An Ex-AOLer And A Bunch Of Yahoos Got Millions Of Dollars From Andreessen...
Enterprise apps aren't nearly as popular as their consumer counterparts. This is because large companies typically have to worry about security, usability, and productivity.Tomfoolery is a new startup...
View ArticleEXPOSED: Twitter's Food-Porn Problem
You may have heard about the porn problems Twitter's been having with its new Vine video app.Yes, well, it may have solved those—but what about the far more serious problem of food porn?Twitter ran...
View ArticleInstagram Whiners: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
In a short phrase, Instafocus is "paid Instagram."In the same way that developer Dalton Caldwell wants people to pay a one-time $50 fee for App.net, a spam-free and ad-free Twitter alternative, Jeremy...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: The Rise And Fall Of Personal Computing
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.The Rise And...
View ArticleAfter A Brief Outage Amazon.com Is Back (AMZN)
Update: As of 3:30 p.m. EST Amazon.com is back.At approximately 3 p.m. this afternoon Amazon.com was unreachable.IsItDownRightNow says Amazon's servers are now reachable.The interruption seemed to be...
View ArticleMotorola Confirms Through Job Posting That It's Working On A Top-Secret 'X...
Motorola posted a job opening on LinkedIn this week searching for a product manager for an upcoming smartphone called the X Phone. If that sounds familiar, it's because the WSJ reported in December...
View Article10 Essential Gadgets For Road Warriors
Busy road warriors have to be able to make the most out of any situation they find themselves in.Whether they're waiting at the airport, on an airplane, or driving on the open road, road warriors need...
View ArticleChinese Hackers Have Been Attacking The New York Times For Months
For the past four months the New York Times has been under attack by Chinese hackers, the newspaper says.The hackers were able to "infiltrate its computer systems" and get passwords from reporters and...
View ArticleBII REPORT: How Mobile Is Waging Battle For The Multi-Screen Living Room
For over a decade, big tech companies, including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, have been promising to take over the living room.But home entertainment has proved a hard business to crack, and consumers...
View ArticleThere's A Reason Bill Gates And Jeff Bezos Both Call Washington State Home
Why does the wealthiest man in America live in Washington?The answer is in a report released this week by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.Washington’s tax system is the most disjointed in...
View ArticleNow Facebook Hopes Starbucks Will Wake Up Its Birthday-Gifts Business (FB, SBUX)
It's your friend's birthday! Want to buy them a Starbucks card?That's the latest way Facebook is trying to get users, used to posting simple, free birthday wishes on friends' walls, to spend money...
View ArticlePirate King Kim Dotcom Is Cracking Down On Piracy
It only took a few days for some sneaky pirates to transform Kim Dotcom's totally legal new file-storage hub Mega into a file-sharing site that mimicked the old Megaupload, and it's only taken the last...
View ArticleNow It's Up To The FCC To Okay Google Glass (GOOG)
Google has filed an application for Google Glass, its futuristic, Internet-connected headset, has arrived at the Federal Communications Commission, according to Engadget.The FCC approves electronic...
View ArticlePinterest Needs To Hurry Up And Monetize Before Its Competitors Get Any Bigger
At 28 million visitors a month, Pinterest's traffic is monumental, but it is taking its sweet time to explain how it plans to make money from the huge number of people who share images they find...
View ArticleREVIEW: Samsung's New Windows Phone (VZ, MSFT)
Samsung's Ativ Odyssey is another low-price phone on Verizon, but here's a key thing making it noteworthy – it's Samsung's first US phone to run Windows Phone 8.Click here to go straight to the...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: The Decline Of The Mac
Mac shipments dropped 22 percent during the December 2012 quarter, marking their biggest decline in about 10 years, Dan Frommer of SplatF reports.Apple shipped 778,000 fewer Macs in 2012 than it did in...
View ArticleWhy The Entire TV Industry Will Be Watching Netflix's 'House Of Cards' Gamble
Netflix is set to enter the original content space in a big way with the release of House of Cards, a long-anticipated original series featuring Kevin Spacey as Rep. Frank Underwood, a ruthless...
View ArticleBill Gates: Polio Will Be Eradicated In Six Years
In another six years, polio will be wiped off the planet, Bill Gates said on an interview on the "Colbert Report."This will be only the second time in human history that we eradicated a disease. (Can...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Samsung's Ativ Odyssey
Samsung's Ativ Odyssey is the company's first US phone that runs Window Phone 8.It's a very basic smartphone that we weren't too sold on, but, hey, maybe you'll like it anyway.Here's the lock...
View ArticleDell Could Go Private By Monday (DELL)
NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Dell Inc is nearing an agreement to sell itself to a buyout consortium led by its founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners,...
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