Google Sources Say Company Didn't Buy ICOA Wireless
Sources at Google are denying reports that the search giant has acquired ICOA Wireless in a $400 million deal. — We have yet to hear from a Google rep on the record. But people within the company s...
How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites
“What's the use of PRWeb?,” tweeted Megan McCarthy of Reuters, trying to digest how that service ended up circulating a fake Google acquisition story. Come along, Megan and others, and I'll explain o...
Apple Acquired “Lightning” Trademark from Harley-Davidson
The EU Patent & Trademark Office officially published two Apple trademark applications for “Lightning” under numbers 011399821/862. What's interesting about this filing is that it clearly illustrates...
Nintendo: 400K Wii U units sold, 1.2M devices total
The company's president of America Reggie Fils-Aime says that the Wii U is “essentially sold out of retail.” — Nintendo sold more than 1 million hardware units over the last week, the company has co...
Apollo Plus: Microsoft's next Windows Phone update to include Wi-Fi, audio, and other fixes
Microsoft is currently preparing an update for Windows Phone 8, codenamed Apollo Plus. Sources have confirmed to The Verge that Apollo Plus will bring new features to Windows Phone 8 that weren't ful...
Google reportedly gearing up to launch its own, 12.85-inch Chrome OS touch notebook in Q1 2013
According to news outlets in Asia, Google is set to follow its rivals and launch an own-brand Chrome OS-powered 12.85-inch touch notebook in the first quarter of 2013.
11 Apple iPads per hour vs. zero Microsoft Surface tablets
A survey compared sales at an Apple Store and a Microsoft Store in the Mall of America — FORTUNE — On Saturday we posted side-by-side videos showing Black Friday shopping activity at an Apple Store ...
Samsung's Galaxy Note II hits 5 million channel sales, adding 2 million over the last 24 days
Samsung has announced [translation] that the Galaxy Note II, its flagship phone-meets-tablet ('phablet'), has passed 5 million in channel sales, chalking up a further 2 million shipments since Novembe...
The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention
When I read Fred Wilson's post this morning about the tough times consumer companies are having raising money, his second point resonated with me most: … This made me think of how frequently we attrib...
Y Combinator's YC VC Will Replace The Start Fund; Includes Yuri Milner, Andreessen Horowitz But Offers Less Money
Two years ago, Yuri Milner and Ron Conway created The Start Fund to put $150,000 into all Y Combinator companies. Y Combinator ended up managing the fund, and encountered a few issues.
First Round Capital's Online Bazaar Hypes Its Investments on Cyber Monday
Venture capitalists often tell entrepreneurs that, beyond investing, they can provide a lot of value by giving advice or making valuable introductions. — Here's a new one I hadn't seen before …
Samsung Addresses Labor Issues at China Plants
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that it is taking measures to address unfair labor practices at its Chinese factories, including overwork and denial of basic labor rights, in response to a l...
Firefox Beta Now Features New IonMonkey JavaScript Compiler, Built-In PDF Viewer, Retina and Touch Support
Today is beta-release day at Mozilla, and the organization is launching new beta versions of Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set …
Bios embedded Windows 8 product keys
If you have purchased a laptop running Windows 8 recently you may have noticed that it may not contain a small label on the back side or battery compartment listing the operating system's product key....
Amazon Raises $3 Billion in a Rare Bond Offering
Amazon.com Inc. went beyond its usual Cyber Monday deals with a different type of offering: debt. — The Seattle-based Web giant on Monday tapped capital markets with its first bond offering in nearl...
Internal Apple video documents Apple Store philosophy
Washington Square Films (NYC) gave us a rare look at one of the internal videos that Apple has shown its retail store employees. This one is obviously over a year old, with Ron Johnson at the helm (t...
Walmart's Evolution From Big Box Giant To E-Commerce Innovator
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, embraces social, mobile, and the startup spirit to compete against Amazon. Will it be enough? — Jeremy King was ignoring the largest retailer in the world.
FBI uses Twitter, social media to look for securities fraud
(Reuters) - The FBI sees social media as a potential breeding ground for securities fraud, and has agents scouring Twitter and Facebook for tips, according to two top agents overseeing a long-running ...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: Users Can Download Their Entire Archive By Year-End; Now Sees 1B Tweets Every 2.5 Days
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has once again promised that Twitter users will, indeed, be able to download a full archive of their tweets in just a matter of weeks.
Windows Phone 7.8: After Months Of Silence On WP7′s
Windows Phone fans have had a plethora of news about Windows Phone 8 in recent weeks, with the WP8 launch event taking place at the end of October …
Web access battles brew before UN conference
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—An upcoming U.N. gathering about Internet oversight is raising alarms from a broad coalition of critics, including the U.S., tech giants such as Google and rights groups, c...
Zillow continues acquisition spree, buys HotPads for $16M in cash
Zillow continues to bolster its position in the online real estate sector, announcing today yet another acquisition. — This time the deal happens to be in the consumer arena, with Zillow agreeing to...
Verizon Sued For Defending Alleged BitTorrent Pirates
The ongoing avalanche of mass-BitTorrent lawsuits reveal that IP-addresses can get people into a heap of trouble. — In many cases the person who pays for the account is not the person who shared the...
Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth
Each morning, when Andrew Fikes sat down at his desk inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, he turned on the “VC” link to New York. — VC is Google shorthand for video conference.
Two consumer groups urge Facebook to back off privacy changes
Consumer groups are protesting Facebook's proposal to end its practice of letting users vote on changes to its privacy policies and wants to share more of their data with its affiliates such as Instag...
Microsoft's client-access licensing and pricing changes to hit December 1
Summary: Business customers who purchase CALs from Microsoft for use with Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Windows Server, System Center and other products should be aware of licensing/pricing changes comi...
Valley Cred: Samsung Plans to Open New Start-Up Accelerator in Downtown Palo Alto
While it is one of the largest consumer electronics and mobile companies in the world, Korean's Samsung has a relatively quiet profile in Silicon Valley. — In fact, while it has had a longtime facil...
Lanyrd Jumps Into The Space Left By LinkedIn's Events App Closure With New Features
As of today, LinkedIn is shutting down its LinkedIn Events application. As you can see, the events industry is gnashing its teeth over this move. The events side of the app has been long used …
The Social Commerce Attribution Problem: IBM Says Twitter Referred 0% Of Black Friday Traffic
Twitter and Facebook usually aren't the last click before an ecommerce buy, but that doesn't mean they didn't inspire or influence the purchase. Yet IBM's Black Friday report says Twitter delivered ...