flickr/jurvetson Jeff Bezos is stocking fewer executives. See Also After A Brief Outage Amazon.com Is Back The Highest-Paid Executive At Amazon.com Only Makes $175,000 A Year The Zappos Founder Just Told Us All Kinds Of Crazy Stories – Here’s The Surprisingly Candid Interview Four Amazon executives are no longer on the job. The departed...
Thomas Euler via Flickr Google is not the biggest website in the world. It’s number two. Do you know who’s number one? Hint: It’s another American company. By the way, guess how many of the top 20 Websites in the World are Chinese. 1? 5? 10? Just last week we posted the top websites in...
Vitaliy Katsenelson So many articles have been written recently about Apple — defending it or explaining why this glorious fruit will turn into a shriveling pumpkin by midnight (with Samsung’s help) — that I really haven’t felt the need to contribute to the unending debate. But then Apple’s stock crashed to $450 last month,...
United States President Obama is widely expected to enact an executive order on the issue of cybersecurity following his State of the Union address next week. That in mind, one of his key advisers on the topic today downplayed the potential impact of the action, pointing to legislation for Congress as the only real solution. The...
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has been involved in some major projects over the past few years — from Blogger, to Twitter, and Medium, his next venture is a bit out of the tech space: it’s in film. Making his directorial debut, Stone released the film “Evermore” as part of Canon’s Project Imaginat10n where he used...
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo has announced that it is investing in 500 Startups, as part of a deal that sees it launch its own mobile-focused incubator in Japan in partnership with the US company. DoCoMo revealed plans for its own startup-focused venture last October, and it says that the project is worth 10 billion...
Android Authority has snagged an intriguing video that purports to show a sleek, new Chromebook with 2560 x 1700 resolution touchscreen called the Chromebook Pixel. The video claims the machine is “designed by Google, down to the last pixel.” Is this for real? There’s no smoking gun, but I have subtle yet compelling evidence that...
Get ready for another blast of anti-Google propaganda from Microsoft and its PR maestro Mark Penn. Sources tell me that the Borg is about to launch another broadside against the search giant, this one aimed at Gmail, under the title, “Don’t get Scroogled by Gmail.” Microsoft flacks have been briefing reporters under embargo today....
Yelp just reported its fourth quarter earnings and things aren’t looking that sunny for the stalwart local discovery site. In Q4 Yelp raked in $41.2 million in revenue, losing $.08 cents per share for a net loss of $5.3 million, an outlook a bit grimmer than projected losses of $.03 per share. Still, the...
In the accelerator’s typically light-hearted and casual style, 500 Startups launched another crop of companies on Wednesday, welcoming its fifth batch of startups down in Mountain View along with press and investors. Dave McClure’s startup program has been rocking along for three years now, and is targeted to hit its namesake investment number some...