Barnes & Noble cuts prices across its Nook lineup, vies for your budget tablet affection
In what could be seen as a response to the positive reaction that Google's $200 Nexus 7 has garnered, Barnes & Noble has just cut down the prices on all three of its Android-based, seven-inch Nook Tab...
Groupon Sales Force Cracks Under Pressure
Groupon Inc. is facing a new hurdle: strains on its sales force. — Such pressures are a boon to people like Mike Silagadze. The chief executive of education-software firm Top Hat Monocle Inc. said ...
Fox sues to shut down Aereo copycat over TV streaming
Broadcasters have been battling for months to shut down Aereo, a service that uses dime-size antennas to stream TV to Apple devices. Now, the fight has taken a strange new twist. [Note: this post ha...
A Steep Climb Back for Facebook's Stock
SAN FRANCISCO — The Facebook spring is over. The dog days of August have taken hold. — In May, when investors tripped over themselves to buy a piece of Facebook, not even the skeptics predicted wha...
VCs Tune In to YouTube Channels
Producer and director Brian Robbins started AwesomenessTV six months ago to provide streaming shows ranging from a version of “The View” for teenage girls to a program featuring sports highlights and ...
Struggling GameStop reinventing itself
In an effort to avoid the fate of Blockbuster, Circuit City and others in the remainder bin of failed retailers, GameStop has embarked on a daring, if inglorious, strategy: refashioning itself from a ...
Spotify Radio for desktop gets thumbs up/down feature, letting you sync the songs you like across devices
Spotify enabled mobile radio on iOS a month ago, with the same functionality landing on Android last week. — Spotify Radio lets users create radio stations based on any artist, album or playlist.
We did it.
As I write this, join.app.net just met our 500K goal, with 38 hours left. — Data Export — When you are logged into the App.net alpha, we provide a button which will email you a .zip file of all of...