Twitter's Bad Day: Site-Wide Outages Recall the “Fail Whale” Era
After nearly a year without any significant periods of downtime, using Twitter was almost nothing like the early days of being on the service. — So when Twitter went down on Thursday morning for a p...
Apple expands App Store to 32 new territories in Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific
As promised by Apple CEO Tim Cook at WWDC, Apple has expanded the App Store's reach to 155 total territories, by adding 32 new territories today. An email to registered iOS and Mac developers went ou...
Kosmix Founders Leave @WalmartLabs
Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, the cofounders of Kosmix, which was acquired in April 2011 by Walmart and became the Silicon Valley tech shop for Walmart, are leaving the company. — Harinaray...
Flipboard officially debuts on Android, adds Google+ and YouTube, and comes standard on the Galaxy S III in the US
Social news reading app Flipboard is today officially launching its Android app after its short beta period, new integration with YouTube as well as Google+ …
Google allegedly testing new, sidebar-free search interface
A video from Tecno-Net apparently shows a new version of Google's search interface. The UI in the short clip is much more vertically-oriented, with sections like images and news placed at the top rat...
Tweetbot for Mac confirmed as first image surfaces on Twitter
We've suspected that the popular iOS Twitter client Tweetbot was coming to the Mac, and now it's been confirmed. Tapbots' Mark Jardine posted an image on Twitter today, touting the Retina display of ...
Verizon turns on Razrs' GSM radios, pushes out Android 4.0 upgrade
We knew international roaming was coming to Verizon's LTE phones - the GSM radios shipped in many of its LTE handsets were just sitting there dormant - but on Friday, Verizon is finally turning them o...
AMD launches Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, demands rematch with NVIDIA
If you've been missing out on the graphics card wars of late, then here's a quick rundown. AMD launched its high-end $549 Radeon HD 7970 at the end of last year, and it reigned comfortably for a few ...
First hints of a Facebook ad network: Sponsored Stories appear on Zynga.com
Zynga's off-Facebook games platform Zynga.com now displays Facebook ads and Sponsored Stories, as part of what could be the beginnings of a Facebook ad network across the web. — According to the Fac...
How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts
Is Reddit the most powerful website on the Internet? Yeah, that's a pretty bold question to even be asking, especially considering it's only ranked 121 on Alexa. But in terms of power, not traffic, ...
Launch Center Pro is the quickest way to launch in-app actions with your iPhone
App Cubby has launched a followup to their app Launch Center, Launch Center Pro, and the application offers the quickest way to launch actions with your iPhone or iPod touch.
Analysis: Smart logic: Samsung chips away at Intel lead
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, already a world leader in TVs and smartphones, is taking the fight to Intel Corp for the No.1 slot in semiconductors, betting on strong growth in so-called logic chips...
Payleven, A European Square From Rocket Internet, Gets Funding From NEA, Holzbrinck, Ru-Net: Report
With Square yet to enter Europe, there is an increasing amount of activity from would-be competitors looking to fill the same niche using dongles on smartphones to enable card payments.
Insight: Look, no hands! Augmented reality gets a grip
(Reuters) - One day in March 2000, just days before the dot-com bubble began its journey back to earth, German engineer Thomas Alt first glimpsed the future of technology. — “Do you know augmented r...
Amazon.com's domain power play: We want to control them all
If Amazon.com gets its way — and that's still a big “if” — it will soon control 76 new domain extensions on the Internet. Most observers had expected the company to apply for .amazon and .kindle, but...
YouTube Revenues Could Pass $3.6 Billion in 2012: Citi's Mark Mahaney
Is Google making money off of YouTube? You betcha, Google execs told shareholders today, without offering the slightest bit of detail. Par for the course. — So in lieu of real numbers from Google ...
Apple Bid To Block Samsung Tablet Sales Set For June 29
Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s request for a court order blocking U.S. sales of Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer will be considered at a court hearing next week, a federal judge...