Intel is betting big on small, announcing a deal with Google to get future Android-based devices running on Intel chips, along with a plan (not involving Google) for much more efficient power management features for thin-and-light ultrabooks that’ll be hitting the market soon.
The company has been chasing after the mobile segment for …
It looks like both Apple’s iPad 2 and RIM’s PlayBook took a fairly big bite out of Android OS’s tablet market share in the second quarter of 2011. Market intelligence firm International Data Corporation reports that iPad 2 market share rose in Q2 2011, while Android’s collective tablet market share fell precipitously.
RIM’s PlayBook …
Google launched its very own flight search and wants to completely dominate your life. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, now this? I’m kidding. Well… sort of.
Google’s flight search is set up with some pretty basic parameters: You can input your origin, destination, price, duration and tweak a bunch of filters for other …
Imagine a Netflix… for books. Wait – isn’t my Netflix subscription ending soon? What will I do without it? Is it time to stop watching the boob tube and start reading? Luckily for me, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon, Lord of the Kindles, may be in talks with book publishers to launch a monthly book subscription …
Bloomberg is reporting that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is in preliminary talks with Yahoo officials “to gauge its interest in combining the companies,” according to two anonymous sources.
This comes during a week in which both companies had their fair share of controversies: Yahoo, with the embarrassing public ousting of former CEO Carol …
I’m not sure what the blogosphere’s having more fun with: watching the brouhaha escalate over former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s colorful comments about Yahoo’s board of directors, or just reprinting what she said without asterisks.
Yes, Bartz was rather coarse when she told Fortune that the board “fucked [her] over” in her first public …
Alas, the poor Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, we knew it well, but not in Germany, where a German district court ruled on Friday—it seems once and for all—that Samsung can no longer sell it, because, in so many words, it’s too much like Apple’s iPad 2. Worse still for Samsung, that means German retailers are banned from selling it …
When Carol Bartz announced that she’d been dismissed as Yahoo’s CEO (over a phone call, no less), she quickly left her hotel and scribbled an email on her iPad to blast to the company’s 13,400 employees.
It was a move so boldly 21st century that it made many (including us) like her a little bit more.
Now Bartz—a woman who once …
You’ve come a looong way from the dorm room, Mark Zuckerberg. Reuters recently reported that Facebook’s revenue has doubled to $1.6 billion in the first half of this fiscal year. I’m guessing Zuckerberg has forgotten about those instant noodles a long time ago.
The figure is nearly double what Facebook made in the first half of …
Amidst news of Yahoo’s ousting of CEO Carol Bartz, the Wall Street Journal cites “people familiar with the matter” as saying that the beleaguered search company is “open to selling itself to the right bidder.”
Yahoo is also expected to undergo a “strategic review” by outside advisers, though such a review would be intended to explore …
Yahoo has fired its CEO, Carol Bartz. Tim Morse, Yahoo’s chief financial officer, will be stepping in to act as CEO in the meantime. It turns out that Bartz was fired over the phone (because face-to-face interaction is so important these days). In true geeked out fashion, Bartz confirmed her removal in an email to Yahoo employees sent …
Viva la Netflix. While you were kicking back on Labor Day, Netflix launched their own version down south. By that, I mean pretty far down south, like as in Latin America and the Caribbean. Brazil will be the first country to get it; more countries will follow in the coming weeks.
In total, nearly 43 countries and territories will get …
