Samsung gets 9 million preorders for new Galaxy phone: report
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co has received some 9 million pre-orders for its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone from more than 100 global carriers, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Friday.
Facebook's IPO Sputters
Underwriters Forced to Prop Up IPO of Social Network; Only a 23-Cent Rise — Facebook Inc. took eight years to stage one of the most anticipated initial public offerings ever. The anticlimax came Fr...
Windows 8's desktop UI changes unveiled
If you have been following Windows 8 for any amount of time, you must have run across the Building Windows 8 Blog, the official organ of the Windows team. It is not for massive, Internet-bending piec...
Steve Jobs TV movie to film at the original Apple garage
For those wondering how authentic the upcoming made-for-TV movie about Steve Jobs will be, maker Five Star Feature Films says it's going to actual locations, including Jobs' childhood home, where the ...
RIM, Motorola told Apple they could find a nano-SIM compromise: here it is
Eventually, the committee chairman decided to hold an informal vote by show of hands whether each of the two proposals adequately met the jamming requirement. For the Apple design, seven voting membe...
Closure in Disappearance of Computer Scientist
Just over five years ago, Jim Gray, a computer scientist then working for Microsoft, vanished with his sailboat somewhere in the waters off in San Francisco beyond the Golden Gate Bridge. Because no ...
Exclusive: Yahoo Finally Set to Strike Alibaba Share Deal — Half Now, Then Half of What's Left After Eventual IPO
Half Now, Then Half of What's Left After Eventual IPO — Yahoo is in the final stages of selling a large chunk of its stake in the Alibaba Group back to the company — in a complex deal that is set to ...
Facebook's rocking, all-night hackathon kicks off with standing ovation for CEO
On the eve of the largest technology IPO in American history, the company at the center of all the hoopla is celebrating in a geeky-chic style emblematic of its eight-year history.
UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data
Don't worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access your data ille...
Computer Programming for All: A New Standard of Literacy
Everyone ought to be able to read and write; few people within the global mainstream would argue with that statement. But should everyone be able to program computers? The question is becoming criti...
The Top 10 tech startups best positioned to strike engineering gold
In today's Silicon Valley, engineering talent is as sought after by companies as gold was by the first prospectors in the Wild West. Talent is a company's most important asset, so we decided to use L...
2012 Venture Capital Funding to Facebook Mafia Up 137% vs. 2011. Greylock is Most Active VC FB Mafia Investor So Far.
The Facebook Mafia isn't waiting for an IPO to strike out on their own as company alumni have already raised $271 million of venture capital funding since 2006.
Building the Next Facebook a Tough Task in Europe
PARIS — The coffee machine spits out doses of espresso. Young men in shorts and loafers line up on a leatherette sofa, balancing Macs or iPads on their knees, discussing bands or business plans. Som...
Facebook fizzles in debut, shares skirt IPO price
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc shares fizzled on their first day of trade on the Nasdaq, erasing early gains of as much as 18 percent to trade close to their initial public offering price. The stock opened...
Facebook Sued For $15 Billion In Suit Over User Tracking
Facebook Inc. (FB), which is scheduled to begin trading today, was sued by users of its social network in an amended class-action case claiming the company invaded their privacy by tracking Internet u...
Zynga's stock drops 13% during Facebook IPO, trading halted
During Facebook's IPO event, which the world is watching, a company closely tied to it called Zynga wasn't celebrating. — Its stock (ZNGA) dropped over 13% and trading has been halted. — Since Zyn...
Groupon Stock Spike Probed
Wall Street Regulator Is Reviewing Jump Monday Before Firm's Earnings Release — A Wall Street regulator is examining trading in Groupon Inc. that sent its stock price soaring hours before a favorabl...
GM ad move followed failed Facebook pitch: sources
(Reuters) - Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its IPO parade this week. — GM announced the decision to drop Facebook paid ads on Tuesday in what was the first h...
PayPal handles 60% of web transactions, leaves Google in the dust
PayPal processes 60% of web transactions, Google is the fastest payment gateway, and some unlucky surfer had to wait over 92 seconds for his online purchase to complete. — Those are only a few of th...
Reticent Rich: Preferred Style in Silicon Valley
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Wealth is here if you know where to find it. — Fabulous home theaters are tucked into the basements of plain suburban houses. Bespoke jeans that start at $1,200 can be detected...
Facebook Keeps Shipping. Now You Can Silence Spammy Apps And More With New Notification Controls
If there's something on Facebook that won't stop pinging you with Notifications, tell it to shut up instantly with Facebook's new granular, in-line notification controls.
Worries mount as Nokia burns through cash
Nokia Oyj is tearing through its cash reserves at an unsustainable rate, raising what some analysts say are serious questions about the struggling Finnish phone maker's ability to stabilize its financ...
UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data
Don't worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access your data ille...
Apple no longer censoring the word ‘jailbreak’ in U.S. iTunes Store
Yesterday a bit of a hullabaloo was started when it was discovered that Apple was censoring the word ‘jailbreak’ in the U.S. App Store. Now, that censoring has been corrected, and the word is visible...
Four Years of App Store: Developers Weigh In On Search, Discovery, and Curation
“The App Store is a grand slam, with a staggering 10 million applications downloaded in just three days”. That's how Apple co-founder and late CEO Steve Jobs saluted the launch of the company's new s...
Vyclone video app aims to out-social Viddy and Socialcam
New iPhone app connects people shooting videos of the same event, and edits their footage together — Video-sharing apps are all the rage in Silicon Valley in 2012. Well, two are. Viddy raised $30m...