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Friday, April 1, 2011
Android continued to grow its share of the smartphone market, but Apple outpaced all other individual hardware makers in the cell phone business amid strong sales of the Verizon iPhone.
Overall, more people are browsing the Web and using apps on their phone as the smartphone market continues to grow rapidly, comScore said. Read More »
Today, in a bit of a reverse April Fools joke, the team behind the Rachel Sequoia start-up pitch contacted me to reveal what was really going on. Read More »
Great news! The IPO market of Q1 2011 was better than the IPO market of Q1 2010. But sadly, that’s not really saying much, because the first quarter of 2010 saw all of eight venture-backed IPOs. And the first quarter of 2011 saw just three more. Read More »
Somebody somewhere has found a new twist on an old method for attacking Web sites. The result is that hundreds of thousands– and perhaps more than a million–Web sites are pointing innocent visitors toward shady sites that offer “security software” for their “infected” PCs. The lesson here? Don’t click on any strange pop-up messages. Read More »
Chinese E-Commerce Giant 360buy Raises $1.5 Billion From Russian Investment Group
China’s leading e-commerce Web site 360buy.com has raised a massive round of funding from Russian Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies, known for investing in Groupon and Facebook. DST contributed $500 million of the $1.5 billion round, Reuters reports. The company, which is preparing for an IPO in 2013, previously raised funding from Wal-Mart Stores.
MTV now has more than 58 million “likes” on Facebook across 82 show pages, including 18 million for MTV proper and nearly 10 million for “Jersey Shore.” Read More »
“The iPhone and iPad user is interested in buying content–that’s one of the reasons they bought the device. The Android buyer is different.” Read More »
CEO Gianfranco Lanci’s departure from Acer yesterday was both sudden and unexpected. What precipitated it? The company line says it was his differences with the Acer’s board of directors. But over what, specifically? Evidently, Lanci grievously misjudged the impact that tablets would have on the company’s core business. Read More »
Dish Network Corp., the satellite-television company controlled by Charlie Ergen, and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have each submitted bids for Blockbuster Inc. ahead of a bankruptcy court auction next week, said people familiar with the matter. Read More »
With supplies of the iPad 2 still limited at official outlets, more than a few people are turning to eBay and paying a premium to get their hands on Apple’s latest tablet.
Although Apple has yet to say just how well the new iPad 2 is selling, eBay has some interesting data on what it has seen so far. Read More »
Netflix Adds Fox’s “Glee”
Netflix, which may lose access to shows from Showtime this summer, is adding some from News Corp.’s Fox studio. As in other recent deals the video service has signed, the new pact gives Netflix subscribers access to shows they haven’t had in the past–in this case, the big new titles are “Glee” and “Sons Of Anarchy”–but only older episodes: None of the shows will be available “in season.” The deal is an expansion of an existing agreement, and is non-exclusive. News Corp. also owns this Web site.
Four months after landing $25 million in venture capital funding, Factual’s CEO talks about solving the problem of data “haves” and “have-nots.” Read More »
Trulia and Zillow, two of the biggest competitors in the online real estate space, are continuing to push into mobile with the addition of more smartphone applications. Read More »
IPhone 5: LTE? NFC? Natural Language Voice Interface?
by John Paczkowski in Digital Daily at 4:32 am PT
With the unveiling of the next iteration of the iPhone likely postponed until after WWDC, speculation has begun in earnest about what sort of enhancements Apple’s building into it. Read More »
In an on-stage interview with me at the Web 2.0 Expo this week, Reid Hoffman expounded on some ideas he’s been noodling with about how the next era of the Web is about understanding and mashing up massive data sets. Read More »
GetJar is once again offering the Opera Mini browser, albeit with one big modification.
GetJar pulled Opera’s browsers last month after Opera began offering a rival app store from within its mobile browsers. Now Opera is back on GetJar’s virtual shelves, but without the app store. Read More »
The Israeli tech community is abuzz with talk that Conduit, which distributes Web apps, is in talks to be acquired, potentially by Microsoft or Google, for more than a billion dollars. Read More »
When Andreessen Horowitz Co-Founder Ben Horowitz took the stage at the Web 2.0 Expo Wednesday in San Francisco, he was expected to tell audience members which technologies they should invest in and which ones they should build. Read More »
Thursday, March 31, 2011
FCC Commissioner Indicates AT&T-T-Mobile Deal Could Face Steep Climb
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who opposed Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal, said that AT&T’s proposed deal to buy T-Mobile USA could face an “even steeper climb” than that deal. In an interview with C-SPAN to be aired on Saturday, Copps said that he is concerned with the $39 billion deal, according to Reuters, which said it has viewed the C-SPAN interview. According to Reuters, Copps said that if the deal did win backing of a majority of commissioners, significant divestitures could be required. Both the FCC and Department of Justice must give their blessing to the deal.
Intuit and Salesforce.com are teaming up to take more small businesses to the cloud. The two companies on Friday are set to announce a partnership that marries Intuit’s accounting software for small businesses with Salesforce.com’s sales-automation offerings–-all handled over the Web. Read More »
Earlier Posts
- How to Watch Free TV Shows and Movies on Your iPad on MediaMemo
- GameStop Bulks Up on the Web on Voices
- Oracle’s Hurd Says Directors Will Soon Be Auditing IT Security on NewEnterprise
- Plus None: Babbling Babies Take on Google +1 on BoomTown
- Sirius XM Mulling 24-Hour Litigation Channel on Digital Daily
- Facebook Makes One Mobile Web App to Rule Them All on NetworkEffect
- Consumer Experiences With Mobile Shopping Are Low, While Expectations Are High on eMoney
- Twitter Completes QuickBar Retreat, Pulling Feature From iPhone Software on Mobilized
- Google Domains for Iraq and Tunisia on Voices
- Swype Grabs More Funding, Looks to Trace Path Into New Areas on Mobilized
Mozilla’s New, Lean Firefox 4
Mozilla's new Firefox 4 Web browser is a sleeker and faster improvement on previous editions, but most of its new features are nothing new in the field. Read More »
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