Yahoo Paid $30 Million in Cash for 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur's Time
Earlier today, Yahoo said it had acquired the trendy and decidedly stylish news reading app Summly, along with its telegenic and very young entrepreneur Nick D'Aloisio. — Yahoo said it plans to clos...
Spotify Plans To Take On Netflix And HBO With Streaming Video Service
Spotify, the on-demand music service, is planning a major change. According to two sources briefed on the company's plans, Spotify intends to become an on-demand music and video service - one that wo...
T-Mobile will talk iPhone at tomorrow's event
CNET has confirmed that the iPhone will play a part at T-Mobile's ‘Uncarrier’ event. — Yep, T-Mobile will finally get the iPhone. — Apple's flagship device, long a gap in T-Mobile's smartphone lin...
Windows Blue: a video preview of what's next for Windows 8
Windows Blue made an early appearance on the internet over the weekend and we've had a chance to experience some of its new features. The upgrade to Windows 8 looks like it's going to bring a host of...
Windows 8 Mail update now available, Google Calendar support removed for existing users
Microsoft has started pushing out its latest Windows 8 Mail, Calendar, and People app updates to users today. A little ahead of the schedule, the application updates are now available in the Windows ...
Google to ship LTE Chromebook Pixel by April 8; here's the LTE service pricing
Few may have ordered one, but the LTE version of Google's Chromebook Pixel is set to ship by April 8. That's the date currently showing on the Pixel product page in the Google Play store, as noted by...
Beijing Strikes Again at Apple
BEIJING—The Chinese Communist Party's main propaganda outlet assailed Apple Inc.'s customer-service practices, the latest indication that China might move to check foreign companies' domination of the...
Best Buy poised to ax its venture capital unit
CEO Hubert Joly is focusing on more pressing issues, like reviving store sales. — Best Buy Co. Inc. is exiting the venture capital business. — Over the past five years, the company's venture capit...
Potential Buyers Emerge For Hulu, Disney and News Corp. Still Talking
Two years ago, Hulu's corporate owners put the video site up for sale — and then took it off the block. — New version of a similar story: Hulu's corporate owners still aren't sure what they want to ...
BlackBerry's Million-Smartphone Mystery Partner: Brightstar
Who bought one million BlackBerry 10 devices? — We posed that question here earlier this month, following the announcement of the largest single handset purchase in BlackBerry's history. And we ans...
OS X app launcher Quicksilver ends its decade-long beta
After ten years, Quicksilver finally leaves beta with its version 1.0.0 release. — Quicksilver blog — After years of development, a shift from closed source to open source, and the advent of popul...
Apple's first quarter of negative income growth since 2003
It ends this week. Investors might as well get ready for the negative headlines. — FORTUNE — The bad news is that every analyst we've surveyed — even the most bullish — believes that for the first ...
Samsung updates high-end Series 9 ultrabook, catching up as 1080p screens become the norm
Nine months ago, the 1600 x 900 display on Samsung's Series 9 laptop was relatively impressive for its time, but it has since been bested by a number of 1080p (and occasionally even higher) ultrabook ...
Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty Departs to Join Nirvanix as CEO
Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty, who has also done high-ranking stints at other big companies such as Cisco and Microsoft, has been named CEO of enterprise cloud storage company Nirvanix. — She replaces Dr...
Sherpa, The Latest Personal Assistant App, Focuses On Location
Personal assistant apps are the latest flavor of utopian vision from tech startups. The promise of these services is to sift through people's deluge of emails, documents and calendar events to extrac...
Google bundles acquired Nik Software plug-ins for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture, drops entire set price to $149
When Google acquired Snapseed developer Nik Software back in September 2012, they made it clear that the mobile photo sharing app wouldn't be going anywhere.
Among Big Properties, Apple and Amazon Have Greatest Portions of Mobile-Only Users
Thirty-five percent of U.S. visitors to Apple properties in February were mobile-only, compared to 22 percent for Amazon and Wikipedia, 17 percent for Facebook, 14 percent for Google, 11 percent for Y...
What, exactly, WiFiSLAM is, and why Apple acquired it
A couple of days ago the news broke that Apple had acquired indoor location startup WiFiSLAM. Since the company immediately pulled its website and Apple isn't exactly forthcoming about its plans for ...
The Series A Bottleneck Grows Tighter, Fenwick Survey Shows
While the number of seed financing deals has ballooned over the last few years as the cost of starting a company has fallen, the pace of Series A venture deals hasn't kept up. — Now it looks like th...
Yahoo! To Acquire Summly
Today, we're excited to share that we're acquiring Summly, a mobile product company founded with a vision to simplify the way we get information, making it faster, easier and more concise. — At the ...
United States Wants to Attract Hackers to Public Sector
WASHINGTON — In the eighth grade, Arlan Jaska figured out how to write a simple script that could switch his keyboard's Caps Lock key on and off 6,000 times a minute. When friends weren't looking, he...
[Breaking] Steve Kondik (Cyanogen) Leaves Samsung After Less Than Two Years On The Job
Steve Kondik, the founder of CyanogenMod, needs no introduction. This man is a star in the Android community and a true Nexus warrior (hi, /r/acj!). 19 months ago, in August of 2011 …
Microsoft readying multiple Windows Blue servers and a Blue Windows RT build
Summary: There's more confirmation (if you needed/wanted it) that Microsoft is readying Blue builds of Windows RT and Windows Server. — It shouldn't be too much of a surprise to anyone who has been ...
Nokia comments on VP8 patent infringement assertions filed with IETF, criticizes Google
After discovering and blogging about Nokia's declaration of intellectual property rights (IPRs) allegedly infringed by Google's VP8 video codec I asked Nokia for comment.
To Sell Its New Z10 Phone, BlackBerry Bets Big On Real-Time Takeovers
When you're betting the house, you don't skimp on the marketing. That's the approach BlackBerry has taken with its BlackBerry 10 operating system and its line of smartphones anchored on the Z10, whic...
HTC's Marketing Chief Takes Bolder Approach
After weeks of HTC Corp. being coy about a delayed launch for its new flagship smartphone, the company's new chief marketing officer was surprisingly frank during his first meeting with the press sinc...
Facebook Messenger on iPhone gets voice-calling and messages in UK
Pocket-lint has been given a heads-up that UK iPhone owners will get voice calling and voice message functionality on their Facebook Messenger apps at some point today (25 March). — The features hav...
Nasty Gal, an Online Start-Up, Is a Fast-Growing Retailer
LOS ANGELES — If ever there were a Cinderella of tech, Sophia Amoruso might be it. — In 2006, Ms. Amoruso was a 22-year-old community college dropout, living in her step-aunt's cottage, working at a...
Dell details rival takeover bids from Blackstone and Carl Icahn
Michael Dell faces a battle to control the company he founded — As reported on Saturday, Michael Dell's attempt to take Dell private has been challenged by a pair of rival bids. In a press release ...
AWS Reveals In Job Listing It's Launching “A New Business,” Looks To Be Pushing Deeper Into Mobile
Amazon Web Services believes wholeheartedly that the cloud is the future. And not just the cloud, but the AWS public cloud. As a result, Amazon sees big opportunity for its technology …
Mobile location data ‘present anonymity risk’
Location data may not seem personal in a crowded place - but a mobile user's path can give identity away — Scientists say it is remarkably easy to identify a mobile phone user from just a few pieces...