Kara Swisher in News on April 27 at 11:05 am PT
Our long social patent fight is
not over.
News Byte
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 25 at 11:00 am PT
Microsoft on Wednesday said it had signed a patent licensing deal with Taiwan’s Pegatron, covering any Android devices it produces. With this latest deal, Microsoft said it
now has pacts with four of the top five Taiwanese contract manufacturers, covering more than 70 percent of all U.S. Android devices.
Kara Swisher in Social on December 16, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT
What’s worse than getting an unsolicited a poke on Facebook? Getting shot, killed, eaten and having your head mounted on a wall by its famous founder,
that’s what!
Kara Swisher in Media on July 18, 2011 at 8:22 am PT
Yahoo announces second-quarter earnings tomorrow. Does the Internet giant need a bold and crazy move to pull out of its perpetual funk?
Kara Swisher in Media on July 5, 2011 at 12:05 pm PT
Here’s a handy helper for those following the fate of the Hulu premium online video service, whose noisy efforts to sell itself have gotten a lot of attention of late:
“In preliminary talks” = “hawking itself to one of a half dozen big moneybag tech companies who will visit with Hulu’s bankers and management to see its presentation at Morgan Stanley’s office in Century City in Los Angeles.”
Peter Kafka in Media on February 12, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
The Internet radio service is handing over half of every dollar it brings into the music industry. But things could be a lot worse. And the royalty system that taxes Pandora also allows it to thrive.
John Paczkowski in News on January 11, 2011 at 3:42 pm PT
Here’s one way to spur adoption of your new video codec. End your browser’s support for a widely used rival codec. That’s what Google did today, announcing that its Chrome browser will ship without native support for H.264.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
SCVNGR has raised $15 million more in venture capital to continue building a mobile app that is part Foursquare and part FarmVille.
John Paczkowski in News on December 10, 2010 at 1:59 pm PT
There’s another turf war brewing in the mobile space, and this one isn’t over consumers–it’s over the top smartphone manufacturers.
