President Obama participated in a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters yesterday. The event was streamed live online, with Obama taking questions from the live crowd and from Facebook users via the site.
(TIME.com: In Silicon Valley, President Obama Gets the Facebook Pokey Pokey)
The president outlined his plans to reduce …
Well, that’s a new one. So it’s probably a no-brainer that those who are young are more likely to say “no way, Grandpa” to a landline, but a study shows that just how poor you are may determine whether you’ll decide to cut the cord.
The National Center for Health Statistics released a study which revealed that 40 percent of …
With today’s estimated $135 million acquisition of Where.com – the hyperlocal media company that will soon offer deals based on user geotargeting – eBay not only adds another channel to its growing number of revenue streams, but also plants its foot firmly in the growing world of offline commerce.
Under eBay’s PayPal arm, …
After Verizon launched its iPhone in February, predictions for the fate of former iPhone-exclusive heavyweight AT&T were less than winning: revenue losses and a mass exodus of customers.
It looks like all those analysts and pundits were overly dour. AT&T is reporting that even with the added competition, profits during the first …
Most fighting game franchises–Street Fighter, Tekken and the like–don’t try to convince players that pain’s being dished out in agonizing quantities. Believing that Ryu’s roundhouse kick actually hurts requires a suspension of disbelief on the player’s part.
Not so with the new Mortal Kombat. These brawls clearly hurt.
The …
If space-based telescopes could tipple, they probably wouldn’t need to–not with images like the one above on tap. NASA’s celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 21st birthday (hey, it’s legal!) with an image that almost resembles starry petals on some vast and distant heavenly rose.
You’re in fact staring at a shot of two …
A plastic surgeon gets sued for 5 million Euro after supposedly botching a breast job and a high school principal gets a ticket for urinating in public. Both want the links to these accounts removed from Google.
It’s bad for business.
These are just two of the 90 people in Spain that have successfully convinced the country’s “Data …
Plenty of CEOs earn a symbolic $1 per year, but according to The Wall Street Journal, Google’s Eric Schmidt will be getting a significant raise as the Internet search company’s Executive Chairman, in which he’ll be going from a reported single dollar a year to a slightly better $1.25 million.
To top things off, he’ll also be making an …
Poor PSPGo, we hardly knew ye. Via Kotaku comes word that Sony will cease manufacturing of the digital-only variant of their gaming handheld. They’re stopping production of the PSPGo to focus on the upcoming NGP, the touch-centric, dual-stick device they announced earlier this year.
A price cut in February failed to ignite interest in …
During Monday’s Pulitzer announcement, the Internet was a frenzied mix of Google searches for “Goon Squad,” links to moving photos and “WTF?” remarks about the vacant spot in the winners list in the Breaking News category, the first time in history the award wasn’t given.
That night, Poynter revealed the Pulitzer Board’s reason for …
Silicon Valley blogger Louis Gray says he’s doing just that. He’s fed up with physical things in his home.
Movies, music, books, news – all of it comes to Gray electronically these days. There’s just no sense in hanging on to the physical ghosts of the past, so he’s letting them go. “I’m digital only from here,” he declared.
This …
Another day, another iPhone 5 rumor: according to Reuters, the iPhone 5 will ship in September.
Surprising a total of zero people, the new phone is said to have a “faster processor” (hands up who thought Apple might be dropping to a slower one?), three anonymous sources told Reuters staff.
Production starts in July and completed …