Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 30 at 10:53 am PT
Electronic Arts is using artificial intelligence and real-life data to predict that the New York Giants will defeat the New England Patriots by a field goal on Sunday.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 20 at 1:58 pm PT
Big as they were, the attacks carried out in revenge for the Megaupload arrests accomplished nothing significant.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 29, 2011 at 6:27 am PT
Hurricane Irene is now a memory, but the mess it left will take days if not weeks to clean up.
Kara Swisher in News on May 4, 2011 at 5:27 am PT
CafeMom, a social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, is expanding its offerings to daily deals, as well as announcing an anticipated launch of a site aimed at Hispanic moms.
The deals site has just been launched under the killer URL of Mom.com.
Alexandra Berzon, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 8, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Washington, D.C., is poised to become the first place in the U.S. to allow online poker, challenging the federal government’s effective ban on the practice in its own backyard. The city council approved a budget last year allowing the district’s lottery to operate a poker website accessible only inside district boundaries. City officials say the [...]
Alexandra Berzon, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 2, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
Efforts to legalize online gambling in the U.S. are moving to the states as lawmakers roll the dice on bills that aim to steer around federal laws effectively prohibiting Internet wagering.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 1, 2011 at 10:45 am PT
It took a congressman who’s also a nuclear scientist and former “Jeopardy” champion in his own right to do what Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter failed to do: Beat IBM’s Watson.
Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s clear intent to keep the lid on Facebook tight–with no disclosure about the details of the financial performance and other pertinent information a public offering would require be disclosed–is clearly becoming a nettlesome issue for the company.
But while that effort at preserving secrecy by staying private has resulted in little more than cute media guessing games about a possible IPO until now, the social networking giant’s most recent machinations are too clever by a half.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 9, 2010 at 7:00 am PT
The TechAmerica Foundation’s annual Cybercities report covering the state of America’s local technology job markets for 2009 (the most recent data available) paints–as you might expect–a depressing picture in all but a few of the markets surveyed.
