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Now That Zynga's Earnings Are Out, Here Are Three Questions Mark Pincus Must...
Zynga's fourth-quarter earnings are out.The headline numbers:Q4 revenue of $311 million, flat year-over-year, and bookings of $261 million, down 15% year-over-yearQ4 net loss of $48.6 million, down 89%...
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Pinterest Is In Talks To Raise A New Round At A $2.5 Billion Valuation
Pinterest is in talks to raise another round of funding, this time at a $2-$2.5 billion valuation, Pui-Wing Tam and Spencer Ante of the Wall Street Journal report.The fund-raising appears to be in the...
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A Startup Car-Sharing Service Has Neatly Sidestepped Zipcar's Biggest Problem
In early January, Avis Budget acquired the car-sharing service Zipcar for $500 million, although Zipcar had made just $4.7 million in profits in the past year.That may prove to be a smart move for...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Samsung Takes Over The Android Brand (GOOG, AAPL)
Samsung is slowly but surely taking over the Android brand, according to this Google Trends chart.Analyst Benedict Evans first posted this chart. He believes a big part of the rise can be attributed to...
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Piracy Sites Are Raking In Ad Money From Some Of The World's Biggest Brands
Sites such as Pirate Bay often portray themselves as altruistic, non-profit "freedom fighters", when the truth is they're nothing of the sort – their exploitation of artists for their own monetary gain...
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Sheryl Sandberg Has Been Ordering People Around Since She Was A Child (FB)
In a new book, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg writes about the difficulties of being a woman in a man's corporate world.Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, due to come out next week, is filled...
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Here's Why Zynga May Have To Come Crawling Back To Facebook After All (ZNGA, FB)
In Zynga's fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Pincus got a question about how his company is going to recreate the awesome viral effects it used to have on Facebook as players shift to mobile.That...
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9 Apps That'll Make You Smarter (AAPL, GOOG)
Feeling a little bit of the winter slump?Not as sharp as you'd like to be?Take refuge in your mobile device – there are a number of apps ready to help you shake the dust out of your head.Whether you...
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Twitter Cofounder Jack Dorsey Just Posted His Baby Photos On Vine
Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey just highlighted a new way to use Vine, his company's app for sharing short, simply edited videos.He snapped a bunch of old photos of himself, going back to baby pics....
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Twitter Confirms Its Purchase Of Bluefin Labs
As Business Insider first reported yesterday, Twitter has bought Bluefin Labs, the Cambridge, Mass.-based maker of tools for measuring the impact of social media on TV viewing.Twitter COO Ali Rowghani...
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Cisco Just Published A Massive, Detailed Report Predicting The State Of...
Cisco predicts that, by 2017, smartphones and tablets will consume three times more data on service providers networks than the entire, desktop Internet.What are the ramifications for this massive...
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REVIEW: Microsoft's New Tablet, The Surface Pro (MSFT)
Microsoft isn't finished improving the Surface tablet.This week, the company will release an advanced version of its first tablet called the Surface Pro that's essentially a full-fledged Windows 8...
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Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft's New Surface Pro Tablet (MSFT)
Microsoft's newest tablet, the Surface Pro launches this week for $899 and up.You can read the full review of the Surface Pro here, but you should also check out our tour of the device's best features...
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VIDEO REVIEW: Microsoft's Surface Pro Tablet (MSFT)
Microsoft will launch its newest tablet, the Surface Pro, in the U.S. and Canada this week starting at $899. Check out some of the most important features of the Surface Pro in our video review below....
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An Interview With Tami Reller, One Of Microsoft's New Bosses For Windows (MSFT)
This is another big week for Microsoft. In a few days it'll launch the Surface Pro, a premium version of the Surface tablet that's powerful enough to replace your regular laptop. And Windows 8,...
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'This Isn't Yammer Anymore' (MSFT)
Yammer CEO David Sacks will shortly face a bunch of angry employees with a lot of questions about the Microsoft-owned company's recent layoffs.TechCrunch reported Thursday that Yammer, a maker of...
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Eric Schmidt Is Going To Dump Almost Half His Stake In Google (GOOG)
Google chairman Eric Schmidt plans to sell just under half his stake in the company, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Friday.Schmidt owns 7.6 million...
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BII REPORT: Why The "Second Screen" Industry Is Set To Explode
Watching television while also using a smartphone or tablet is one of the most popular leisure activities of the mobile era. The mobile industry is working hard to create mobile apps and sites that...
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It Will Be Hard To Stop The Rise Of Revenge Porn
There is a seedy underbelly of the internet where people post nude or otherwise compromising photos of their ex-girlfriends or boyfriends for anyone to see, sometimes to get back at a lover who jilted...
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How Facebook's Impending Deal For Microsoft's Atlas Fits In With Its Plan For...
In early December, we said that Facebook was looking to purchase Microsoft's Atlas Solutions— a deal that could turn the social network into a true rival to Google. And it looks like the buy is going...
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