Loopt's Sam Altman on Why He Sold to Green Dot for $43.4M
Mobile location start-up Loopt will be acquired by the banking company Green Dot, best-known for its prepaid cards. — The deal is worth $43.4 million in cash, though that includes $9.8 million set a...
How ‘Kony’ Clip Caught Fire Online
An Internet video seeking to draw attention to fugitive African rebel leader Joseph Kony now stands as the fastest-growing viral phenomenon in Web history, thanks to informal celebrity advocates and y...
Well that's that. Gowalla shuts down.
Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The screenshot below can be found on the location startup turned travel guide's homepage. — Th...
Microsoft Envisions A Future With Super-Fast Touchscreens
As solid as modern touchscreens are, there's very often an subtly apparent sense of disconnect when you try to use one. According to Paul Dietz of Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group, it all comes dow...
Popular mobile game developer Mika Mobile ending support for Android
Mika Mobile, developer of the popular games Battleheart and Zombieville USA, announced today that it will no longer be developing games for Google's Android mobile OS — Mika Mobile, developer of the...
Apple Drives Silicon Valley's Biggest Leasing Boom Since 2000
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is leading the biggest leasing surge in California's Silicon Valley since the dot-com boom, as the company scours the region for space before building a futuristic new headquarters.
Apple provides additional details, renders for Cupertino campus project
The city of Cupertino released on Friday updated plans and renders for Apple's Cupertino campus project providing additional views of the proposed facility. — Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs first ...
Army Warns Of Danger Of Geotagging
While for an ordinary civilian the automatic geotagging of your photos or check-ins might be convenient, in the military it can be a lethal mistake. In 2007, geotagged photos of a new fleet of helico...
5 Minutes on The Verge: Techmeme's Gabe Rivera
Gabe Rivera is the founder and editor of tech news aggregator Techmeme, which he started in 2005 as a one man operation, and which now has a staff of 10 people who also help to run its sister site, Me...
Eric Chu Steps Away From Overseeing Android's App Store, Jamie Rosenberg Expands Role
There was more than meets the eye with this week's rebranding of Android Market as Google Play. — Accompanying the new name and look is a shift in how the store is being managed.
Amazon's brilliant plan to pay you crazy money for your iPad 2
It's been three days since Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad, but you're still stuck with your trusty old iPad 2. You're keen to get rid of it so you can buy the new one, but you forgot to log in to one...
With Schemer, Google Plots to Bolster Its Social Efforts
AUSTIN, Texas — Google's official party line is “Don't be evil.” Scheming while twirling a nefarious handlebar mustache, however, seems to be a different story. — The data giant isn't going all Sni...
After Megaupload Bust, Putlocker and RapidShare Pick Up Slack
The Feds shut down Megaupload two months ago, but browser-based filesharing hasn't slowed down. It has just moved to other websites. Before the takedown, Megaupload was the most popular web-based fi...