Image: Groupon via Flickr Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: Groupon is running scarily low on cash. Larry Page definitely wants to hang on to Motorola’s phone business, according to Google expert Steven Levy. This analyst says Facebook growth has hit a wall and management is panicking. Google launches an online music...
The aftermath of Google’s Street View cars collecting of data from WiFi signals continues to roll on. Following a record fine from France earlier this year, neighbouring Belgium has offered Google the chance to settle with them over the case for €150,000. As Bloomberg reports, the country’s federal prosecutor has stated that Google breached...
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Japan gets an Android-based “Yahoo Phone” : what may sound weird at first is actually not that surprising a news item, given that Yahoo is the country’s biggest website. Add to the fact that the country’s third biggest mobile carrier SoftBank, the provider of the phone, is Yahoo Japan’s biggest shareholder, and the emergence...
Image: Associated Press HP needs to buy RIM now or shut down Palm. The Palm platform, WebOS, is very good, but if no one uses it that’s irrelevant. Its Touchpad tablet is a dud. Who knows when new WebOS phones are coming out. Mobile is a platform game, and in a platform game there...
Yesterday I wrote about the lack of big ideas in tech media, in response to a New York Times op-ed about the “post-idea world.” I basically complained that there is too much mindless pap on Techmeme these days, most of it about business deals and rumors. Where are the “big idea” articles about technology,...
Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories:Razer’s Tiamat Headset Uses 10 Drivers To Produce 7.1 SoundStephen Colbert’s Head Goes Into SpaceGriffin Releases iPhone-Controlled Toy HelicopterOoma VOIP Service Is Down NationwideRedesigned Wii To Launch Before Christmas, Loses Gamecube Backwards Compatibility Article source: TechCrunch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Vt7Oei06eNg/
Hamburg-based Gigalocal, which has just launched its website and apps for iOS and Android, calls itself a “virtual wish list” — a place where users can get help, “no matter what you need, when you need it, where you need it.” The reality is that it’s entering the increasingly hot business of service marketplaces...