Mayer to Get Close to $60 Million (And Maybe More) in Overall Compensation for Yahoo's Top Job
Yahoo revealed in a regulatory filing that it could be paying its new CEO Marissa Mayer a total of close to $60 million to turn the company around. — The mega-sum includes salary, equity grants …
Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones
Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet. — More than seven ...
Microsoft Posts $492M Q4 2012 Loss Because Of $6.19B aQuantive Writedown, $18.06B Revenue
Microsoft just released its Q4 2012 earnings report, posting just $192M in operating income before taxes and its first ever loss ($492M) due to the writedown the company took because of its failed aQu...
Google nabs $12B for Q2, including a tidy billion from new subsidiary Motorola
Google has just released the details of its second-quarter earnings: $12.21 billion in total consolidated revenue, around $1.25 billion of which came from Motorola Mobility, now officially owned by Go...
Apple building new, smaller data center in Maiden
Site plans gives details of construction, more potential growth — MAIDEN, NC — In addition to the world's largest private fuel cell installation and solar farm, Apple Inc. is building a new, smaller...
Samsung Asks To Limit Apple References To Jobs At Trial
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) asked a federal judge to restrict references by Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s lawyers to the company's late founder Steve Jobs at a jury trial scheduled for July 30 over mobile-...
Apple's new iPad launches in China with short queues and no chaos
Apple product launches in China are renowned for being chaotic and rowdy but today the company began selling its new iPad in the country under rather unusual circumstances. Instead of being greeted b...
Here are the latest whisper dates for Microsoft's Windows Phone 8, Office 2013
Summary: What's the latest scuttlebutt on Microsoft's fall slate of product and services due out this fall? — Follow @maryjofoley — As we've known, or at least suspected, for a while now …
Apple Expands iTunes Movies in the Cloud to Over 35 New Countries [Updated]
In addition to today's iTunes Match expansion to Hungary and Poland, Apple has also undertaken a significant expansion of its iTunes in the Cloud feature, adding movies to the list of eligible items i...
EBay's John Donahoe Seeing a “Staggering Surge” in Mobile Shopping
EBay has revised its mobile revenue figures, once again. — In what is becoming a routine move, the company said today during its second-quarter earnings release that it is now expecting eBay and Pay...
New targeting adds greater relevance to your Promoted Tweets
It's a fact — brands have been on Twitter since our earliest days. They use the platform to connect with consumers in meaningful ways, offering everything from special discounts and exclusive content...
Facebook testing new Pinterest-inspired design for app stories in News Feed
Facebook appears to be testing a layout for Open Graph app stories that is similar in design to Pinterest, with boxes for individual items that allow Likes, comments and other app-specific actions.
Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling
In the decade since 9/11, the U.S. government has used a wide variety of tactics against terrorists. It's invaded countries where they operated (and ones where they didn't). It's tried to win the ba...
World's first Android Jelly Bean carrier rollout halted due to emergency call problem
The expected rollout of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to handsets on the Vodafone Australia network has been delayed as the update is not up to Australian regulatory requirements related to emergency calls.
Raspbian Linux now available for Raspberry Pi: Up to 40 percent faster than Debian
Raspbian is a Linux-based operating system optimized for the Raspberry Pi, a low power, inexpensive mini-computer with a 700 MHz ARM11 processor. Up until recently, the folks behind the little comput...
Bing Maps piles on 215TB of new Bird's Eye imagery, proves it's a small world after all
Did you think Microsoft was done with Bing Maps updates after it threw a whopping 165TB of satellite imagery at virtual explorers? You've got another thing coming. The mapping crew in Redmond …
Rich Kids of Instagram Epitomize Everything Wrong with Instagram
While the Internet has had a good time making fun of these rich kid Instagram photos, haters should be careful. These postings are emblematic of the entire medium we all use. To be certain, these we...
How fast is your ISP? A new report tells all.
Cablevision and Verizon FiOS are the mostly likely to deliver better than advertised download speeds, while any provider offering DSL — AT&T, Frontier, Windstream and CenturyLink- struggle to deliver ...
19% Of iOS Apps Access Your Address Book Without Your Permission... Until iOS 6 [Report]
Antivirus software specialist Bitdefender has found that nearly 19% of iOS apps access your address book without your knowledge — or your consent — when you're using them, and 41% track your location.
Amazon launches high-performance SSD instances
A new type of compute instance just added to Amazon's EC2 menu targets high I/O jobs, including NoSQL database applications. The new “High I/O Quadruple Extra Large” instances store and retrieve lot...
New Mobile App Vyclone Aims to Remix Social Video From Every Angle
Instagram proved there is such a thing as a billion-dollar app. Now everyone wants a shot at being the next messiah. Naturally, Instagram's photographic medium laid the foundation for the current ro...
Ubuntu adds WebApps to its Linux desktop
Summary: After adding its own cloud service to its Linux desktop, Ubuntu is now integrating Web applications into its currently shipping desktop Linux. — Follow @sjvn — Portland, OR: At OSCon, Mar...
Made in America: Apple's supply chain increasing US production
Over the last year, some of Apple's key component suppliers have begun increasing their U.S.-based production, which could be a sign that more of the iPhone is already made in America than one might t...
Google's Nikesh Arora: Larry Page lost his voice, but continues to run the company
During today's quarterly earnings call, Google was asked about CEO Larry Page's health. This has been a topic of conversation for analysts and investors over the past few weeks, as Page skipped …
Facebook, Wal-Mart chiefs meet to “deepen” relationship
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is about to add the biggest retail players to his list of friends. — Zuckerberg and his senior management team will spend two days at Wal-Mar...
Flickr Posts Ingenious Single-Serving Site in Response to Internet Outcry
Not long after Marissa Mayer was named the new CEO of Flickr, Sean Bonner launched a single-serving site, Dear Marissa Mayer, that blew up all over Twitter and the Web. Bonner's site is a simple open...
Windows Azure Storage - 4 Trillion Objects and Counting
Windows Azure Storage has had an amazing year of growth. We have over 4 trillion objects stored, process an average of 270,000 requests per second, and reach peaks of 880,000 requests per second. — ...
Twitter Continues Legal Fight in Occupy Wall Street Protester Trial
Twitter announced on Thursday that it will appeal a recent ruling in an ongoing legal battle between the state of New York and a Twitter user, in which a judge ordered Twitter to hand over information...
Facebook Begins Testing Sponsored Results, Its First Search Typeahead Ads
Heads up, Google. Facebook is testing a new format of search ads called Sponsored Results that lets advertisers show ads in the Facebook search typeahead to users looking for a particular Page, app, ...
Kayak Software Raises $91 Million, Prices IPO Above Range
Kayak Software Corp. (KYAK), the online travel company, raised $91 million in its initial public offering, pricing the shares above its proposed range. — The company sold 3.5 million shares at $26 e...
Russian ‘cyber bandit’ arrested for attacks on Amazon.com
A 25-year-old Russian man has been arrested for masterminding two denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com, attacks that occurred in the summer of 2008 and prevented customers from accessing the Web si...
Hacker claims breach of 50,000 accounts from Wall Street IT recruiting firm
A hacker claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals seeking jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of...
Buyers of Latest iPad More Likely to Use It for Business
Whether it's due to increasing adoption of Bring Your Own Device policies or the rising adoption by business of the device itself, Apple's iPad continues to make inroads into enterprise. — New resea...
Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones
Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet. — More than seven ...
Official: Google “Share” Experiment Sends Pages From Search To Google+
A Tweet this morning from @BerianReed, head of search marketing of AutoTrader UK, uncovered some potentially deeper integration between Google Search and Google+. Reed spotted a new option in the re...
The Original iPad Was Gigantic
Revealed in court filings (which were first noticed by NetworkWorld) is a prototype/mock up ("035") for an Apple tablet created between 2002 and 2004 — years before the iPad came out. It still looks ...
Verizon Q2 2012 financial results: 888K new wireless subscribers, half of customers using smartphones
Verizon just announced its financial results for Q2 2012 and the wireless business had yet another strong quarter. The nation's biggest wireless carrier added 888,000 new postpaid subscribers …
As Apple and Samsung vie over tablet patents, judge at center of a tech storm
As Apple and Samsung escalated a multibillion-dollar war over one of the hottest consumer gadgets of our time, the tablet computer, a little-known judge did for Apple what the company couldn't do on i...
Facebook ad rates surge 58 percent, leaves Twitter in the dust
Study results represent great news for Facebook ahead of its second-quarter earnings call on July 26. — Facebook's average cost per thousand impressions has increased by 58 percent in the second qua...
Trapit for iPad aims to fix mobile browsing with artificial intelligence
Browsing is flawed — on the Web, but even more so on mobile. That's the message Trapit co-founder Hank Nothhaft conveyed to me as he demoed his solution to the problem: a Trapit iPad application that...
Say Media Raises $27 Million and Gets Ready to Start Shopping
Got a Web site to sell? You may want to talk to Matt Sanchez: The CEO of SayMedia just raised $27 million, and he wants to spend a bunch of it building out his media company. — This is technically ...
Allegations multiply in EU browser probe of Microsoft
Antitrust officials investigating four sets of charges against Windows 8 and Windows RT — European antitrust officials have widened their investigation into Microsoft's browser practices to include ...
IOC Gets Social With New Olympics Hub Integrating Instagram, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare
With the Olympics due to start in just over a week, the International Olympic Committee has finally taken the wraps off a new social media hub, apart from its main website, for athletes and fans to co...
Microsoft-owned GroupMe sues fellow NY startup Groupie over trademark dispute
GroupMe, the mobile messaging service provider that was bought by Skype and thus became part of Microsoft, has filed a complaint against fellow New York City-based tech startup Groupie in an effort to...
Can Apple Launch in China Without Incident?
When the iPhone 4S launched in January, hundreds of customers waited overnight outside …