Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 16 at 12:44 pm PT
This one is not quite as juicy, but it’s still interesting.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 16 at 11:55 am PT
A two percent decline in mobile phone shipments during the first quarter of 2012 may have hurt some handset vendors, but it did little to slow Samsung.
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Peter Kafka in Media on May 16 at 11:17 am PT
Harvey Geller, Universal Music Group’s longtime lawyer, left the company earlier this week. A person familiar with Universal said Geller was now headed for another job but didn’t have other details. His name will be familiar to many digital-media companies, since he often led fierce and sustained battles against them on behalf of the world’s biggest music label.
Liz Gannes in News on May 16 at 10:00 am PT
Google today formally launches some anticipated and previously glimpsed semantic features for its core English search engine on Google.com accessed through computers, phones and tablets.
Liz Gannes in Product News on May 16 at 10:00 am PT
A new start-up called Electric Imp promises to turn almost any product into a connected device with the addition of a tiny card in a slot.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 16 at 9:55 am PT
While Facebook is slowly working out the kinks to bring more games to mobile, there’s a small company in Menlo Park, Calif., that has beat them to it.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 16 at 9:45 am PT
The Chicago-based daily deals company expects to announce the appointment of Vinayak Hegde as VP of engineering later this afternoon.
Liz Gannes in Commerce on May 16 at 8:09 am PT
Tripping now includes home rentals through partnerships with FlipKey, HomeAway and Roomorama.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 16 at 7:27 am PT
Oracle takes its case that HP lied to its customers about Itanium to the court of customer opinion with a huge document dump.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 16 at 6:00 am PT
“Carrying the iPhone will be quite profitable,” says Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, for the umpteenth time.
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Lauren Goode in News on May 16 at 5:26 am PT
Fab.com, the shopping Web site that raised $40 million late last year in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz, has revamped its site to highlight more social features, including the ability to filter its live shopping feed by category, buy straight from the feed and see what Facebook friends are buying. Fab has also removed its Google+ button in favor of a Pinterest pin. The company claims four million members in the 10 months since its launch.
Liz Gannes in Mobile on May 16 at 5:00 am PT
With 50 percent of the mobile browser market in its home market of China, UCWeb is now looking across the Pacific.
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Lorraine Luk and Juro Osawa, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on May 16 at 4:30 am PT
Apple Inc., which is expected to launch its next-generation iPhone later this year, has ordered screens from its Asian suppliers that are bigger than the ones used in iPhones since they debuted in 2007, people familiar with the situation said.
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Mike Isaac in Social on May 16 at 4:06 am PT
Facebook is increasing the number of shares in its initial public offering by
nearly 25 percent, pushing the total amount to more than 420 million shares. The increase means the company may end up raising $16 billion on Friday.
