Introducing Facebook Camera
Today, we're introducing Camera, a new mobile app that makes using Facebook photos faster and easier. — See friends' photos all in one place — When you launch the app, you'll see a feed of just gr...
In-app Subscriptions in Google Play
We launched In-app Billing on Google Play a year ago to give developers more ways to sell and engage users over the lifetime of their apps. Since the launch, In-app Billing has been extremely success...
Apple Has Removed Airfoil Speakers Touch From The iOS App Store
Since 2009, Airfoil Speakers Touch has made it possible to send audio from your Mac or Windows machine to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, using Airfoil and its audio streaming capability. Last mont...
Android- and iOS-Powered Smartphones Expand Their Share of the Market in the First Quarter, According to IDC
Smartphones powered by the Android and iOS mobile operating systems accounted for more than eight out of ten smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12).
This is Dell's Windows 8 tablet
Dell is working on a Windows 8 tablet; we know this because Dell told us that they are planning to launch a Windows 8 tablet, easy enough. What we did not know is what will be driving the tablet unde...
New Jersey mayor, son, arrested on charges they nuked recall website
The father and son used a low tech hack—password recovery—to take down the site. — FBI — The mayor of a small New Jersey hamlet has been arrested, along with his son, on federal charges that they ...
How Tim Cook is changing Apple
Steve Jobs' successor is making his mark and trying to keep the Apple magic going. — FORTUNE — In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a “bus tour” led by a research ...
Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
19-year-old entrepreneur Eric Simons spent two months secretly living at AOL's Palo Alto, Calif. campus, sleeping each night on a couch like this one. — (Credit: Eric Simons) — It was 6 a.m. when ...
Nvidia touts thirty Tegra 3 smartphone designs for 2012, faster LTE with Icera i500 and next-gen ‘Grey’ processor
Nvidia says its Tegra 3 system-on-chip is doing exceptionally well: the company claims 30 smartphones are slated to sport the quad-core silicon this year, double the 15 design wins that Tegra 2 had in...
NBCU Exploring Buyback of MSNBC.com
Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O' Donnell and Chris Matthews Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images — Chris Matthews must be getting that tingling feeling down his leg again. He and his colleagues may s...
Google takes down 1.2 million search links a month over piracy, copyright issues
Google today released a new picture of the millions of links it scrubs from its search results in response to requests from Microsoft, movie studios and other content owners.
Kickstarter hides failure
(TL;DR: Kickstarter does not want you to see failed projects. Failed Kickstarter campaign pages include robot meta tags to keep search engines from indexing them. Plus, Kickstarter's front page and ...
Fox Sues Dish Network Over Auto Hop Ad-Skipper
Fox has sued Dish Network over its new Auto Hop service, which allows consumers to skip television ads. Fox issued the following statement on Thursday: … The suit, filed in U.S. District Court on Thu...
Bump App Update: Transfer Photos From Your Phone to Computer With Just a Tap
Bump, an app for Android phones and the iPhone, has made it very easy for people to transfer photos or money from one phone to another. It's now set its sights on transfers from a phone to a computer...
Apple's Coming Plan To Take Over The TV Business
Last week we released our newest report about the future of TV and argued in it and the accompanying blog post that the battle for the TV is not really about TV. It's about the future of the platform...
MIT spinout Liquid Metal Battery lands $15M from Bill Gates, others
Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, an MIT spin out that's developing new technologies for electricity storage, has raised $15 million in funding from Khosla Ventures, Total and Microsoft co-founder Bil...
Apple Paying Dividends to Employees with Restricted Stock Units, CEO Tim Cook Declines to Participate
Apple's board has decided to award dividend equivalent payments to employees holding restricted stock units or RSUs. Apple announced a quarterly dividend of $2.65/share in March, to commence in July.
Microsoft clarifies Ballmer's claims of massive Windows 8 adoption
Analysts point out how Microsoft inflates the pool of Windows 8-capable PCs — Reports earlier this week that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted unprecedented sales of Windows 8 were wrong on mult...
Apple settles patent dispute, signs license deal with SimpleAir
Apple has settled an infringement suit with patent holder SimpleAir out of court for an undisclosed sum, the company announced on Thursday. — The terms of the license agreement between Apple and Sim...
Sequoia Capital Said to Be Expanding to Brazil
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Sequoia Capital is expanding to South America, becoming the latest Silicon Valley stalwart to tap into the region's growing economy, according to two Brazilian investors with direc...
Goodbye Google+ People & Pages, Hello Knowledge Graph Box
Google's Knowledge Graph has claimed its first “victim,” if you will: The content box that showed “People and Pages On Google+” is gone. In its place? A variety of Knowledge Graph-related content th...
Facebook market makers' losses total at least $100 million
(Reuters) - Claims by four of Wall Street's main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook's botched IPO are likely to exceed $100 million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands o...
Senator Wyden Demands Access to Text of Secret International Agreements Regulating the Internet
Senator Ron Wyden yesterday introduced a bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate demanding access to draft texts of international trade agreements under negotiation by the Office …
Facebook exec ducks questions about IPO debacle
(Reuters) - Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg spoke to Harvard University students in her first public appearance since the company's disappointing initial public offering, but refraine...
Zynga Defends Acquisition
Amid Criticism of Deal for OMGPOP, Game Maker Points to Revenue Streams Zynga Inc. has faced plenty of questions after buying the maker of “Draw Something,” a mobile game that was released only six we...
EU court to rule on $1.1 billion Microsoft fine on June 27
(Reuters) - Europe's second-highest court will rule on June 27 whether EU regulators were justified in fining Microsoft 899 million euros ($1.1 billion) four years ago for failing to comply with an an...
Fate of BlackBerry's Popular Messaging Tool in Doubt
As the Smartphone's Sales Shrink, So Too Do Users' Contact Lists; Research In Motion Curtails Effort to License Service — Research In Motion Ltd. may have lost its dominance in the global smartphone...
You Won't Believe How Much Crazy Science & Microscopic Tech Is Crammed Into Your iPhone's Accelerometer [Video]
China's CIC eyes up to $2 billion stake in Alibaba Group: sources
(Reuters) - Sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp (CIC) is in advanced talks to buy an up to $2 billion stake in Alibaba Group, sources told Reuters, as the Chinese e-commerce powerhouse looks t...
How Facebook Can Solve Its Mobile Problem: Build a Browser
When it recovers from the cataclysmic clusterf**k that was its IPO, Facebook will gather its team, round up its new friends from Instagram and Glancee, and ask the $100 billion question: What the hell...
Microsoft legal win over Google may signal ceasefire
So much for the power of Motorola's patents. — Google, which spent $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola and its patents in a deal that closed Tuesday, suffered a major legal defeat at the hands of Micr...
French Data Regulators to Google: How About Making Your Answers to Our Questions Universally Accessible and Useful?
The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection authority investigating Google's new privacy policy on behalf …
Jason Calacanis Joins PandoDaily As a Regular Columnist
Well, here's a fun announcement. PandoDaily is very pleased to welcome a new special contributor: Jason Calacanis. Jason will be writing a regular (every couple of weeks) column, offering advice to ...
Browser choice: A thing of the past?
Like to pick your browser? Beware, because new mobile devices threaten to stifle the competitive vigor of the market for Web browsers on PCs. — On personal computers running Windows, Macs, and Linu...
Facebook now lets developers track unique shares, reads, and clicks of Open Graph stories
We know that Facebook is definitely on to something with its Open Graph initiative. Apps like Socialcam have seen a huge increase in adoption thanks to the sharing of content on user's Timeline and N...
Apple Running New Celebrity iPhone 4S/Siri TV Ads Featuring John Malkovich
Apple has begun running a pair of new television ads for the iPhone 4S and Siri featuring actor John Malkovich. This comes after a pair of celebrity ads started running last month with Samuel L. Jack...
Google+ for Android update brings new look, now lets you start Hangouts from a phone
Google updated the Google+ iOS app recently with a complete visual overhaul, and now the company's brought the new look to Android as well - plus a few unique tricks. For one, Google+ for Android …
Millennial: tablets account for 20% of mobile ad impressions, Android has 49% share
Mobile advertising firm Millennial Media this morning released its ‘Mobile Mix’ report covering its findings for the first quarter of this year. The report looks at trends in ad impressions across mo...