Britain

Five Startups for $16 Million: Yahoo’s Mayer Is Buying Up Most Mobile App Companies on the Cheap

Kara Swisher in Mobile on May 13 at 6:16 am PT

Warm entrepreneurial bodies: Priceless!

In the Ever-Crowded Online Learning Space, TSL Education Aims at Teacher Lessons (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on March 3 at 1:04 pm PT

Listen and learn.

Exclusive: Synacor to Offer TV Everywhere Authentication Via Social IDs

Kara Swisher in Media on September 6, 2012 at 5:02 am PT

Debugging a “TV Everywhere” hassle.

Happy 100th Birthday, Alan Turing. Love, Silicon Valley.

Kara Swisher in News on June 23, 2012 at 3:32 pm PT

Silicon Valley certainly owes a lot to the famed British codebreaker and math genius.

GigaOM Buys paidContent (Like Peter Kafka Said)

Kara Swisher in Media on February 8, 2012 at 11:19 am PT

Guess what? Wait, we knew that.

Britain Adds More Spectrum to Deal With Olympics-Related Wireless Crunch

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 23, 2012 at 11:42 am PT

The British regulator responsible for managing wireless spectrum says it has a system in place to ensure that massive demand doesn’t overload the airwaves.

Will That Be Sir Jonathan, or Sir Jony?

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 30, 2011 at 7:49 pm PT

Apple’s design guru Jonathan Ive is to be knighted by the Queen of England.

iPhone 4S Surges in Battle of Britain

John Paczkowski in Mobile on November 28, 2011 at 3:40 pm PT

Pent-up demand for the iPhone 4S in Great Britain has carried the device straight to the top of the country’s sales charts.

Britain’s First Software Billionaire Now Reports to HP CEO Meg Whitman

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 3, 2011 at 2:58 pm PT

Hewlett-Packard closes on its $11.7 billion deal to acquire the British software firm Autonomy. Now the question is whether it can make it pay off.

Autonomy: When All Else Fails, Blame the Bankers

Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 30, 2011 at 4:52 pm PT

He still says he never shopped his company to Oracle, and Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch keeps changing his story. Wait till you read the email from his banker to Oracle President Mark Hurd.