There is, and probably always will be, a story floating the ether that Facebook is getting smoked by up and coming rivals like SnapChat, Whatsapp, or Twitter. While those services are certainly popular, they’re not hurting Facebook, according to comScore data analyzed by J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth. Anmuth notes that Facebook’s share of...
Mt. Gox, the world’s first and largest Bitcoin exchange, appears to be down. Below is a screenshot of what it looks like for us when we try to access the site. We are seeing a lot of others tweeting about the same problem. aaand Mt Gox goes down mtgox.com — felix salmon (@felixsalmon) April...
TheCDSatTuck via YouTube SAP’s Co-CEO Bill McDermott See Also Red Hat CEO: Employees ‘Often Call Me An Idiot To My Face’ Cisco Lays Off 500 Workers Oracle To IBM: Your ‘Customers Are Being Wildly Overcharged’ SAP‘s fastest-selling product of all time, known as HANA, may not be as growing as fast as the company...
No, Chrome for iOS can’t use Blink. At least not if you go by the letter of Apple’s current App Store guidelines, which state that browsers on iOS must use the WebKit rendering engine. Blink, if you don’t know already, is a freshly announced fork of Apple’s WebKit rendering engine. Google has decided that...
Regardless of your views of the Bitcoin currency, it’s become large enough and in enough market flux at the moment that we need to pay it mind. Today news is out that a major Bitcoin ‘wallet’ has shuttered. Also, market disruption caused the price of Bitcoin to fall precipitously. Just as the currency of a...
On-demand music streaming service Deezer moved one step closer to launching an Android app today, after it released a new and “recharged” beta version to the public. The app has a few crucial new features, including predictive search, to keep users away from rival services such as Spotify and Rdio. It works exactly as you...
Andrew Auernheimer, the hacker also known as “Weev” who received a 41-month prison sentence for public shaming ATT in 2010, appears to be live-tweeting his days at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC). His twitter handle, @rabite, sprang back to life on March 31 — aka Easter Sunday — with a notification of his whereabouts, and...
Google announced today that it is creating a new rendering engine, dubbed Blink, for the popular but controversial browser engine WebKit that powers browsers such as Chrome and Apple’s Safari. The move effectively “forks” WebKit, splitting up a common code base that Google and Apple, among others, had shared. Blink will be an open...
Owen Thomas is actually a nice guy. The new editor-in-chief of ReadWrite has often been cited for his controversial and influential opinions on sites such as Business Insider, VentureBeat, Suck.com and, of course, Valleywag. Here are seven things you didn’t know about the man who’s been called “the Perez Hilton of the Silicon Valley.” ...
I recently purchased a Chromebook Pixel with LTE, but it hasn’t yet arrived. When it does, I plan to do some casual video gaming on the new hardware. No, I’m not talking about web apps; I mean native, third party video games. How’s that? I’ve shared part of the secret before: Simply run a script...