Google finally settles its two-year EU inquisition

April 15, 2013 1:56 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Google has proposed a settlement to the European Commission that involves making legally binding changes to its search results in Europe. If this agreement is adopted, Google will change its results page by clearly highlighting search results from its own services and including links to rivals.

Trouble in Toyland: Apple stock down $19B, iPhone orders cut, price targets reduced

December 14, 2012 11:19 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Wall Street and Apple are not cozy bedfellows this morning. Apple's stock is down another $20 billion this morning in early trading on reports of iPhone component order cuts and softening demand.

Does your startup do good? Intel competition rewards social entrepreneurship

November 10, 2012 1:43 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

It's not nearly often enough that we hear about startup ideas that address global hunger, fuel inefficiency, or support the deaf and blind.

Build a better buggy: registration opens for NASA’s 20th annual moonbuggy race

November 7, 2012 8:52 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Can you build a better mousetrap? Or, better yet, an improved moonbuggy?

Verizon grows even larger: FCC approves spectrum deal with big cable

August 23, 2012 5:25 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Federal Communications Committee has approved a deal that will see Verizon purchase a portion of wireless spectrum from a handful of big cable television providers.

DOJ wants to know if big cable is unfairly killing the cord-cutting revolution

June 13, 2012 3:14 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

It took a while, but the U.S. Department of Justice is finally acknowledging that big cable companies may have the power to suffocate online video service, which people turn to as an alternative to paying an expensive monthly cable TV …

Apple creating private eatery so you can’t “OH” its employees on Twitter

April 26, 2012 12:13 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Other than the restaurants surrounding Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Silicon Valley has to be one of the best places to eavesdrop. Which is exactly why Apple is building a private, off-campus eatery.

The Cupertino Planning Commission granted Apple permission …

America, keep rewarding your dissidents

February 23, 2012 7:00 AM Vivek Wadhwa, WashingtonPost.com

Editor's Pick

Ever since I became an academic six years ago, I have been one of the biggest critics of U.S. competitiveness policies. I documented, for example, that we had our data wrong when it came to India and China’s advantages in …

Walmart lets gadget companies compete for a spot on its shelves

January 18, 2012 3:36 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Walmart is giving sales teams a rest with its newest campaign called Get on the Shelf.

Walmart Labs, the retail giant’s innovation arm aimed at developing new products for commerce, is hosting the campaign. Get on the Shelf allows companies …

DOJ launches probe into Verizon’s spectrum deal with big cable

December 20, 2011 4:36 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Perhaps Verizon was a bit hasty in its decision to stop growing its FiOS TV and broadband Internet business in favor of wireless partnerships with big cable companies. U.S. regulators have launched a probe into Verizon’s recent wireless spectrum agreements,which …

AT&T willing to divest more of T-Mobile’s assets to ensure merger

November 26, 2011 10:05 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Telcom AT&T may divest a significantly larger portion of assets to ensure that the company’s merger with T-Mobile is completed, according to a Bloomberg report that cites unnamed people familiar with the matter.

AT&T and Deutsche Telekom first announced plans …

Norwegians take top prize in startup competition, with a killer presentation

November 10, 2011 4:21 PM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

When Halvor Gregusson got off the stage, an audience full of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors was cheering and the moderator was giving him a high-five.

Pretty good for a two-minute pitch about a time-tracking tool from a Norwegian startup.…

Despite pushback from Twitter and Facebook, Schmidt says Google is open to partnerships

July 8, 2011 4:43 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Now that Google has its own social network, it’s happy to invite Facebook and Twitter to the party too.

Even though it has launched  Google+, Google is happy to forge partnerships with other social networks, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt …