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Twitter Backer Fred Wilson Hints That It's Profitable
There was a time when Silicon Valley despaired of Twitter ever making money.With advertising products that are winning raves, estimated 2012 revenues of $350 million set to nearly triple to $1 billion...
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This App Will Help You Get In Shape Anywhere
You want to get in shape but you don't have time to go to the gym. I get it—I don't have time to go to the gym either. That's why I was excited by the premise of Obstacles XRT, a new fitness app.This...
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PHOTOS: This Company Crowdfunded A Private Jet To Vegas For New Year's Eve
CrowdTilt is a company that makes it easy to raise money for any cause you want.Think Kickstarter, for creative and non-creative projects alike.To welcome 2013 in style, CrowdTilt leveraged its own...
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HP CEO Meg Whitman Made $15.4 Million In 2012 Even After Missing Targets (HPQ)
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Meg Whitman received nearly $15.4 million in fiscal 2012, her first full year as chief executive officer, receiving only 70 percent of her targeted...
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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...
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Apple Wins An Emmy Award (AAPL)
Apple, one of the most beloved companies in the world, has just received another impressive honor.The iPhone maker received a Tech Emmy Award at CES 2013 from the National Academy of Television Arts....
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APPLE BOSS WAS MISQUOTED: Cheap iPhone Still On The Table
SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - In a revised version of an interview published Thursday in a Chinese newspaper, Apple Inc marketing chief Phil Schiller said the company would focus on making "the...
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LEAKED: Verizon's New Anti-Piracy Measure Will Give Offenders 6 Chances (VZ)
If you use BitTorrent or other services to download illegal content and Verizon is your Internet service provider this is something you need to know.BitTorrent news site TorrentFreak, got its hands on...
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26-Year-Old Reddit Cofounder Aaron Swartz Has Died
Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old cofounder of Reddit, committed suicide yesterday according to MIT's The Tech.Swartz' uncle confirmed the news in a comment to The Tech, saying his nephew took his own life...
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How The World Is Remembering A 'Hugely Important Internet Voice,' Aaron Swartz
The death of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz has prompted an outpouring of tributes on Twitter and the web.Here is some of what people are saying this morning:"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I...
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How Money-Losing Pandora Could Become Profitable ... If It Wanted To (P)
There are two ways to think about Pandora.The first is the way most people are familiar with (and the way founder Tim Westergren wants you to think about it): That it's an enormously popular music...
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The Drones Are Here! (And You Can Buy One Now)
Parrot, a company best known for making Bluetooth headsets and accessories, has been expanding its offerings over the last few years. The company not only makes the best headphones on the planet, but...
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There Were Plenty Of Windows 8 Devices At CES, But Microsoft Wasn't There To...
LAS VEGAS (AP)— Microsoft may have relinquished its starring role in America's gaudiest gadget show a year too early.After 13 straight years in the spotlight, Microsoft's decision to scale back its...
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Here's What Will Happen If We Don't Raise The Debt Ceiling
The United States has already hit its debt ceiling--the legal limit of the amount of money it is allowed to borrow, as established by Congress.Right now, the U.S. Treasury is resorting to...
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Joe Biden Floated Support For New Gun Technology That He Thinks Could Have...
For the first time on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden indicated the White House gun violence task force was interested in so-called "smart gun" technology, which would prevent a gun from being used by...
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Family Of Aaron Swartz Blames MIT, Prosecutors For His Death
The family of Aaron Swartz, along with his partner, Taren Stinebricker-Kaufmann, have released a statement about his death and announced plans for a funeral on Tuesday, January 15.Swartz committed...
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8 Very Funny, Very Wrong Answers Kids Have Given On Tests
British author Richard Benson and his publisher, Chronicle Books, surfed the web and asked teachers to share their favorite (real) wrong answers.What resulted is two New York Times best sellers, F in...
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How An Executive Head Hunter Found Her Husband
When Iris Levenberg found herself divorced and living in South Florida in her 50s, the executive head hunter-turned-life coach was determined to find a life partner."I was on a mission," recalls Iris,...
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The Right-Hand Man Of Steve Jobs Has Broken His Silence (AAPL)
James Higa, a former Apple vice president who describes his job there as "special ops for Steve"—Steve Jobs, that is—recently gave an interview to Lifestyles, a philanthropy magazine.The issue is out...
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The Cheap iPhone Is Already Here
Starting today, Walmart is offering Americans by far the cheapest option for purchasing an iPhone and wireless plan. Customers can buy the iPhone 5 at its wholesale price of $650, which is steep, but...
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