Zynga Lowering Full-Year Results Again; Recording Huge Negative for OMGPOP
Zynga is reporting preliminary third-quarter results today, but it won't do much to comfort investors who were already growing wary of the company's prospects. — The social games company says that t...
One Billion People on Facebook
This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. — If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you. — Helping a ...
Microsoft to launch Surface at midnight on October 26th
Microsoft has started sending out invites to a special “Surface Reception” event on October 25th. Alongside a Windows 8 introduction, the software giant will launch its highly anticipated tablet at m...
Google Street View Goes Live in the Google Maps Web App
Earlier today it was noted by Walt Mossberg Google Street View would be coming to the Google Maps web app on Thursday, essentially confirming what we were earlier told by the New York Times. Well, it...
Sprint Said to Eye MetroPCS Bid to Rival T-Mobile Offer
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), the third- largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, is in the early stages of evaluating whether it should make a counter offer for MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) to top Deutsch...
Updating our built-in apps for Windows 8
Google warns of more cuts at Motorola, third-quarter cuts to cost $340 million
(Reuters) - Google Inc said planned job cuts at its Motorola Mobility mobile phone unit will cost about $340 million in severance and other costs in the third quarter and it warned of further restruct...
AT&T announces Nokia Lumia 920 exclusive, launches in November with Lumia 820
AT&T has revealed today that it plans to carry Nokia's latest flagship Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset as well as the mid-range Lumia 820. The addition, alongside HTC's Windows Phone 8X …
Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages for links to increase Like counters
Yesterday I spotted a video submitted to Hacker News by the Polish startup Killswitch.me that clearly showed sending a link in a Facebook private message increases the Like counter on the link's origi...
TomTom navigation apps finally arrive on Android, incompatible with many popular devices
International Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, HTC One X, Galaxy S III, and Galaxy Note are all excluded — TomTom's popular offline navigation apps have finally made their way over to Android, right on schedu...
Worldwide raids on web drug sales
A worldwide crack-down on the sale of fake and unlicensed medicines on the internet has netted £6.5m of drugs. — UK drug officials took part in a series of co-ordinated raids with Interpol and agenc...
Mozilla's First Preview Release Of Firefox Metro Arrives On Windows 8
With the official launch of Windows 8 just around the corner, Mozilla today unveiled its first preview release of Firefox Metro. The Metro version of Firefox, Mozilla says, was “designed from the gro...
Suspicion over Dotcom net glitch
Telecom engineers investigating internet irregularities weeks before GCSB has said it started spying on him. — Kim Dotcom's internet connection was being diverted inside New Zealand weeks before the...
Microsoft, Barnes & Noble joint venture finalized and named
Summary: The Microsoft-Barnes & Noble joint venture, formerly called NewCo, is now officially known as Nook Media LLC, and is a subsidiary of B&N. — The “NewCo” venture formed by Microsoft and Barne...
Interbrand: Apple, Amazon, Samsung fast becoming brand darlings, ousting crusty traditional labels
Interbrand likes to give the world's top companies a brand value, or a mix of their on-the-ground fiscal performance with an estimate of the premium they can ask through name alone.
HP smartphone not coming in 2013, says CEO Meg Whitman
But HP will need one within five years to avoid missing out on a big segment of the market, its CEO said — HP has no plans to launch a smartphone next year but will need to sell one eventually to av...
First 2012 Presidential Debate Saw 10.3M Tweets And Gave Politics A New Dimension
Yes, we know that tonight was a record-setting night for Twitter. The first 2012 Presidential Debate was the most tweeted about political event in company history. Whether you care or not, this is s...
AAP Publishers Get More Control Over Google
Google has finally made some headway on the litigation over copyright infringement for the Google Library Project; and the deal puts in place another key piece of the puzzle for Google Books.
Street View comes to Google Maps on your Mobile Browser
To make Google Maps even more comprehensive, accurate and useful, today we're making Street View available on mobile browsers. With access to Street View on your phone, you can use panoramic, street-...
Acer Iconia W700 Windows 8 tablet launching on October 26th for $799.99
An 11.6-inch tablet with a 1080p display — It has been over four months since Acer first revealed its Windows 8 lineup, but now that the launch of Microsoft's next operating system is closer than ev...
‘Big data’ startup Trifacta comes out of stealth with $4.3M in Accel funding
Trifacta is coming out of stealth mode today as the latest “big data” startup. Accordingly, it has raised $4.3 million from Accel Partners' Big Data Fund. Trifacta is creating productivity platforms...
No more clipboards: ZocDoc lets patients check in online
Since launching in 2007, ZocDoc has been laser-focused on bringing its appointment booking engine to doctors and patients in cities across the country. But with the Thursday rollout of its new patien...
Razer's Project Fiona Gaming Tablet Confirmed for Production
Razer garnered a lot of press at CES this year with their Fiona gaming tablet, a 10.1" Windows-based tablet packing a Core i7 processor and two joystick handles featuring dual analog sticks and a typi...
Intel unveils personal cloud platform for SMBs, consumers
Summary: Intel is diving into the personal cloud storage space with a new Atom-based platform targeted towards both consumers and small businesses. — Rachel King — SAN FRANCISCO — Intel is getting...
Cisco buys VCider to boost its distributed cloud vision
Cisco is buying vCider, a specialist in virtual network overlay technology (and a former GigaOM Structure LaunchPad finalist). The move is a response to VMware's acquisition of Nicira and its softwa...
Oracle appeals ruling in lawsuit over Google's use of Java
The database giant takes issue with the judge's decision in the case that the APIs used in Android are noncopyrightable. — Oracle announced today it plans to appeal the verdict in its long-running p...
Group says it hacked systems at 100 major universities
Harvard, Stanford, Penn among those hit; breached data mostly innocuous, analyst says. — A hacking group that calls itself Team GhostShell this week claimed credit for breaking into servers at 100 m...
With Oracle vulnerable, CEO Larry Ellison embarks on final battle to shape his legacy
SAN FRANCISCO — If you need to be reminded just how quickly today's winner in Silicon Valley can find that perch suddenly precarious, look no further than Oracle. — Last year, during …