For Twitter, a lofty purpose as Pope Benedict XVI makes his first tweet
It may look as if Pope Benedict XVI's first tweet on the auspicious date of 12/12/12 will be a divine act. But orchestrating the pontiff's debut on Twitter has been a far more earthbound effort, invo...
Microsoft Increases Production and Expands Retail Distribution for Microsoft Surface With Windows RT
Makes Surface available at additional retailers, extends successful Microsoft holiday stores into new year. — Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to make Microsoft Surface available …
Exclusive: Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Sales Inside Office for iOS
Apple has indeed rejected — not merely delayed — an update to Microsoft's SkyDrive app for iOS following a disagreement over whether it is owed the 30 percent cut of in-app purchases it typically dema...
Introducing the Save to Drive extension, plus enhancements to images
The new Save to Drive Chrome extension gives you a few new ways to capture content from anywhere on the web and store it neatly in Drive. After you install the extension, you can click on the Drive e...
Apple, Samsung, RIM push Congress for more airwaves
A coalition of technology companies sent a letter to key lawmakers on Tuesday, calling for Congress to provide more airwaves for smartphones and tablet computers. — The letter was signed by Alcatel-...
Introducing the New Yahoo! Mail
Email is the ultimate daily habit. It's often the first thing we check in the morning and the last thing before going to bed. Why? Because it's one of the simplest and most basic forms of communica...
Fortune Exclusive: Larry Page on Google
The press-shy Google CEO talks about mobile computing, his tussles with Apple — and the future of search. … Fortune: When you're thinking about the next bet you're going to make, how do you pick? — ...
This Year on Twitter
Every day, we're amazed and humbled by the many ways in which people use Twitter, which range from simply retweeting to igniting conversations with hashtags (even around lesser-known topics) to sharin...
Room for Growth: Microsoft Surface Only Generates 0.13% of All Tablet Web Traffic
Two of the biggest players in the computing space - Microsoft and Google - recently launched their most ambitious efforts yet in the tablet marketplace. Microsoft's Surface was launched on October 26...
Samsung Galaxy S4 will be a no-show at CES
Instead, Samsung will go heavy on the television announcements at next month's Consumer Electronics Show, CNET has learned. — Don't hold your breath for Samsung to unveil the Galaxy S4 any time soon...
SkyDrive for Xbox 360 lands today plus 40+ apps before Spring 2013
SkyDrive arrives on Xbox 360 today, Microsoft has confirmed, focusing on multimedia sharing as the company teases a gush of more than forty new apps for the console in 2013. While it's possible to br...
Google Accidentally Transmits Self-Destruct Code to Army of Chrome Browsers
Google's Gmail service went down for about 20 minutes on Monday. That was annoying, but not exactly unprecedented. These sorts of outages happen all the time. What was strange is that the Gmail out...
Touch-enabled Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon with Windows 8 goes on sale from $1,399
Lenovo has announced a new (and previously leaked) touchscreen version of its ThinkPad X1 Carbon ultrabook. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch is much the same as its predecessor, but comes with Windows 8 ...
Fred Wilson hasn't done a 2012 deal
Why can't Fred Wilson find a new startup to back? — FORTUNE — Fred Wilson is the best-known venture capitalist east of San Hill Road, thanks to both his wildly-popular blog and early investments in ...
Facebook Pushes Out Gifts to All U.S. Users (Complete With Holiday Booze)
Continuing the charge to ramp up its social gifting product well into the holiday season, Facebook on Tuesday announced the wide roll-out of Gifts to Facebook users in the United States.
23andMe Raises $50 Million in New Funding, Adding Yuri Milner as Investor
Personal genomics company 23andMe, Inc. said it had raised more than $50 million in a a new funding round. The new financing includes Russian investor Yuri Milner, as well as existing investors Serge...
Former Yahoo Exec Blake Irving Named CEO of Domain Giant Go Daddy
Go Daddy, the world's biggest Web hosting and domain registration company, has hired former Yahoo Chief Product Officer and Microsoft exec Blake Irving to be its new CEO. — The privately-held Scotts...
New EU-wide patent system approved by the European Parliament
Now national governments must ratify the agreement, which parliament officials say could cut the cost of obtaining a patent by 80 percent — The European Parliament has voted to create a pan-European...
Prioritizing Growth Over Profits, One Kings Lane Raises $50 Million in Capital
One Kings Lane, which sells home decor at a steep discount online, just raised its most significant round of capital yet. — The $50 million round brings the company's total raised to date to $117 mi...
47% of consumers interested in Apple television, willing to pay 20% premium
A new survey has found consumers are extremely interested in the prospect of an Apple-branded television, and are willing to pay a 20 percent premium over existing TV prices for such a device.
Nokia engineer shows how to pirate games from the Windows 8 store
Justin Angel, a Nokia engineer working on Windows Phone, has detailed how to compromise Windows 8 games revenue through in-app purchases. Angel highlights the Soulcraft Windows 8 game as an example o...
Wi-LAN sues RIM for Bluetooth patent infringement
(Reuters) - Patent licensing company Wi-LAN Inc said it has filed a lawsuit against Research In Motion Ltd for infringing on a patent related to Bluetooth technology. — The company said it filed a s...
Farmigo Brings Farmer's Markets Online (And Into Your Office) With Its New Local Food Communities, Raises $8M
Back in September 2011, Farmigo took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt and launched its site for discovering and enrolling in Community Supported Agriculture programs …
With Instagram gone from Twitter, Pinterest sneaks in
As Instagram closes its doors to Twitter, Pinterest is taking up the slack. — Pinterest quietly added support for Twitter Cards (i.e., expanded tweets), so you can check out a pin someone's shared o...
ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox
Y Combinator company ZenPayroll launched its cloud-based payroll service today with $6.1 million in seed funding from Google Ventures and investments from the CEOs at Yammer, Box, Yelp and Dropbox.
Foxconn Faces Challenges in Boosting Automation
SHENZHEN, China—Apple Inc. supplier Hon Hai Precision Co. has declared plans to install robotic arms at its factories dotted across China to boost efficiency and address labor unrest. But its bid to ...
Liberty Interactive buys majority stake in travel review site TripAdvisor for $300m
Popular travel review website TripAdvisor today announced that it has agreed a $300 million deal to sell a majority stake to digital commerce corporation Liberty Interactive, giving it complete voting...
Washington state sues Florida company over unwanted text-message spam
A lawsuit filed by Attorney General Rob McKenna's office against Orlando-based Dinav Holding and its owners is one of the first lawsuits by a state attorney general targeting spamming via text message...
Will Appeals Court Overturn ‘Network Neutrality’ Rules?
A U.S. Court of Appeals finally will hear a Verizon challenge to Federal Communications Commission network neutrality rules. How the court rules could lead to big changes for the broadband access bus...