Amazon Fire TV Teardown
Rainy weather got you down? Stuck inside sitting on the couch eating popcorn? What better to do whilst eating popcorn than...watch TV. While on Fire. Amazon Fire TV.™ Yesterday, Amazon announced a...
Internal Apple Document Shows Worries iPhone Growth Could Stall
Internal Apple documents show the concern, at least from the company's sales force, that the portion of the market occupied by the iPhone was on the wane amid growing competition from Android devices ...
Samsung's Ativ SE Windows Phone now available for pre-order from Verizon
Ships April 12th without Windows Phone 8.1 update — After multiple leaks, the Samsung Ativ SE is now official. As expected, the device arrives with Windows Phone 8, a 5-inch 1080p display, a 13-meg...
On The 20th Anniversary - An Oral History of Netscape's Founding
It Was 20 Years Ago Today... On April 4th, 1994, Mosaic Communications Corporation was officially incorporated as a going concern. If you don't recognize the name, that's because the company would e...
Twitter introducing 15 new ad types over the next 6 months, will debut app ads in a few weeks
Coming to Your Twitter Feed: 15 New Types of Ads — Like Facebook, Social-Media Service to Tap Into Demand for Ads to Download Apps — New ads—lots of new ads—are on their way to Twitter Inc.
Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention
Every Page on Facebook wants everything they post shown to everyone. But people only read a limited amount of News Feed per day. There simply isn't room for everything, and the competition for feed ...
“Cuban Twitter” heads to hearings in Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. government agency that secretly created a “Cuban Twitter” communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba is expected to testify ne...
Amazon introduces voice-enabled Dash barcode scanner to help you shop on AmazonFresh
Amazon Introduces Dash Shopping Accessory, Adds Integration To AmazonFresh Android App — Amazon wants to keep you spending money, and as a commerce company, it has the benefit of having no reason to...
T-Mobile CEO Fires Back After Losing BlackBerry Sales Arrangement
BlackBerry and T-Mobile executives should read Jordan's #love column. Breaking up over the Internet is rough on everyone. — In a letter released this evening, T-Mobile's outspoken CEO John Legere t...
Samsung claims breakthrough in commercializing graphene, of potential use in flexible displays
Samsung Claims Progress on the Next Wonder Material — A group of researchers supported by Samsung Electronics said Friday that they've developed a technique for synthesizing graphene …
Not Everyone Is Happy That Mozilla's CEO Was Forced Out For His Anti-Gay Views
The resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, 1998 founder of the company that makes the Firefox Web browser, because he has anti-gay-marriage views is not sitting well with everybody.
YouTube delaying music service to debut polished, differentiated product, not due to licensing
Business Matters: What's Behind YouTube Music Service's Delays — YouTube was a source of music in the prior week for a third of all people surveyed by Edison Research and Triton Digital for their an...
Confirmed: Sprint to pay up to $650 in ETFs for Framily subscribers, matches T-Mobile offer exactly
Sprint (NYSE:S) today launched a new promotion where it will pay up to $650 to subscribers who switch from another carrier to one of Sprint's new Framily family calling plans.
Car-pricing comparison service TrueCar files to raise up to $125M in IPO
Car-comparison website TrueCar files for IPO — (Reuters) - TrueCar Inc, which runs a car-pricing comparison website, filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise up to $125 million in an initial pu...
Kingsoft Subsidiary Cheetah Mobile Files for IPO on the NYSE to Raise $300 million
Kingsoft Corporation (SEHK: 3888) announced two months ago that it would spin off a business unit for Internet security and other services and list its shares in the U.S. The spinoff has filed …
Facebook open sources code for managing A/B tests
A/B tests to determine which features or designs work best is a standard tool of the trade for any data scientist working on a web or mobile application. On Thursday, Facebook released a portion of i...
Symantec plans to hire JPMorgan Chase to explore options, defend from activist shareholders
Symantec Said to Hire JPMorgan to Seek Options — Symantec Corp. (SYMC) is hiring JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) to explore its options and defend itself from activist shareholders …
Weibo, China's Twitter, Prices IPO Approaching $4 Billion Valuation
Watch out Wall Street: the Chinese IPOs are coming. — Weibo, the Chinese microblogging site most often compared to Twitter, priced its initial public offering on Friday afternoon between $17 and $19...
TPG-led group to invest in Airbnb valuing the company at $10B
TPG-led group to invest in Airbnb; deal values startup at $10 billion — A group led by private-equity firm TPG reached an agreement in principle to invest in Airbnb Inc. in a deal that values the on...