Our approach to Trust & Safety and private information
We want to take a moment to explain some of our general Trust and Safety policies and procedures, and address the specific case at hand that has unfolded over the past 48-hours (we normally don't addr...
Samsung Goes Public With Excluded Evidence to Undercut Apple's Design Claims
Denied the opportunity to make the argument in court that the design of the original iPhone was derived from Sony concepts, Samsung has decided to make it in the court of public opinion.
Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
Recently, we talked about how we've reimagined cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. And we described new apps for Windows 8, updates to SkyDrive, and how cloud services power the new Offic...
Google Gets Its Social Ad Start-up By Buying Wildfire
Google tried and failed to buy its way into the social ad business a couple months ago. This time it got it done: The ad giant has picked up Wildfire, which helps marketers manage their presence on s...
The Daily Lays Off a Third of Its Staff
The Daily, News Corp.'s attempt to create a digital newspaper for the iPad age, is laying off nearly a third of its staff. — The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its...
Hulu Plus Arrives on Apple TV
Keeping up with the latest episode of Family Guy, MasterChef and New Girl on Hulu Plus just got a little easier. And my living room just got a whole lot happier. — Hulu Plus arrives on Apple TV tod...
FCC to Verizon: Don't block tethering apps. Verizon settles for $1.25M
Verizon customers will soon have the option of downloading Android apps that let them turn their phone into a mobile hotspot -apps that Verizon blocked initially because it didn't want customers circu...
Google suspends Nexus Q launch, will send free dev devices to pre-order customers
Google has just let us know that it is delaying the launch of the Nexus Q as it works to improve the device. The Nexus Q order page on Google Play has been taken down, and now simply leaves customers...
Apple design chief Sir Jonathan Ive: iPhone was ‘nearly axed’
Apple's groundbreaking iPhone was nearly axed before it hit the shelves, its design chief Sir Jonathan Ive has revealed. — Apple's groundbreaking iPhone was nearly axed before it hit the shelves, it...
Digg launches redesign and new app with editorial curation, no comments
Digg's “Rethought' redesign after its acquisition by Betaworks has just gone live, just one day after the company showed off its v1 preview that was the result of a very rapid 6-week redesign process.
Microsoft to Google: Enough With the Diversionary Tactics, Let's Hug It Out
Microsoft is more than happy to take Google and its Motorola subsidiary to the mat over their alleged patent infringement, but it would much prefer to settle its differences with the companies more am...
Dropbox Reports User Accounts Were Hijacked, Adds New Security Features
Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-par...
FTC votes to penalize Google $22.5 million for Safari cookies
(Reuters) - Regulators will require Google Inc to pay a civil penalty of $22.5 million to settle charges that it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple Inc's Safari browser, two people...
Amazon Updates Cloud Player: Scan & Match Imports, 256 Kbps Audio Upgrades, Premium Accounts
Amazon just updated its Cloud Player music storage service with a number of interesting new features, including an iTunes Match-like scan and match technology that allows Amazon to just scan …
Sony Xperia Tablet leaks: Tegra 3 SoC, Surface-style keyboard case, starts at $449.99
The successor to the Sony Tablet S has been leaked through what seem to be internal slides on German news site Mobiflip. The slides reveal a thinner, lighter, and more powerful tablet that refines th...
Why Box Is Raising $125 Million to Change the Enterprise
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” - Popular Mechanics, 1949. — We're at the beginning of a transformative and discontinuous shift in the enterprise landscape. The confluen...
Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney's New Twitter Followers Are Just Normal Users: 0%
It is virtually impossible that the former governor's recent spike in Twitter followers resulted from normal activity on the social network. — Reuters. — Last week Zach Green of 140Elect …
Decide.com taps the power of the Web with crowdsourced product recommendations
Web shopping site Decide.com has injected a large dose of ‘social’ into its product recommendations feature after it launched ‘Decide Score’, a new ranking system that recommends products by aggregati...
Official Nexus 7 Accessory Lineup Leaks, POGO Dock and Premium Leather Case Incoming
According to leaked slides obtained by Nordic Hardware, the Nexus 7 accessory lineup is about to get a lot more interesting. — You know those pogo pins on the side of the device?
HootSuite digs deeper into enterprise via integrations with Zendesk, Storify, and Evernote
Today HootSuite is announcing three new integrations with Zendesk, Storify, and Evernote. In addition, the company is now officially saying that “nearly five million” people are using its social medi...
With revenues doubling quarterly, Sprout Social expands its social media management suite
Today, Chicago-based Sprout Social announced the addition of two new features to its social media management suite: Sprout Queue and ViralPost. — Sprout Queue is a tool that allows for content to be...
London Olympics 2012: Twitter 'alerted NBC to British journalist's critical tweets'
Twitter employees alerted NBC staff to a British journalist's tweets and showed them how to file a complaint against him, the television network has revealed. — Gary Zenkel and Matt Lauer …
Spotify launches unlimited free radio for Android users in the US
About a month after Spotify launched its unlimited free radio feature for iOS users in the US, the company today announced the same deal for Android users. This is the first time Spotify has allowed ...
Facebook introducing ‘save for later’ feature
Facebook is reportedly rolling out an update to its mobile platform that allows users to save friends' posts for reading later. According to iMore, users will soon see a notification letting them kno...
YouTube to Double Down on Its ‘Channel’ Experiment
YouTube has launched nearly 100 new online video “channels” so far this year, attracting talent such as actor Amy Poehler to create or star in original episodes that can draw new audiences-and blue-ch...
App Store infested with zombie software, claims analytics startup Adeven
Zombies may provide a perennial source of material for mobile games, but no developer actually wants their app to be the walking dead. Nonetheless, according to new mobile analytics and ad verificati...
Box Raises $125 Million Growth Round Led by General Atlantic
The reports that Box, the cloud-based enterprise file-sharing and collaboration service that's been growing like the mythical beanstalk in Jack's back yard has been raising capital again are true.
Obama Campaign Launches iOS App to Support Re-Election Effort
Get state-by-state issues (left) and canvass your neighborhood (right) in the Obama for America app. Image: Obama for America — With the 2012 election less than 100 days away — 98 days, to be exact...
Wikipad reveals specs for gaming tablet (exclusive)
Wikipad, the company developing an identically named tablet that will ship with an attachable gamepad for console-style gaming, has revealed the specifications of the device in an exclusive interview ...
IPhone's Russian Carrier Blames ‘Dictatorship’ For $1,000 Price
OAO Mobile TeleSystems (MTSS), the iPhone's biggest wireless carrier in Russia, criticized Apple Inc. (AAPL) for not cutting the device's $1,000-plus price in the country and being too strict about ho...
Facebook Better Get Mobile Quick. 102M People Accessed Solely From Mobile In June, Up 23% Since March
There's a staggering new statistic in Facebook's 10-Q SEC document today: 102 million people accessed Facebook solely from mobile in June, a massive 23% increase over the 83 million mobile-only users ...
Siri Meets Foursquare with Saga Roll Out
Saga is not another Siri clone, per se. It's more similar to Google Now and the recently launched Friday app, offering a utility that intelligently pins down data based on any number of metrics, most...
First insider trading lawsuit filed against Zynga after executives cash out
When Zynga went public in December of 2011 at $10 a share, employees and early investors were “locked up,” banned from selling their shares until May 28th, 2012. But a select group of insiders got un...
Alibaba Is Said to Be Close to Raising $8 Billion
Some American Internet companies may be unpopular with investors these days, but a Chinese one is finding plenty of takers. — The Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce giant, is close to completing a ...
Outlook.com: an all-new Metro style Hotmail with Skype video calling
Microsoft is also tying together its new email service with support for the latest mobile and smartphone devices, along with a tightly integrated aspect to Windows 8. If you're an Outlook.com user an...
Republic Wireless reopens its unlimited $19 per month beta, starts offering Motorola Defy XT
Republic Wireless is finally ready for more customers on its low price cellphone service, announcing today that it's reopening signups for its beta and offering customers a new phone.