Drivers around the globe purchased nearly a quarter million Toyota Priuses in the first quarter of 2012. That makes the Prius the world’s third best-selling car—and it firmly establishes the fact that this hybrid is not a fluke or a passing trend.
via Toyota Prius: Now in Top Three in Sales Worldwide | Moneyland | TIME.com.
Remember last year when Google bought tried-and-true restaurant guide Zagat? Well, apparently it was all leading up to this: Google+ Local.
It’s basically Google’s answer to Yelp, except instead of vague five-star ratings for …
Apple has a problem. The opposite of Facebook’s problem. It’s undervalued and likely to stay that way.
via Why Doesn’t Apple Get More Respect In the Stock Market? | Business | TIME.com.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a way to discern the sincerity—and level of frustration—associated with your grin.
via MIT Researchers Decode Your Smile | NewsFeed | TIME.com.
Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi moved from the company’s Online Services Business, where he was involved in MSN’s mid-2000s profit turnaround, to its Interactive Entertainment Division (overseeing the Xbox 360) last November. At …
Here’s a handful of interesting tech stories from around the web for Wednesday, May 30.
Tim Cook at D10 on Steve Jobs, Apple TV and Facebook [All Things D]
The Apple CEO was unwilling to tackle questions about any future
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Over the past few years, smartphones have made some incredible leaps and bounds in terms of hardware — to the point that it’s hard to imagine how the technology will continue to impress.
Still, there are a handful of new …
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Michael Mace is a former executive at Palm and Apple, and the CEO of a bootstrapped startup named Zekira. He also blogs at Mobile Opportunity, and his latest item, about Windows 8’s prospects, is the best thing I’ve read about …
The Xbox 360 has long ceased to be just a gaming machine, which is why today’s announcement that Amazon’s Instant Video service is coming to the console makes sense.
The Amazon Instant Video app will allow subscribers to …
My memories of the original Game Boy are inextricably linked with the Tetris theme, a jaunty 8-bit rendition of the Russian folk song Korobeiniki playing out of tinny speakers. It was addictive, yes, but not something you would …
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It was already all but official. Now it is official: Apple will kick off its WWDC developer confab in San Francisco with a keynote on June 11.
It seems safe to assume that the keynote will feature Apple CEO Tim Cook and other …
Facebook is working on its own smartphone — no, seriously this time.
The New York Times reports that Facebook intends to launch a phone by next year, citing unnamed Facebook employees, engineers that the company sought to …
