Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Competition Between Apple and Google is More Brutal Than Ever
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and former SVP of products, Jonathan Rosenberg, recently published a new book entitled “How Google Works, which explores topics like corporate culture …
Sony to shut down Playstation Home virtual social hub in March 2015, after six years
PlayStation Home Finally Closing Down — Goodnight, sweet prince. You were... you, um... well at least you tried. — PlayStation Home, Sony's long-running (though never exactly beloved) …
Japan's SoftBank reportedly in talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation in a deal valued at $3.4B
Source: DreamWorks Animation in Sale Talks With Japan's SoftBank (Exclusive) — The company, which has seen up-and-down box office numbers of late, would be valued at $3.4 billion, a source tells THR
RIAA: revenues from music streaming services have replaced those lost from online sales
Music Download Sales Drop, Replaced by Streaming: RIAA — For a very long time, any report on the state of the music business sounded like this: Digital download sales are rising, but not enough to m...
Amazon expands fulfillment center network, bypasses UPS sorting with own “sortation centers”
Update on Amazon's Fulfillment Center (FC) Network — Every year as we head into the fourth quarter holiday selling season, we roll up our sleeves and update our database of Amazon Fulfillment Center...
Microsoft resurrects WinHEC conference after six years, to focus on PC, smartphone and tablet hardware
Microsoft resurrects its WinHEC conference for hardware companies — Microsoft has announced the return of its WinHEC conferences. The first of the new conferences will be March 18 …
The history of the “right to be forgotten”, and a look inside Google's removal process
Google and the Right to Be Forgotten — In Europe, the right to be forgotten trumps the Internet. … “We should support the local farm as well as the local confectioner.” — BUY OR LICENSE »
Innocuous LGBT sites are often blocked on Wi-Fi provided by businesses like Gogo
In 2014, who decides to ban a gay website from in-flight Wi-Fi? — If you were gay and a recent passenger on American Airlines, you might have used in-flight Wi-Fi provided by Gogo just like any othe...
Alibaba pays $459 million for stake in Chinese hotel tech company
Traders work on the floor as they wait for a final price on the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. initial public offering (IPO) under the ticker “BABA”, at the New York Stock Exchange in New York September 1...
As Roku grows, it's moving towards pay-to-play for successful channels
Getting your app onto Roku's platform is free. But once you start to make real money, the company will ask you to sign a new deal — to the surprise of some publishers. — With 1,800 channels and gro...
Oracle to announce it will offer its database and Java in the cloud, taking on Microsoft Azure
For Larry Ellison's Oracle, the Cloud Beckons — Business software giant Oracle kicks off its massive OpenWorld conference in San Francisco tonight with a keynote address by founder and newly named C...