Kara Swisher in Media on July 25, 2011 at 6:14 am PT
It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s first successful social networking product.
Kara Swisher in News on June 28, 2011 at 6:05 am PT
Here’s an internal memo just sent out by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, in which he buries the lede by noting the business partner of content czar Arianna Huffington, Jon Brod, will move to work on its local Patch effort and Mapquest mapping unit full time.
There’s also some branding streamlining, which is akin to moving the couch over near the window where it looks better.
Ina Fried in Mobile on June 8, 2011 at 11:49 am PT
Google is adding real-time public transit information for four U.S. cities, as well as Madrid and Turin, Italy, in the latest update to Google Maps.
In the States, the service is available in San Francisco, San Diego, Calif., Portland, Ore. and Boston.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 3, 2011 at 7:43 am PT
Under a deal announced on Tuesday, Microsoft’s search engine and mapping will become the main options for future BlackBerry devices and on the PlayBook tablet.
Kara Swisher in News on April 26, 2011 at 8:19 am PT
We’ve done a lot of onstage interviews at our
D: All Things Digital conferences with the leaders of tech.
That includes Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google smartphone kingpin Andy Rubin, both of whom are now dealing with the fallout over a series of reports that iOS and Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to both companies.
Here are both talking about the now-explosive issue of privacy.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 21, 2011 at 3:15 am PT
Slightly more than two months after announcing their intent to work together, Microsoft and Nokia have finalized their multi-year deal, inking several hundred pages worth of plans on exactly who will do what and just how those “billions of dollars” will be flowing back and forth. In an exclusive interview, top executives from both companies talked about the pact as well as the technical collaboration that has already taken place, leading to the first prototype Nokia phones running the next version of Windows Phone.
John Paczkowski in News on January 28, 2011 at 2:22 pm PT
Saying settlement talks are in the offing, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen won’t pursue his predecessor’s demand to review the consumer data inadvertently harvested by Google’s Street View cars.
John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2011 at 12:08 pm PT
Connecticut Attorney General Senator Richard Blumenthal must be beside himself. South Korea has managed to do what he so far has not: Analyze the consumer data harvested by Google’s Street View cars. And the results of that analysis do not bode well for the company’s relationship with the country.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 14, 2010 at 8:09 am PT
As major Web players look to make a play in local, Groupon and Foursquare have both walked away from lucrative acquisition deals.
But now, as these young start-ups go it alone, would it make sense for the two to combine their forces and become the next major Web powerhouse?
John Paczkowski in News on December 10, 2010 at 11:37 am PT
Google’s amends for inadvertently harvesting consumer data with its Street View cars may have been good enough for the Federal Trade Commission, but not for Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal. Working with the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, his office has issued a civil investigative demand, hoping to force the company to turn over the personal data it collected and to which it has so far refused him access.
