“OMG! Look what happened to his ex-girlfriend.”
“I can’t believe a 2 year old is doing THIS!”
“You will be SHOCKED when you see this video…”
If you’ve ever been trolled by a scammy, spammy Facebook post with a headline …
Airtime is the name of Sean Parker’s latest startup, a live social video company. The company is launching June 5 and has already raised $8.3 million from top-shelf Silicon Valley investors.
And with that, we’ve told you just about everything …
For the next two decades, Myspace will be undergoing regular privacy assessments from the Federal Trade Commission.
The social-media company was accused by the FTC of sharing its users’ personal information with advertisers, all without disclosing that fact to the …
Carrier IQ, a company once vilified for its handling of user data, has just announced its latest hire for the key position of chief privacy officer. New employee Magnolia Mansourkia Mobley comes to Carrier IQ from Verizon, where she served …
Virgin Mobile is now offering a 4G WiMax service without a contract.
This crazy scheme will be set into motion at the end of the month. The star of the show is HTC’s Evo V 4G, a mid-range Android smartphone …
Microsoft has just released hundreds of pre-built mobile app components, open-source projects, and SDKs for Windows Phone development into the wild.
The new components and APIs come via Verious, a marketplace for plug-and-play bits and pieces for mobile applications.
And …
I am kicking myself for buying a Windows ultrabook a couple of weeks ago. Now that Dell has announced its Ubuntu-running ultrabook made specifically for developers, this sleek little machine I hold in my hands is no longer fairest in …
Android accounts for 61 percent of all smartphone sales, according to data published today by NPD Group.
That number is trailed by the 29-percent stake claimed by iOS devices, and RIM and Windows Phone are nowhere close.
These figures for …
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The jury has just now returned its partial verdict for the first (and perhaps most important) phase of the Oracle v. Google trial: The 12 jurors found Google had infringed on Oracle’s copyrights by its use of structure, sequence, and …
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The thinking is this: If your organization relents and lets employees use their own mobile devices for work, then there will be immediate cost savings, with the added benefit that people generally take better care of devices for which they …
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I just wrote a book called Fitness for Geeks, so as you can imagine, I get a lot of health and exercise questions from people who want highly technical answers. For example, I was recently asked, “What’s the best …
We’re guessing the pricetag on this deal was slightly less than the $1 billion it paid for Instagram, but Facebook has indeed bought up Italian startup Glancee.
Glancee is an iPhone and Android app that “helps you discover and connect …
What a week is has been. Here’s what we’re covering in the weekly roundup:
Facebook shares were given their starting price range; we go into detail about how much we’d each pay for a single share — and when we’d
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Oracle has asked Judge William Alsup to throw out the entire testimony of Jonathan Schwartz (pictured) in its ongoing (and drama-filled) trial with Google over Android.
Schwartz was Sun’s CEO. Sun owned the Java programming language, which is used heavily …
Regrets? We’ve all had a few. But AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said his big whoopsie was offering an unlimited data package for AT&T customers.
“My only regret was how we introduced pricing … Thirty dollars, and you get all you …
Some companies cater lunch on Fridays. Some throw in gym memberships or childcare or chair massages. Not Ford.
These guys are going big: They’re giving invention-focused employees TechShop memberships so they can tinker and make to their hearts’ delight.
TechShop …
Verizon is working on the U.S.’s first-ever emergency texting service.
Text-to-911 will be incredibly useful for a wide range of mobile customers, from the young-and-hip to the hard-of-hearing. It’s also more useful than voice communication in uniquely mobile scenarios, such …
Nokia shareholders are gearing up for a massive suit against the struggling mobile company, primarily over the company’s big bet on Windows’ mobile operating system.
In documents filed yesterday (which we’ve embedded below, you’re welcome), certain shareholders are claiming Nokia …
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Forbes today published its Midas List, an annual recounting of who’s who among the top investors around the globe.
We took a look at the tech sector, and of the top 100 investors chosen to be listed, only five were …
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NOTE: Names have been changed out of respect for “Bob’s” privacy
Most people would expect the billionaire owner of an NBA team to be kind of a jerk.
While I had spoken to Bob on the phone some months before …
