's being made available immediately …
Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple's iTV
Canada's largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television. — Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B-T and BCE Inc. BCE-T are in talks with Apple Inc. AAPL-Q ...
Amazon S3 Price Reduction
As you can tell from my recent post on Amazon S3 Growth for 2011, our customers are uploading new objects to Amazon S3 at an incredible rate. We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down stor...
IPad 3: Predictions and Challenges From iFixit
Kyle Wiens of iFixit, a Web site that provides free repair manuals and advice forums, has been a reliable prognosticator of everything Apple. With the next iPad expected to come out in March, Wiens r...
Apple intern's thesis leaks secret project to port Mac OS X to ARM processors
An academic paper written by a former Apple intern who now serves as a Core OS engineer at the company has revealed that it was working on a secret experiment to port Mac OS X Snow Leopard to the ARM ...
Apple in early discussions to open stores inside of Sam's Club locations
Apple and Walmart subsidiary Sam's Club are in early discussions to widen their already existing partnership. Sam's Club currently sells Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod lines within its large retail c...
Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private
Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the company's flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to CNET this evening. — An...
Charles Dickens' 200th Birthday Marks First Google Doodle as Promotional Vehicle
Google's latest Doodle marks the 200th Birthday of british novelist Charles Dickens but also marks the first time that the company has used their logo change to specifically promote a product or servi...
Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux computer on track to launch later this month
The first model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's low-cost Linux computer will likely be available for purchase later this month. The organization announced today that manufacturing on the first batch...
Samsung reduces its LTE chip cost by half
For every new iteration of mobile phones, it's easy to assume that products are getting pricier because the insides are getting just as expensive. — A sample picture of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus' bas...
Adobe Creative Cloud to be priced at $49.99 monthly, includes Creative Suite 6 and Lightroom 4
Later in the first half of 2012, Adobe will introduce Creative Cloud, an end-to-end service offering that will grant users access to its upcoming Creative Suite 6 apps and provide ancillary services s...
Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking
Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break...
Verizon's Motorola DROID 4 launches on February 10th for $199.99
Verizon Wireless on Tuesday finally confirmed launch details for the latest addition to its popular DROID family of Android smartphones, the Motorola DROID 4. The sleek QWERTY slider will become avai...
In Customer Service Push, Microsoft Invests In 24/7, Which Acquires Voxify
People who are forced to engage in online chats with virtual customer service agents-or who are passed from agent to agent without getting their problems solved-are likely to get highly frustrated and...
Picture Dims for Japanese Electronics
Over a span of three days last week, a trifecta of Japan's most-celebrated electronics companies—Sony Corp., Sharp Corp. and Panasonic Corp.—gave up hope for an annual profit, projecting combined loss...
Klout Acquires Local And Mobile Neighborhood App Blockboard
Flush with new capital, Klout, the startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, Google+ and other social apps, is making its first acquisition. Klout is purcha...
Judge Denies Initial Effort To Shut Down ‘Used’ Digital Music Seller ReDigi
The recording industry's lawsuit over what it believes to be a “clearinghouse for copyright infringement” continues after the defendant wins the first round. — ReDigi, an upstart digital company tha...