TechCrunch Marissa Mayer confirmed that she’s on the prowl for companies to buy during this afternoon’s earnings call. Speaking with analysts she said Yahoo would try to acquire companies that cost tens of millions, or low hundred millions. She also said that while people tend to focus on the giant acquisitions, while she was...
Don’t want that embarrassing picture your friend took last night going on your wall? Not sure about being tagged with your friend at that wild party? Well, it is easy to control what other people can and can’t post to your timeline or wall. Here’s how: amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;divamp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Please enable Javascript to watch this videoamp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/divamp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Produced...
Bloomberg West Elon Musk driving a Tesla Electric car maker Tesla has been hit with two lawsuits that question its right to sell cars directly to consumers and not through dealerships. Today Tesla co-founder Elon Musk explained why he thinks these lawsuits are absurd. 48 states prohibit or restrict factory ownership of dealerships, reports...
Google has updated its Google News product with a few nice new features today, including expandable news clusters, video and photo sidebars and a layout tweak to improve readability. The ‘clusters’ of news results in Google News will now expand outwards from a single prominent headline through the click of the ‘+’ button below...
EE, the network formerly known as Everything Everywhere has released the details of its pricing and plans for superfast broadband and 4G mobile services in the UK. 4G, or 4GEE as the company has dubbed it, arrives in the United Kingdom on October 30 and should provide speeds up to five times faster than...
Building on the momentum that Square, GroupOn and PayPal are enjoying from their mobile payment services for businesses in North America, O2 has today debuted its new Mobile Point of Sale service (mPOS), teaming up with Visa Europe and Global Payments to bring mobile payment capabilities to smaller businesses in the UK. O2′s new mobile payment service supports...
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Want to learn more about the new ReadWrite? Watch our new Editor in Chief, Dan Lyons and Managing Editor Fredric Paul talk about the smart, passionate and occasionally irreverent stories readers will find on the new ReadWrite. Lyons and Paul also discuss how advertisers and marketers will find ReadWrite a great place to connect...
On Monday, Microsoft brought Skype into the Windows 8 fold, integrating it so tightly into the PC, phone, and tablet experience that it’s essentially the Microsoft Office of connectivity. Naturally, Microsoft’s communications software received a “Metro”-style update, with contacts visually represented as pictures, rather than the text-heavy interface Skype previously used. Yes, you can...
Facebook will release its second set of quarterly earnings as a public company on Tuesday, and early indications are they will be better than the results the social network announced in July. But even if they aren’t, Wall Street seems to be falling in love with the company all over again, as Facebook now...
Everything’s going digital — and clearly lighting will one day be all digital, too. But before that day comes, there’s been an emergence of startups, company experiments, and DIY-ers making early versions of smart bulbs and digital lighting systems. On Monday a company called GreenWave Reality launched the next-generation of its wireless smart bulbs...