The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations
There are two views of former Google VP and new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in the industry. — One is that she is a brand name product leader who played a crucial role in helping Google develop its most...
Import ban on Motorola's Android products takes effect Wednesday
The Motorola Xoom is one of 18 Android products affected by a pending import ban. — Motorola — An import ban on Motorola Android devices ordered by the US International Trade Commission is schedul...
Intel Reports Second-Quarter Revenue of $13.5 Billion
Intel Corporation today reported quarterly revenue of $13.5 billion, operating income of $3.8 billion, net income of $2.8 billion and EPS of $0.54. The company generated approximately $4.7 billion in...
Yahoo reports Q2 revenues of $1.22 billion, earnings of $0.27 per share
Today Yahoo reported its second quarter financial performance. The firm had revenues of $1.22 billion in the quarter, and diluted earnings of $0.27 per share.However, after all factors were considere...
Apple's Next iPhone Has Thinner Screen, Better Display Quality
HONG KONG—Apple Inc.'s next iPhone, currently being manufactured by Asian component makers, will use a new technology that makes the smartphone's screen thinner, people familiar with the matter said, ...
PayPal Acquires card.io
I'm excited to announce that PayPal has acquired card.io, a San Francisco-based company that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone. ...
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Microsoft reveals upcoming Office for Windows Phone 8 features
Microsoft has revealed the look and feel for its future Office for Windows Phone 8 software today. In a company blog post, Microsoft's John Jendrezak details some of the upcoming features, improvemen...
Autodesk Buys Mobile Video Shooting Star Socialcam for $60M
Socialcam, the quick-growing mobile video start-up, has quickly found a buyer. — Autodesk, known for its CAD visual effects software, has agreed to buy Socialcam in a deal worth approximately $60 mi...
Thiel vs. Schmidt: The fireworks fly
There wasn't much two of Silicon Valley's brightest luminaries could agree on. — FORTUNE — Has technology improved our lives over the past 30 years? It depends who you ask — and some of Silicon Val...
Microsoft Faces EU Antitrust Probe Over Web-Brower Choice
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) faces a European Union antitrust probe into allegations it is failing to offer consumers a choice of Internet browsers under terms of a previous settlement with regulators. — ...
Serial hacker says latest Android will be “pretty hard” to exploit
Diagram showing attacker overwriting a return address with a pointer to the stack that contains attacker-supplied data — The latest release of Google's Android mobile operating system has finally be...
Instagram updated with Nexus 7 support, Flickr sharing
If you're among the lucky few to already be in possession of a Google Nexus 7, then you'll be pleased to see hear that the Instagram app for Android has been updated to support your new tablet. The l...
Samsung buys CSR's mobile business for $310m
Struggling British chipmaker CSR is selling its mobile business to Samsung in a deal worth $310 million, in what appears to be the latest episode in the ongoing global patent war. — The company, whi...
Google+ Debuts With ACSI Consumer Satisfaction Score Well Above Facebook's
The annual American Customer Satisfaction Index is out for social media sites, measuring satisfaction with Google+ for the first time against other social networks. What a debut!
Apple Wins another Major iPhone & iOS Interface Patent
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-five newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In today's first granted patent report we focus entirely on a single patent...
Broken Glass: Father of wearable computing allegedly assaulted
Wearable computing pioneer Steve Mann has allegedly been attacked by employees of a French McDonald's after sporting his own version of Google's Glass AR headset, with the EyeTap eyepiece grabbing sna...
Real-time rules: Google to retire the old version of Google Analytics
Google announced today that the company is ready to retire the old version of Google Analytics, which it has continued to support for the past year. — If you use Google Analytics to track your site'...
Firefox 14 rolls out: Google searches default to HTTPS, OS X Lion users get fullscreen support
The changes in Firefox 14 may not be quite as immediately noticeable as those in the recently released Firefox 13, but they're still fairly notable nonetheless.
Dropbox Users Targeted By Spam, Possible Address Leak To Blame? (Update: Dropbox Sees Outage)
Some Dropbox users have begun reporting that their accounts are under attack from spam, but what's more troubling is that, in select cases, the spam is hitting accounts where users claim …
Move over, Flame: New Messiah-themed malware targets Iran, Israel
Almost half of the systems infected by Madi were located in Iran. — Seculert Blog — Researchers have discovered another piece of espionage malware targeting sensitive organizations in the Middle E...
Google Emerges as Mint for Tech Managers
Longtime Google Inc. executive Marissa Mayer's appointment as Yahoo Inc.'s new chief executive fits squarely into a recent pattern: “Googlers” who were recruited to lead other Internet companies. — ...
Will AT&T Charge For 3G FaceTime? CEO Randall Stephenson Says It's ‘Too Early’ To Know
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson took the stage this afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, where he was asked about a recent report in 9toMac that AT&T might charge customers extra ...
Ouya's video game console Kickstarter tops $5M raised so far (exclusive interview)
The people have spoken. And they want their Ouya. The new video game console company, Ouya, has raised more than $5 million in a crowd-funded Kickstarter project in just seven days, with 22 more ful...
Clamshell! The Story of the Greatest Computing Form Factor of All Time
The Grid Compass, the first clamshell-case laptop computer — How do you tell if a new technology product is a brilliant breakthrough? — Listening to its creators doesn't work: Tech companies have ...
3 Charts That Show How Wikipedia Is Running Out of Admins
Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work. — Volunteer editing of Wikipedia is on a long decline. The number of editors peaked in 2007 and...
LivingSocial Launches E-Commerce, a Business Worth $200 Million a Year
Today, LivingSocial officially announced its first foray into selling physical products. — LivingSocial Shop is similar to the company's original business, in that it will send an email to consumers...
Marc Andreessen Says Now's the Time to Build Companies Like It's 1999
Few people have the perspective of living and working in the tech industry that venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has. Founder of the browser company Netscape and then of the software company LoudCl...
“What The F*** Is iCloud?”
It's coming time for Apple users to pay their cloud storage dues. One problem: a lot of them have no idea what that even means. — Over the last couple weeks, I've gotten multiple warnings from Appl...
StyleTap brings its Palm OS emulator to Android, only asks for $50
Chrome? Who cares, give us Blazer! For those of you who just can't let go of your legacy Palm OS apps, StyleTap has been delivering emulation software to salve your woes since about 2005.
Report: Chrome For iOS Now Owns 1.5% Of iOS Browser Market
At its I/O developer conference last month, Google launched Chrome for iOS. Despite the fact that it's being held back by Apple's security protocols and can't use its own rendering engine, Chrome has...
Jerry Yang Leads New Funding Round for OpenBucks
Individual angel investors generally don't take leading roles in providing new institutional funding rounds for start-ups, but OpenBucks broke that tradition. — The Mountain View, Calif.-based finan...
Zynga Interview: Mark Pincus In Depth
Part one of a rare conversation with the man behind the #1 social gaming company … Q: I was at Zynga Unleashed, and while I realize that presentation wasn't aimed at investors Zynga's stock took a dip...
Exclusive: Silicon Valley startup, Workday, quietly files for IPO - sources
(Reuters) - Workday Inc has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, several sources told Reuters, putting the Silicon Valley business software company on track for the largest market debu...
Motorola Xoom Tablet Doesn't Infringe iPad, Says German Court
A German court Tuesday ruled the Xoom tablet, made by Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Motorola Mobility, doesn't infringe on the design of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad, but it rejected a claim made by Motorola that ...
Microsoft confirms 28 million PCs affected by browser ballot SNAFU, promises fix by the end of the week
You might remember quite some time ago when Microsoft had its hand forced within the EU to give a “Browser Choice Screen” (BCS) inside of Windows computers that had defaulted to Internet Explorer.
My Xbox LIVE app adds iPad support in 1.6 update
One mobile pillar at a time, or so seems Microsoft's approach to support for My Xbox LIVE. The app, previously available as a remote control perk for Windows Phone, Android and iPhone users, has just...
Facebook engineer accidentally blocks Imgur, apologises on Reddit
When things go wrong on Facebook, they go disastrously wrong. But one Facebook engineer faced the Web's wrath head on and mitigated a public relations disaster for the world's largest social network....
Zaarly Anywhere: buy anything you see online, custom made for you
Zaarly, the online marketplace where users find and hire talented local builders and artisans, is announcing a new “Zaarly Anywhere” initiative that allows any site to enable offline commerce from onl...
Google: Your Nexus 7 will ship this week or next
Summary: Lots of people are anxiously waiting word on when their shiny new Nexus 7 tablet will be shipping, while others are already receiving theirs. This is the official word from Google as of toda...
The Inside Story On Why Kevin Rose Never Had A Big Hit
Last week, Betaworks, a small, privately held company in New York bought a website called Digg for $500,000. — This was shocking news to the Internet industry. — Just six years ago, Digg was a hot...
Education startup Coursera partners with 12 new universities, raises $3.7M and hits 1.5M students
As we wrote back in April, there's no doubt that the Internet is revolutionizing education, as more and more companies continue to emerge and alter the way we learn.
Former Apple VP Bertrand Serlet Joins Board of Parallels
Former Apple Senior VP Bertrand Serlet, the longtime head of Apple's Mac OS software team, and who left the company last year, is joining the board of directors at Parallels, that company said. — Se...
GM opens up OnStar with peer-to-peer car sharing service
The around 6 million subscribers to GM's OnStar connected car service can now rent out their cars to other drivers via a deal between the auto giant and peer-to-peer car sharing startup RelayRides.
B&N Launches Nook For Web, Doesn't Work On iPhone Or iPad
Barnes & Noble is bringing its Nook reading platform to the web today, where it will compete with Kindle's Cloud Reader, iBooks, and Kobo's Instant Reader head-on. The move is an important one in the...