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Intel needs Atom success for mobile; Mayfield Fund to open India-focused fund; China still wants security code; Wal-Mart to have iPhone, maybe, at $99, even maybe-er; rumors of new Apple device category to come out next year; AMD gets smaller stake in spin-off; and Broadcom packs 11n, Bluetooth, and FM on one chip.
If you cast a large enough net, you'll eventually snag a fish or two. In some ways, it feels like that's what Google is doing with its AdWords program. The company said today that it's extending AdWords reach, optimizing it to include ads that are specific to iPhone and G1 users - which offer ...
One of Yahoo's most valuable properties is its web mail service, which has more members and gets more traffic than mail services provided by Google, MSN and AOL. Yahoo Mail was once part of the portal, another offering along side things like photo services, stock portfolios, alerts and other servi...
Apple has a reputation for being focused on its customers. But given recent history, you might wonder whether the reputation should be for lying to customers. As Apple goes after a bigger market, it is going to face an enormous challenge of appealing over the long haul to people who are not inculcated in the partisan culture surrounding the company. If it doesn't change its ways, a few years down the line, people will start walking away.
Apple may be offering a $99 iPhone at Wal-Mart. More than 300 million applications have been downloaded from Apple's App Store. And the iPod touch is out of stock in at key retailers. Add it up and signs abound that Apple's has created a virtuous cycle for its touch platform and the payoff may b...
Court upholds ruling that Qualcomm withheld patent info from standards body, but says comapny can still enforce its patents; Yahoo countersues American Airlines over charge that allowing others to buy search placement based on the comapny's name is trademark infringement; Hawaiian Telecom files for bankruptcy; ITC rules against Tessera in its patent infringement action against six large chip companies; Mutliven sues Cisco for alleged antitrade activities; AMD says that Intel is trying to stall an EU antitrust investigation; lawyers look for a DMCA exemption for customers left high and dry when a digital rights management system is shut down; Apple says that "no reasonable person" would believe statements in its ads; and Google was hours away from antitrust suit by DoJ.
Apple's forecast on iPod movement is off, leading to product shortages and fewer sales; consumers focus on bargains; Google tightens its belt, including cutting research; when Google called off the Yahoo deal, a DoJ anti-trust lawsuit was only a few hours away; IBM, Microsoft, and Google, among others, still plan on acquisitions going forward; and Activision to monetize its free Battle.Net gaming site.
Real Networks said today that it informed 130 employees, or 7.5 percent of its worldwide workforce, that their positions would be eliminated at the end of year. In a post on the company's official blog, the company said the layoffs were part of a larger cost cutting plan that "is intended to b...
The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.(Techmeme) Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can share...
Microsoft has hired former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its online services business. Lu will start on January 5 and report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to a CNET report. The company also announced that Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of Aquantive and a Microsoft advertising...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census Bureau, 3-D c...
Online spending on Cyber Monday jumped by 15 percent over the previous year; Yahoo stock jumps on rumors of former AOL chief trying to raise $30 billion for a buyout; RIM's Blackberry Storm doesn't weather criticisms; Sprint concerned about raising enough money for WiMAX joint venture; and semiconductor equipment spending is down sharply this year and will be again next.
It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter (PDF), asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET re...
Can Apple, specifically its iPhone, save an entire industry? The iPhone - now ranked the second most popular smartphone - saw strong enough adoption in the quarter ending Sept. 30 to mask the sluggishness of the overall smartphone market this past summer, according to a report by Needham & Co...
Former AOL Chief Jonathan Miller is looking in the couch cushions to raise enough money to buy a partâ€"if not all of Yahoo. According to the Wall Street Journal, Miller has been talking to private equity folks and sovereign wealth funds to buy Yahoo for about $20 to $22 a share. Miller would hav...
