It's official: Facebook offers 50.6 million extra shares for IPO, confirms $34 - $38 price range
Facebook has just filed a seventh amendment to its S-1, which you can read here. TechCrunch yesterday reported that FB was going to sell extra shares (update: or at least that underwriters …
Facebook Is Still Figuring It Out. Will Advertisers and Investors Wait Around?
There are a bunch of ways to explain away GM's decision to stop spending ad dollars on Facebook. We'll get to those. — But there's one thing that even the most ardent Facebook fan can't argue with ...
Lenovo announces ThinkPad X1 Carbon, calls it the world's lightest 14-inch ultrabook (hands-on)
Lenovo unveiled a blitz of refreshed ThinkPad laptops today, each sporting a redesigned keyboard and Intel Ivy Bridge chips, but it had one surprise in store: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE indefinitely delayed at US Customs for investigation of Apple patent infringement
The HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE are a notable devices for many reasons, but today it becomes notorious: it's the first device to face an import delay at US Customs for potentially infringing an Apple pat...
Does Yahoo even know how to be a modern media company?
Now that Yahoo has managed to make its way through yet another CEO shuffle — its sixth in just five years — the former portal has to get back to the main task at hand: namely, figuring out what its fu...
Google Changes Tack on Android
Google Inc. is shifting its strategy for its Android mobile operating system, in a bid to create a united front with smartphone and tablet makers to take on rivals like Apple Inc. and prevent wireless...
Those suave Google glasses are now patent-protected
Google has successfully patented the “ornamental design” of its augmented reality eyewear. To you, me and Aunty Dee they might look almost like regular Ray-Bans, but there's a lot of secret technolog...
Aaron Sorkin To Adapt ‘Steve Jobs’ for Sony
Last year we heard that Sony wanted Academy Award-winning The Social Network/The West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay for a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson's best-selling b...
Quora gets $50 million. Q: Why? A: Because it can...
Quora, a Palo Alto-based knowledge (read: Q&A) community has raised a whopping $50 million in Series B funding from co-founder Adam D'Angelo along …
Flipboard Expands: Adds Audio From NPR, Public Radio & SoundCloud; Introduces Japanese Version
“Social magazine” Flipboard may have to think up a new tagline for itself, as tonight the company is rolling out an update which greatly expands its focus beyond text-based content to also include aud...
Audiences Now Rarely Drawn to Live Television
This week, when they ring the bell on the television upfronts, the annual orgy of advertising buying, I hope the industry isn't counting on my house to lift ratings. — So far in the month of May, ou...
Google Docs Research sidebar looks up terms, adds images, quotes, and citations
Google Docs has a lot going for it as an office or writing tool, and we imagine the Research sidebar, which appears to have recently launched on the suite, will help bolster its popularity.
If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright?
Oracle's Larry Ellison says APIs can copyrighted - and that raises questions across the computer industry. Photo: Oracle — What does an API look like? — Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks lik...
Avira Antivirus update cripples millions of Windows PCs
Summary: Avira has sent out a defective antivirus update that is causing paid versions of its product to block critical Windows processes and third-party software, effectively rendering millions of PC...
NYU Senior's Cellphone Startup Faces ‘Malicious Network Attack’ on Launch Day
We were immediately intrigued by AllThingsD's story about enterprising NYU senior John Mardini's new startup, Voyager Mobile. For one, Mr. Mardini wants to open cheap cellphone services to the public...
Sony VAIO S upgraded with Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs and Nvidia's Kepler GPUs
Sony has announced a refresh of its VAIO S Series laptops, along with a pair of new E Series models. The S Series will come with a choice of 13.3- and 15.5-inch displays; the 15.5-inch model has a 10...
Supreme Court denies Psystar's appeal in Mac clone case
One of Psystar's early “OpenMac” models. — (Credit: Psystar) — The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Psystar's request to review a lower court decision that keeps it from selling computers that run ...
AMD reveals Trinity specs, claims to beat Intel on price, multimedia, gaming
Itching for the details of AMD's latest Accelerated Processing Units (APUs)? Then get ready to scratch: Trinity has arrived and, as of today, it's ready to start powering the next generation of low-p...
Fox and NBC: Dish's commercial-skipping DVR ‘a strange thing to do’ at best, ‘an insult’ at worst
Customers may be impressed by Dish Network's commercial-skipping Auto Hop feature on the Hopper DVR, but at least two networks aren't so happy. In a press call, Fox entertainment chairman Peter Rice ...
Baidu's New Forked Android Phone: China's Search Giant Wants To Make Windows Phone, iOS Versions Too
Big mobile plans afoot for Baidu, the Google of China that leads in search and has launched a host of other services in the wake of that business. The company today unveiled the first smartphone …
Look Out: Pinterest Marketing Platform Curalate Lands $750k Seed From NEA, First Round, MentorTech
A new breed of social media sites led by visual rather than text-based interactions is now spawning a new breed of marketing service catering to the new format.
Please Don't Learn to Code
The whole “everyone should learn programming” meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012. — A noble gesture to garner the NYC tech comm...