Kara Swisher in News on September 21, 2011 at 11:03 am PT
Google faces the antitrust music in Washington, D.C.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 7, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
Zynga easily tops the social games charts, but Electronic Arts is slowly creeping up behind the highflier with a combination of acquisitions and launching games based on well-known brands.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 26, 2011 at 5:05 pm PT
As part of Electronic Arts’ first-quarter earnings report today, it shed some light on the company’s social games business, which is both up and down at the same time.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 30, 2011 at 2:25 pm PT
World Series Superstars, the first official Major League Baseball game on Facebook, was published today by Electronic Arts, which is increasing its efforts to bring branded titles to the Facebook platform.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 25, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT
Microsoft’s Bing has launched a new way to search among billions of airfares much faster, while Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software continues to be reviewed by antitrust regulators.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 1, 2011 at 1:56 pm PT
Electronic Arts’ stock is up after reporting solid earnings for the third quarter. Now the company is turning its attention to digital games, which generated just 15 percent of overall revenues.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm PT
Verizon showed off 10 devices coming in the first half of the year and said it will cover another 140 cities with the high-speed network by year’s end.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 1, 2011 at 9:47 am PT
Even as Facebook extended its dominance in 2010 to the point where it seems to have a social Web monopoly, it was a landmark year for social network competition.
Where in the past, tech industry watchers derided new start-ups for launching “yet another social network,” an increasing number of users seem to be constructing multiple online presences that utilize the strengths of various platforms and networks.
John Paczkowski in News on October 11, 2010 at 9:15 am PT
How many Windows Phone 7 apps will be available when the first devices running the OS ship? Microsoft refuses to say, but I’m told it will be plenty. Or, as one exec told me, “enough.”