MOBILE PAYMENTS: What's Taking So Long, And Who's Going To Win?
For many years, technologists, venture capitalists, journalists, and large companies have pined for the era when the mobile phone would become our wallet. And yet, already five years into the...
View ArticleAt CES, Even The Refrigerators Are Absurd
One of the biggest themes at the Consumer Electronics Show this year is "smart" stuff.That pretty much means taking a regular everyday object, connecting it to the Web, and claiming it'll make your...
View ArticleMeg Whitman Says These New Offices Are The 'Symbolic Rebirth' Of HP (HPQ)
On January 16, HP will hold an official ribbon-cutting to open its newly remodeled customer meeting center at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.This building is already home to CEO Meg Whitman, who...
View ArticleWe Found The First Cases For The Next BlackBerry Phone (RIMM)
RIM's next smartphone, the BlackBerry Z10, hasn't arrived yet, but Case-Mate has already crafted covers for it.Case-Mate had several styles and colors on display at its CES booth this week. Take a...
View ArticleHere's A Quick Look At Samsung's Next Windows Phone For Verizon (VZ)
Samsung has been promising us a phone running Microsoft's latest Windows Phone 8 software for several months now, but we weren't able to actually see one in action until the Consumer Electronics Show...
View ArticleUse These 7 Apps To Plan Your Next Vacation (AAPL)
We're fresh into the new year but we're already daydreaming about our next vacation.A number of apps are more than capable of helping you plan your next trip. Use them to save a bundle on flights,...
View ArticleHere's How Audi And Lexus Imagine The Future Of Self-Driving Cars
Audi and Lexus are well into development of self-driving car technology. While you would think that the end result would be similar, the two companies are taking completely different positions on how...
View ArticleThe 11 Best Alternatives To Paying For Cable
Now that most American workers will see 2 percent more of their take-home income disappear this year, it's as good a time as any to find ways to trim household costs.By far, the simplest place to start...
View Article27 Executives Who Wake Up Really Early
Getting up early is a no brainer for most executives.It means being awake during a part of the day when there are few distractions. It means reacting to the biggest news of the day while others are...
View ArticleGoogle Talks Tough In North Korea, While Rolling Over In China
“AS THE world becomes increasingly connected, their decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world.” So declared Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, to a...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (MSFT, INTC, AAPL, FB, ZNGA, GRPN)
Only three days till Monday!Here's some news:PC sales shrank for the first time in five years during the holidays.Zynga is filing lots of patents for online gambling.Tim Cook says China will be Apple's...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Holiday Disaster: PC Sales Shrank For The First Time In 5 Years
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Holiday-season sales of personal computers fell for the first time in more than five years, according to tech industry tracker IDC, as Microsoft Corp's new Windows 8 operating...
View ArticleApple Is Undergoing Massive Changes And Having A Very Strange Quarter (AAPL)
Apple's earnings report is two weeks away and it's going to be one of the most interesting in a very long time for Apple.After demolishing analyst expectations quarter after quarter, Apple has now...
View ArticleApple CEO Says China Will Be A Bigger Market Than US
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said China will overtake the U.S. to become its largest market, as the iPhone-maker adds more stores and considers debuting new...
View ArticleFacebook Appears To Test A Feature Where It Could Cost As Much As $100 To...
Last night, a Mashable reporter named Chris Tayler tried to message Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.What Tayler saw next was incredible. Facebook told him he could send Zuckerberg a note, but that it would...
View ArticleTHE HP ROLLER COASTER: 5 Big Mistakes, 5 Lucky Breaks In A Disastrous Decade...
2012 was full of stock-crushing news for HP, from layoffs to writedowns to its strange mess with Autonomy.A new, in-depth story in Businessweek documents all the missteps that sent the company's...
View ArticleSurprise: Teenagers Say Facebook Isn't Their Most Used Site (FB)
Tumblr beat out Facebook in a recent survey of what teenagers use online. Inspired by Branch co-founder Josh Miller's recent post about how his 15-year-old sister uses the Internet, Y Combinator...
View ArticleGroupon Is Up 97% Since November 12 (GRPN)
Back in November, Groupon's board met to decide whether or not to fire CEO and founder Andrew Mason.Since right around then, the stock has been on a tear.It's up 97% since November.You loaded the boat...
View ArticleGoogle's Core Business Is In The Middle Of A Fundamental Shift (GOOG, MSFT)
Here's a quiet bombshell from comScore.Total core organic desktop search was down on a year over year basis for the fourth straight month in December.Ben Schachter of Macquarie has the latest comScore...
View ArticleANALYST: New iPads Are Coming In March (AAPL)
Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets reports that a fifth-generation iPad and second-generation iPad Mini will arrive to consumers in March.From his note:Our checks at CES indicate Apple will release...
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