News Corp Threatens To Take Fox Shows To A Paid Cable Network If It Loses Its...
News Corp's COO Chase Carey told attendees at the National Association of Broadcasters conference today that the company could move Fox programming to a paid cable network if it loses its lawsuit...
View ArticleA Quarter Of U.S. Consumers Own A Laptop, Tablet And A Smartphone
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 Dramatic...
View ArticleFormer TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde: I Don't Believe Arrington Abused Women
Heather Harde says she does not believe Michael Arrington is a rapist or abuser of women.Last week, a former girlfriend of TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's posted a nearly incohorent status...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: What Facebook Got Wrong About How People Use Their...
Mark Zuckerberg had a strong case this week for why Facebook is making its new Home app for Android that replaces your normal Android home screen. According to Zuckerberg, smartphone users spend more...
View ArticleHere's What Elon Musk Had To Say About Sarah Palin Calling Tesla A 'Loser'
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk was not bothered by a Facebook post in which Sarah Palin called his electric car company a "loser."In the post, published Friday, Palin criticized Fisker Automotive and other...
View ArticleMobile Search: How Smartphones Are Disrupting The Internet's Biggest Business
Search — the very cornerstone of the Web — has begun to show signs of decline on desktops and laptops. Meanwhile, search is surging on smartphones and tablets. Mobile searches are quickly becoming the...
View ArticleRock Band Yeah Yeah Yeahs Don't Want You Using A Smartphone At Their Shows
Last night, indie rockers Yeah Yeah Yeahs posted a new rule for concertgoers at their show in Webster Hall in New York."Please Do Not Watch The Show Through A Screen," read the sign, which was tweeted...
View ArticleSo... Will Apple Hire Ron Johnson Back To Run Retail? (AAPL)
Ron Johnson is out as JC Penney CEO, according to CNBC.Now everyone is making the same joke: Cool! He can go back to Apple.Johnson got the Penney job because Apple's retail stores were phenomenal...
View ArticleThe Electric Car Is Dead All Over Again
The dream of an electric car that's both affordable and practical has eluded automakers, and will likely do so for another decade.The problem is a lack of cheap, powerful battery technology that keeps...
View ArticleHere's Ron Johnson's Complete Failed Plan To Turn Around JCPenney
There was a ton of hype over Ron Johnson taking on the CEO job at JCPenney a year and a half ago.Recruited by hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, Johnson bet his turnaround on making JCPenney look more...
View ArticleHow Ex-CEO Ron Johnson Made JCPenney Even Worse (JCP)
JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson is out of the company, according to CNBC, after just 17 months on the job.His Q4 2012 was probably the worst quarterly performance ever in the history of major retail:...
View ArticleeBay Is Now Sharing Its Customer Data With Marketers
Google, Facebook, and Amazon have all commercialized the data they possess on customers' purchasing habits. The information, which is hugely valuable to advertisers looking to target specific...
View Article19-Year-Old Alex Godin Nearly Flunked Out Of High School To Found A Startup
It's been more than a year since 19-year-old Alex Godin left high school to found a startup, Dispatch.Godin is known as the youngest person ever to be accepted into TechStars, at 17, and the son of...
View Article8 Sleeper Hits From The Apple App Store (AAPL)
We're defining an app as a "sleeper hit" if it's both widely used and not especially talked about.These are the games and utilities that are often taken for granted. So let's shine a spotlight on them...
View ArticleThese Texts Cost A Top Hearst Executive His Job
Until March of this year, Scott Sassa was one of the most influential media executives in the U.S.As president of entertainment and syndication at Hearst (it owns Cosmopolitan, among other titles), he...
View ArticleBitcoin Has Surged Another 15% Just Since The Last Time We Mentioned It
Earlier today we marveled at Bitcoin blowing past $200.Now?Over $230.From Clarkmoody.com:Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleThis Is What A $2.3 Million Pizza Looks Like
The price of a Bitcoin now stands at $234.That is really, really high.Especially given that just three years ago, Bitcoins were worth one-quarter of one cent.It was at this price when, according to...
View Article'China's Steve Jobs' Just Introduced These New Smartphones (AAPL)
Xiaomi is an up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker. In 2012 the private company saw $2 billion in revenue selling seven million smartphones.Today at the Beijing International Convention Center Xiaomi...
View ArticleThis Guy Figured Out How To Send Emails By Playing Guitar
A creative at Wieden + Kennedy, the agency that brought us Old Spice's "Man Your Man Could Smell Like" and the new Facebook ads, has invented something amazing: a way to write an email by playing...
View ArticleThis Magical Electricity-Creating Fabric Will Soon Be Everywhere
David Carroll is a nanotechnologist working on a simple material that he thinks will soon be a part of everything you own. Carroll's research group at Wake Forest University developed a flexible...
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