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Adobe Admits It Is Saying Buh-Bye to Flash for Mobile Devices

Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Looks like Apple’s Steve Jobs was right (as usual).

Horse Flash: Apple’s Steve Jobs on Adobe Vendetta in 2010 at D8 (Video)

Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 9:30 am PT

Why Apple put the popular software technology out to pasture.

Larry Page Might Be Bill Gates+, But He Wants to Be Steve Jobs

Kara Swisher in Mobile on August 16, 2011 at 10:12 am PT

Let’s face it: Everyone in Silicon Valley — one way or another — fashions themselves as the next Steve Jobs.

Who’s to Blame for Yahoo’s Q2 Revenue Rout? The Line Forms Around Back…

Kara Swisher in News on July 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm PT

What happened to Yahoo revenue? Display sales in the U.S. gets the blame this quarter. While coming up with a new thing to blame for Q3, Yahoo execs try to explain it all for you.

Windows Phone 7 Shipments Topped Two Million Units Last Quarter

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 26, 2011 at 10:13 am PT

Redmond offers an update on how many of the phones have shipped to carriers, but it’s still unclear just how quickly consumers themselves are buying the new Windows Phones. For its part, AT&T also won’t give specifics, but says sales have steadily increased since launch.

RIM: Don’t Worry About PlayBook’s Battery Life

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 13, 2011 at 8:59 am PT

Speaking about its business plans on Thursday, Research In Motion briefly addressed its forthcoming PlayBook tablet and reported issues around the product’s battery life. While they didn’t give an update on pricing or a release date, RIM executives did shed a little more light on how the tablet will work.

If Google Buys Groupon, It'd Be a Windfall for Investors, Bankers…and Regulators?

Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2010 at 5:33 am PT

If Google does manage to close the deal to buy Groupon–acquisition discussions flagged by BoomTown 10 days ago–it will be at a cost that is likely to be much more than the $2.5 billion price tag being floated in the latest batch of rumors. It’s not just that the deal will likely come in at a higher number, which will mean a big payoff for investors and bankers involved. It’s because as soon as it purchases the social group buying phenom, the search giant will be buying a whole lot of pricey regulatory scrutiny too.

Google to U.S.: Who’s Being Anticompetitive Now?

John Paczkowski in News on November 1, 2010 at 1:20 pm PT

Well how about that: Google’s suing the United States government for a change. The company and its government-reselling partner Onix Networking have filed suit against the Department of the Interior claiming they’ve been excluded from bidding on a contract to provide email and collaboration technology to the department’s 88,000 employees.

September Surprise: AOL Re-Ups and Expands Search Agreement With Google

Kara Swisher in News on September 2, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

In a surprisingly quick and even stealthy move, AOL has renewed and expanded its search agreement with Google, even though many had expected there to be more-competitive bidding throughout the fall to win the deal. The five-year deal, which is actually the third between the companies since 2002, to provide search technology and search advertising by powering AOL Search is more wide-ranging than the one it replaces. It also includes improved search products, global search, mobile search and also a video-distribution arrangement with YouTube, which could evolve over time to include content partnerships.

Like E-Books? Amazon Sells More of Them, for Less, Than Apple. For Now.

Peter Kafka in Media on June 19, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

The introduction of Apple’s iPad and iBooks store has lots of people forecasting doom for Amazon’s Kindle. And the iPad will obviously eat it into Kindle’s market share. But for now, at least, Amazon still has deeper relationships with book publishers. Will consumers care?