Sayonara, netbooks: Asus (and the rest) won't make any more in 2013
A five-year lifespan turned out to be all that netbooks got. Acer and Asus are stopping manufacture from 1 January 2013 - ending what once looked like the future of computing — Sayonara, netbooks.
Samsung reportedly set to sell its first Tizen-based smartphone in 2013
The world will finally see the fruits of Tizen, the open sourced mobile operating system that has support from Samsung, DoCoMo, Vodafone and others, in 2013, according to a report from Japan's Daily Y...
Why I'm Quitting Instagram
The flap over Instagram's changing its terms of service has not died down even weeks after its announcement and subsequent partial reversal. People are still arguing whether Instagram's photographers...
Unnatural Acts And The Rise Of Mobile
Editor's note: Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of recently funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. — As all predatory, or formerly predatory, men ...
Can a social graph last more than 10 years?
Hunter Walk wrote an excellent post the other day about whether one social graph can rule them all or not. Hunter is in the latter camp. And it's clear by our investments at Spark and my social mobi...
Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your fist
Facebook needed to buy Instagram because it was creating a mobile-first photo-centric social network. Snapchat is interesting to Facebook because it's creating a mobile-first ephemeral content social...
Techmeme's biggest (i.e. tallest) stories of 2012
Now that we've examined the year's trending terms, our final retrospectacular tour of 2012 examines the stories themselves. On Techmeme, the biggest stories usually become the tallest stories as diff...
Microsoft confirms zero-day bug in IE6, IE7 and IE8
Second time in two years it's had to deal with late-December vulnerabilities — Microsoft on Saturday confirmed that Internet Explorer (IE) 6, 7 and 8 contain an unpatched bug — or “zero-day” vulnera...
Reddit's impressive 2012 stats: 37 billion page views, 400 million uniques and 30 million posts
Reddit has announced that in 2012 it served an impressive 37 billion page views and 400 million unique visitors. Additionally, the company has shared that it saw 30 million posts …
Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition
IT was the bold title of a conference this month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of a widely read article in The Harvard Business Review last October: “Big Data: The Management Revol...
China's Sina restructures its business to focus on its Weibo microblog and ‘mobile first’ strategy
Sina CEO Charles Chao has announced a company restructuring that will see him spend more time focusing on its Weibo microblogging division and “mobile first” strategy, in a year-end letter …