CBS Tests Twitter Rules By Placing Film Critic's Tweet In An Ad
On Saturday, the print edition of the New York Times carried a full-page ad for the movie Inside Llewyn Davis with a single tweet by A.O. Scott, a film critic for the newspaper. — While he tweeted t...
Evernote CEO promises improved software quality, stability, and simplicity in 2014
On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014 — I got the wrong sort of birthday present yesterday: a sincerely-written post by Jason Kincaid lamenting a perceived decline in the qualit...
Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one
Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one — LAS VEGAS—Lenovo announced several new desktop PCs at CES. And in a move that's sure to give Microsoft heartburn ...
How Mark Zuckerberg turned around Facebook by prioritizing mobile ad revenues
Profitable Learning Curve for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — In Taking Facebook Public, Reshaping It Around Mobile Phones, Chief Gained Focus on Bottom Line … MENLO PARK, Calif.— Mark Zuckerberg nee...
Nvidia debuts 192-core Tegra K1 processor
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, after nearly a year of promising outsized computing power for so-called future “superphones,” took the stage at CES today to unveil the company's latest mobile processor for...
Square And Griffin Debut An Integrated Merchant Case
Last year, Square debuted Stand, a piece of hardware that turns a merchant's iPad into a card-swiping register. The idea was to provide a simple and elegant …
Netflix can't afford content you want, so it scours a limited library for things you may like
Netflix's dumbed-down algorithms — Alexis Madrigal has a rollicking investigation into Netflix's movie genres — all 76,897 of them, from category #1 (African-American Crime Documentaries) …
HTC Posts Second Operating Loss as Sales Continue to Slump
HTC Corp. (2498) posted its second consecutive quarterly operating loss as a continued decline in sales dragged down earnings at the Taiwanese smartphone maker. — Fourth-quarter operating loss was N...
Bitcoin will hold value if it remains the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership
Bitcoin Is Good — We read with interest Paul Krugman's recent article in the New York Times, humorously titled “Bitcoin Is Evil.” Perhaps the most important part of the article is where Dr. Krugman...
A family's three generations show a tradition of reinvention in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley Lost, And Found — Silicon Valley is a place that is just as much about people reinventing themselves as it is about people reinventing industries. — As a new year turns …
Samsung's new Smart Home service outlined, wants to connect to third-party services and products
We heard whispers that Samsung was planning big for CES, and we're not just talking TV panels. It's now revealed Smart Home, which attempts to tie together Smart TVs, home appliances and handheld sma...
LaCie Debuts Fuel, a Take-Anywhere Wireless Drive for Mobiles
Mac or Windows, Red Sox or Yankees, Bruce or Prince — no matter what our allegiances, we all have one thing in common. We are all data-storage junkies. We hoard 32GB USB sticks and we drool over Thu...
Unemployed in Europe Stymied by Lack of Technology Skills
DUBLIN — Week after week, newspapers issue a stream of hopeful headlines: Microsoft, PayPal, Fujitsu and scores of other companies are expanding their investments in Ireland, creating thousands of job...
Venture-backed companies generated $56.5B in exits in 2013 (thanks to IPOs)
A mystique of massive wins and epic mistakes surrounds venture capital. — Amid the jaw-dropping nine figure deals, breathless IPOs, quiet failures, and headline-grabbing acquisitions, the research f...
Under Mayer, Yahoo Buys — But Will It Ever Divest?
But Will It Ever Divest? — In the third quarter of 2013 alone, Yahoo purchased eight companies, including Xobni, Lexity, Rockmelt, and essentially whatever small startup that venture firms managed to...