Google: Please Don't Kill Video on the Web
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Standards & Antitrust Group, Microsoft — Earlier today, Microsoft filed a formal competition law complaint with the European Commission (EC) agains...
Foxconn, Apple, and the Fair Labor Association Respond to ABC News' Exclusive Report
On Monday, ABC News' Bill Weir exclusively reported on the conditions inside Apple's main Chinese manufacturer — Foxconn. For the first time ever, Apple allowed a journalist onto its production line ...
What we learned from the ‘Nightline’ report on Foxconn factories
After teasing the story yesterday, Nightline has aired its report from Foxconn's factories on ABC. In the report, host Bill Weir speaks directly to factory workers as well as their managers.
State of the Art: OnLive Desktop Plus Puts Windows 7 on the iPad in Blazing Speed
You're probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I'm paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. — Your iPad can't play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can.
Amazon Simple Workflow - Cloud-Based Workflow Management
Simple Workflow — Today we are introducing the Amazon Simple Workflow service, SWF for short. This new service gives you the ability to build and run distributed, fault-tolerant applications that s...
Air Force Special Operations cancels iPad buy
The Air Force Special Operations Command canceled its planned acquisition of Apple iPad tablet computers last week, two days after receiving a query from Nextgov about the inclusion of Russian-develop...
Verizon 4G LTE outage hitting parts of the US (Updated)
Experiencing some issues downloading those expense reports via your Verizon LTE device this morning? You're not alone. We've received reports of data outages in Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Pen...
Facebook's Top Cop: Joe Sullivan
Facebook chief of security Joe Sullivan, sitting in front of a display of the bad guys his team has taken down (Photo Credit:Timothy Archibald) — This story appears in the March 12, 2012 issue of Fo...
Please Steal These webOS Features
When Apple introduced the first iPad in 2010, I bought one immediately. I didn't know what I'd use it for, but I was sure that I would find some use for it. I never did. I played around with it, wr...
Pinterest's uneasy relationship with copyright law: what happens next
Pinterest is unquestionably among today's hottest new startups — the social networking service lets users “pin” images they like on the web to boards they can share with friends and publish to the wor...
Google's new “bats**t crazy” UX
In a recent update to Gmail and Google+, Google removed the ability to go “home” by clicking the logo. Kevin Fox, who worked at Google as a designer for many years, had this to say: … I am amazed tha...
San Francisco Or Palo Alto?
When I started TechCrunch in 2005 there was no question that Palo Alto was the center of the tech universe. San Francisco was really pretty and a nice place to see the symphony, but all the startup a...
Street View on Google Maps comes to Russia
Welcome to Russia! You can now virtually travel through the world's largest country to the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg using Google Maps Street View. — Take an online stroll around famous R...
Rapportive Acquired By LinkedIn!
Hey there! This is Rahul from Rapportive. — Our vision is to make you brilliant with people. Not just good, not just effective, but actually brilliant. That's our dream. — Since we accidentally...
The Beatles Launch Exclusive Ringtones Through iTunes Store
Continuing their close relationship with the iTunes Store following a landmark deal to launch their music in the store in late 2010, The Beatles today announced the release of their first official rin...
Adobe releases Flash roadmap, narrows focus to gaming and ‘premium’ video
Adobe swallowed a lot of pride in conceding defeat and abandoning development of Flash Player on mobile devices last year, but that doesn't mean the company is ready to completely give up on its still...
‘Select’ PS Vita apps hit the US PlayStation Store: Netflix, LiveTweet and Flickr (Update: video hands-on)
Did you just brave the lines of a midnight launch party and snag yourself a PS Vita in the US? Good news ye early adopters, Sony's PlayStation.Blog.US has just announced …
Acta: EU court to rule on anti-piracy agreement
The European Union's highest court has been asked to rule on the legality of a controversial anti-piracy agreement. — The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) has been criticised by rights cam...
Amazon Yanks 5,000 Kindle IPG Titles In Fight Over Terms
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishers Group after IPG refused to capitulate to Amazon's demand for better terms. — T...
Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz
Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar. Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion.
Chinese firm seeks halt of iPad sales in Shanghai
(Reuters) - A Chinese technology firm sought to halt the sale of Apple Inc's iPads across the affluent city of Shanghai, arguing at a local court hearing on Wednesday that the U.S. firm had infringed ...
Google Patent Clearly Eying the Desktop Market for Android
A recent patent filing by Google surprisingly indicates that they're seriously eying the desktop and notebook markets for Android. Interestingly, the patent seems to focus on similar capabilities now...
Police Raid File-Hosting Site, Arrest Operator and ISP
On June 11th last year Europe witnessed one of the largest piracy-related busts in history. — An international operation shut down the movie streaming portal Kino.to and police made more than a doze...
Mozilla to challenge big players in mobile web
Mozilla, the Mountain View nonprofit that took on Microsoft's Internet browser dominance nearly a decade ago and won, now wants to play the same transformative role with the mobile web. — Mozilla is...
Storify launches a slick iPad app to open its story-building service to a new audience
Storify is today announcing a brand new app for the iPad, bringing its drag and drop curation of Tweets, videos and other web links to the tablet. The experience looks smooth and carries over the cor...
Make a Good Search Impression with Bing's Linked Pages
Whether it's an old friend, a former classmate or (ahem) yourself, searching for people is one of the most common things we do on the web. Last year, we took the first step to bring expanded search r...
Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G making its way into T-Mobile stores in March for $150
We heard about Samsung's Galaxy S Blaze 4G — a device that wins second place for longest name behind the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch — last month at CES, but details were incredibly scarce.
Now You Need Quora Credits To Ask Questions, But Can Also Use Them To Promote Content
Quora has fiddled around with its Credits system and unveiled some new features today, making two very notable changes. The first one is the elimination of the original “Pay to show to Topics” …