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Lauren Goode in News on November 14, 2013 at 6:40 am PT
Performance-gear maker Under Armour, which has been increasing its efforts in the digital-fitness space, has said it will acquire MapMyFitness for $150 million. Austin-based MapMyFitness makes a family of iOS and Android apps — MapMyRun, MapMyRide and MapMyWalk — that track workouts and allow people to share those maps through the apps. MapMyFitness claims over 20 million registered users.
Kara Swisher in Media on April 9, 2013 at 12:01 pm PT
Mobile news apps are hot. Summly just sold for a ridonkulous amount of money, for example. So what’s up with the “atomic bits” list-makers of the San Francisco?
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 18, 2012 at 6:05 pm PT
The new iPhone version of Google Maps isn’t just better than Apple Maps, but also better, in most respects, on the iPhone than it is on Android phones.
Kara Swisher in Media on November 27, 2012 at 8:06 pm PT
Going down those Internet pipes is really tight.
Kara Swisher in News on January 27, 2012 at 3:40 pm PT
Earlier today, Harvard University and New Enterprise Associates announced the Experiment Fund, aimed at making sure that future entrepreneurs can stay on campus and innovate without having to head West.
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 March 23, 2011 at 10:20 am PT
At least once a day, BoomTown gets a call from investors, analysts or other troublemaking types–you know who you are!–wondering why Yahoo is still plugging away in search.
With a declining market share in the arena and a search technology outsourcing deal with Microsoft, it’s not a bad question to ask.
But Yahoo begs to differ, introducing a new feature called Yahoo Search Direct at an event in San Francisco today.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT
It took two years and $350 million, but America now has a detailed map showing where all its broadband Internet connections are and where they are not.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 10:13 am PT
Today Google Latitude will give users the ability to share their location with friends and strangers by “checking in” to a particular establishment.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 15, 2010 at 12:57 pm PT
The Communications Workers of America have completed their latest survey of broadband connections in the U.S., and if the point wasn’t already well-established, then they’re here to remind you: Broadband connections in America are slow, and service availability is lousy or non-existent in many areas.
