Voices
Andy Pasztor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 25 at 9:40 am PT
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. made history Friday by attaching the first private spacecraft to the international space station, a move that ultimately could change the economics and politics of U.S. space exploration.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 25 at 9:15 am PT
Old-fashioned PCs still make up the lion’s share of traffic, with phones and tablet Web use spiking in the evening hours.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 25 at 8:49 am PT
Another deal to distance itself from consumer PCs.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 25 at 8:48 am PT
How to negotiate, Charlie Ergen-style. Threaten, kind of credibly, to blow everything up.
John Paczkowski in News on May 25 at 8:46 am PT
The 14 year RIM veteran becomes chief commercial officer of the wireless multi-room music system maker.
Liz Gannes in Enterprise on May 25 at 8:22 am PT
OpenDNS founder and CEO David Ulevitch wants his company to become “the Akamai for security.”
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 25 at 5:00 am PT
Bulky? Heavy? Inexpensive? No problem. Amazon has added thousands of items it previously considered too uneconomical to ship.
John Paczkowski in News on May 25 at 4:04 am PT
When was the last time you heard about the CEO of a wildly successful company walking away from millions of dollars that he could have just as easily pocketed?
We’re at the end of the lifespan of the current generation of consoles, so the focus has been on the depth of story. When the new generation of hardware comes out, people will revel in the graphics and story will be swept aside again.
– Shadowrun creator Jordan Weisman
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 24 at 10:29 pm PT
Just what the team will do is not 100 percent clear, but something to do with Chrome OS seems like a good bet.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in News on May 24 at 5:59 pm PT
BetterWorks, the employee rewards start-up used by companies like Hulu, Tesla and Docstoc, is
shutting down its site at the end of the month. The bad news from the Redpoint Ventures-backed start-up comes on the heels of
significant layoffs last week. However, a spokeswoman said that the company itself is not shutting down entirely, but rather trying to use its remaining team and capital to reformulate itself.
Numbers
Beth Callaghan in Numbers on May 24 at 4:30 pm PT
A new study from Forrester Research on technology adoption by urban Chinese consumers illustrates the ubiquitousness of the mobile Internet in China.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 24 at 4:00 pm PT
Unlike a $3.4 billion acquisition, influence is its own reward.
