Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
17 Million iPads Sold — Board Declares Quarterly Dividend of $2.65 per Common Share — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 third quarter ended June 30, 2012. The Company p...
Twitter Is Working on a Way to Retrieve Your Old Tweets
Trying to remember that pithy, brilliantly composed tweet about the latest Wes Anderson movie that you fired off a few months ago? You're out of luck: Twitter lets users access only the last few thou...
Netflix Hits Its Q2 Numbers, A Little Light on Subscribers
A first look at the Netflix Q2 numbers: Earnings of 11 cents a share on revenue of $889 million. The street was expecting five cents per share and $889 million. At least as important, though, are th...
Apple seeks $2.5 billion in damages from Samsung, offers half a cent per standard-essential patent
With their California trial approaching fast, Apple and Samsung made filings during the last few hours that shed light on what's at stake and on why the parties haven't been able to settle their dispu...
Apple Warms Up to Hackers, Plans Presentation at Black Hat
Attendees are seen through a Black Hat logo during the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences in Las Vegas. — In the 15 years that computer hackers have gathered in Las Vegas for the Black Hat conf...
Apple confirms: OS X Mountain Lion available tomorrow on the Mac App Store for $19.99
In its Q3 financial earnings press release today, Apple, has announced that OS X Mountain Lion will be available tomorrow. The release will come exclusively through the digital Mac App Store …
Craigslist sues competitor PadMapper over listings
Craigslist has followed up on earlier threats and filed a lawsuit against popular apartment listing site PadMapper. The case raises questions over whether Craigslist is stifling innovation or simply ...
DC police chief announces shockingly reasonable cell camera policy
We've written a number of stories about police officers interfering with citizens who are trying to record the actions of police in public places. In some cases, cops have arrested citizens for makin...
Introducing the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program: Helping businesses move to the cloud
Posted by Eric Morse, Head of Sales and Business Development, Google Cloud Platform — Cloud is core to everything we do here at Google. In the last decade, we've invested in building …
Square Expects New Financing and a Loftier Value
For all of Square's challenges, raising money has not been one. — Square, the mobile payments start-up best known for its pint-size credit card reader, is close to raising roughly $200 million, whic...
How Many People Use Twitter's Own Apps?
On the latest Talk Show, Gruber wondered what the spread of Twitter clients really is. It made me realise that no one has really explored how many people use Twitter's own apps. I thought I'd (try t...
Lytro finally rolls out Windows desktop software, celebrates with free shipping
As cool as the Lytro camera's post-picture taking focusing technology is, it's hard to overlook some of the product's shortcomings — not the least of which is the fact that the company only offered a ...
Amazon Cracks Down on Kindle Web Browsing
When the Kindle launched in late 2007 it came with an experimental web browser as well as free web browsing over the 3g connection. As nice as that was to have, all good things come to an end. There...
EU, Google Nearing Antitrust Deal
BRUSSELS—European Union antitrust authorities have reached a “good understanding” with Internet company Google Inc. over their competition concerns, with the first technical talks set to follow in the...
Vizio Co-Star Google TV set-top box is up for pre-order, $100 brings it your way in August
As promised, Vizio has starting taking pre-orders for its Co-Star Google TV box. For a penny less than a Benjamin, it adds the new Google TV experience to your existing setup …
WhoSay Raises $12 Million For Celebrity Content Management while Teasing Direct to Fan Publishing
Celebrity-focused social media management platform WhoSay has raised $12 million in Series C financing led by Comcast Ventures, with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners …
Big Fish unveils $7.99 per month cloud gaming service, streaming titles across tablets, PCs and smartphones
Big Fish Games CEO Paul Thelen at Casual Connect — Seattle's Big Fish Games today unveiled a new cloud-based gaming service called Big Fish Unlimited that allows game players …
Airbnb Acqui-Hires Brian Pokorny And The Batch/DailyBooth Team To Boost Mobile Adoption
Airbnb has grown dramatically over the last year, announcing last month that it topped 10 million total nights booked, with more than 200,000 active properties listed on its site.
Someone Is Getting Really Nervous About HP's Debt
Shares of Hewlett-Packard hit another 52-week low yesterday, dropping to $18.30 and continuing their summer doldrums, trading in the lowest range they have seen in nearly eight years. The shares cont...
Google seeks campaign money by touting Net as prime info source
The company's “Four Screens to Victory” effort makes the case that the TV screen is decreasing in importance for political campaigns as people surf Internet screens — phones, tablets, and PCs — for in...
Broadcom announces its first 802.11ac Wi-Fi chip for smartphones
Online video consumption on multiple screens throughout the home is quickly becoming the norm — and all that video has a way of sucking up a home's bandwidth. Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom beli...
BandPage Unshackles From Facebook, Now Helps 500K Musicians Build Synced Sites and Widgets Too
With $19 million in funding but the Timeline redesign cratering its traffic, BandPage needed to diversify beyond Facebook. So today it launches BandPage Everywhere to let musicians build websites …
iOS Soars Ahead of Android Development As Apple Quietly Makes Move Into The Enterprise Market
The Apple iOS is surging ahead of the Google Android platform for enterprise development, according to survey results from Appcelerator, the mobile platform development company.
Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago
In the last few months, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his company public, got married and scored a nearly $6 million home loan at just over 1%. What could possibly top all that?
YouTube Fights Horrible Commenters by Naming Names
YouTube is pushing its notorious commenters to name themselves. — When you comment on, or upload a video, YouTube will now urge you to “start using your full name on YouTube,” and ask if the video-s...
Noted analyst shares predictions for next-generation iOS devices, MacBooks, iMacs
MacRumors reports on new research notes from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The reports are broken down into discussions about the next-generation iPod touch and iPod nano, iPad mini and iPad, ...
AT&T posts Q2 profit of $3.9B, sells 3.7M iPhones
The telecom giant posted earnings per share that topped Wall Street expectations thanks to cost cuts and lower wireless turnover. — Follow @RogerWCheng — AT&T posted a modest increase in its secon...
Silicon Valley Worries About Addiction to Devices
Stuart Crabb, a director in the executive offices of Facebook, naturally likes to extol the extraordinary benefits of computers and smartphones. But like a growing number of technology leaders, he of...
Martin Scorsese does Siri commercial in NYC cab
This is the fourth ad in Apple's line of popular Siri commercials. Martin Scorsese (via MacRumors) follows Samuel L. Jackson, Zooey Deschanel, and a pair of stinkers with John Malkovich. Scorsese is...
Bob Feldstein, the man who helped AMD land the next console generation, leaves for rival Nvidia
You've probably never heard the name Bob Feldstein, but Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft surely have. He was the vice president of strategic development at AMD, and according to our sources …
Benchmark, Greylock And Others Go In For $18.6M On Nextdoor, A Facebook For Local Communities
Localized social network Nextdoor is announcing an $18.6 million dollar round today, led by Benchmark Capital and followed on by DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners and Shasta Ventures.
Lenovo IdeaTab S2110 quietly goes on sale as the Gobots of transforming tablets
Lenovo's 10-inch IdeaTab S2 was one of the belles of its CES ball in offering a distinctly Transformer Pad-like experience for those not beholden to ASUS' view of the world. While there wasn't much a...
Viber Updates iPhone, Android Apps To Version 2.2: Group Messaging, Improved UI, Enhanced HD Calling
Viber has just released version 2.2 of the app for both Android and iPhone, bringing some much-requested features to the platform for the very first time including group messaging and improved call qu...
Apigee Raises $20M, Looks to Grow API Business Internationally
Apigee, the Palo Alto-based company that provides application programming interface (API) support, management and service, today announced a new $20 million round of venture investment, led by Focus V...
Mobile Coding Start-Up Xamarin Lands $12 Million From Charles River, Ignition and Floodgate
Xamarin, one of many companies working to make it easier for businesses to create mobile apps, is announcing on Tuesday that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding from Charles River Ventures, ...
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) MDP benchmarks blow away the competition (update: video)
As mentioned earlier, we've just gotten our hands on Qualcomm's latest development platform to see how its first quad core chipset fares. And boy, that APQ8064 really doesn't disappoint …
Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba, Samsung to launch Windows RT tablets this year. Others await Microsoft's permission in January
Apart from Surface, which is made by Microsoft itself, we know very little about who else will launch Windows RT based tablets this year. And there's a good reason for that.
August Capital Raising $550M For Sixth Venture Fund, “Sticking To What Works”
August Capital, the 17-year-old Sand Hill venture capital firm, is raising a new $550 million investment fund, according to documents filed this morning with the SEC. — August Partner Howard Hartenb...
Facebook Opens First International Engineering Office In London
Facebook announced today that they have opened a London engineering office, adding to their Menlo Park, New York and Seattle engineering offices. The company has 22 open positions at the new office.
Y Combinator startup Chute lands $2.7M, connects dots between developers and media
Chute, a startup that helps developers quickly and easily bring multimedia content into their apps, has just sealed a $2.7 million funding deal with a few of the usual suspects in Silicon Valley early...
All eyes on Apple's earnings: Estimates are sharply divided
The pros are looking earnings of $10.32 on sales of $37.2B. The indies are at $12.29 and $41.45B. — FORTUNE — It's one of the most closely watched corporate events of the season: Apple's (AAPL) ear...
Verizon and Redbox Start Testing Their New Web Video Service: Here's What to Expect
Back in February, Verizon and Redbox announced a joint-venture video service but said little else about it. — Now they're back, and they're saying a little bit more: The service has a name …
Speak up: The EU Commission wants to know your thoughts on Net Neutrality
The European Commission has launched a public consultation seeking answers to questions on transparency, switching and certain aspects of internet traffic management, with a view to its commitment to ...