379 posts and columns on consumer

Lenovo Looks to Bridge Business and Consumer With New Ultra-Light and Ultrabook ThinkPads

in Product News on May 14 at 9:01 pm PT

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 carbon Ultrabook is definitely not your father’s ThinkPad.

Flat-Screen TV Prices: Anything but Flat

in Product News on May 8 at 1:35 pm PT

So much for falling TV prices.
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Your Smartphone as Superman: 86 Percent Use Phones for “Just-in-Time” Situations

in Mobile on May 7 at 9:39 am PT

Arguing over fact sets or finding yourself in a sticky situation? Your smartphone, to the rescue.
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Silver Lake Grabs Large Minority Stake of WME to Push Digital Initiatives

in News on May 2 at 10:59 am PT

Hollywood meets Silicon Valley. Again.
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Paying With Square’s New Mobile-Payments App

in Reviews on April 30 at 6:00 am PT

Square’s app for “hands-free” consumer payments is worth trying.
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What Kind of Digital Consumer Are You?

in Media on April 16 at 11:55 am PT

Most people now consider themselves “digital device adopters.” But what’s your digital personality? IBM’s latest study aims to find the answer.
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FaceTagram? InstaBook? Whatever You Call It, All Your Mobile Photo Are Belong to Facebook (for $1 Billion)!

in Media on April 9 at 12:20 pm PT

Actually, it’s pretty simple: Photos. Photos. And, oh yes, mobile photos — lots and lots and lots of them.
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Clicking on a Fortune: Facebook to Acquire Photo-Sharing Start-Up Instagram for $1 Billion

in News on April 9 at 10:03 am PT

A blockbuster exit for the popular and elegant mobile photo-sharing service.
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Beauty-in-a-Box Company Birchbox Will Ship Lifestyle and Tech Products for Men

in Commerce on April 9 at 7:45 am PT

What’s in the box, you ask?
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Exclusive: Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving Resigns

in News on April 5 at 6:28 pm PT

Irving has left the purple building.
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It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

in News, April 4, 2012 at 6:22 am PT

Yahoo’s Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

in News, April 3, 2012 at 3:16 pm PT

Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing)

in News, March 12, 2012 at 1:15 pm PT

We’re Expanding: All Things Digital Would Like You to Meet All Things Reviewed

in News, March 11, 2012 at 11:51 am PT

Exclusive: Amid Layoffs in AOL’s AIM and Mail Ranks, Top Execs Shellen and Van Miltenburg to Also Depart

in News, March 8, 2012 at 7:02 pm PT

Poll: Will You Buy the iPad 3? (Plus, Cool Concept Video.)

in Mobile, March 3, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

Users Rip AT&T Data Curbs

in Mobile, March 2, 2012 at 11:30 pm PT

Yahoo Product Unit Readies Major Exec Reorg — But It’s Just a Tremor for the Big One to Come

in News, February 12, 2012 at 4:14 pm PT

Kodak to Stop Making Cameras

Can’t Buy Me Love … But You Can Buy Me Gadgets

in Commerce, February 8, 2012 at 12:54 pm PT

The Full Valenti: Dodd Trades His Olive Branch to Tech for a Howitzer, After SOPA/PIPA Gets Delayed

in Media, January 20, 2012 at 11:32 am PT

The Times of Its Troubled Life: A 2007 Visit to Kodak (Video)

in Media, January 19, 2012 at 11:54 am PT

As Weak Q4 Earnings Loom, Yahoo Freezes Hiring and Also Contemplates Layoffs

in News, January 19, 2012 at 5:10 am PT

Hot-Button Topic: Do Women Buy More Consumer Tech Than Men?

in Commerce, January 17, 2012 at 3:12 pm PT

Is Facebook IPO on Track for May?

in Social, January 16, 2012 at 1:31 am PT