Everyone Should Copy Facebook's New Texting Feature On Android (FB)
Facebook unveiled its new Android app Facebook Home today. The app takes over your home screen and replaces it with photos, status updates, and comments from your Facebook friends. It's kind of lame...
View ArticleThis Year, Mark Zuckerberg Is Meeting A New Person Every Day (FB)
Every year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives himself a personal challenge.A couple years ago, it was to wear a tie every day. The next, to learn Mandarin. Last year, he swore off all meat that wasn't...
View ArticleThis New Digital Camera Is Perfect For Nostalgic Polaroid Lovers
This is the 14 MP Digital Polaroid Camera from Hammacher Schlemmer.Why We Love It: If you were one of the thousands upset by the end of Polaroid back in 2008 (and excited about its potential...
View ArticleConfirmed: HP's Chairman Ray Lane, Two Other Board Members, Are Stepping Down...
HP's Ray Lane is stepping down as chairman, but will remain on the HP board, the company confirmed today.Ralph Whitworth, a veteran shareholder activist, will run the board temporarily.Ray Lane was one...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Is Teaching A Middle School Class On How To Build A Business...
Here's a cool nugget at the end of a Mark Zuckerberg interview with Steven Levy at Wired:[You donated $100 million to Newark schools.] Why education?It’s not a coincidence—my wife, Priscilla, was a...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Has A Really Good Explanation For Why Facebook Will Never...
Mark Zuckerberg kicked off his presentation of the new Android app Facebook Home today with an explanation why it doesn't make sense for the company to make its own smartphone.It boils down to this:...
View ArticleWhat Were The CEOs Of Dropbox And Tumblr Doing At Facebook Today? (FB)
As we walked into Facebook headquarters today to cover the launch of its new Home app, we ran into Tumblr CEO David Karp.We chatted with Karp, who said he got out to the Bay Area from time to time—as...
View ArticleWait, Do People Really Want To Use Facebook Like *This*? (FB)
Facebookannounced Facebook Home today.It's an application layer that takes over Google's Android, pushing the traditional design with third party applications into the background.Mark Zuckerberg says...
View ArticleHP Will Launch Its Pride-And-Joy Moonshot Servers On Monday (HPQ)
HP is holding a press conference on Monday to officially launch the company's mega important new Moonshot server.HP has pinned a lot of hope on this new product. At HP's annual shareholder's meeting,...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: People Say They Don't Want A Facebook Phone (FB)
This means almost nothing. But, what the heck, we're going to toss it out there any way.According to an online survey of consumers from Retrevo, people didn't want a Facebook phone, or a Facebook phone...
View ArticleIrreverent Hacker's Jail Cell Amplifies His Activism
Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, the hacker who released hundreds of thousands of iPad owners' email addresses, is live-tweeting his 41-month jail term.Auernheimer has remained unapologetic about the...
View ArticleThe Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide
A few months ago, on Sunday, January 27, an entrepreneur named Jody Sherman had plans to see a movie with a friend.But that afternoon, the friend received a call from Jody's wife, Kerri.Jody had gone...
View ArticleThe 10 Biggest Tech Companies You've Never Heard Of
With all the talk about Dell going private so it can revamp itself without Wall Street on its back, we got curious.Who are the biggest private enterprise companies? Better yet, who are the biggest...
View ArticleJohn Doerr Is Coming To Zynga's Rescue (ZNGA)
Zynga, the online games maker, is appointing superstar venture capitalist John Doerr to its board of directors today.Doerr's firm, Kleiner Perkins, owns about 10 percent of Zynga, having backed it in...
View ArticleThe Breakup Of HP Just Got A Lot More Plausible
Hewlett-Packard’s longtime chairman Ray Lane has attracted blame for many of the company’s recent woes. Critics said he was a rubber stamp for HP’s disastrous acquisition of Autonomy in 2011, leading...
View ArticleBlackBerry Is Killing Its Music Streaming Service That No One But BlackBerry...
BlackBerry is killing its BBM Music product, a streaming music service for BlackBerry devices that launched in 2011. The company confirmed the news to The New York Times. BBM Music cost users $5 per...
View ArticleAdvertisers Are Worried Facebook Is Going To 'Invasive, Tedious' Ads On Your...
Advertisers warned Facebook today that its Home application needs to avoid irritating users with its adverts.“Invasive, tedious or over-frequent marketing in such a personal space will be an instant...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Lays Out His Vision For The Future And How The Next 5 Billion...
Yesterday, Facebook announced "Home," a home screen you can add-on to an Android phone.At the end of the show, CEO Mark Zuckerbeg gave a little speech outlining his vision for the future of computing,...
View ArticleApple Has To Release A Bigger iPhone If It Wants To Have Any Chance In China,...
For years, Samsung has been accused of shamelessly ripping off Apple. Well, it might be time for the relationship to work in reverse.Apple has to copy Samsung's big phone style if it wants to capture...
View ArticleT-Mobile Customers: You Can Pre-Order The iPhone 5 Today (DT, AAPL)
T-Mobile, the last major US carrier to sell the iPhone, begins accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 5 today.T-Mobile works its smartphone pricing a bit differently than the other carriers though....
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