Game Over: Twitter Mentioned In 50% Of Super Bowl Commercials, Facebook Only 8%, Google+ Shut Out
The Baltimore Ravens just beat the San Francisco 49ers to win Super Bowl XLVII in a game that came down to the final seconds. But online, the social network showdown belonged to Twitter …
Twitter Makes Big Acquisition, Buys Social TV Analytics Company Bluefin Labs
Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics company that was founded in 2008, sources say. Although we don't know the exact acquisition price, we were told this is Twitter's biggest acqu...
HP's first Chromebook arrives, offers a large screen and a small battery for $329.99
The leaks were all true: Following Samsung, Acer, and Lenovo, HP has decided to build a laptop running Google's Chrome OS operating system. It's called the HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook …
Facebook Is Said to Create Mobile Location-Tracking App
Facebook Inc. (FB) is developing a smartphone application that will track the location of users, two people with knowledge of the matter said, bolstering efforts to benefit from growing use of social ...
Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks
Julie Jacobson/AP - A Lexus SL 600 Integrated Safety driverless research vehicle is seen on display at the Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 9. Super WiFi networks would allow for a driverless car to...
HTC M7 to ditch megapixels in favour of Ultrapixels
HTC is to use a new camera sensor on its much-rumoured HTC M7?smartphone, Pocket-lint can confirm, which will use what the company calls Ultrapixels. — Although rumours have suggested the new smartp...
Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll
Austin Meyer, creator of the popular and ultra-realistic flight sim X-Plane is facing a potentially destructive lawsuit by an East Texas patent troll, Uniloc. Meyer, who has worked on the simulator s...
Jawbone buys Visere & MassiveHealth to marry data & design with wearable computing
Updated: You can tell the influence of uber designer (and chief creative officer) Yves Behar on the San Francisco-based wearable computing products company Jawbone. The company is buying two startups...
Broad Powers Seen for Obama in Cyberstrikes
WASHINGTON — A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States det...
How Monoprice Is Eating The Tech World From The Inside Out
An empire built on cheap HDMI cables stretches its reach. Monoprice is angling to be the next huge electronics brand. — Five years ago, Monoprice was associated with two things: HDMI cables and ner...
Anonymous posts over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials
Summary: Anonymous appears to have published login and private information from over 4000 American bank executive credentials its Operation Last Resort, demanding US computer crime law reform. — Vio...
Huawei launches Windows phone in Africa
The customised Huawei Windows phone will only be available in Africa — Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has unveiled a bespoke Windows-run smartphone exclusively available in Africa. — The customised...
HTC sees Q1 revenue flat to 17 percent lower versus Q4
(Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp expects revenue to be flat to 17 percent lower in the first quarter compared with the previous three months, worse than forecast, while margins are also...
Hailo closes $30.6m Series B round from Union Square Ventures, Richard Branson, KDDI and others
Hailo has scooped a whopping $30.6m Series B funding round led by Union Square Ventures (USV), with participation from a slew of high-profile investors including Richard Branson and Japanese telco KDD...
$25 Model A Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Goes On Sale In Europe — Available To Rest Of World “Very Soon”
Available To Rest Of World “Very Soon” — The affordable Raspberry Pi microcomputer just got even more affordable: the slated $25 Model A Raspberry Pi board has now gone on sale in Europe. The Raspbe...
BlackBerry Z10 Off to a Strong Start in U.K.
A frame from the BlackBerry Z10 Superbowl ad. — We are still in the very early days of Research In Motion's attempted rebirth, so it's impossible to make even a reasonably accurate call on its prosp...
Samsung and LG take the high road, settle OLED technology patent dispute outside the courtroom
The ongoing scrap patent between LG and Samsung's display businesses appears to have met a mutually agreed close without the need for legal action after the duo agreed to resolve their disagreement.