Statement by Apple
By early last year, Apple's cash balance had built to a point beyond what we needed to run our business and maintain flexibility to take advantage of strategic opportunities, so we announced a plan to...
Now showing: Older Tweets in search results
Yesterday, we updated our Android, iOS and mobile web apps to make it easier for you to find relevant content when you're on the go. We also started to roll out an additional update on our mobile app...
In One Fell Swoop, Facebook Glitch Deep-Sixes the Web
Now we may know how powerful Facebook really is. — On Thursday, many major websites were taken down by an error that stemmed from Facebook, as Internet mainstays like MSNBC.com, CNN, Yelp and New Yo...
LinkedIn eyes future as professional publishing hub
The company seems set on making business content, not social networking, the focus of the site. — LinkedIn spent much of 2012 transforming itself into a place where workers could stay and play awhil...
Android powered a third of all mobile phones shipped in Q4 2012
Shanghai, Palo Alto, Singapore and Reading - Thursday, 7 February 2013 — Canalys has published its final mobile phone shipment estimates across the 50+ countries that it tracks. The total mobile ph...
Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space?
Summary: Microsoft has been pummeled by critics this week over supposedly inadequate storage space in its new Surface Pro. But those criticisms are horribly flawed. Big surprise: when you do the dis...
Hewlett-Packard Joins Push to Limit Use of Student Labor in China
HONG KONG — Hewlett-Packard, one of the world's largest makers of computers and other electronics, is imposing new limits on the employment of students and temporary agency workers at factories across...
Microsoft's ‘Blue’ wave is coming to more than just Windows
Summary: Blue isn't just the codename of the next version of Windows. It also is the codename for updates to Windows Phone, Windows Server and Windows Services, I'm hearing. — As we've known for a ...
Why did Dell force employees to sell shares?
Dell made employees dump shares during buyout discussions. — FORTUNE — Three months ago, Dell employees were forced to sell some of their company stock at just $9.55 per share. Now the company is b...
Einhorn to Sue Apple Over Plan to Discard Preferred Stock
David Einhorn has long been known as a fervent fan of Apple Inc. But the hedge fund magnate is making an unusually public stand to oppose a move by the maker of the iPad: a lawsuit. — His hedge fund...
Here's our pick of the most promising companies from 500 Startups' fifth batch
500 Startups is hosting its latest session of Demo Day this week, and TNW was there to watch the proceedings in Mountain View on Wednesday. That's the first port of call before the startups and their...
800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by December 2013, study says
By the end of this current year, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use: 798 million of them will run Android, 294 million will run Apple's iOS, and 45 million will run Windows Phone, according to a n...
Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Silicon Valley's job growth has returned to dot-com boom levels and San Francisco has emerged as a major new tech hub. But good times have not returned for all area residents and ethn...
Online learning goes official as five Coursera courses get approved by the American Council on Education
Coursera announced a big milestone today: the first big step towards credit options. The American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT) …
FreedomPop Raises Another $4.3 Million In Funding, Finally Lets Users Share Their Data
Freemium wireless service provider FreedomPop has been pumping out its fair share of hardware lately, and its momentum seems to have been received favorably by its backers.
Opera: Android devices were served most ad impressions in Q4 2012, but iOS still top for engagement
Opera has released its latest quarterly State of Mobile Advertising report and the findings from Q4 2012 show a sizable growth in the number of impressions served to Android devices, but Apple users r...
Facebook isn't making its own phone, but it's pre-loading its software into millions of devices
Facebook wants to ensure that billions of people in emerging markets have access to its mobile apps when they buy their first phones. The social networking giant found an easy solution to that proble...
Kim Dotcom's Mega gets a new CEO: Entrepreneur and open Internet advocate Vikram Kumar steps in
Kim Dotcom's Mega has today announced that it has appointed entrepreneur and open Internet advocate Vikram Kumar as its new CEO, to replace interim chief Tony Lentino.
Evernote rolls out Evernote Business to 26 new markets in Europe and names new COO to oversee growth
Evernote has expanded its Evernote Business product in Europe, adding 26 new markets where companies can now leverage the cumulative knowledge and contribution of every employee.
Sprint Q4: Loss widens, 1 million subscribers jump ship
Summary: The cellular giant saw its quarterly loss widen as more than 1 million subscribers left the company, thanks to the Nextel side of the business. — Zack Whittaker — Continuing its running s...
Google Joins JPMorgan in Seeking Software Patent Limits
Google Inc. owes its creation in part to a patented software algorithm for ranking documents in a database, issued to company founder Larry Page and owned by Stanford University. — The world's large...
Apple & Samsung capture 103% of handset profits as rivals lose money
Together, Apple and Samsung accounted for 103 percent of mobile phone profits in 2012, a number made possible because of losses incurred by rivals Motorola, Sony and Nokia. — Apple took a commanding...
Tumblr Adds Real-Time Notifications To Its Dashboard And It Feels A Lot Like Facebook's Ticker
Today on its staff blog, Tumblr shared that it is rolling out real-time notifications to people's dashboards, so that you can have even more cat- and fashion-related content thrown in your face.
The LinkedIn Rampage Will Be Tested Today
On the surface, today's LinkedIn earnings report is about revenue and profits, like any other quarterly filing. At bottom, though, investors are looking for the answer to a question that gets well be...
Wii Street U hands-on: Google Maps comes to Wii U with motion control
DON'T MISS ANY STORIES FOLLOW THE VERGE — Nintendo's delayed Google Maps app for Wii U is finally out in Japan. As demonstrated late last year, Wii Street U is based around Street View, and lets yo...
Netflix Promises To Make Its Open Source Cloud Management Tools More Portable
Over the last several years, Netflix has put a lot of work into building a cloud-based architecture off of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run its video streaming and DVD rental services.
Movie industry not entitled to Usenet piracy profits, UK high court rules
A copyright infringer is more akin to a trespasser than to a coin thief, the judge said — The movie industry has no rights to the profits made by the owner of Usenet-indexing website Newzbin2 by inf...
In Big Shift, Google Aims To Boost Mobile Ad Campaigns - And Its Own Revenues
It's no secret that the rapid shift of online activity from computers to smartphones and tablets presents a big challenge to online advertising leaders, from Google to Yahoo to Facebook.
GetGlue update brings personalized guides, feeds and new ads to iPhone
Conspicuously timed just after a Super Bowl dubbed by some (mostly marketing types) as the “most social ever”, GetGlue has pushed a new version of its app for iPhones. Version 4. for Apple's smaller ...