Apple’s just-launched Mountain Lion operating system has already seen widespread adoption among Mac users and accounts for 3 percent of Mac web traffic around the globe, AllThingsD reports.
Mountain Lion is an incremental OS update from Lion with 200 new …
Earlier this month, scientists at CERN observed what was most likely the elusive Higgs boson particle. But unless you’re a physics geek, it can be hard to understand just what made the discovery so significant.
Thankfully, the good folks of …
Microsoft faces an incredible number of risk factors in the next year, including alienating OEM partners with its Surface tablet, the company admitted in its annual report filed with the SEC.
The company is in the midst of a ton …
Facebook building a phone “wouldn’t really make much sense for us to do,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today during the company’s first-ever earnings conference call.
Today, the social networking behemoth posted $1.18 billion in revenue and a net loss of …
Google has unveiled its Fiber web service in Kansas City, offering insane speeds that are 100 times faster than standard broadband, the company announced today.
The search and advertising giant originally announced back in March 2011 that Kansas City, Kan. …
Thirty percent of online shoppers research a product on Amazon before they purchase it, another sign of Amazon’s incredible dominance in e-commerce, according to new research from Forrester.
“Ever since Amazon.com opened for business in July 1995, its impact on …
AOL has completely revamped its email service with a cleaner design, a move that could help keep the 24 million users it has left from moving to competitors.
The service now features a design with less clutter and an ad …
Enterprise cloud storage startup Box is raising a new massive funding round with a valuation of $1.2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Box helps businesses with their cloud storage and collaboration needs. It faces competition from the likes of …
Salesforce’s Desk.com has partnered with notable incubators Y Combinator, TechStars, 500 Startups, FounderFuel, and more to give a ton of startups six months of free software designed to help with customer service and support.
As we wrote when Desk.com launched …
The company's stock closed the day at $5.19, but it dropped, at one point, by 40 percent on news of the terrible earnings.
Email-management startup SendGrid has partnered with leading Platform-as-a-Service providers including Heroku, Engine Yard, and CloudBees, the company announced today.
SendGrid helps more than 60,000 web application companies and developers send all kinds of emails to their customers, including shipping notifications, …
Updated at 10 a.m. PT with info about Safari for Windows.
Apple’s newest version of the Safari browser is now available on the Lion OS and the just-released Mountain Lion OS, but anyone with software pre-dating Lion won’t get to …
Secondary ticket sales startup TickPick has revamped its site and sales algorithms in a new effort to take on StubHub and Craigslist, the company revealed Tuesday.
TickPick offers a marketplace for reselling already purchased tickets, but it differentiates itself from …
Apple sold 1.3 million Apple TV units in the third quarter, which is up 170 percent year over year, CEO Tim Cook said today on the company’s quarterly earnings call.
Cook has repeatedly referred to the Apple TV device as …
Apple now has 150 million iCloud users among its device owners, the company announced today on its quarterly earnings conference call.
CFO Peter Oppenheimer said that the company’s cloud syncing and storage service had gained momentum during the last quarter. …
Apple has released its third-quarter earnings, and in an unusual move, it missed analyst expectations, with $35 billion in revenue and $9.32 earnings per share.
Analyst consensus from Thomson Reuters expected Apple to bring in $37.2 billion in revenue and …
Granddaddy-of-classifieds-sites Craigslist has sued smart apartment-hunting app PadMapper for continuing to use its listings after Craigslist issued a cease-and-desist letter.
PadMapper scrapes data from various apartment listing sites including Craigslist, Apartments.com, and Rent.com, and places those listings in Google Maps. …
API management startup Apigee has raised $20 million in its fifth round of funding to help it expand into new markets, the company announced today.
More than 100 billion API calls per month run through Apigee’s platform. Notable Apigee clients …
Joining a parade of other notable celebs, acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese appears in the latest ad for the Siri voice assistant featured on the iPhone 4S.
Siri was introduced as an exclusive for Apple’s iPhone 4S, but it will …
Enterprise cloud storage startup Box has launched an app for Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform and partnered with chip-maker Qualcomm in hopes of getting more pre-installs on phones and tablets, the company announced Tuesday.
Box lets you store content in the …
