I Went To A Bachelorette Party This Weekend And Have A New Gripe With My iPhone
I just got back from a bachelorette party in Puerto Rico with a dozen friends.We spent the weekend hanging on the beach, dining out, and checking out the nightlife scene in San Juan.Of course, we all...
View ArticleCisco Just Lost A Key Engineer To This Big-Threat Startup (CSCO)
Here's another sign that Cisco is in danger from a new technology called software-defined networking (SDN).Today hot SDN startup Big Switch Networks announced that it snatched a key engineer away from...
View ArticleFacebook Is Going To Ruin Your News Feed With Auto-Playing Video Ads (FB)
In Facebook's quest to generate more revenue, it's going to muck up your News Feed with auto-playing videos, the FT reports.Facebook is set to launch video advertising in its newsfeed in July...The new...
View ArticleBusiness Insider Is Hiring A Head Of Business Affairs
Business Insider is looking for a skilled dealmaker to lead our booming business development area. The key responsibilities of the position are to negotiate and manage audience- and revenue-generating...
View ArticleApple Gains U.S. Smartphone Market Share As Penetration Increases
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.March 2013...
View ArticleREPORT: The CFTC Is Considering Regulating Bitcoin
The Financial Times reports exclusively the Commodities Futures and Exchange Commission is studying whether Bitcoin would fall under their purview.CFTC head Bart Chilton told the paper Bitcoin “is for...
View ArticleThis Man Is Building Microsoft's Next Multi-Billion-Dollar Business (MSFT)
Patents have become such a big business for Microsoft that the company has outsourced its U.S. patent filing work to India, John Weresh, general manager of Microsoft's Patent Operations, told Business...
View ArticleTwitch Has The Power To Make Or Destroy A Professional Gamer's Career
Back when I started playing computer games, there was this guy named “Fatal1ty” who was so good at First-Person Shooters like Quake, he inadvertently created the “eSports” industry.It began with the...
View ArticleTesla Just Hired The Man Who Created The Best Aston Martin Ever
Tesla has hired Chris Porritt, Aston Martin's Chief Engineer of Vehicle Engineering, to be its Vice President of Vehicle Engineers, the electric car company announced this afternoon.Porritt is the man...
View ArticleBII REPORT: The 'Second Screen' Industry Is Ready For Prime-Time
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...
View ArticleWhy Jony Ive Is Certainly Going To Do More Than Change Just The Look Of The...
Jony Ive is most definitely going to do more than just change the look of the iPhone's software, says Ben Thompson on his blog Stratechery.Thompson works for Microsoft's Windows Apps team, and spent a...
View ArticleAfter Getting Attacked By Syrian Hackers, The Onion Has A Brilliant Response
After its Twitter account was compromised earlier today and began sending out rogue tweets (more on that here), the Onion has come back the only way it knows how.First, on the futility of...
View ArticleGoogle Stock Blasts To Another All-Time High
Google stock rocketed up another $16 today to close at a new all-time high of $862.Google now has a market cap of $285 billion.This resumed rocket-ride for Google's stock follows a multi-year period in...
View ArticleEA Will Make A Bunch Of New Star Wars Games For Disney (EA, DIS)
Disney announced today that EA won the licensing agreement to make "Star Wars" video games over the next several years. The news comes a few weeks after Disney announced it would shut down Lucas Arts,...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Samsung Could Pass Apple To Become The Most Profitable...
Apple and Samsung combined to take 100% of the smartphone market's profits in the first quarter of this year, says Canaccord Genuity's Michael Walkley.Next quarter, they will probably account for 100%...
View ArticleThis Is How Much Mark Zuckerberg Loves 'Game Of Thrones'
The whole world has been reliving the fairy-tale sale of tiny startup Instagram to Facebook last year for about $1 billion in cash and stock, thanks to Kara Swisher's in-depth article published in...
View ArticleGoogle's Eric Schmidt Explains Why The Internet Needs A 'Delete Button'
Google chairman thinks it should be easier to wipe information off the Internet. He, more than anyone, knows that Internet is like an elephant, never forgetting anything.Even if you think you've...
View ArticleWhat The World's Biggest Apple Fanboy Has To Say About His New Job At Google...
MG Siegler, the TechCrunch columnist and venture capitalist known best for his unabashed pro-Apple bias, spurred a lot of discussion (and mockery) Monday when he announced he was departing Michael...
View ArticleAdobe Just Radically Overhauled Its Business Model And Won't Sell New...
If you use Adobe software like Photoshop, Dreamweaver or Illustrator for work or play be forewarned, Adobe is changing the way you buy its software.At it's MAX customer conference being held this week...
View ArticleFacebook Makes Fortune's List Of The 500 Biggest Companies By Revenue
NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. once again leads Fortune's list of the 500 biggest U.S. companies by revenue, as the world's biggest retailer succeeded in posting strong growth despite a...
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