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Video: The Pulse Boys-to-Men Talk About Huge Growth of Visual News-Reading App

Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2011 at 5:20 pm PT

Today, BoomTown braved the floods and skippered All Things Digital‘s S.S. Minnow through a Noah-like rainstorm in Silicon Valley to visit offices of Pulse. Less than a year ago, the nifty visual news-reading app was publicly praised by Apple’s Steve Jobs for innovativeness and slapped by the New York Times for misusing its RSS feed on the same day. Dramatic, for sure, but they have made nice with the Times since then and have also raised more than $1 million in funding and grown to three million users since then.

Exclusive: Palm Boss Talks Past, Future of WebOS

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 9, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

After his onstage talk at D: Dive Into Mobile, Jon Rubinstein, head of HP’s Palm unit, sat down with Mobilized to talk more about webOS, including changes since the HP acquisition, personnel and a broader focus on more devices.

Palm to Announce Verizon, AT&T Deals at 2010 CES Event?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 17, 2009 at 5:45 am PT

What is Palm planning for the Consumer Electronics Show? Earlier this week, the company distributed invitations to a press event scheduled for the first day of the annual exposition in early January, but provided few details about what to expect. Last year at CES, Palm introduced the Pre and its new webOS operating system, so expectations for this gathering are already running high.

Google Books Settlement Proceedings to Drag on Until Mid-February

John Paczkowski in News on November 20, 2009 at 6:53 am PT

The latest revision of the Google Books settlement has been granted preliminary approval by a New York district judge, though it will be some time before that approval is finalized–if it is finalized. Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District of New York said Thursday that he will hold a hearing Feb. 18 on the new agreement, which will restore access to millions of out-of-print books, but may also one day give the company a monopoly on the largest digital library in the world.