The FCC’s probe of cell phone contracts and exclusivity deals will reportedly focus on markets where the iPhone and the Palm Pre aren’t available — that is, where AT&T and Sprint don’t have service. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski told Bloomberg, “There are markets in the… Read More »
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Consumers are still looking to hold onto their memories with hard-copy photographs. At a time when many tech-savvy users are uploading their entire photographic lives to Facebook or Flickr, many others — especially those with kids looking to send pictures to grandparents or other… Read More »
Southern Comfort is taking its $8 million marketing spend online to reach its target market of 21- to 29-year-olds. Last year, the brand spent $6 million on late-night cable TV and another $1.5 million on magazines. All of that is going away. Now, SoCo plans… Read More »
Microsoft and Yahoo have reached an agreement on a search deal that will allow both companies to focus on their core strengths: Microsoft’s Bing will become the default search engine on Yahoo.com, and Yahoo will eventually take over the ad inventory on all Bing search results,… Read More »
The Apple rumor mill never stops. This week, the Financial Times is claiming that Apple is working hand-in-hand with record labels to redesign how it sells music albums on its iTunes store. According to the FT’s sources, Apple is working with EMI, Sony, Warner and… Read More »
AT&T has finally issued a statement about the company’s unannounced blocking of certain parts of forum site 4Chan. A number of parties blamed AT&T for “censoring” the Internet, presuming that the company had blocked access because of the content on 4Chan, which can… Read More »
Yahoo and Microsoft are very close — a year and a half after Microsoft went public with its buyout offer for the beleaguered web giant — to inking a search deal. AdAge’s Michael Learmonth reports that an agreement is likely to be announced this week,… Read More »
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Voicemail transcription startup SpinVox is in a bit of a fix, after a BBC investigation found that the majority of messages the company claimed were converted to text by an advanced speech-to-text algorithm, were in fact “heard and transcribed by call center staff in… Read More »
Apple, at the iPhone SDK launch last May, began a big push towards getting the iPhone into the enterprise — the traditional stronghold of the BlackBerry. It rolled out enterprise-targeted features like push email/contacts/calendar, a global address list, VPN support and remote wipe. Now, more than… Read More »
Some 700 million more people are going to go online in the next five years, according to a report released today by Forrester Research, hitting 2.2 billion by 2013. Much of the growth is seen taking place in emerging markets in Asia like China, India… Read More »
Thinking about making a move to another company? Sure, the economy is in tatters and layoff announcement have become commonplace, but it’s always nice to know whether or not people at other companies are as miserable enjoying their jobs as much as you. Glassdoor,… Read More »
Ask your friends what business Google is in and the answer you’ll most likely get is “search.” And they would be wrong. Google is, first and foremost, an advertising company. A full 97 percent of its revenue comes from advertising on its various properties, including… Read More »
During Google’s quarterly earnings call today, a number of analysts asked questions about the company’s new Chrome OS. The product is unique in that it’s generated a massive amount of hype and coverage without anyone having any idea what it will look like, when… Read More »
Cisco today eliminated roughly 700 positions as part of a minor restructuring that it announced back in February. That’s on top of the 760 employees the networking company shed in the first three months of the year due to “employee attrition and a hiring pause.”… Read More »
Sure, Yahoo might be second in search (which is still, in and of itself, pretty good), but the company is far from a has-been — I know a ton of startups that would kill for the eyeballs that it snags in many of its market categories,… Read More »
Updated with comment from Twitter: A number of purportedly authentic internal Twitter documents, containing information of both a corporate and personal nature, were delivered to TechCrunch yesterday by an unknown person, who also threatened to release them publicly. At least 310 separate items were obtained, including… Read More »
Apple likes to improve upon existing ideas, and once it does, it turns those industries upside-down. The App Store is just the latest of example of that to come out of its Cupertino labs, and it’s been a smashing success. As the company announces that 1.5… Read More »
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