Cisco Has Found A New Way To Battle VMware (VMW, CSCO)
Cisco has sent a strong signal to VMware, a close partner which has increasingly edged into its core networking business. The networking-equipment maker just releasied its own version of an open-source...
View ArticleThe Best Photo And Video Apps In The World
Last month, we published the App 100, a collection of the best apps across all platforms. Realizing that 100 apps is a lot to digest, we decided to break up the list by category. Over the next several...
View ArticleWith Its Latest Hire, Airbnb Gives A Clue On How It's Going To Fight Rental Laws
Airbnb seems to be taking its regulatory problems increasingly seriously: The San Francisco-based online lodging marketplace has hired David Hantman, Yahoo's head of government relations, to run its...
View Article10 Of The Saddest, Weirdest Kickstarter Projects We've Ever Seen
Kickstarter is a tool for making your creative dreams come true. Of course, you have to convince others that that dream is worth pursuing. And then you have to convince them that it's worth giving you...
View ArticleCongressman Blasts FTC For Going After Google (GOOG)
Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat from Colorado, has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission warning it to "trade carefully" before taking antitrust action against Google. The FTC hasn't made any...
View ArticleThe Huge Sex Abuse Scandal Shaking The BBC Could Be A Major Headache For The...
The BBC sex abuse scandal currently rocking the UK is probably best likened to the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State scandal — except bigger. The impact may not stay within the limits of the UK. It may even...
View ArticleMAULDIN: We're Headed For An Economic Black Hole
"Concern about politics and the processes of international co-operation is warranted but the best one can hope for from politics in any country is that it will drive rational responses to serious...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (GOOG, AMZN, AAPL, YHOO)
Good morning. News! Cornell is opening up a technology campus in New York. These are new images of what it will look like. Microsoft is building 3 million to 5 million Surface tablets to sell this...
View ArticleHow Cool Is This: Amazon To Hire 50,000 People For The Holiday Season (AMZN)
Amazon is going to hire 50,000 seasonal workers for the holidays. Pretty awesome. The press release: Amazon is Hiring for 50,000 Seasonal Positions in the U.S. This Holiday SEATTLE--(BUSINESS...
View ArticleiPhone-Maker: Yes, We Employed 14-Year-Olds (AAPL, MSFT)
Apple supplier Foxconn says underage interns found working at factory in China BEIJING (AP) — The company that manufactures Apple's iPhone said Tuesday it found underage interns as young as 14 working...
View Article10 Android Apps You Didn't Know Existed, But Make Your Phone Much Better (GOOG)
Freshen up your Android-powered device by discovering some new apps that make using your phone much more enjoyable. Weather you just got a new Droid or plan to get one soon these 10 apps will make your...
View ArticleHere's Everything We Know About Windows Phone 8 So Far (MSFT)
Windows Phone 8, the newest version of Microsoft's mobile-phone operating system, launches at the end of the month. Between various leaks and legitimate announcements, we've gathered all the...
View ArticleSAP Brings Its Lightning-Fast Database, Hana, To Amazon's Cloud (SAP)
SAP has brought its Oracle-killer database, Hana, to Amazon's cloud. Enterprises can now choose to use SAP's super-fast in-memory database for 99 cents per hour, plus other fees. Interestingly, SAP...
View ArticleWindows 8 Won't Be The Disaster This Video Makes It Out To Be (MSFT)
Microsoft's new operating system for PCs and tablets, Windows 8, will have a drastic new look. The Start menu you're used to is gone, replaced by a touch-friendly menu of tiles that houses all your...
View ArticleFacebook Just Launched Its Next Billion-Dollar Business (FB)
For months, Facebook has been testing a new kind of ad on mobile devices—ads for other apps. Now it's officially launched the app-ad program to all developers. Here's how it works: Developers place ads...
View ArticleThe Next Hot Tech IPO: Violin Memory Could Be Valued At $2 Billion
Violin Memory Inc., a maker of flash memory for data centers, filed to go public last month under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, said two people familiar with the matter. The deal is being...
View ArticleYahoo's Sales Boss Doesn't Start For Another Month* (YHOO)
Now that Yahoo's Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett is out, the company is going to have a big hole in its operations for the next month. Marissa Mayer is replacing Barrett with Henrique De Castro,...
View ArticleAT&T Won't Let This Man FaceTime His Kids, So He's Taking It To The Feds (T,...
AT&T is blocking longtime customers with unlimited data plans from using a cool new feature available on the latest iPhones: FaceTime video chat over 3G and 4G wireless networks. One of those...
View ArticleWhat It Feels Like To Buy The Company You Always Looked Up To
NewsCred founder Shafqat Islam always looked up to Daylife, a pioneering service which provided Internet publishers with tools for presenting articles, links, and images. Now he owns the company....
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Where The iPad Fails In Comparison To A Normal Computer...
We teamed up with SurveyMonkey to find out how people use their tablets versus how they use laptops/desktop computers. As the iPad becomes more and more popular, we want to know what people feel like...
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