Mike Isaac in News on August 5, 2012 at 7:00 am PT
The first week in court has come to an end, but not without dropping some interesting details on Apple’s internal workings.
John Paczkowski in News on February 15, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
Company-subsidized tablets may outnumber their employee-owned counterparts sooner than expected.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 2, 2010 at 9:41 am PT
Zynga hosted a press conference this morning to announce that it has acquired Texas-based Newtoy, a two-year-old mobile games company, to help expand its games onto all mobile devices. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 1, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Akamai Technologies Inc., the large Web infrastructure provider, is promoting a new tracking technique it calls “pixel-free” technology.
Pixels are bits of software that tracking companies install on Web pages to monitor user behavior. These pixels, also known as “beacons” and “tags,” can install cookies–or small tracking files–on a user’s machine, or they can simply send information about a user ’s behavior to a tracking company.
News Byte
Voices in News on October 18, 2010 at 9:27 am PT
Google, which is encouraging businesses to adopt its Google Apps productivity applications, is now
making that cloud-based data more accessible for companies that also use its Search Appliance. Now, in addition to enabling intranet searches, the updated Search Appliance’s Cloud Connect will also pull in results from Google Docs, Google Sites and Twitter. The new version also adds People Search, which lists the company employees related to the search subject.
Kara Swisher in News on October 16, 2010 at 12:46 am PT
Hola Sofia Vergara!
In an interesting brand extension, the popular celebrity and entertainment site Wonderwall has launched a version aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market called Wonderwall Latino.
The main Wonderwall site, which is a partnership between Hollywood production company BermanBraun and Microsoft’s MSN portal that launched in early 2009, now has 11.3 million unique users and 337 million page views a month.
John Paczkowski in News on May 26, 2010 at 12:45 pm PT
And there it is. Today Apple, not Microsoft, is the world’s most valuable technology company. As I write this, Apple shares are trading at $244.87, giving it a market capitalization of $223.1 billion. Meanwhile, shares of Microsoft are trading at $24.79 and the company’s market cap sits at $217.78 billion.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 20, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Tumblr’s David Karp, seen carpet surfing on the cover of New York Magazine this week, says his hipster blog service is ready to become a real business. Karp’s VC backers seem to believe him.
John Paczkowski in News on January 28, 2009 at 9:13 am PT
Sirius XM Radio caught a lucky break recently when NASDAQ added another three months to a suspension of its delisting rules. With a share price below the $1 minimum price requirement to remain listed on the exchange, the struggling satellite radio broadcaster’s delisting seemed imminent. No longer.