Daily shopping deals website Groupon has been holding pre-IPO talks valuing it at up to $25 billion, according to anonymous sources quoted by Bloomberg in a lengthy interview with company founder Andrew Mason.
If it did reach that target, it would make Groupon the biggest IPO ever, knocking Google’s 2004 total of $24.6 billion off the
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A little angry when you booted up your Angry Birds? Well, if you have the HD version, you’ll be able to see why if you updated the iPad app last night. In addition to 15 new levels, and a new golden egg, advertisements have snuck their way in. And they’re not the nice kind.
Sometimes its fine if they’re tucked away in a place …
For those of us who’ve had the frustrating experience of trying to use Gmail on iPhone Safari, some small measure of relief is at hand: Google has introduced a connection bar that’ll let you know just how (un)successful your emailing attempts have been.
The connection bar launches when you launch Gmail in Safari, appearing at the …
Doug’s already written about an early rumor that Amazon might be launching its own App Store and tablet device, but now comes signs that the first part of the rumored plan could be true.
Androidnews.de reported that an amazon.com/apps URL was live in the last 24 hours but has since been shut down. Screen caps from the purported …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about Xombi #1 and the Fear Itself: Book of the Skull one-shot.
DOUGLAS: The first rule of superhero comics is: Everything always comes back. No, seriously, …
BitTorrent is regarded as a dirty word in Hollywood, because the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol is often used for distributing pirated movies.
But for the world premiere of Australian horror flick The Tunnel, Paramount Pictures is embracing BitTorrent by offering the movie as a free download. The goal is to drum up enough interest …
Have you noticed less spam in your inbox today? Maybe not, but you can rest assured that less will be coming your way soon, thanks to the takedown of something called the Rustock botnet, one of the world’s most active spam-generators.
The takedown seems to have been the work of “anti-spam activists,” with the amount of spam emails …
Less than a week after launching an iPad app that allowed subscribers to watch 32 channels on their mobile device, Time Warner Cable is at the center of a strange story about the temporary disappearance of 17 of those channels.
Officially, TWC temporarily removed 17 channels on Wednesday because demand was overwhelming TWC’s servers – …
Typically, “supply chain” is a phrase that only business executives get excited about. Yet in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis, the world is starting to discover just how important those chains of supplies are. Sever or stress a single link, and the chain comes apart — affecting not only what’s …
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My TIME.com column this week is about the golden age of Web browsers we’re currently living in–and especially the release this week of Internet Explorer 9. The browser, which debuted on Monday at the South by Southwest Interactive geekfest in Austin, is the best new Microsoft browser in eons. It’s on a par with other major browsers in …
European politicians are a circumspect bunch: they don’t tend to call out American tech companies directly. Still, the speech that European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding delivered yesterday left little doubt that the European Union is giving Facebook and Google Street View the stinkeye over …
Everyone loves a smackdown, so how about one that proves whether Google’s Android or Apple’s iPhone is faster? And from a disinterested third-party researcher to boot?
Blaze Software says it ran a whopping 45,000 tests to prove whose browser was really king of the mobile mountain. The results: Android’s Chrome browser was an …
