T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Suddenly Resigns
Philipp Humm, the CEO of T-Mobile USA, has suddenly resigned, according to the company. — Jim Alling, T-Mobile's COO, will take over his duties while a search is under way. — In a statement, the c...
Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App
Facebook's iPhone app is slow. Often painfully slow. — On the iTunes app store, out of 38,000 reviews, more than 21,000 customers have given the app a measly single star. Users repeatedly describi...
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A year ago we started a small project called Google+—to bring friends and family closer together, and to inspire new connections through meaningful conversation. Today more than 250 million people ha...
It's a Sphere! The Inside Story of Nexus Q, Google's Music Hardware Gamble
SAN FRANCISCO — Sharing music with friends used to be intimate, even messy. We visited each other's homes with stacks of records, and plundered album sleeves until vinyl littered the floor.
Google makes the Nexus 7 tablet official: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a $199 price (video)
Some of the mystery has been taken out of it, but Google has officially taken the wraps off of the Nexus 7, its first reference-grade tablet. The 7-inch slate is the first and currently …
Chrome for Android out of Beta!
Labels: Chrome for Android, Stable updates — The Chrome team is happy to announce the first Stable Channel release of Chrome for Android. 18.0.1025123 is now available for download on Google Play a...
News Corp. Board Approves Split in Principle
News Corp.'s board approved a plan to split the media conglomerate in two pieces, separating its lucrative entertainment operations from its publishing business, said a person familiar with the situat...
Google Play starts selling movies, TV shows (single episode or full season) and magazines today
The Android Market became Google Play to focus on how it pushes media, and now it's adding a few new options. On stage at Google I/O 2012 the company just announced it's adding support …
Android devs, you can now get your app running on a Mac
Get ready to get nekkid and sing kumbaya, because the lovefest is starting. — On the eve of the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference a couple of weeks ago, we told you about a new tool that broug...
Live from Google I/O 2012, day one
“We're also adding support for offline support. You can save the data for an entire city offline.” Some new map overlays with information — and they're demoing “see inside.” “What about Maps? What...
Google announces Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, with Project Butter visuals and new Search, mid-July
Google has today announced the latest version of Android, 4.1. It is code named Jelly Bean and implements new technology from Google's Project Butter to enhance performance and visuals, along with a ...
With Sights Dead Set on the Living Room, Google Debuts A Streaming Media Device
The battle for your living room rages on. Touting consoles, boxes and premium content delivery services, companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon continue to jockey for digital supremacy.
Android Reaches 400 Million Device Activations, Adds 1 Million Per Day
Here are some big numbers for Google's Android platform out of the company's developer conference today in San Francisco: Android has seen 400 million device activations and is adding 1 million per da...
With New “Inbox” Feature, Asana Is Looking More Like That Email Slayer We're All Longing For
Email. Everybody hates it but no tech company has figured out how to replace its old post-office metaphor with something more intuitive for the modern world. But Asana, the high-profile task …
How Apple won a ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1
A zig-zag path to victory in a landmark patent infringement case — FORTUNE — On Tuesday, a U.S. district court granted Apple's (AAPL) request for a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Ta...
Strategy Analytics: Apple Has Shipped 250M iPhones, Made $150B In Revenues In The Past 5 Years
We know that Apple has been making a killing from the iPhone, with the device reigning as the single-most popular smartphone in a number of markets — despite Android-based handsets collectively having...
What Developers Thought About WWDC
A look at what Apple really did last week. — Image by AFP / Getty Images — It's been a couple weeks since the close of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (depending on who you ask, also kno...
Airbnb Redesigns And Introduces Wish Lists To Make Curating And Discovering New Destinations A Breeze
As the premier spot online for listing and booking short-term housing accommodations, Airbnb has already seen huge growth since being founded in 2008. It announced just last week …
Waze to Drive Its Social GPS Software Into Cars This Year
Waze's free app for iPhones and Android devices has 19 million users. — Waze, which makes one of the most popular GPS applications for smartphones, is planning to break into a platform it hopes will...
Introducing the Photos app for Windows 8
sometimes indefinitely. How and where we store and share photos …
What Happened to Silicon Values?
Compare Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page to the founders of Hewlett Packard and Intel, and you'll find a paradigm shift as to how the tech industry treats its customers. — The Facebook IPO brought wit...
EXCLUSIVE: Google+ History API will bring in your past updates from around the web
Stop the dadgum presses! Googler Louis Gray just told us about a new Google+ feature that you won't read about anywhere else. — Called Google+ History, this new API will let you add past statuses …
European court upholds Microsoft antitrust fine, cuts it down ever so slightly to $1.1 billion
In the latest chapter of its long fight against a EU antitrust probe, software giant Microsoft has seen its request to void an earlier imposed fine of 899 million euros declined by Europe's second-hig...
App Retention Increasing; iPhone Crushes Android
In great news for the mobile app market, app retention rates are improving as app publishers shift from an early focus on “downloads” to more mature customer acquisition and retention models. The ove...
Ad Age Survey: Marketers Love Facebook, But Many Have No Idea If Their Ads Work
One in Three Aren't Convinced Facebook is Useful in Driving Purchase Intent — When it comes to Facebook, the nation's marketers have reached an overwhelming consensus: you simply have to be there.
Battery Ventures Jump-Starts Avalara With $20 Million in Capital
Retailers often have a hard time figuring out how much customers need to pay in sales tax. — Not only does it depend on what state or country the customer lives in, but now consumers are also increa...
Startup Blue Jeans Networks Nabs $25 Million And Launches A Cool New Service
Blue Jeans Networks is absolutely kicking butt in the enterprise video-conferencing scene. — Today it announced a third round of financing for $25 million from its previous VC investors, NEA, Accel ...
An App Keeps Spies Away from Your iPhone
A cryptography pioneer offers a simple way to fight electronic surveillance. — Anytime you use your phone to make a call or send an e-mail or text message, there's a chance it will be intercepted by...
Former DailyCandy CEO unveils stealth-mode startup LinkSmart
Clicking around the Web, you've likely noticed those links in articles that lead to ads or commerce sites. But LinkSmart, a Boulder, Colo.-based startup launching Wednesday out of stealth mode, has a...
FB: Underwriters Decidedly Mixed; Possible Miss This Quarter
Shares of Facebook (FB) continue to trade down this morning, currently off 47 cents, or 1.5%, at $32.63, though that is a bit better than earlier in the session, following initiations of coverage by t...