Microsoft to bring full Internet Explorer browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect controls
Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to our sources. The Xbox 360 currently includes Bing voice search, but it's limited to medi...
7-Inch iPad with Retina Display Coming in October Priced at $200-$250?
iMore reports that Apple is “currently targeting” an October launch for a smaller iPad, with the device carrying a display of roughly 7 inches and being priced in the $200-$250 range.
Introducing the New Bing: Spend Less Time Searching, More Time Doing
In 2009, we launched Bing with a simple proposition: people should expect more from a search engine. — Our aim has always been to help you do more with search, and over the past three years we have ...
Facebook Rolls Out File-Sharing for All Groups [EXCLUSIVE]
Could Facebook become the next Dropbox — or a haven for sharing files without regard to copyright? — The social network has revealed to Mashable that all Groups will now offer the ability to send fi...
EXCLUSIVE: Here's How Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Is Explaining His Bio Scandal
Right now, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is attempting to explain to employees why his official Yahoo and eBay bios said he had a degree in computer science when in fact he does not. — We asked Yahoo emp...
Facebook IPO Said to Meet Weaker-Than-Expected Investor Demand
Facebook Inc. (FB)'s initial public offering has so far generated lower-than-expected demand from institutional investors who are concerned about the company's growth prospects, people with knowledge ...
Pebble smartwatch tops $10 million in Kickstarter pledges, sells all 85,000 watches
If you thought that the campaign for the Pebble E-Paper Watch would show signs of slowing after it broke Kickstarter records and pushed past $5 million in pledges, you'd be wrong — for it has now topp...
Pay To “Highlight” Your Facebook Status Updates To More Friends - A Reckless New Ads Test
Only 12% of your friends see your average status update, but Facebook is testing an option called “Highlight” that lets you pay a few dollars to have one of your posts appear to more friends.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 launches with high-end specs, $399 price
Been lusting after a GeForce GTX 680 at a more affordable price point? Nvidia has done the inevitable and trickled its Kepler GPU architecture down to a more wallet-friendly level with the introducti...
TV Broadcasters Warn of Huge Industry Shakeup If Barry Diller's Aereo Isn't Stopped
After filing a copyright lawsuit against Aereo in March, broadcasters on Wednesday detailed why a preliminary injunction is warranted. — All of the major TV broadcasters are fighting a legal battle ...
Evernote launches Yinxiang Biji, its dedicated service for China
Evernote has announced that it has launched a dedicated service for Chinese users, Yinxiang Biji, which will run completely separate of Evernote and its existing Chinese-language offering. — Last we...
Autodesk launches 123D Catch for iPad, lets you turn pics into 3D models
Autodesk's had its 123D Catch iPad application in the works for quite some time now, but starting today, you'll finally be able to use that Cupertino slate to turn those beautiful snaps into three-dee...
Oracle might only receive $150,000 in damages from Google
Summary: In what was once touted as a $6 billion case, Oracle might end up with only $150,000 in statutory damages. — SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle's situation in its intellectual property legal battle aga...
Scamworld: ‘Get rich quick’ schemes mutate into an online monster
My first true look inside the world of Internet Marketing came courtesy of a 37-year-old businessman named Bedros Keuilian. The Chino Hills-based Californian specializes in fitness and personal train...
Twitter Buys Personalized Email Marketer RestEngine To Deliver Best Tweet Digests
Twitter has just finalized a deal to hire the team and buy the technology of RestEngine, a personalized email marketing service, which could help Twitter deliver email digests of great tweets you've m...
Kara Swisher's “Just Jokin'” Look At Buying TechCrunch
Interesting line in PandoDaily's article a couple of days ago about TechCrunch - “Kara Swisher was kicking some tires [about buying TechCrunch] to add the brands to the expanding All Things D franchis...
Exclusive: Music locker service MP3tunes.com files for bankruptcy
Legal costs piled up over four years as the music service defended itself against a copyright suit from EMI proved to be too much, says founder Michael Robertson. — Follow @sandoCNET — MP3tunes.co...
AOL Has A New CTO
AOL just named interim CTO Curtis Brown its fulltime CTO. — He joined the company in 2010. — Before that he was CTO at Kaplan Test Prep. — On LinkedIn, he describes his specialties as: — Partne...
Was Zynga's Deal To Buy OMGPOP That Disastrous? Here's Some Perspective.
Draw Something, the game that could do no wrong now seems like it can do little right, at least according to the blogosphere. There's been a string of stories from virtually everyone saying that the ...
Google agrees with Mozilla's Windows RT browser concerns
Mozilla says only a crippled version of Firefox could run on Windows for ARM chips, effectively restricting user choice to IE10, and now the maker of Chrome says it's worried, too. — Google has join...
Apple, supplier Foxconn to share costs on improving factories
(Reuters) - Apple Inc and its key supplier Foxconn Technology Group will share the initial costs of improving labor conditions at the Chinese factories that assemble iPhones and iPads, Foxconn's top e...
Finally, Harry Potter Is Touching Down on Amazon's Kindle
J.K. Rowling has been one of the big holdouts, refusing to sell Harry Potter in electronic form through booksellers like Amazon or Barnes & Noble. — That is apparently about to change, according to ...
A Circle of Tech: Collect Payout, Do a Start-Up
FACEBOOK LEGACIES Matt Cohler, left, employee No. 7 at Facebook, is now a partner at Benchmark Capital. Adam D'Angelo, a former chief technology officer at Facebook, is a founder of Quora. Ruchi Sa...
Angel No More: Why One of Silicon Valley's Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet
Kevin Hartz is sitting this one out. — Sure, Hartz is busy with his day-job as CEO of online ticketing startup Eventbrite, but it's not a time management thing that keeps him from his usual angel-in...
Start-Up Staff Getting More Cash
As Silicon Valley's start-up scene continues heating up, closely held technology companies are boosting the cash compensation they dole out to compete with publicly traded firms. — According to a ne...
Pirate Bay Scolds Anonymous Hackers For Cyberattacks On Its Behalf
Some hackers aim to free the flow of information, while others aim to stifle it. The Pirate Bay has taken a moment to remind the hacker group Anonymous of the difference. — Anonymous has been launc...
Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle
Joe Weisenthal wakes up around 4 a.m. most weekdays, afraid that in the five or six hours he has been sleeping, something happened that could move financial markets. His alarm is his cellphone, and a...
Apple bid $16m for Chinese iPad trademark but Proview holds out for at least $400m: Reports
With Apple said to be entering serious negotiations with Proview, looking to settle the lengthy legal battle over rights to the Chinese iPad trademark, Apple representatives are reported to have offer...
Deutsche Telekom Q1: 510,000 Contract Customers Left T-Mobile USA; DT Sales Down 1.1% To $18.6B
T-Mobile USA's parent Deutsche Telekom today reported earnings for the quarter that ended March 31, with revenues and earnings in slight decline compared to a year ago: sales for the carrier came …
SocialCode hires 15 employees from Digg.com
SocialCode, a social media advertising firm and subsidiary of The Washington Post Co., announced Thursday that it has hired 15 members from the engineering team at the social news site Digg. — Digg ...
Google looks to replicate iOS Game Center, app purchasing
In an attempt to bolster Android's presence in mobile gaming Google is reportedly developing an app that is similar to Apple's Game Center, and is looking to revamp its Google Play payment system to s...
Amazon launches Vegas trade show for AWS developers, users
Amazon is looking more like old-school IT vendor every day. In November, it will host its first-ever partner and customer conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas. The web services giant posted a “sa...
New York State Pensions Are Funding Startups: The Limited Partners VCs Rarely Discuss
Movable Ink cofounder Vivek Sharma and Mr. DiNapoli via Twitter @NYSComptroller — When a startup raises a round of funding, the news typically includes a list of venture capital firms and angel inve...
Mixpanel Raises $10.25M Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Now Provides Analytics For Viddy And Path
Y Combinator-backed analytics startup Mixpanel can now add Andreessen Horowitz to an already-impressive list of investors. — Mixpanel previously raised $1.75 million from Sequoia Capital …
Coupa scoops up $22M to help companies cut costs
Coupa Software netted $22 million in new funding to boost its cloud-based e-procurement (or spend-management) services. — New investor Crosslink Capital led this E Series round, joining previous bac...
Payments And Online ID Verification Company Jumio Nabs Strategic Investment From Citi Ventures
Mobile and online payments and ID verification startup Jumio has received an additional Series B investment led by Citi Ventures, a unit of global financial services company Citi.
EMC Joins The Flash Madness Club By Acquiring Israel's XtremIO
Storage technology giant EMC said today it has reached a deal to acquired the Israeli startup XtremIO. The price was reported by the Israeli newspaper Globes to be $430 million, but EMC didn't confir...
In a SoHo Lab, HuffPo Mafia rekindles the old magic
After the Huffington Post was acquired by AOL last year, HuffPo chief technology officer Paul Berry estimated 15 percent of his time was spent dealing with corporate politics. A year later, that figu...