Protecting Your Passwords and Your Privacy
In recent months, we've seen a distressing increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain inappropriate access to people's Facebook profiles or private information. This practice undermin...
iPads keep charging for “up to” an hour after display shows 100%
iPad users who want to ensure they're getting a full charge every time they plug in should wait up to an hour after the device shows 100 percent. That's according to Dr. Raymond M. Soneira, creator o...
‘Angry Birds’ Space Edition Skips Windows Phone in Blow to Nokia
By Jon Erlichman and Diana ben-Aaron - March 22, 2012 — The new “Angry Birds Space” edition of the world's most popular mobile-phone game won't appear on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows Phone becau...
Rovio working on Angry Birds Space for WP -CEO
(Reuters) - Finnish gaming firm Rovio is working on getting its new Angry Birds Space game to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform (WP7), its chief executive said on Friday, dismissing earlier media r...
Best Buy Is Selling Nearly as Many iPhones as Apple Itself
Apple's move to make Best Buy an outlet for the iPhone back in 2008 is proving a wise one — lucrative, too. — Over the past few years, the retail chain has become an increasingly important outlet fo...
The Future of Apps and Web
A high-impact cover story in Wired magazine in 2010 asserted in its title: “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.” 1 Authors Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff argued that the World Wide Web was “i...
Report: Nokia paying AT&T for exclusive employee use of the Lumia 900
We've heard numerous times that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be a “hero” device for AT&T, a term that is unfamiliar for many who are not in the business of smartphones. Here, the usage refers to AT&T pro...
What Google Hasn't Done: Explained Why We as Users Would Want a Unified Online Identity
After years of providing us with many very good products — search, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Chrome — Google is now on a mission to turn itself into one big product that understands each of us as o...
Bats Global IPO Turns Ugly After Bad Apple Trade, Quote Error
Bats Global Markets Inc.'s debut as a public company didn't go as planned, as a system glitch just as its own stock was to begin trading caused erroneous price quotes and Apple Inc. (AAPL) was halted ...
Google Play mulls movie sales
When you rent a movie on Play Movies, it immediately becomes available on any device. — (Credit: Google) — Managers at Google Play are considering a plan to sell films, multiple sources have told ...
RIM to Give Developers Prototypes of New BlackBerry in May
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) plans to give software developers prototypes of a new BlackBerry in early May, signaling RIM is a step closer to the debut of a handset it's betting on to revive slumping...
Signs in Mountain Lion point to “retina” display MacBooks sooner than later
A new clue found within in the latest developer release of OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) suggests that 2012 may bring us the “summer of retina display Macs.” A source with access to the latest Mountain L...
AOL Said to Hire Evercore to Find Buyer for 800-Patent Portfolio
AOL Inc. (AOL) hired Evercore Partners Inc. (EVR) to find a buyer for its more than 800 patents and explore other strategic options, three people with knowledge of the matter said. — Private-equity ...
Going Viral: How Codecademy Snagged 200,000 Users in Seven Days
At 3 a.m. one night in mid-December last year, Zach Sims, the 21-year-old CEO of Codecademy, took a break from answering emails and spent $8.95 on the domain name “codeyear.com.” Sims, whose company ...
Insight: Samsung: “fast executioner” seeks killer design
(Reuters) - When Samsung Electronics rushed its first smartphone to market in a panicky response to the smash-hit debut of the Apple iPhone, some customers burned the product on the streets or hammere...
Facebook Sets High Asking Price for Log-Out Ads: $700K a Day
Seeks to Tap Big Display Dollars on Eve of IPO — Facebook's new log-out ads are big, splashy and the closest thing to a traditional banner ad the social network has ever produced. They're also pric...
Zynga: We Bought OMGPOP For $180M, Pincus To Sell 15 Percent Of Shares In Secondary Offering
Zynga has just released a new S-1 in connection with its secondary offering. Among the details: a confirmation of the $180 million sale price for OMGPOP that we'd heard earlier this week …
AT&T rubs salt in T-Mobile's wound after layoff announcement, slams FCC
AT&T has shown an enormous amount of swagger throughout the entire story arc of its merger attempt with T-Mobile USA, much of which has come directly from the mouth and pen of John Cicconi, AT&T's EVP...
Google won't be top dog forever says father of the Internet
EXCLUSIVE: Vint Cerf speaks to Pocket-lint — The man known as one of the fathers of the internet says Google won't be the defacto standard for search forever. — Vint Cerf, a vice-president at the ...
Austin council OKs $8.6M in incentives for new Apple facility
Austin approved $8.6 million in tax breaks Thursday for Apple Inc., likely paving the way for the company to build a facility that it says will bring up to 3,600 jobs here. — The unanimous thumbs-up...
Spotify Is Raising At A Stunning $3.5 Billion Valuation, Multiple VCs Say
All-you-can eat music service Spotify is raising another big round of funding, and it is asking investors to value the company somewhere around $3.5 billion, multiple Silicon Valley investors tell us.
Say what? How much did MOG sell for? What is Spotify valued at now?
Updated: For the past week or so, there have been rumors that MOG, the digital music subscription story has been been sold to HTC Corp., the Taiwanese mobile phone maker. Business Insider first repor...
Groupon Acquires FeeFighters, The BillShrink For Business Services
FeeFighters, a three-year old comparison shopping site for credit card processors , is announcing today it has been acquired by Groupon. The Chicago-based startup, which provides businesses with a wa...
Amazon Man Questions Logic of Apple Solar Farm
This is the solar farm outside Facebook's Prineville, Oregon data center. And James Hamilton isn't impressed (Photo: Wired/Pete Erickson) — Apple is building a 100-acre solar farm to help power its...
Oracle investor sues over $200 million settlement
(Reuters) - An Oracle Corp. investor sued the company and members of its board of directors on Thursday for allegedly trying to “stonewall” a whistleblower lawsuit that ultimately resulted in a $200 m...
Glassdoor: Google Overtakes Facebook For Employee Satisfaction For The First Time In Four Years
Glassdoor has taken a look at how Google and Facebook compare in the eyes of employees and job candidates, and has extracted a number of interesting data points related to CEO approval, benefits, perk...
Facebook says it may launch legal action against employers who ask for user passwords
With news of employers, colleges and government agencies requesting the Facebook login details of prospective employees and students, Facebook has issued a statement on the matter, highlighting …
Disconnect: Ex-Googlers Raise Funding To Stop Google, Facebook & More From Tracking Your Data
In the age of endless sharing, super cookies, social search results, and that ever-present social graph, it's comforting to know that there are some who are still prioritizing privacy.
Google won't be top dog forever says father of the Internet
EXCLUSIVE: Vint Cerf speaks to Pocket-lint — The man known as one of the fathers of the internet says Google won't be the defacto standard for search forever. — Vint Cerf, a vice-president at the ...
Seamless Founder Jason Finger Joins IAC as CEO of CityGrid Media
This morning, Seamless founder Jason Finger, legend of Silicon Alley, sent an email out to friend with subject line “Back in the saddle...” It seems the Silicon Valley vet has taken up the reins at Ci...
Path is growing faster in Asia than the West, says founder Dave Morin
Path founder Dave Morin has shed light on the service's growing international appeal after revealing that its userbase is increasing at a more rapid rate in Asia than in Western markets.
Yahoo reportedly has a license to patents Facebook just bought from IBM
Law360 is reporting a source has told them that the lot of 750 patents Facebook is buying from IBM “were licensed to Yahoo.” That's the extent of the insider information, but not the questions it rai...