Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote
Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not...
Former Sun CEO says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs
Jonathan Schwartz (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) — SAN FRANCISCO — Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand here today as a witness for the defense, and disputed Oracle's claim that Java AP...
Zynga reports highest ever bookings for Q1 at $329M
Zynga's made $329 million in bookings and $321 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 15 percent and 32 percent year-on-year, respectively. The developer reported a net loss...
comScore: Amazon Kindle Fire is 54.4% of US Android tablets
comScore shows Kindle Fire propping up Android — Amazon's Kindle Fire now makes up the absolute majority of the Android tablet platform in the US, comScore found in a fresh study. The e-reader and ...
Amazon's Q1 2012: Revenue Up 34 Percent To $13.2B, Net Income Down 35 Percent
Amazon just reported earnings for the first quarter of 2012. Net sales increased 34% to $13.18 billion in the first quarter, compared with $9.86 billion in first quarter 2011.
Precise Pangolin rolls out: Ubuntu 12.04 released, introduces Unity HUD
The developers behind the Ubuntu project have announced the availability of Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin. The new version of the popular Linux distribution brings updated software, severa...
Apple planning to build private off-campus restaurant to stop competitors from overhearing staff conversations
Apple has had a planning request approved for a new off-campus restaurant by the Cupertino Planning Commission, providing employees with a place to eat and discuss company plans …
Finally, Professional Social Network LinkedIn Gives Users An iPad App
Although the iPad has been available for more than two years, LinkedIn has yet to offer its users a native app despite the fact that mobile engagement has been growing at a fast pace for the network.
Best Buy Connect no longer accepting new activations, service to end June 1st (update: confirmed)
Remember Best Buy Connect? If so, you'll soon have a few more megabytes of humanized DDR3 freed up, as it appears that the retail giant is ready to put the kibosh on its own branded mobile …
Google X founder takes Charlie Rose's picture from Project Glass headset
Google's Project Glass heads-up display was announced weeks ago, but nobody is sure whether the glasses are actually functional or if, as Sergey Brin has said, “you really just see [them] reboot.”
Samsung reports record $4.46b profit for Q1 2012, thanks to smartphones and tablet panels
If you wanted to know how much cash Samsung made last quarter, you didn't have to wait until today. Just like in the fourth quarter of last year, the company's early guidance was right on the money …
Steve Jobs' Plan for a Willy Wonka-Style Celebration of the Millionth iMac
Among the many anecdotes about Steve Jobs included in Ken Segall's new book, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success, one in particular stands out for its glimpse into Jobs' charact...
Samsung sends protesting flashmob to Sydney Apple Store, tells customers to ‘Wake Up’
Samsung's marketing machine appears to have gone into overdrive with reports that advertising agencies working on its behalf sent a bus full of protesters to the Apple Store in Sydney, Australia to te...
Providence Said Selling Hulu Stake at $2 Billion Value
Hulu.com owners Walt Disney Co. (DIS), Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and News Corp. (NWSA) are close to buying out Providence Equity Partners Inc.'s stake at a price that values the company at $2 billion, sai...
Revealed: How Twitter's secret offer for Instagram made Facebook pay $1B
The secret details of the $1 billion deal between Facebook and Instagram are more convoluted than anyone thought. VentureBeat has learned that Instagram chief executive and co-founder Kevin Systrom f...
Apple: $1,111 Per Share and a $1 Trillion Market Cap in the Next Year
The blowout earnings Apple reported Tuesday inspired a number of big upgrades on the company's stock, but none so bullish as that of Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White. — White, who made hea...
Dropbox adds automated photo uploading from PCs and Macs, new Photos page
While the week has been dominated by cloud storage news in the wake of Google Drive's launch, Dropbox has dropped in with its second new feature of the week: automated photo uploading from its PC and ...
Wolfram Alpha now available as a $2.99 PC app
Wolfram Alpha already offers its brand of computational knowledge in the form of a mobile app, and now it's available on the PC as well. The company has partnered up with Intel to offer the app throu...
YC startup SendHub secures $2M for serious SMS (exclusive)
SMS messages sent for practical, group communication rather than just LOLs is serious enough business that investors have handed SendHub a $2 million check. — Recent Y Combinator graduate SendHub, w...
New York Times R&D Group Launches First Commercial Product (and It's for Brands)
Ricochet Helps Brands Drive Traffic to Relevant Articles, Surrounded by the Right Ads — The New York Times R&D Lab has spent the last six and a half years building what its chief calls the equivalen...
Nintendo's hard choices for a soft landing
But with that Wii boom waning, the successor being prepared by the creator of Super Mario looks like a losing proposition as Apple Inc and other smartphone and tablet makers take gaming to the bathroo...
Groupon Must Avoid Taking ‘Stupid Risks,’ CEO Says
On the heels of an embarrassing financial revision last month, Groupon Inc. is seeking to steady the ship. — The Chicago-based daily deals site is expected to announce several new senior executive h...
Spotify Said Developing Pandora-Like Online Radio Service
Spotify Ltd., the London-based online music provider, is developing a U.S. Internet radio service that would directly challenge Pandora Media Inc. (P), said two people with knowledge of the situation.
Apple = Sony
Apple will decline in the post Steve Jobs era. Here's why. — Sociologist Max Weber created a typology of organizations in his 1947 book The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. He described...
Walmart.com Lets You Pay With Cash When Shopping Online
Walmart.com is launching today “Pay with Cash,” a new feature that enables users to place orders online and then pay for them at a nearby Wal-Mart. — In an interview, Joel Anderson, president and CE...
Trimble Navigation to buy Google's SketchUp
(Reuters) - Trimble Navigation Ltd has agreed to buy SketchUp 3D modeling platform from Google Inc for an undisclosed price, the companies said. — As part of the SketchUp platform, Trimble will part...
Google wanted to subsidize a $9.99 unlimited data plan for Android phones
In documents revealed during the Oracle v. Google trial today, Google mentioned to T-Mobile back in 2006 that it wanted to turn the carrier plan pricing structure on its head by underwriting part of t...
Apple ‘10 years’ behind Microsoft on security: Kaspersky
Welcome to Microsoft's world, Eugene Kaspersky tells Apple — The recent Flashback/Flashfake malware outbreak targeting Apple's Mac computers is likely to be just the start of a new wave of attacks a...
Verizon's Summer / Fall 2012 smartphone roadmap
While Samsung's Galaxy S3 has been the star of the rumor show for the past few months — with BGR leading the pack — we now have a clear picture of the smartphone landscape for late summer and early fa...
Exclusive: Amazon Starts Bringing the Art of Recommendations to Daily Deals
Amazon is taking its first step in bringing the recommendation technology that the e-commerce site is known for to the daily deals space. — To be sure, no one has yet solved targeting in the space …
The Creative Monopoly
As a young man, Peter Thiel competed to get into Stanford. Then he competed to get into Stanford Law School. Then he competed to become a clerk for a federal judge. Thiel won all those competitions...
Nintendo posts first annual loss of $460 million, predicts turnaround next year
Nintendo has announced its first annual operating loss following an initially lukewarm response to its new 3DS handheld and an aging Wii console — set to be replaced later this year.
SSD prices may drop following impending price war
In September of last year, slowdowns in the growth of the PC market led to a surplus of OEM RAM supplies and resulted in massive drops in prices for RAM in the following months. This made upgrades to...
CrowdStar No Longer Developing Social Games for Facebook
CrowdStar's CEO Peter Relan said in an interview that the longtime social games maker is no longer developing for Facebook. — Instead, the company is focused on building games for smartphones. — “...
Indian online retailer HomeShop18 eyes $100 mln U.S. IPO
* To invest in technology and back-end infrastructure — * CEO says open to listing but can't give any timeframe — Indian media group Network 18 is moving towards a U.S. listing of its wholly owned...
Stealthy Shape Security Lands $6 Million From Kleiner Perkins and Eric Schmidt
There's an interesting new fundamental thought that's emerging among computer security companies. The logic goes like this: First, your digital assets are going to be attacked.
WordPress Is Now A ~$50 Million Business, But It Still Won't Take My Money
Hey, look at that. WordPress is becoming a decent business. But it's still passing up an important segment of the market — sites like this one. — Here's All Things D's Liz Gannes on Automattic, th...
For Apple, China Is Middle Kingdom
Sales of Apple iPhones and iPads in greater China are skyrocketing, with five times as many iPhones sold in the latest quarter as a year earlier. How far will China take Apple? The WSJ's Deborah Kan...
One in four iPad purchases are made by first-time Apple owners
The iPad has been highly successful at drawing new customers to Apple, as a new study has found that about 25 percent of buyers in the U.S. have made the iPad their first-ever Apple product. — The d...
VCs are feeling super confident after a dismal 2011, survey says
In the first quarter of 2012, investor confidence rose to the highest point it's been in more than a year. The latest Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index — which measures how much stat...
Mon.ki Is Building A Rapportive For The Web
Prepare for the concept of the address book to be flipped. Today, a startup called mon.ki is launching a new way for you to discover “who you know” by providing that information to you in the context...