Pinterest Acquires And Will Shut Down Recipe Discovery Site Punchfork
Pinterest has just made its first acquisition - the two year and a half year old recipe discovery and sharing site Punchfork. Rather than operate it independently, Punchfork will continue to run shor...
The FTC and Google: A Missed Opportunity
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft — The FTC took steps today to address some of Google's improper business practices. We find it troubling that the agency did not adhere to its own...
The future according to Google's Larry Page
Google CEO Larry Page envisions a future in which computers plan your vacations, drive your cars, and anticipate your whims. Audacious? Maybe. But Page's dreams have a way of coming true. — FORTU...
Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos and bookmakers overseas is being charged with promoting gambling in New York because...
Samsung to Sell Tizen-Based Handsets After Google-Motorola Deal
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world's largest seller of mobile phones, said it will start selling smartphones this year featuring the Tizen operating system backed by Intel Corp. — “We plan ...
Ex-Windows boss Steven Sinofsky launches new blog focused on ‘technology product development’
Steven Sinofsky may no longer hold the Windows reins at Microsoft, but that certainly doesn't mean that he intends on stepping back from the public sphere. Made famous for his work on Windows 7 …
Life After The iPhone: How AT&T's Bet On Apple Mobilized The Company
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, who took over just as the iPhone was launched, talks about the fame, pain and change that's taken place under his leadership. (Photo credit: Matthew Hawthorne) — Steve ...
YouTube Makes Your Phone A Remote Control By Pairing Its Mobile Apps With TVs From LG, Panasonic, Sony, And Others
So YouTube wants to have an app on every device, especially TVs. That way users can watch all of its content from their living room, just like regular TV.
Apple Killed the Netbook
And we're all better off for the demise of the $400 future of computing. — Netbooks are dead. Good riddance! Just a few years ago, these small, underpowered, ultracheap laptops were considered the...
Qualcomm CEO: Apple rejected our radio for the Newton, so we struck a deal with Palm
Here's a bit of pre-smartphone era history for you: Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs told Charlie Rose tonight that he tried to convince Apple to put a Qualcomm radio in the Newton PDA during the 90s, but was...
Reading Twitter's Tea Leaves: At $11 Billion Valuation, IPO Prep May Start In Late 2013
The dismal performance by newly public tech companies—looking at you, Zynga and Groupon and Facebook—may not clip Twitter's wings after all. — A report by Greencrest Capital …
The Ubuntu phone has a speed problem, and I'm not talking about lag
If your hardware roadmap is measured in years rather than months, you may have a problem — As software launches go, yesterday's announcement of Ubuntu for phones was quite the success for parent com...
Buzzfeed Raises $19.3 Million to Make LOL Content for the Social Web
Building a Giant War Chest That Signals Greater Ambitions — Buzzfeed set out to re-invent the notion of content for the social web by allowing pictures of cute animals to co-exist with serious polit...
All T-Mobile Stores To Carry The Nexus 4 Beginning This Month
If you're still on the hunt for a Nexus 4 and we imagine you are since they are next to impossible to find then we've got some good news. T-Mobile stores are hoping to resolve the Nexus 4 inventory b...
Barnes & Noble's bad holiday: Nook, store and BN.com sales down
As it had warned investors last week, Barnes & Noble announced disappointing holiday sales Thursday. For the nine-week period ending December 29, 2012, Nook device sales, in-store sales and BN.com sa...
A Little Sleuthing Leads Nexus 4 Enthusiasts To Estimate About 400K In Sales Of The Device
Google and LG's Nexus 4 has been such a coveted item this past holiday season, that it's been in and out of stock since its release in mid-November. Because Google doesn't publicly comment on device ...
Square's Mobile Card Readers Now Sold At Starbucks' 7K Company-Operated Stores
Square is announcing today that Starbucks is the next retail partner to sell its mobile card readers. The payments company also has a deal with the coffee giant to process transactions and accept Squ...
Senate confirms FTC, FCC picks
The Senate unanimously confirmed President Obama's nominees to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission late on Tuesday. — Obama nominated Democrat Mignon Clyburn for a sec...
eBay Tries Two New Ways to Sell: Drop-Off Points and Home Pick-Up
Gail Weber had never sold anything on eBay, but she was interested in the concept after inheriting a number of antique vases, platters and plates. — “I'm not intimidated by going on eBay, but I don'...