HP Exec Says It Would Be 'Silly' For HP Not To Get Back Into The Smartphone...
HP hasn't had a smartphone since it ditched WebOS in 2011, but it sounds like it's itching to get back into the race. At an event in Beijing earlier this week, Su-yin Yam, senior director of HP's...
View ArticleTwitter's CEO Had An Awkward Interview Moment When Asked About Government Spying
Katie Couric's interview with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is an excellent example of how charm and charisma can help a journalist to press a public figure to answer questions he'd rather not face. The...
View ArticleFacebook Pays $20K Bounty To Researcher Who Found A Major Security Flaw In...
Facebook has paid a $20,000 reward to a UK based security researcher for reporting a bug that hackers could've used to take over users' accounts. Last month, UK security researcher Jack Whitton found a...
View ArticleHere's A Compilation Of The 77 Best Videos On Vine
We came across this video compilation of the best 77 Vines, and just had to share it with you. They come from a YouTube channel called Vine Compilations, which you should definitely subscribe to.This...
View ArticleGoogle Is Looking For Brave (And Strong) Backpackers To Help It Map The...
Google is running a new pilot program for Trekker, a wearable backpack camera system designed to extend the reach of Google Maps to places where Street View cars, bicycles and snowmobiles can't go....
View Article10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning. Here's the overnight news.Apple applied for an "iWatch" trademark in Japan.Nokia bought out Siemens's 50% stake in Nokia Siemens Network for $2.21 billion. "The move will make Nokia a...
View ArticleApple Trademarked 'iWatch' In Japan! (AAPL)
Apple appears to be coming out with a computer for your wrist – a smartwatch, perhaps called an "iWatch."Either that, or the company is working very hard to fool everyone into believing it is.The...
View ArticleNokia Buys A Future For $2.21 Billion
Finland's Nokia says it will buy out Siemens' 50% stake to take complete ownership of Nokia Siemens Networks, the joint venture which sells telecommunications equipment to mobile phone carriers in a...
View ArticleThe Rise of Social TV: How Social Media Is Amplifying TV Advertising
Research has shown that TV-watching and social media usage isn't mutually exclusive. Consumers appear to love using social media while they watch TV. Many discuss what they're watching, and these...
View ArticleAndroid Is Utterly Dominant In Europe, With 70% Of The Market Versus Apple's...
Android's 70.4 per cent share of the European market is far higher than than Apple iOS' 17.8 per cent share and the 6.8 per cent share for Windows, according to the latest OS barometer figures from...
View ArticleThe People Who Make Your Firefox Web Browser Are Launching Two Phones This Week
Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox Web browser, have released their new smartphone operating system, Firefox OS.Firefox OS is landing in two lower-end phones, the Alcatel One Touch Fire and ZTE Open,...
View ArticleThese Are The Latest Startup Funding Trends, According To The Valley's Most...
Startup accelerators like Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and TechStars are churning out young companies left and right. Some people say there are too many startups and not enough investors to support...
View ArticleHalf Of People Who Like Brands On Facebook Do So Simply Out Of Loyalty
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View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Marched With 700 Facebook Employees In San Francisco's Gay...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with 700 of his colleagues, marched in San Francisco's gay pride parade yesterday.Here are some photos of the parade we found on Zuck's Facebook page. They were...
View ArticleSamsung Is No Longer The Most Important Company For Android's Success (GOOG)
Android's growth is now coming from cheap, no-name smartphone manufacturers in China, according to Needham analyst Charlie Wolf.In a new research note, which Philip Elmer DeWitt at Fortune summarized,...
View ArticleYou're More Likely To Buy An iPhone If You're Rich, Old, And Have A College...
People with higher income and more education are much more likely than other demographics to buy the iPhone, according to Drew DeSilver's summary of a new Pew Research survey.Among those with a college...
View ArticleInside The Rise Of Responsive Design And Its Pros And Cons As A Mobile Strategy
Responsive design, a technology that stretches or shrinks Web pages to fit differently sized screens, has emerged as the most-often recommended manner of optimizing content for mobile devices. This...
View ArticleThis Is The Incredible Cafe At Microsoft Where The Food Is Better Than...
Microsoft's corporate campus in Redmond, Washington has one of the best cafeterias we've ever eaten at. It's called Cafe 16, and it just reopened after some renovations. We were on campus recently and...
View ArticleThis Chart Shows How Unhappy Zynga Employees Have Been With Their Boss, Mark...
Looks like a lot of Zynga employees might be cheering the news that Mark Pincus is out as CEO, replaced by Microsoft Xbox chief Don Mattrick.Pincus will become chairman and chief product officer of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exec: Working With Apple To Bring Bing To iOS 7 'Was Not Easy'...
When Apple's iOS 7 arrives this fall, iPhone and iPad users who ask Siri for help will get search results from an unlikely source: Microsoft Bing. Microsoft and Apple worked together to integrate Bing...
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