Apple Marketing SVP Phil Schiller dumps Instagram over expansion to Android
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is not the only photo-loving business executive upset by Instagram in recent weeks. While Dorsey stopped posting photos from his Instagram after Facebook reportedly bea...
Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Revenue
Strong business demand drives double-digit operating income growth. REDMOND, Wash. — Apr. 19, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced quarterly revenue of $17.41 billion for the quarter ended Mar. 31,...
Nokia's Elop: Lumia ‘actual sales have been mixed’
Summary: Nokia runs into Lumia launch challenges in the U.K. and overall sales so far have been mixed. — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said that the company's Lumia launched to “encouraging awards and popu...
Gabe Newell Says Valve-Apple Meeting Didn't Happen
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Valve head Gabe Newell did not actually meet last week as rumored, according to a new podcast interview with Newell. — He squashed the week-old rumor in an interview with the ...
iPhone Again Represents Over Half of Verizon's Smartphone Sales in 1Q 2012
Marking the first significant piece of data to help build a picture of Apple's quarterly iPhone sales numbers ahead of next week's earnings release, Verizon today announced its own earnings results fo...
Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free
Haven't upgraded to Lion or iCloud because you still haven't forked out money for Snow Leopard yet? No worries, Apple has your back. Apple is now giving away Snow Leopard to potential iCloud custome...
Samsung asserts eight more patents against Apple in California, including two FRAND patents
There's further escalation between Apple and Samsung. — In February, Apple brought a new U.S. federal lawsuit against Samsung, the second of its kind in the Northern District of California.
Cisco memo: We can't build anything
Earlier this morning, The New York Times wrote about an internal memo in which Cisco Systems outlined its plans for software defined networking. More importantly, it also shared the news that it ha...
Galaxy S II successor to have quad-core processor with ‘superlative’ benchmarks, will be shown on May 3rd
Though it's already been broadly assumed that Samsung's “Next Galaxy” event in London early next month would be for the hotly anticipated Galaxy S II successor …
Apple, Google, Intel fail to dismiss staff-poaching lawsuit
(Reuters) - Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally agreed not to poach each other's employee...
Mac OS X invulnerability to malware is a myth, says security firm
Mac users can expect more OS X botnets, drive-by downloads, and mass malware from here on out. That's according to security researchers from Kaspersky Lab, who said during a press conference on Thurs...
Sprint Sued for $300 Million by New York Over Alleged Tax Fraud
Sprint-Nextel Corp. (S) was sued for more than $300 million by the New York attorney general's office over claims the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier deliberately didn't pay sales taxes for seven ...
Google's Tim Lindholm faces off with David Boies on Java license
David Boies, Oracle's lead lawyer in the Silicon Valley trial of titans, had a nice set-up for day four of the proceedings. On day three, Wednesday, Boies probed Google CEO Larry Page about his famil...
Coming Soon: Buying Stock On Facebook In 3 Clicks
Facebook's impending initial public offering on NASDAQ isn't the only way that people will be able to trade in stock of the social networking site. — By June of this year, public companies will be a...
HTC One S (T-Mobile) Review
One of the best looking phones we've ever had the pleasure of using, the HTC One S features an attractive gunmetal gray chassis with subtle curves at the top and bottom of the device. Anodized alumin...
Mandatory ‘Big Brother’ Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015
Provision is part of controversial MAP-21 bill expected to pass House — A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the ...
Amazon launches AWS Marketplace as one-stop cloud shop
Summary: Setting up a business for the cloud might not get much easier than Amazon's new, all-in-one AWS Marketplace. — Amazon has taken themes from both its own online retail megastore and app stor...
Verizon shared data plans are due in mid-summer, target users with multiple devices
On a call discussing Verizon's Q1 earnings report, CFO Francis Shammo has once again touched on the company's promised shared data plans, targeting their launch in mid-summer.
AMD beats expectations but accounting write-off leads to a huge $590M net loss
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices reported today that its first quarter results beat expectations, but the company had a big loss of $590 million. While AMD is very competitive with its product line-...
Forget the money: Kickstarter turns Pebble into a platform
By now, you've probably seen the soaring funding numbers put up by Pebble, the e-paper smartwatch that has broken records as the biggest Kickstarter project to date with $4.7 million raised. It's an ...
BranchOut Hits 25 Million Users, Nabs $25M In Series C Funding
BranchOut is officially going for the big time. The company, which makes a professional social network that runs on top of Facebook, is announcing today it has closed on $25 million in new funding, b...
Intel's first smartphone arrives...in India
Summary: Intel said Lava International has launched the XOLO X900. The device will launch April 23 in India and be sold through Croma, a big retail chain in India. — Intel made good on its promise ...
Hulu Announces Four More Original Series, Bringing Total Lineup To Seven
Hulu has been having a busy week. On Tuesday, the company announced a new deal for advertisers, which now charges them only for ad completions, and today at Hulu's upfronts, the company announced the...
Mozilla CEO: First Boot To Gecko Devices Will Be Sold In Brazil
Mozilla and Spain-based Telefonica officially announced their intentions to work together on an open web device at this year's Mobile World Congress, but I'm not sure anyone expected the launch market...
Qualcomm warns of smartphone Snapdragon chip shortage
The shortage may force HTC and others to redesign some of their smartphones — The world's best-selling mobile phone chipmaker has warned that it cannot meet demand for some of its processors. — Qu...
Google's Creative Destruction
Venture-capital firms have been the engine of the United States' innovation economy. At Google Ventures, the search giant's investing arm, Google thinks it can build a better one. — Google Ventures...
Apple defends iPad in Australia, claims ‘4G’ branding is correct
Apple filed a defense in Australia's federal court this week rebutting allegations that the company intentionally misled consumers, adding that the new iPad's “4G” label is technically correct despite...
Twitter announces it will sponsor the Apache Software Foundation to promote open source
Twitter loves open source. In fact, its engineers are known to be heavy consumers and producers of open source technology, and the team has already managed to release a lot of its own work into the c...
Facebook Said to Have Bid for AOL Patents Before Microsoft's Win
Facebook Inc. (FB), the biggest social- networking service, made an offer for AOL Inc. (AOL)'s patent portfolio before losing out to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s $1.06 billion bid, two people with knowled...
YouTube revamps audio editing suite, now includes over 150,000 backing tracks
As part of its continuing efforts to improve service — and your videos — YouTube is implementing some significant enhancements to its on-site audio editing package. Aside from a revamping of the gene...
Splunk soars 109% in ‘big data’ tech IPO
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Splunk Inc. more than doubled Thursday in an initial public offering that carried high expectations for the business-intelligence software company. Splunk's st...
AT&T releasing Watson voice recognition APIs to developers in June
AT&T's research arm has spent over two decades developing its Watson speech and language engine, which translates spoken words into text. Now, AT&T is planning to release a number of Watson APIs for ...
Linus Torvalds wins the tech. equivalent of a Nobel Prize: the Millennium Technology Prize.
Linus Torvalds, Linux's creator, has won technology's highest award. — You can win Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry, and medicine, but technology? No. There is, however the Millennium Technology...
Enterprise Data Software Company Splunk Prices IPO At $17 Per Share; Valued At $1.6B
Splunk, an enterprise data company, will be making its debut on the public markets this morning after pricing its IPO at $17.00 per share (this is up from the range of $11 to $13 per share).
RapidShare Publishes Anti-Piracy Manifesto for Cyberlockers
In the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown, people have been keeping a close eye on other file-hosting services, RapidShare included. — As a company, RapidShare sees itself operating in the “cloud ...
Inside the Super Secret Obvious Corporation HQ
Not much is known about the Obvious Corporation, the new-ish, incubator-ish company that's the brainchild of Twitter cofounders Ev Williams and Biz Stone. Their website is sparse and coy: the only co...
WPP Makes Big Leap Into E-Commerce, Leads On $10 Million mySupermarket Investment
The media and advertising giant WPP is taking a big step into e-commerce and how it can use it to leverage its other digital investments: today it has announced that it is investing $7 million …
With Help From Facebook Timeline, Viddy Becomes Top Free iPhone App
With the skyrocketing popularity and billion-dollar sale of Instagram, there's an ongoing race to apply Instagram's wildly successful photo sharing model to mobile video. There are a number of startu...
Tango video chat gets $40M from Qualcomm and Access, scores 45M users in 18 months
Forget Apple's Facetime. If there's one app that shows the potential in the mobile video chat market, it's Tango. — Almost one year since its last round of $42 million, the cross-platform video cha...
EPIC files FOIA request seeking full FCC report on Google
Summary: The Electronic Privacy Information Center wants to see the full, unedited report the Federal Communications Commission published on its investigation of Google and possible violations of wire...
These Guys Are Making Over $1,000 A Day On Windows Phone Game
Here's a great success story for Windows Phone 7. — A year ago, FourBros Studio launched a free Windows Phone game called Taptitude. As of today, the company has pulled in over $100,000 of revenue ...
Google shutting out rivals, claims Yandex
Yandex co-founder says US tech giant is ‘semi-open’, criticising its Android smartphone platform and Chrome web browser — The co-founder of Russia's leading search engine, Yandex, has accused Google...
Unlock interesting data from your Gmail account with Gmail Meter
I've been using Gmail for as long as I can remember, and unfortunately I have more unread emails than I care to admit. The service is my lifeblood, but one thing that's missing is the ability to gain...
ISPs Have to Identify Alleged Pirates, EU Court Rules
Not long after Sweden's controversial IPRED legislation became law in 2009, five book publishers handed a request for information to a local court. — The rightsholders, represented by anti-piracy gr...
San Francisco's Newest Accelerator Will Tackle This $172 Billion Market
Want to hear from top startups like Fab.com and Lot18? And NY's top investors? Join 800 innovation junkies at the Startup conference on May 3, 2012. Register now. — There's a new accelerator in a...
Gabe Newell Says Valve-Apple Meeting Didn't Happen
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Valve head Gabe Newell did not actually meet last week as rumored, according to a new podcast interview with Newell. — He squashed the week-old rumor in an interview with the ...
Microsoft posts Q3 beat: Operating income grows to $6.37 billion on $17.41 billion in sales
Following the huge loss reported by major mobile partner Nokia, Microsoft posted its fiscal third-quarter results on Thursday following the close of the market. Wall Street was expecting …