The game publisher that brought the world Madden NFL, The Sims and Battlefield has shed nearly 60% of its value in the last year, and its stock is down more than 80% from its all-time high. Why are investors so sour? Because despite being one of the world’s largest game publishers, EA still doesn’t...
Apple device update season is near and, like clockwork, the rumor mill has kicked in high gear. The latest evidence points to a September unveiling of the next iPhone, a smaller version of the iPad, and the long-rumored Apple HDTV. Those last two are debatable, but the iPhone 5 is all but certain, and...
Many of us right now are wide-eyed with the latest images from NASA’s Curiosity mission to Mars — so much so that, as Europe wakes up from its live-TV Olympics 100-meter sprint slumber, it looks like that site is occasionally crashing from traffic. Now, another, important idea is just starting to take shape: NASA...
Amazon has revealed that consumers in the UK are now buying more Kindle eBooks than printed books for the first time, with British Kindle owners buying up to four times more books than before they owned the popular Amazon e-reader devices. The Guardian reports that for every 100 paperback and hardback books it sells, the company...
One of the great ironies about the 2012 Summer Games is that Americans online have been so dedicated to complaining about NBC’s Olympics coverage that it’s a shame it’s not a medal event — but NBC is recording not only record televised ratings, but off-the-charts performance for its online and mobile offerings. And that’s...
Everyone who knows me knows that I’m pretty obsessed with this website and the unique set of circumstances that brought it to where it is today, because I talk about it constantly. In fact, if I ever write a book it will most likely be about TechCrunch, and the jumble of psychologies that went...
Teambox, a collaboration and business communications software company that was started in Spain, is today launching the latest version (#4) of its namesake platform. In addition, the startup says it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from a number of angel investors and hired a CEO to be better armed in its battle...
They did it! NASA landed Curiosity on Mars, here are the first images. The two photos, that we captured from the live feed, show the rover casting its shadow on the red planet, after it landed having successfully negotiated the much-talked about “seven-minutes of terror”. NASA’s page of RAW images is struggling to load under...