Lauren Goode in Media on February 9 at 2:34 pm PT
What TV-app start-up Movl plans to do with its fresh round of funding.
Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 9 at 9:31 am PT
Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Kara Swisher in News on February 9 at 7:01 am PT
Craig Silverstein was at Google when Google wasn’t Google (or evil, either).
Liz Gannes in Social on February 9 at 7:00 am PT
Just in case patent wars happen to be contagious, it seems worth evaluating which social networking players are best-equipped.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 8 at 5:20 pm PT
Motorola Mobility’s demand that Apple pay it patent royalties of 2.25 percent on sales of some iPhones and iPads raised a lot of eyebrows. But not at Google.
Thomas Catan and Ian Sherr, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 8 at 3:48 pm PT
The U.S. Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a powerful armory of technology patents to deploy in the smartphone wars.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 8 at 1:15 pm PT
Groupon’s revenue surged 194 percent year over year to $506.5 million to beat analysts expectations; however, the company did not cut back expenses enough to turn a profit.