Microsoft reports fourth-quarter and full-year results
REDMOND, Wash. — July 18, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced quarterly revenue of $19.90 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share ...
Google Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2013 Results
Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. “Google had a great quarter with over $14 billion in revenue - up 19% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “Th...
VLC for iOS returns by July 19, re-written from the ground up and fully open-sourced (Update: It's here)
VideoLAN revealed some very exciting news today: VLC for iOS will be back in Apple's App Store by tomorrow (July 19). The company tells TNW the app will be available for free worldwide …
MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File
Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in my FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz. — Two weeks ago U.S. ...
Apple's Move Into TV Relies on Cooperation With Industry Leaders
When Apple wanted to revolutionize cellphones, it held hands with AT&T. The partners fought endlessly, but the public loved the finished product: the iPhone. — Now, as Apple tries to reimagine telev...
Yelp To Acquire Online Reservation Service SeatMe For Up To $12.7M
Yelp has just announced that they've agreed to acquire SeatMe, the startup that set out to battle OpenTable in the restaurant reservation space. — No word yet on the acquisition price, though we're ...
Best Buy shaves $200 off 13-inch MacBook Pros in Back-to-School promotion, $300 for students
Big box electronics retailer Best Buy on Thursday cut the price of select 13-inch MacBook Pro models for its Back-to-School promotion, offering a savings of $300 for students and $200 for regular cust...
Apple, Samsung's latest phones face antitheft stress test
Apple and Samsung's latest phones and their antitheft technology are being tested by state and federal governments on Thursday. — Apple and Samsung's latest smartphones will face the scrutiny of sta...
Samsung Nears Deals With 2 U.S. Agencies
Push Into Government Sector Is Gaining Traction — Samsung Electronics Co. is close to signing deals for its devices with two U.S. government agencies, according to people familiar with the matter, s...
Verizon Edge Upgrade Plan Launches August 25th: How it Stacks Up
Verizon Wireless has officially jumped on the smartphone upgrade bandwagon, looking to battle AT&T Next and T-Mobile Jump with its own Edge plan. Available starting August 25th, Verizon Edge spreads ...
Nokia now sells more Lumias than BlackBerry sells phones
With this quarter's mixed financial results, Nokia revealed that Lumia sales were up to a record high of 7.2 million. That means that the company sold more Windows Phones last quarter than BlackBerry...
iWatch's novelty emerges as Apple taps sensor and fitness experts
Apple's Tim Cook, Bob Mansfield, Kevin Lynch — Apple has begun assembling a team of hardware and software engineering, medical sensor, manufacturing, and fitness experts, indicating the company is m...
HTC One mini announced: Flagship looks, UltraPixel camera and 4.3-inch 720p display (hands-on)
Currently, the wireless industry's mantra is that good things come in large packages. But let's not just forget about the massive demographic of users that don't care about having the biggest phone o...
Android vs. iPhone: Why Apple still has the edge over Google's operating system
Android is a wonderful operating system. But most Android phones are crap. — Six years ago, Google launched an unconventional effort to gain a toehold in the growing smartphone business.
Apple's TV Deals, Like the Time Warner Cable Pact, Fail Its Ambitions
Apple (AAPL) has had grand dreams for its Apple TV, a Web-connected streaming receiver that first shipped six years ago. Customer dissatisfaction with rising cable costs offered the iPod and iPhone m...
Dell Buyout Vote Delayed
No vote, no deal. More delay. — Dell shareholders didn't vote today on a proposal to take the company private in a leveraged buyout. The meeting of shareholders at which the proposal was to be con...
The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping
The newest NSA leaks reveal that governments are probing “the Internet's backbone.” How does that work? — In the early 1970's, the U.S. government learned that an undersea cable ran parallel to the...
Samsung announces 3,000 MB/s enterprise SSD, shames competition
The ink has barely dried on Samsung's last SSD announcement and the South Korean manufacturer has already made it obsolete by orders of magnitude. This 2.5-inch enterprise-class SSD isn't for us regu...
New Office 365 subscriptions get 12 months of free Xbox Live Gold (but not in the US)
Sweetening the deal of its cloud-based Office 365 suite, Microsoft will start bundling a year of Xbox Live Gold with any purchases of Office 365 Home Premium or Office 365 University made before Septe...
Netflix gets its first Emmy nominations ever, for House of Cards and Arrested Development
Netflix hit a big milestone Thursday morning as its original drama House of Cards was nominated for nine Emmy awards and Arrested Development was nominated for three.
Why Startups Are Sporting Increasingly Quirky Names
Lack of Short, Recognizable URLs Prompts Use of Misspellings, Word Mash-Ups — David Leiberman, left, and Sammy Rubin, co-founders of digital sing-along storybook business Mibblio. The name combines...
Amazon Rejected as Domain Name After South American Objections
A group of Latin American countries appears to have succeeded in an effort to block Amazon, the online retailer, from using. amazon as a new suffix for Internet addresses. — A committee of the Inter...
Ouya Plans $1 Million Kickstarter Matching Campaign to Encourage Exclusive Titles
Starting next month, Ouya will match some of the Kickstarter funds raised by games for its Android-powered console. — The developer-aimed “Free the Games Fund” will dole out $1 million to eligible O...
Pandora for podcasts app Swell raises $5.4 million Series A round
One of my favorite apps that I've downloaded recently for consuming the news wasn't, in fact, an RSS reader or another Twitter client — it was Swell, which launched in June as a Pandora-like app for p...
Facebook Acquires Assets Of UK Mobile Bug-Checking Software Developer Monoidics
Facebook has just agreed to acquire certain assets and hire some employees of UK software verification developer Monoidics. Pending closing conditions, Monoidics' engineers and tech staff will join F...
Paid Apps On The Decline: 90% Of iOS Apps Are Free, Up From 80-84% During 2010-2012, Says Flurry
The trend toward more mobile applications going free continues, app analytics provider Flurry confirms this morning in a new report focused on app price changes over time.