A unnamed Samsung official said that they hope to move 330 million handsets next year, an 18 percent increase from 2010, according to Reuters. It’s a bold number to state, especially because Samsung only sold 195 million units by the end of the third quarter of 2010. They’re expected to close out the year with a solid 280 million, and …
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Will StumbleUpon Redefine Internet Advertising?
StumbleUpon’s ability to propagate viral material online is normally enjoyed by Internet junkies who just want to find out what’s out there on the web. But, founder and CEO Garrett Camp is banking that the site can be much more than that. With new options to be launched early next year, they believe they may have the next evolution …
AOL Plans Merger With Yahoo
AOL Inc. is strongly considering dividing the company, a move that could ultimately lead to a merger with Yahoo, sources told Reuters.
(More on Techland: AOL’s Project Phoenix: E-mail Is Innovative Again)
Talks of a breakup come after years of complicated and somewhat disappointing strategies that came to a head since in 2009 when …
Man Raises Over $500,000 to Build iPod Watches
When Apple announced its new 1.5-inch touchscreen iPod Nano in early September, it didn’t take long before people started dreaming of making the tiny music player into a wristwatch.
About two weeks ago, a Chicago-area designer named Scott Wilson turned to fundraising site Kickstarter.com to try to drum up some financial support for …
Will Influx of Netflix Instant Streaming Break The Internet?
The addition of Netflix’s streaming only plan has had many people excited. With a good portion of their movie and TV catalogue online, paying $7.99 for immediate unlimited legal, crystal clear video is barely nothing compared to cable plans and buying a television. The anticipated increase of Netflix online subscribers has some people …
LivingSocial Announces $175 Million Investment From Amazon
Online shopping powerhouse Amazon has invested $175 million into daily deal site LivingSocial.com, the company announced Thursday.
(More On TIME: Groupon Becomes Social Shopping Network)
While we wait to hear about the possible purchase of competitor Groupon by Google via a rumored $6 billion deal, it appears Amazon and …
Bad Company: How Poor Service Upped One Site’s Google Rank
For website owners, a spot on the first page of Google’s search results for a given query is the holy grail. Google uses a proprietary algorithm to determine a site’s influence on the web and assigns it a “Page Rank,” named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
Though the full details of how the Page Rank system works are a …
Cyber Monday Spending Breaks $1 Billion
For those of you who made an online purchase on Cyber Monday, congratulations you helped set the record for the biggest shopping day in online history. About $1.3 billion dollars was spent the Monday after Thanksgiving alone, up 16 percent since last year, according to comScore.
(More on TIME.com: How To Track Your Black Friday and …
US & China Crack Down on Product Piracy
Before you try to buy that counterfeit knockoff to save some bucks, know that two of the largest governments in the world might be keeping a closer eye on eye on you. Yesterday, the US made several moves to block web sites that were known to sell counterfeit items and goods that infringed on intellectual property rights. China added that …
Google’s Practices Under Investigation By EU Regulators
European Union regulators are looking into Google’s business practices to see if their model has not forced many search engines out of business by using their dominant position in the market. Reports alleged that the company purposely put their rival websites lower in their search engine results to drive down traffic to those sites, …
Why I’m Addicted to Amazon
When you’re a tech journalist, writing about Black Friday is obligatory. But the whole idea drives me nuts. So for this week’s Technologizer column for TIME.com, I decided to wait until the week after Thanksgiving, and then share five tips for opting out of Black Friday but still getting good deals on gadgets.
But I could have added a …
Facebook Alum Starts "Jumo" Social Network for Charities
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has taken the wraps off of Jumo, a social networking site focused on helping people find and support reputable charities. Hughes told the New York Times that he hopes the site will do for charities “what Yelp did for restaurants.”
Eligible charities must be certified as tax-exempt organizations to …
