10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (FB, AAPL)
Good morning. News: It turns out Instagram only cost Facebook $715 million, not $1 billion. (Mostly because Facebook's stock price cratered.) Jack Dorsey may have stopped working at Twitter so much,...
View ArticleApple Fans Are Angry About The New iPads (AAPL)
The fanfare of Apple's (AAPL) announcement of two new iPads Tuesday quickly gave way to backlash from consumers who say the short life span of Apple products is becoming wearisome -- and expensive....
View ArticleAMD Can't Fire Workers Fast Enough As Costs Spiral Out Control In Cash Crises...
Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the long-struggling competitor of giant rival Intel Corp., is facing yet another crisis amid a shifting technology landscape and declining demand for...
View ArticleApple Laptop Lineup Is 'Unwieldy And Strange' (AAPL)
Apple now sells the following laptop models: an 11” MacBook Air, a 13” MacBook Air, a 13” MacBook Pro, a 13” Retina MacBook Pro, a 15” MacBook Pro, a 15” Retina MacBook Pro. MG Siegler calls this an...
View ArticleApple Has A Wild Card Earnings Report Coming Today (AAPL)
Apple reports earnings after the market closes (around 4 PM eastern), and we'll have the numbers as soon as they hit, so tune in. We're not sure what to expect from Apple this quarter. Apple has missed...
View ArticleEven Gruber Says Apple Passed Up 'A Sure Thing' Charging So Much For The iPad...
A lot of people are upset about the iPad Mini's price. Even John Gruber of Daring Fireball says that Apple passed on a "sure thing" making the iPad so much more expensive than Google's Nexus 7 or the...
View ArticleCitigroup's Star Tech Analyst Mark Mahaney Fired After Leaks To TechCrunch...
Mark Mahaney, a star tech analyst at Citigroup, was just fired. He got canned because one of Mahaney's junior associates leaked information about the bank's views on the Facebook IPO to TechCrunch...
View ArticleThe 25 Worst Passwords Of 2012, According To Hackers
This could easily be remembered as the Year of the Data Breach. Big corporations like Yahoo!, Bank of America, LinkedIn, Visa, and Barnes & Noble all fell victim to massive hacker attacks, putting...
View ArticleAfter Two Weeks Of Testing, Facebook Is Actually Revving Up Its Pinterest...
A small hiccup for Facebook's latest attempt at weaving e-commerce into its site. Collections, a feature which let Facebook users place items that interested them in visual lists, similar to a service...
View ArticleA Silicon Valley Executive Was Just Charged With Tipping Off Raj Rajaratnam
The SEC has charged a Silicon Valley executive with tipping off Raj Rajaratnam about a stock short opportunity. The agency alleges Kris Chellam tipped Rajaratnam in December 2006 with confidential...
View ArticleHere Are The First Windows 8 Apps You Really Need To Install (MSFT)
Windows 8 is out and in stores today. After you figure out which version you need and make sure your computer can support it, which apps should you install?Netflix Your favorite movies and television...
View ArticleSales Of Wall Street's Favorite Computer Have Stagnated
Perhaps this is an indicator of how Wall Street is really doing. Via Zerohedge, the New York Post's Keith J. Kelley reports that Bloomberg LP has grown its Bloomberg Terminal sales by only ~1,000 units...
View ArticleMOBILE ADVERTISING'S DARKEST SECRET: Here's The REAL Error Rate For 'Fat...
Up to 50% of the impressions served on a static mobile banner ad are from accidental clicks or "fat finger" taps, according to GoldSpot Media's "Fat Finger Report." Accidental clicks or "fat finger"...
View ArticleBII REPORT: The State of App Store Discovery
Ever since Apple introduced the App Store—and with it, the mobile app—in 2008, growth has been enormous. If the current growth rate holds, 25 billion apps will be downloaded in 2012. With that growth,...
View ArticleGoogle's Cloud Goes Down Affecting Lots Of Websites (GOOG, AMZN)
Twitter complaints are flying today over an outage of Google App Engine which has brought down several popular services. Google App Engine is an operation similar to Amazon Web Services. It hosts other...
View ArticleHere's Some More Info About The Citi Junior Analyst Who Leaked Facebook IPO...
Citigroup's Internet analyst Mark Mahaney was fired today after the firm was fined $2 million by the state of Massachusetts for disclosure violations during the Facebook IPO. One of Mahaney's junior...
View Article4 Months After Its Launch, Pinterest Sent A Pretty Unimpressive Email To Its...
Ben Silbermann is the CEO and cofounder of Pinterest. Pinterest is now the third-largest source of traffic to other websites, thanks to the rabid passion of its users for "pinning" interesting images...
View ArticleTumblr Is Back*
You'll have to get your Friday GIF fix elsewhere for now. Maybe Buzzfeed? Also, what happened to the Tumbeasts? UPDATE 2:00 p.m. Eastern: Tumblr is back! Enjoy! Please follow SAI on Twitter and...
View ArticleLeaked: Here's Google's First 10-Inch Tablet (GOOG)
Google and Samsung are expected to unveil a new 10-inch tablet called the Nexus 10 at the big Android press event in New York on October 29. Little is known about the device, but we finally have the...
View ArticleApple's Pandora-Killer Makes A Lot Of Sense (AAPL)
Apple is starting its own streaming radio service, and that spells bad news for Pandora. Find out why Pandora is screwed below: <div>Please enable Javascript to...
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