The rise and fall of Facebook’s stock has been one of the most-covered topics of the summer, and for good reason. Everyone wants to know what will happen next, so we asked investors, CEOs and media pundits about when they think the best time to buy will be. Because of its 950 million users, an...
It turns out we may have been over-thinking it. If the invite sent out this morning by Apple is any indication, the next iPhone is likely to be called the “iPhone 5″. No, it doesn’t technically make sense — it is the sixth iteration of the iPhone — and yet, at the same time, it makes all...
Valve software is now asking for a $100 fee to submit games to its Steam Greenlight program in an effort to clean up submissions. The fee will be donated to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity, which brings games to sick children in hospitals. The change comes after sexually explicit and bogus games started filtering...
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Facebook has quietly introduced its four-month-old organ donation feature to Asia, after the initiative — which allows users to sign up as organ donors via the social network — quietly went live in South Korea and Japan overnight. We suspected that this move would be forthcoming yesterday, after a Yonhap report revealed plans were...
Pretty soon we’re going to need a score card to track the increasingly complex Amazon-Netflix relationship. As Amazon dives deeper into streamed video on its own, Netflix, which runs its video streaming business on Amazon Web Services, is getting more proficient at plugging gaps in Amazon’s cloud platform. On Tuesday, Netflix posted code for its...
Listen up Rdio users, do you have terrible tastes in music? Do your friends laugh at your preference for Fear Factory over Dream Theater? Or, have you simply missed the entire social transition over the past few years to being utterly transparent about every element of your life? If so, you are now officially...
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Startup Nest only launched its learning thermostat last October but the company tells the New York Time’s Bits Blog that it has sold in the “mid-hundreds of thousands,” of units range. The company — which is the brainchild of Tony Fadell, who helped design the iPhone and iPod for Apple — immediately sold out...
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