As check-in champion Foursquare prepares to make a run at making money, the startup’s vice president of business development, Tristan Walker, has checked out.
Walker, who holds an MBA from Stanford and was once an intern at Twitter, announced his …
Design. Rarely has a single force so utterly dominated economic enterprise. Design is literally “everything.”
We’re talking about the mobile industry, of course, where trillions of dollars of market value have been created in the past five years. Smartphones, tablets …
Classroom-management software company Engrade has closed a $3 million round of funding, just ten years after its creation by a high school student.
Company founder Bri Holt developed an online gradebook in 2003, while he was still a high schooler. …
I was flabbergasted at the news that Microsoft had invested $300 million into Barnes & Noble’s Nook business, making the e-reader subsidiary, at a $1.7 billion valuation, worth more than B&N itself.
Sure, Microsoft has a penchant for investing in …
CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the company will lay off a couple dozen of its Facebook game developers.
These changes are a …
In a move that will surely stir up plenty of fanboy fervor, Microsoft is reportedly gearing up to announce a $99 Xbox 360 + Kinect package, which will be subsidized by a $15 monthly fee, reports The Verge.
Sources tell …
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Guess how much of LinkedIn’s new iPad app is actually mobile web and not native.
Go ahead — guess. We’ve had a lot of fun asking people to guess this over the past couple days. They’ll start with 40 percent …
Not satisfied with its already extensive library of old TV shows via its Prime streaming video service, Amazon is now planning to develop its own lineup of original children’s shows and sitcoms, the company announced today.
Amazon is the latest …
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Mobile is booming in China, and the country’s hungry for Apple products. Apple’s annual report showed that its net sales in Asia increased $14.3 billion, or 174 percent, from 2010 to 2011. China has the most iPhone users in the …
App security company Appthority announced today that it has secured $6.25 million in a first round of funding.
Appthority, which was founded in 2011, works to prevent potential malware, location tracking, keystroke recording and corporate data.
Although mobile apps are …
Slashdot, the original gangster of web-based news for nerds, has just launched yet another site: SlashBI. The “BI” stands for business intelligence, and this news, while still somewhat nerdy, will appeal to the enterprise types more than the, ahem, neckbeard …
Consumers looking to buy any of Amazon’s Kindle products from Target in the coming weeks should look elsewhere: Starting later this month, Target will end sales of Amazon’s e-readers and Android tablet.
Target says its decision to ditch the Kindle …
A startup called Handy Elephant has just released an app to bridge the gap between your inbox and cloud applications. The app, called Unifyo, is to be a unified inbox where people can check and respond to all incoming social …
Stitcher, the iOS and Android radio app that is trying improve the state of non-music streaming content, has added an Election Center section to its app to keep people in the loop on the contentious 2012 U.S. elections.
Stitcher’s in-app …
What do HP, Salesforce, AMD, VMWare, and Alibaba all have in common?
They’re all partners in the Facebook-led Open Compute Project, a group that aims to revolutionize computer hardware through the power of open-source collaboration.
Facebook’s Open Compute Project is …
Bing has had an epiphany.
Rather than compete with Google in the sheer number of features it can cram onto its results page, Microsoft’s search engine is going the opposite direction towards simplification by releasing a clean, more streamlined results …
After proving it can still innovate in the smartphone arena with the Lumia 900, Nokia is now getting aggressive about defending its patents. The company announced this morning that it has filed patent suits against HTC, Research in Motion, and …
Activision Blizzard‘s Treyarch game studio lifted the veil on Call of Duty: Black Ops II yesterday. We got a special briefing at the company’s headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif. Here’s the list of the most surprising revelations from the rundown …
Big data startup Birst has raised $26 million in its fourth round of funding, with a goal accelerating growth and product development, the company announced today.
Birst is part of a relatively crowded field of business intelligence players including QlikTech, …
Apple’s senior vice president for iOS Scott Forstall took advantage of Apple’s high stock price last Friday and sold 64,151 shares worth around $38.7 million.
The stock sale (PDF) relieved Forstall of around 95 percent of his Apple holdings, Fortune’s …
