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Will RIM Not Disappoint Again This Quarter?

in Mobile on September 15, 2011 at 11:43 am PT

Research in Motion reports its earnings later today and many are hopeful that the results won’t be as awful as previous quarters.
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Nokia, Silicon Valley Giant?

in Mobile on December 17, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

When one thinks of Silicon Valley tech companies, Nokia is hardly a name that comes to mind. But the company has amassed a decent presence in the Valley, with about 500 people working on everything from research to inking deals with Web giants to building the features that the company hopes will someday soon return it to the forefront of the smartphone market.

D: Dive Into Mobile–The Full Interview Video of RIM's Mike Lazaridis

in News on December 13, 2010 at 10:00 am PT

As promised, All Things Digital will begin publishing the full videos of the interviews we did last week at our D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco. We’ll be posting them all week and next, so first up: Research in Motion’s co-CEO and co-founder Mike Lazaridis.

Google Street View: Chronology of a Cock-Up

in News on October 29, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Much as Google would like Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to follow the Federal Trade Commission’s lead and close his inquiry into the inadvertent collection of user data by its Street View cars, that seems unlikely. Blumenthal, whose office is spearheading a multistate investigation into Google’s Wi-Fi data-gathering debacle, says he has no plans to end it simply because of some announced improvements to the company’s privacy practices.

Apple Acquires Web Mapping Outfit Poly9 [UPDATED]

in News on July 14, 2010 at 8:46 am PT

Another stealth acquisition for Apple. The company has reportedly acquired Poly9, a Canadian mapping company. Among Poly9’s products: Globe, a cross-platform Google Earth competitor that doesn’t require any client-side downloads.
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Twitter Didn’t Kill Gordon Lightfoot. Big Media Did.

in Media on February 19, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

It’s easy to blame Twitter for falsely reporting that the guy who sings “Sundown” is dead. But you can’t pin this one on the messaging service or its users, who were merely repeating what a big Canadian news service had told them.

StumbleUpon Stumbles Out of eBay's Arms to Be Reborn as a Start-Up (Plus the Entire Press Release)

in News on April 13, 2009 at 1:20 pm PT

The content-discovery service, StumbleUpon, has gotten itself back to start-up status, after being bought by eBay two years ago. It announced today that it was returning to being an “investor-backed startup” by a roster of well-known Silicon Valley investors, including Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures, Accel Partners and August Capital. Its founders, Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, are also back, with Camp now in place as CEO. “We are grateful to eBay for its guidance. However, we realized there were few long-term synergies between the two businesses. It is best for us to part ways and focus on our respective strengths,” said Camp, stating the very obvious. That’s quite a boomerang since it was acquired by the auction giant in 2007 for $75 million.