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Liz Gannes in News on January 30 at 5:01 am PT
Mobile diabetes-management company
Glooko has raised $3.5 million more in a Series A round from its impressive list of investors, which include Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social+Capital Partnership, Bill Campbell, Vint Cerf, Judy Estrin and Andy Hertzfeld. The Palo Alto, Calif., company sells a $39.95 cord that connects to blood glucose meters and feeds data to a free iPhone app. The promise of the company is to elevate the geek hobby of
quantifying oneself to the next level — health care.
Lauren Goode in News on January 11 at 4:57 pm PT
Inside the CES Lost & Found booth, the iPhone is the hot ticket — among other … non-tech-related items.
Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret in News on January 10 at 10:38 pm PT
Walt and Katie walk the CES floor, and find less “newness” at this year’s event, noting that the absent Apple looms over the show.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 20, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
Meet Barnes & Noble Inc., software company.
As reading moves ever faster from hardcovers and paperbacks to electronic gadgets, the retailer is attempting to reinvent itself as a seller of book downloads, reading devices and apps.
John Paczkowski in News on January 5, 2011 at 8:15 am PT
After a disappointing 2009, the consumer electronics industry grew 13 percent in 2010 and is expected to grow another 10 percent this year to $964 billion, according to a new forecast by the Consumer Electronics Association. And, if the year turns out better than expected, consumer electronics sales could surpass $1 trillion in 2011. “I’m bullish,” Consumer Electronics Association analyst Steve Koenig said on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show. “That number is truly within reach. It’s clear that global retail sales of tech products have rebounded. Tech is at the vanguard in leading the recovery.”
Andrew Batson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 16, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
One widely touted solution for current U.S. economic woes is for America to come up with more of the high-tech gadgets that the rest of the world craves.
Yet two academic researchers estimate that Apple Inc.’s iPhone–one of the best-selling U.S. technology products–actually added $1.9 billion to the U.S. trade deficit with China last year.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 9, 2010 at 12:05 pm PT
AT&T loves the iPhone and it loves having it all to itself, make no mistake. But the company is also trying to adjust its message to be relevant if (or, more likely, when) the day comes that it has to share the iLove. In a video interview with Mobilized at
D: Dive Into Mobile, AT&T’s Glenn Lurie talked about the company’s approach, its next-generation network plans and its vision that one day practically everything you can get at Best Buy will have some sort of wireless connection.
Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 2, 2010 at 8:09 am PT
In Japan, if you buy a map of the world, it will probably have Japan right at the center –- with the Eurasia continent to the left, and the Americas to the right.
That’s what the world used to look like to the country’s electronics makers. But now, Panasonic Corp., like many of its Japanese peers, is drawing a new map.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 28, 2010 at 9:33 am PT
And now it’s official. The details we really want–how much–aren’t out yet, but I’m betting they’ll show up soon. Meantime, here’s the press release:
