Kara Swisher in News on April 3, 2011 at 7:34 pm PT
Jim Bankoff, the fomer AOL exec responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, has grabbed eight staffers who had recently left the huge tech site amid tensions, in order to start a new gadget property for his SB Nation sports and news platform.
The site–which is still unnamed and will be run by outgoing Engadget Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky–will debut sometime in the fall.
Meanwhile, AOL has zeroed in on a new leader to replace Topolsky.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 11, 2010 at 1:40 pm PT
The airline has been pretty quiet for the past 48 hours, but it’s finally piping up with a blog post, a sense of humor and a clip from “Office Space.”
John Paczkowski in News on May 27, 2010 at 1:50 pm PT
Federal regulators on Friday approved Google’s $750 million purchase of mobile advertising company AdMob. Now, less than a week later, the search sovereign has closed the deal.
John Paczkowski in News on May 27, 2010 at 4:45 am PT
Looks like Palm is suffering a bit of post-acquisition talent drain. Mobile user interface master Matias Duarte has left the company and hired on at the most obvious of places: Google. His new job? User Experience Director for Android.
John Paczkowski in News on May 14, 2010 at 2:23 pm PT
Responding to questions about its Street View data collection practices in an April 27 blog post, Google said that it captured only publicly broadcast Wi-Fi network names and their MAC addresses and nothing else–certainly not “payload data,” the personal information being sent over those networks. Well, guess what Google has unwittingly been collecting these past three years?
John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 22, 2010 at 3:31 am PT
Adobe’s caustic blog post announcing the company’s decision to scrap efforts to bring Flash to the iPhone and iPad evidently irked Apple enough to elicit a rare public comment from the company. In a statement given to News.com, spokeswoman Trudy Miller dismissed Adobe’s claim that Apple wants “to tie developers down to their platform, and restrict their options to make it difficult for developers to target other platforms.”
John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 21, 2010 at 10:01 am PT
Looks like Apple’s recent ban on apps built with Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone compiler has had the desired effect: Adobe has finally given up on bringing Flash to the iPhone.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 16, 2010 at 6:30 am PT
Google may be a formidable search company, but as a mobile device distributor, it’s a piker. After 74 days at market, Google’s new Nexus One “super-smartphone” has sold just 135,000 units, according to a new estimate from analytics outfit Flurry.
John Paczkowski in News on February 19, 2010 at 8:26 am PT
Microsoft will begin rolling out its “No Browser Left Behind” scheme in Europe next week, offering Windows users a choice of Web browsers, as stipulated by its antitrust settlement with the European Commission.
