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Groupon’s long-delayed IPO is back on track—at least according to Reuters, who quoted sources that “declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.” The Chicago-based company is supposedly planning to announce a roadshow for its initial public offering as early as Monday or Tuesday of next week. This [...]
The problem with suing a company like Facebook is that sometimes people don’t travel much beyond hearing the words “suing a company like Facebook” before getting defensive about their chosen social network. No wonder, then, that Timelines.com is taking to the Internet to explain why it’s trying to defend itself from being crushed by the [...]
Good news, Neil deGrasse Tyson fans: Your favorite astrophysicist and company will soon be coming to Amazon. The company announced today that it has struck a deal with PBS Distribution to bring more than 1,000 episodes of PBS shows such as NOVA, Antique Roadshow and Frontline to its Amazon Prime service.
How social you are on social networks may depend on the size of your brain, according to new research. Or, at least, the size of your superior temporal sulcus, middle temporal gyrus, entorhinal cortex and amygdalae.
On Wednesday, Google and Samsung announced the Galaxy Nexus smartphone (previously rumored as the “Nexus Prime”). But a phone is only as good as its software, and Android Ice Cream Sandwich, which will debut on the Galaxy Nexus, is a major update that will eventually be the standard for Android phones and tablets.
The Steve Jobs tributes keep coming, from temporary Apple Store closings to Jobs’ official biography, due out next Monday. Add Apple’s new, presumably long-term and maybe even permanent Steve Jobs tribute page to the list.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that the new Silk browser in Amazon’s forthcoming Kindle Fire tablet, which speeds browsing by routing users’ traffic through Amazon’s cloud servers, does not pose a privacy threat to users.
Rumors of Google opening its own online music store have been floating around for quite some time, especially after the company launched its own cloud music service earlier this year. According to Google’s SVP of Mobile, Andrew Rubin, however, the service may appear sooner than many thought.
Are you ready for some multi-touch gestures used mainly in preparation for some football? The NFL is. It appears the iPad is taking the place of musty old playbooks in several locker rooms across the country. According to the New York Times, the Baltimore Ravens bought 120 of them during the off-season, which in retrospect [...]
Bumped from its original planned “holiday 2011″ release window, Sony’s PlayStation Vita will finally hit the U.S. (and pretty much everywhere else, worldwide) on February 22, 2012, roughly two months after Sony’s powerhouse gaming portable goes on sale in Japan.
When I wrote about the new Droid RAZR yesterday morning I hadn’t seen one in person. A few hours later, I visited with representatives of Motorola and Verizon and got a demo and a bit of hands-on time.
