If You're Tweeting For Money, Expect To Lose Some Friends
Getting paid to Tweet or post on Facebook sounds like an incredibly easy side hustle. But whether it's worth the cost of our friendships is a lesson consumers might learn have to the hard way. We...
View ArticleiPhone Sales Are Messing Up Economic Data All Over The World ... In A Good...
Monday morning, the U.S. Census Bureau will publish the September retail sales statistics. Economists expect a gain of 0.7 percent. Among other things, economists have to consider the impact of Apple's...
View ArticleREPORT: Amazon In Talks To Buy Texas Instruments' Mobile Chip Business
 Amazon in talks to buy Texas Instruments' mobile chip arm:TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc, the world's largest Internet retailer, is in advanced talks to buy the mobile chip business of Texas...
View ArticleBillionaire CEO Of Japan's Softbank Describes Huge Stake In Sprint In One...
The big news in the telecom world is that Japanese firm Softbank is buying 70% of US wireless operator Sprint in a $20 billion deal. From Softbank's perspective, the deal can probably be captured in...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AMZN, MSFT, YHOO, AAPL, S)
It's Monday morning and that means it is time for news. Softbank bought 70% of Sprint for ~$20 billion. iPhone 5 sales are going to screw-up retail data worldwide…in a good way. Virgin Mobile is...
View ArticleWanted: Business Insider Is Hiring An Experienced Mobile Apps Developer
Business Insider is seeking an experienced mobile applications developer to join the BI tech team and the fast-paced, exciting world of software development at a digital media startup. The successful...
View Article9 Apple Mobile Features That Will Make You Want To Quit Android Forever...
Android is better! iPhone is better! The Google vs. Apple argument  goes back and forth without really getting anywhere. With that in mind, here are some of the best features from iOS 6, the latest...
View ArticleOne Of Silicon Valley's Best-Known Investors Is Fighting For His Life
Silicon Valley angel investor Brett Bullington is in critical condition after a bike accident last Monday. Bullington, an early executive at search engine Excite and a prolific angel investor in...
View ArticleHow One Startup Responded When Facebook Started Gunning For Its Business
Facebook seems to be playing a bit of catchup with MyList, a startup a startup with a Facebook app for assembling Pinterest-like collections of interesting items, with its new "Want" buttons and...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: How Mobile Payment Solutions Increase Sales
Mobile Insights is a new 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. 5 Major...
View ArticleThere's An Incredible New Android Phone Coming To AT&T, But Don't Buy It Yet...
AT&T announced today that it will sell LG's new Android phone, the Optimus G, starting November 2 for $200 with a two-year contract. But don't buy it yet. Assuming the rumors are true, and we have...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Is Close To Landing Her First Big-Name Hire From Google (YHOO,...
Marissa Mayer is on the cusp of poaching her first high-level executive from Google, Kara Swisher at All Things D reports. Henrique De Castro, Google's president of "Global Media, Mobile &...
View ArticleApple Will Announce A New Mac Mini Next Week (AAPL)
Next week's expected launch of a new, smaller iPad may bring other Apple gadgets, too. It is all but confirmed that next week's star will be Apple's iPad Mini, but we've also learned that a refreshed...
View ArticleA Venture Capitalist Made $40 Million On Workday After His Firm Turned It...
Workday, the enterprise software maker, has wowed investors with an IPO on Friday that really popped. For one savvy venture capitalist, it was a particularly nice payday. Norwest Venture Partners...
View ArticleHere's Everything We Know About IFA, The iPhone Tracking Technology In...
Apple consumers are a dedicated bunch, but how do they feel about advertisers tracking their every move while using their beloved iPhones and iPads? Although Apple allows users to limit ad tracking...
View ArticleApple Hires An Amazon Exec To Fix Siri (AAPL, AMZN)
Apple has poached William Stasior from Amazon to lead Siri, its voice-activated personal assistant software, Kara Swisher at All Things D reports. This is a big hire, and Swisher thinks it means Apple...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: A Nightmare Chart For Marissa Mayer And Yahoo (YHOO)
Yahoo's search growth has completed tanked, according to this chart from Stifel analyst Jordan Rohan based on comScore data. This is bad for Yahoo because its search business is almost entirely profit....
View ArticleMeet The Man Apple Hired To Save Its Most Overhyped Product Ever, Siri (AAPL,...
Expect to hear a lot more about Bill Stasior, the executive Apple just hired away from Amazon to fix its Siri voice-recognition service. Stasior ran one of Amazon's stealthiest businesses—its A9 search...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Hires A Top Googler As Yahoo's COO (YHOO, GOOG)
Marissa Mayer has hired top Googler sales executive Henrique de Castro as her COO, Yahoo just confirmed. Mayer made the announcement as she apparently wrapped up a brief maternity leave, on her "first...
View ArticleYahoo Will Spend $62 Million On Its COO (YHOO)
As Yahoo's CEO, Marissa Mayer is spending a massive amount to pry her former colleague, Henrique de Castro, away from Google and install him as COO. According to our reading of de Castro's employment...
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