jolie odell / flickr More reason for Google’s Eric Schmidt to get upset. See Also Google’s Stock Gets Crushed After A Wild Day Wall Street On Google: Incrementally Negatral GOOGLE REOPENS DOWN 9% Google may settle a dispute with the Federal Trade Commission over the way its Motorola subsidiary handled licensing for some smartphone...
Apple is set to release both an iPad Mini and a new computer, the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, next week at a big media event. New reports suggest pricing will start at $1,699. Its larger version, which is already on the market, retails for $2,199. Someone who appears to have his or her hands...
Flickr / sean dreilinger Tech companies are starting to get pretty creative with employee perks, and they’re oozing into workers’ lives outside of the office. Evernote is a company the helps you access notes, photos and more from any device, and it’s been valued by investors at $1 billion. Last year, it started giving...
20th October 2012 by Brad McCarty It’s Saturday. What else do you have that’s better to do than watch San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain hit mid-air objects with his fastball? Nothing? Good. About the Author A music and tech junkie who calls Nashville home, Brad is the Director of Business Development for TNW,...
At the 2012 edition of Y Combinator’s Startup School, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Paul Graham and the audience that MySpace was a great service prior to his social network coming into the market. In fact, Zuckerberg said that it was doing a lot of things that Facebook hasn’t been doing. But what seems...
Facebook is set to take a big hit in its leadership team as it’s being reported that Joanna Shields, the social network’s leader in managing business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, is leaving the company. She will be taking a new and challenging roll working in the United Kingdom leading a brand...
How Evil Is Your Smartphone, 8 Startups On When To Pivot, and How To Watch The Presidential Debates Online. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web – Location,...
Amid new Android device announcements, my attention keeps returning to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. US carriers are readying the 5.5-inch smartphone for sale soon and it’s becoming clear to me that new owners will likely spend a few weeks learning all of the features and functions found in this handset. Not only are...
busuu.com is Europe’s largest online community for learning languages. The website was launched in May 2008 and by September 2012 it had reached over 20,000,000 users from over 200 different countries. The users can access audio-visual language courses in currently 12 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Arabic, Japanese and...
I just got back to San Francisco from the 15-year celebration of LIVESTRONG, the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It was an interesting time to be in Austin, as most of the world is still shell-shocked from Armstrong stepping down as the Chairman due to outside pressure from his doping scandal. However, most people had a...