Want to start a tech company? Make sure the word “social” is involved somehow. Social shopping site LivingSocial—second only to social shopping site Groupon—has just raised another $400 million, and is said to be worth over $3 billion now, according to the New York Times.
That’s still quite a bit short of Groupon, which “is said …
Hi Larry. Welcome back to your position as CEO of Google. Did you find your desk okay? Great. Do you have your HR paperwork? Great.
Oh, I see you’ve already bid $900 million on Nortel patents today. That’s aggressive. I like it. Let’s go with it.
Google under Eric Schmidt made money and enjoyed high stock prices. Google with …
Apple can pat itself as well as the iPad on the back for helping pull its iOS family into first place and ahead of Android for overall web use, according to SEO firm ROI365.
Analyzing data from four million unique visitors and multiple websites, ROI365 found that while Android users enjoy a slight “web visits” lead over Apple’s …
In case you hadn’t heard, AT&T and T-Mobile could soon become one. But what does that mean for the rest of us?
All good news for AT&T customers, says AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson, so, you know, take the following comments with a grain of salt.
Stephenson says that if the merger is approved, the network will improve up to …
Actually, it’s not a joke. Four big studios are rolling out “premium VOD,” and they want you to pay $30 to watch a movie. The service will actually let users view recent movies that haven’t hit DVD yet.
Warner Bros., Sony, Universal and 20th Century Fox will let the charges roll through its”Home Premiere.” It only includes …
Earlier this month, analysts predict that Cupertino-based Apple would outpace IBM by 2013, and would eventually bring in over $200 billion in revenue. It might be really soon, but forecasters say Apple will hit its first $100 billion in revenue this year.
Due to demand in recent years, the company is expected to report the profit …
We Americans love our Netflix, but evidence suggests the video-on-demand service is at least thinking to pushing its service beyond Lady Liberty’s shores. Engadget reported that Netflix may be looking to expand based on some facts they unearthed.
What’s this evidence? The blog found some job postings online for the company that …
It’s clear that Microsoft doesn’t want to be left behind. Reports are saying that the company is jumping on the bandwagon, along with Google and Apple to develop a mobile payment system.
According to Bloomberg sources, the first Windows 7 phones to sport the new devices would be released later this year. It’s an effort to close …
Can’t say no one saw this one coming. Yesterday, Sprint made it known they aren’t happy about the pending AT&T and T-Mobile merger. At all.
General predictions forecasted that Sprint would be on the losing end if regulators approve the deal. If it happens, Sprint will have to play the role of lone wolf in its fight against Verizon …
The online retailer just beat everyone to the punch and launched Amazon Cloud Player, a cloud-based media streaming service for web browsers and Android. What’s that, Google and Apple is playing catch up to Amazon now? Yup.
Amazon Cloud Player is a free music locker service for the web, and all songs purchased from Amazon’s MP3 …
No need to pay double! Kindle readers who were already shelling out $20 per month will receive free access to the New York Times website. Users will get more instructions in the “coming weeks.” Yeah, well, I guess you were already paying for it.
Still, it’s not as cheap as home delivery, which grants you free-for-all access. And …
American Express has just announced “Serve,” which the company touts as “a digital payment and commerce platform that gives consumers a new way to spend, send and receive money with services that go beyond the existing global payment networks.”
You set up an account online at serve.com and dump money into it from an existing bank …
