Image: Orin Zebest via Flickr See Also: INSTANT MBA: Knowing When To Quit Is As Important As Everything Else Bill Gurley: The Crash Won’t Close The IPO Window How Competitions For Startup Cash Are Like A Combo Of American Idol And Crowd Funding The tech market has booms and busts, but one thing stays...
Fox might not be the only broadcaster to begin restricting access to its shows online and requiring next-day viewers to be pay TV subscribers. Disney is also working out deals with distributors that would allow viewers to watch shows sooner if they log on with a cable ID. On Disney’s earnings call Tuesday, Disney...
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Two Scottish teenagers are due to appear in court over messages posted to their Facebook accounts allegedly encouraging rioting. Our community manager Robyn Tippins has posted the first in a series called “The Big Question.” She asked, “What effect does social media on the Web have on social unrest in the real world?” And...
You get a user name with an @ sign, and you @ mention people. Just like on Twitter, you can choose your basic design and set a background image. Instead of tweets, you post pings. They’re 140 characters long. You have the option to share them to Twitter or Facebook. You can add a...
The recently rolled out Google+ is Google’s latest effort to get a handle on something that so far has eluded the company: namely, gaining access to the data users generate when they post status updates, share photos and comment on friends’ activities. More and more, these social “signals” are becoming a crucial part of...
Cisco CEO John Chambers Cisco surprised Wall Street analysts today with better-than-expected revenues and earnings, after announcing a massive restructuring plan that the company announced earlier this year. On the company’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings call, Cisco gave an update on that plan, which was put into place after the company saw a significant...
Today’s tidbit of Tango news comes not from the far-flung Asian shores it is expected to storm, but rather the small, landlocked nation of Slovakia. As it turns out, the first Tango device has gone on sale, but probably not the one you were hoping for. A photo has gone up on computer forum...
It seems like we’ve heard this story before, but apparently the FTC wasn’t listening. Google was served, some six weeks ago, with subpoenas but nobody really knew why. Now, according to The Wall Street Journal, we get some insight and it appears that the focus of the investigation is on Google’s actions with Android...
Image: Heather, via Flickr See Also: Motorola: We’d Work With Microsoft If We Could Get That Nokia Deal Microsoft Keeps Chipping Away At Google’s Search Market Share The 10 Steps To Motorola’s Plan For Global Smartphone Domination Earlier this year, a bunch of documents came out that seem to show how Google leans on...