On Yahoo’s recent fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Marissa Mayer called the company’s mobile efforts a “nascent source of revenue,” a theme she reiterated in her appearance earlier this week at a Goldman Sachs investment conference in San Francisco. There, she said that the company was going to cut down on its apps portfolio from...
What I’m about to say is undoubtedly going to piss some of you off. And that’s fine. Because in a few years, I’ll be right and you’ll look silly. While everyone is focused on the next generation video game consoles from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft — the latter two of which should be coming...
What happens to old smartphones when they’re no longer being used? They just sit around, for the most part. That’s according to a survey by Gazelle, a site that takes trade-ins of old smartphones, tablets and laptops. As you can see in this chart, 51% of people put old smartphones in a drawer or...
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. could be calling it quits in its relationship with the tech blog AllThingsD…or it could end up extending its contract as expected. Sources tell Reuters that the contract between the two companies is set to expire at the end of this year. Additionally, it’s reported that the publication is receiving ‘inbound...
Facebook on Friday announced its systems were compromised last month as part of a sophisticated attack exploiting a Java vulnerability. Although the investigation is still ongoing, the company says it has “found no evidence” that “user data was compromised.” Facebook explains its security team discovered sometime in January that “a handful of employees” had...
You are confused by the Tesla and New York Times beef because it is has dragged on for a week, and has had more facets than the engagement ring you wanted to buy but couldn’t stretch all your credits end to end to reach. TNW is here to help. We’re going back to the...
On Friday, Microsoft launched a new Video Messages feature for Skype on the Mac, iOS and Android – but not Windows Phone or even Windows. Why? Because that’s not how Skype rolls, a company spokesman essentially said. The Video Messages feature allows users to record up to three minutes of video, and send them...
Remember that top secret Google Glass Foundry event? You know, the one for developers for Google’s cool new augmented reality (AR) glasses? The one with the ultra-strict non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that we’d heard nary a peep out of since the second half of the event wrapped up at the beginning of this month? On its Google+...
Apparently it’s not enough being a former Facebook marketing manager, owner of your own self consciously hip-yet-somehow-bottom-feeding media company, executive producer of the Bravo realityfest dot-bomb Silicon Valley, and social-media manners maven. Oh, right, and Mark Zuckerberg’s sister. So the notoriously shy and retiring Randi Zuckerberg, who has never traded on her better-known billionaire brother’s success...
A month after launching its vaunted Graph Search feature to much fanfare, Facebook is finally opening up a bit about how, exactly, it works. The product’s primary architect, Lars Rasmussen, took to Reddit yesterday in an Ask Me Anything session during which he elaborated (beyond what Om reported last month) on how Graph Search...