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Photos were a little hard to grab but I got to see a real, live “transparent” iPhone last night in Shenzhen. The kit is apparently quite easy to install – a few screws on the bottom and then you just slide off the back. I had seen kits advertised before, but this is the...
After going from selling slippers with flashlights to being a 10,000 employee-strong business in three years, Groupon had its initial public offering today, to much fanfare and well, the opposite reaction. The offering was priced at $20 and experienced an exuberant opening pop of $28, which after a day of trading settled down a...
When word got out last week that the time element would be dropped from the HTML5 specification, there was a small but fierce uproar within the Web standards and developer communities. “I think this is a bad decision,” wrote Bruce Lawson, Web Evangelist at Opera. Web designer and co-founder of the Web Standards Project...
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Big markets seem to always have three or four major players. The top wireless carriers are ATT, Verizon, and Sprint. Music has the big four record labels with Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, EMI, and Warner Music Group. Mobile operating systems have a big three too. It’s Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft. Apple...
In what is a bit of a twist in the ongoing legal war between Motorola and Apple, a German court has ruled that Apple has infringed two Motorola Mobility patents and has granted an injunction against the sale of the company’s products. This was first reported by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, but as Mueller...
After a wave of reports that Groupon would have to drop the price on its initial public offering or even cancel it altogether because of skepticism about the company and its business model, the pendulum of optimism swung back again by Friday and the shares listed at $20 — well above the range Groupon...
While most folks in tech and finance were focused on Groupon’s much-buzzed-about stock market debut, Zynga on Friday morning issued an update to its S-1 filing for an initial public offering. The document does not seem to contain any ground-shaking news from the San Francisco-based social gaming company, just more recent financial information. Zynga...