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It's no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your past Tweets. Maybe you wanted to recall your reaction to the 20...
Google Sweetened Motorola Deal With Arris By Promising To Cap Liability In TiVo's Billion Dollar+ Patent Claim
During the analyst conference call discussing telecom manufacturer Arris' just-announced acquisition of Motorola Home, one of the big topics (to Arris CEO Bob Stanzione's apparent exasperation) …
Kodak Agrees To Sell Digital Imaging Patent Portfolio
Kodak has agreed to sell its digital imaging portfolio to a consortium of 12 licensees for $525 million, organized by patent-holding company Intellectual Ventures …
Twitter Shuffles Top Brass With New COO and CFO Appointments
In move that shuffles some of the highest ranking members of the microblogging start-up's executive team, Ali Rowghani has been named chief operating officer of Twitter, according to a change in his T...
How capitalism breaks the web
I share most if not all of Anil Dash's nostalgia for the web we lost. Once upon a time, in the wake of the dot-com crash, there was a real feeling that the mammals would supplant the dinosaurs, and t...
Google Now Highlights Its Indoor Street View Imagery On Search Results Pages
A while back, Google started bringing its Street View technology indoors under the name Google Business Photos. These images, however, were often hard to find and somewhat buried on Google's local li...
Pirate Party Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxy After Legal Threats
After expensive court action earlier this year, a group of music labels achieved their aim of having The Pirate Bay website blocked by ISPs in the UK. — With the official site inaccessible via direc...
Apple Breaks Ground on 1-Million-Square-Foot Texas Outpost
You've heard about Apple's Cupertino spaceship. Now meet the company's Austin, Texas crash pad. — Over the past few weeks, Apple has started work on a new 39-acre campus that will be the future hom...
Apple removes popular AppShopper app from sale as it falls afoul of App Store's new app promotion clause
Today brings a high profile removal from the App Store, as the popular AppShopper app is now missing from the store. The removal, publisher Arnold Kim confirmed to us …
Tumblr launches its long-awaited app for iPad
Tumblr just pushed out an update to its iOS app which adds full compatibility with the iPad and iPad mini. Tumblr built for the big screen doesn't look a whole lot different than if you were browsing...
Once Proudly Web Only, Shopping Sites Hang Out Real Shingles
Andy Dunn was fierce about the Internet-only model of his apparel company, Bonobos, after helping to found it in 2007. He gave a speech, “The End of Apparel as We Know It,” arguing that stores were a...
.com is so 20th century - Welcome to ICANN's great domain name auction
ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has held its lottery draw for 1,930 new sponsored global top level domains (gTLDs). — Successful bidders will be able to use gTLDs lik...
Web Retailers Scrap for Last-Hour Sales
WALTON, Ky.—Time is money. And in the fierce holiday-season battle between online and offline sales, a single hour can be worth millions of dollars. — GSI Commerce Inc., a unit of eBay Inc. that ha...
DARPA and Defense Department look to a more open source future
As the United States military marches further into the age of networked warfare, data networks and the mobile platforms to distribute and access them will become even more important. — This fall, th...
Verizon's Redbox Instant launches in private beta: Unlimited streaming, 4 DVD credits a month
Redbox Instant by Verizon, a joint venture between Redbox and Verizon Communications, is now gradually rolling out to users in private beta after being teased earlier this month.
Fab nabs ‘seven-figure’ investment from Times of India
With investment from Times Internet, the fast-growing e-commerce site will increase its focus on India. — Fast-growing e-commerce site Fab plans to expand its focus on India after taking a “seven-fi...
Finally: AngelList and SecondMarket team up for legal, controlled look-alike to crowdfunding
In perhaps the worst kept secret in venture history, SecondMarket and AngelList have teamed up to allow accredited investors to legally invest purely online on AngelList for the first time.
RIM's BB10 International Strategy Starts Coming Into Shape: Carriers EE, O2, Vodafone Sign Distribution Deals In The UK
BlackBerry maker RIM has clearly been on the phone to its carrier chums in the UK: EE, O2 and Vodafone have all this morning announced they will be offering BlackBerry 10 devices starting …
Samsung confirms malware exploit on Galaxy S III and others, ‘to address it as quickly as possible’
Following news this weekend that an exploit on phones like the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II could allow malicious apps access to user data and other inner workings of the devices …
Nintendo TVii app launches on Wii U in US and Canada on December 20
Nintendo of America announced this morning that its delayed Nintendo TVii service for the Wii U will launch on December 20. Nintendo TVii, first introduced back in September, intends to tie all of yo...
London ‘crime unit’ to target downloaders as part of UK copyright and patent initiatives
Vince Cable, the United Kingdom's Business Secretary, announced a set of new intellectual property initiatives yesterday aimed at improving the way IP is approved and protected in the UK.