Category: News
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Google Looking to Finance Yahoo! Acquisition — Yahoogle on the Way?
Yahoogle? Well, not exactly. The years haven’t been kind to the once mighty Yahoo! but after the ungracious firing of ex-CEO Carol Bartz, the fourth most visited website in the U.S. is getting downright desperate. Unable to keep pace with Google in search and advertising, Yahoo! has been looking for help from investors to inject some…
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Diaspora Seeks Donations, PayPal Freezes Account
UPDATE: After some prodding and community outcry, PayPal released Diaspora’s account. Remember Diaspora? The group of NYU students that asked for $15,000 on Kickstarter.com to create a decentralized alternative to Facebook, and made headlines when they garnered a shocking $200,000 instead? Yeah, they’re still around, and to my surprise, they have some pretty cool stuff to…
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Dropbox Hits 50 Million Users and Raises $250 Million
Dropbox, the easy-to-use cloud storage that we all know and love, just reported that it has reached 50 million users, which is up threefold from this time last year. The company also reached a whopping $250 million in series B financing and expects to reach $240 million in revenue by the end of the year.…
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Motorola, Samsung and RIM All Announce New Products
I guess you could call it the perfect storm: Three of the largest mobile phone manufacturers all announcing new devices on the same exact day. In any case, these three companies decided to announce and unveil some rockin’ new products that are something to get excited about. Keep reading to find out about all the gritty…
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Google to kill off Google Buzz, Labs goes the way of the dodo
Remember when Google launched a Twitter-esque social network of sorts and they called it Buzz? Neither do we. Of course, we kid, but Google Buzz really was a pretty pathetic attempt at social networking, especially for a company like Google. People picked it up and started playing with it to see what it was like,…
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Creator of C Programming Language, Dennis Ritchie, Dies at 70
If I were a revolutionary in the tech industry, I’d be a little worried. Just a few days after the death of Steve Jobs, the tech community has lost another game-changing leader on October 12 — Dennis Ritchie. While considerably less famous than Jobs, Ritchie was the father of the C programming language, which he…
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A Steve Jobs Eulogy by a non-Fanboy
I’m not an Apple fanboy. In fact, I rally against the Cupertino-based company and the lemmings that follow it blindly at every opportunity. I don’t own even one Apple product (although I do covet an iPad), I even avoid iTunes because the one time I did install it, it spread its tentacles deeply into my…
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Digg Newsrooms Lured Me Back, and I Like It.
In the past couple years, Digg.com has taken its licks. After experiencing incredible growth soon after being founded by Kevin Rose in 2004, the site hit a high point in 2007 and Digg began to roll out changes that led to a series of user complaints which culminated in 2010 soon after the release of…
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Netflix Pulls The Plug On Qwikster Service
Remember a few weeks ago when Netflix decided to split its instant streaming and DVD-by-mail services into two separate entities and introduced Qwikster? A lot of people were pretty peeved, to say the least, and it looks like Netflix has finally received the message. Basically, Netflix was going to move the DVD-by-mail service into a…