Kara Swisher in Media on October 11, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT
As the deal officially closes, what’s next?
Kara Swisher in Media on September 22, 2011 at 12:06 am PT
And you thought the Netflix pricing drama was weird.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on September 21, 2011 at 3:52 pm PT
Walt answers a reader’s question on the Asus Transformer, which has a keyboard add-on.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 28, 2011 at 5:15 am PT
Hint: It’s going to be awfully familiar.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 18, 2011 at 11:12 am PT
Yahoo this week will begin allowing users to participate on its properties without signing in to a Yahoo account. It’s a significant move for the company, which had for a long time incessantly popped up login screens whenever visitors tried to do seemingly anything on the site.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 16, 2010 at 12:18 pm PT
Facebook yesterday launched an interesting product that tries to get at the heart of how highly connected people communicate casually. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others from the company reiterated over and over again (see my live notes; the repetition is excessive) that the product is “not email.”
Liz Gannes in Social on November 10, 2010 at 9:46 pm PT
As a larger question in the battle between Facebook and Google over data reciprocity, what captivates me is how much value people are putting on user email addresses. Are our email addresses really the best proxy for who we are?
Liz Gannes in Social on November 9, 2010 at 6:06 pm PT
Facebook and Google are hardly friends these days, and they’re having more and more trouble containing their dislike.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 23, 2010 at 7:33 pm PT
“We are looking at adding a streaming-only option for the USA over the coming months,” says CEO Reed Hastings. Interesting, and inevitable. But not a slam dunk, for now.
Sarmad Ali, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 29, 2010 at 1:00 am PT
Steve Jobs said Wednesday that while Amazon has gone a great job with the Kindle, Apple plans to “stand on their shoulders” with the iPad’s e-reader functionality.
Bloggers quickly began speculating as to which device is better, with many pro-Kindle reviewers calling the reader less distracting, while the Apple camp cites the iPad’s multi-purpose nature as a selling point.
