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SurveyMonkey Buys Online Forms Start-Up Wufoo for $35 Million

Kara Swisher in News on April 25, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

SurveyMonkey, the quiet but profitable and fast-growing Web survey company, is buying online forms start-up Wufoo. While the terms of the transaction for the Tampa, Fla.-based Infinity Box–makers of Wufoo–were not disclosed, sources said the price was $35 million in cash and stock.

Condé Nast's iPad Apps Are Too Portly. Blame Adobe.

Peter Kafka in Media on September 28, 2010 at 12:37 pm PT

The Wired iPad app has a weight problem. And Condé Nast’s newest iPad app, from the New Yorker, isn’t much better. The apps are due for a slim-down–as soon as Adobe figures out how to make that happen.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Privacy Hot Seat at D8

John Paczkowski in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 4:48 pm PT

Facebook’s privacy controls and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s views on privacy figured prominently in his D8 appearance. Zuckerberg thinks his users want to share their information with the world, and he wants to help them do just that.

Adobe Co-Founder: We Never Abandoned Apple, but Apple Is Abandoning Us

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 14, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

A couple of weeks ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published “Thoughts on Flash,” a 1,671-word execration of Adobe’s Flash platform. On Thursday, Adobe co-founders and co-chairmen Chuck Geschke and John Warnock followed suit with some thoughts of their own. Their eight-paragraph essay, “Our Thoughts On Open Markets,” mentions Apple only once, but when it does it is to lambaste the company for its position on Flash. I spoke to Geschke Thursday afternoon about his letter, Adobe’s new “We ? Apple” ad campaign and Apple’s stance on his company’s software. After the jump, a transcript of our conversation.

Is Verizon’s New Early-Termination Fee Anti-Consumer?

John Paczkowski in News on November 6, 2009 at 11:06 am PT

Beginning Nov. 15, Verizon subscribers looking to get out of their smart-phone contracts early will pay $350 for the privilege. That early-termination fee is double the current one, but Verizon insists it’s justified because of the higher prices of today’s phones. An interesting move for a carrier that just last year agreed to pay $21 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by California consumers over the very early-termination fees it is now increasing.

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Web 2.0 Expo: An “American Idol” for Start-Ups

Marisa Taylor, Tech Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 3, 2009 at 5:13 pm PT

During the “Launch Pad” session, five start-ups took a grilling from developers, journalists and venture capitalists, then faced a crowd vote at the Web 2.0 Expo’s version of “American Idol.” As attendees texted their votes, moderator John Battelle, founder of Federated Media Publishing, jokingly asked: “Want to have a dance-off?” None were necessary. The techies in attendance were starry-eyed for all things mobile, picking Nitobi’s PhoneGap, an open-source tool for building mobile apps, as the People’s Choice winner. Life-tracking site zeaLOG was a close second.

Clarifying Techno-Babble

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on July 2, 2008 at 6:40 pm PT

Walt Mossberg answers questions about the “n” version of Wi-Fi, using the iPhone with a new Wi-Fi service on airplanes, and exporting Firefox 3.0 Bookmarks.