In what may be understated as a surprise move for all parties involved, prominent Googler Marissa Mayer may soon be announced officially as Yahoo’s new CEO.
UPDATE, 1:32 p.m. Pacific: Yahoo confirms the news in an investors’ release, saying that …
We got some advance warning on Microsoft’s new Office 2013 and even had some hands-on time with the software. Here’s how you can get a preview version of your own.
Just go to the Microsoft landing page for the new …
Virtuata, we hardly knew ye. Ye never publicly launched, and now ye have been folded into the megalithic monster that is Cisco.
Here’s what we did know about ye: Virtuata was a Silicon Valley startup based way the heck down …
While startups scramble to hire the best engineers, tech workers at many companies this year have received the dreaded — and perhaps unexpected — pink slip.
Survey results show that layoffs at tech companies in the first half of 2012 …
Twitter is opening its doors to open-source hackers for a few hours next Thursday night.
The OSS-themed open house will bring some of the brightest software engineers and developers to Twitter’s fancy new Art Deco headquarters for the “Twitter Runtime …
LinkedIn has unveiled a pretty new homepage today. The redesign strips away all the clutter, leaving you with news from your network and a chronological and algorithmically weighted stream of updates from your professional contacts.
In short, it’s looking a …
Apple made a bit of a whoopsie last week when it withdrew from EPEAT’s green certification program. Now, the MacBook maker is back on board with the environmental organization and is eager to get its seal of approval for Apple …
Swrve, a product for A/B testing for web and mobile apps, pretty much lives at the corner of pretty design and profitable apps.
At MobileBeat 2012, which was all about mobile design, we took a few moments to chat with …
Every incubator has a formula, and most of those formulas involve throwing “spaghetti” of some kind against the proverbial wall to find out what will stick.
Trouble is, most of the time, the entrepreneurs are the spaghetti themselves. And if …
We all need a helping hand every now and then, and Favortree is the app that will make sure you have that hand when you need it — or that you can offer that hand when someone else is in …
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After half a decade of preaching about the virtues of bootstrapping, the GitHub founders are finally getting in bed with a major VC firm to the tune of $100 million — that’s $1 million per employee at the still-small startup.…
KnowledgeTree, a company that does business-specific cloud-based document management, has just taken a $4.75 million round of funding from a collection of East Coast and international VCs.
KnowledgeTree isn’t quite like Google Docs; rather, it has some very specific tools …
If you’ve been following the Apple/Samsung legal battle, this will raise at least one of your eyebrows: The new Galaxy Nexus is selling right now on Google Play.
You can snap one up for $350, and the units will start …
Apple products will no longer bear the EPEAT seal of approval that adorns environmentally friendly tech products.
The iDevice maker has backed away from EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) because Apple products such as the new Retina display MacBook …
Not to get all Emily Post on y’all, but have you ever considered how many times a day you’re inadvertently rude because of the ways and moments in which you use your smartphone?
From texting while driving to Words With …
A six-man group of open-source diehards from Nokia have teamed up to form Jolla Mobile, a company focused on building phones using the Linux-based MeeGo operating system.
Rather, MeeGo will be a sort of jumping-off point. On its Twitter page, …
It’s the worst-kept secret on the Internet today, but Twitter has just announced some new search and discovery tools for its microblogging service (they hate it when we call it that).
On the company blog today, we read that Twitter …
Facebook did a fair amount of internal testing before it unleashed Timeline on the world, and its engineers also tested out how apps would be able to access and publish to Timeline.
But instead of dogfooding Open Graph features with …
It’s been a big news week for us, but not because of tech leaders. Rather, it’s the science community that’s been keeping us on our toes lately.
This week, just before Independence Day, the eggheads at CERN accidentally posted then …
TomorrowVentures, Google chair Eric Schmidt’s VC firm, has just led a $1 million round of funding for YBUY, a Los Angeles area startup that offers a subscription gadget service, allowing tech fiends to try before they buy.
From iPads to …
