Marissa Mayer’s hunger for fresh talent has clearly not yet been sated — in the last day alone, Yahoo has snapped up and announced the closure of two more startups. Read more »
It’s not nearly as full-featured as Google Now, but Today gives notifications about weather, commute traffic and a quick glance at future events. Read more »
Clearwire resisted Dish’s advances for five months, but it has finally given in. Clearwire’s board recommended today that shareholders give Sprint the old heave-ho and back Dish’s offer to assume a major stake in the WiMAX operator. Read more »
Google Image Search just got a whole lot better, and the company’s purpose-built machine learning system infrastructure is a big reason why. No surprise, Jeff Dean helped build it. Read more »
It’s not the latest 4G-capable iPad that’s eating up all this data, though, it’s older 3G models, mainly the iPad 2 and iPad 3. Read more »
Looking for a deal? The new frontier of ecommerce websites encourage trading and bartering from users’ closets — and it’s exploding in popularity. Read more »
Apple’s long-rumored Apple TV has yet to materialize – and one reason for the delay may be that cable companies have been engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Read more »
Direct from Asia, imported by Path and co-opted by Facebook, stickers are hitting the mainstream and becoming the new way people message every day. Read more »
What’s the use of a hashtag these days? Facebook is adding Twitter’s iconic symbol to its platform, but it’s worth asking if the hashtag has outlived its serious fuction to become a cultural phoenomenon rather than a useful search tool. Read more »
What does it mean to have a social shopping experience? The definitions run the gamut, depending on the type of shopping experience you’re looking for. But Wanelo is pioneering an interesting model to look at. Read more »
The needle-and-haystack analogy of finding important insights inside big data certainly applies to tweets, and Dataminr, one service that find the needles in the Twitter firehose, just got more venture funding. Read more »
With the lower prices, smaller developers with very limited budgets will have a better chance to participate and advertise their ads and drive installations. Read more »
VC-backed LED startup Luminus Devices has been sold off to a Chinese lighting company. Following in the footsteps of solar, electric cars, and batteries, LED technology is now also getting bought up by Chinese players. Read more »
The movie company’s new user profiles are meant to help with recommendations, but they’ll also make it easier for people to skim off someone else’s account. Could this be a perfectly laid trap by Netflix? Read more »
Netflix calls Zuul a robust edge services gatekeeper that can help other companies deploy web services faster and more flexibly. Read more »
Looking for a job in tech? Each week we highlight some of the most interesting positions posted to GigaOM’s job board. Check out the latest tech gigs at leading companies across the country. Read more »
A survey of journalists in fifteen countries reveals some interesting differences in attitudes to social media. Here are some highlights. Read more at paidContent »
Snapchat is about to raise $100 million from unnamed investors, probably hedge funds. Maybe they are following Peter Lynch theory investing: invest in what you know. Read more »
Apple now holds about 20 percent of the U.S. ebook market, director Keith Moerer testified in court on Tuesday. Moerer also said that the iBookstore’s sales grew by 100 percent in 2012. Read more at paidContent »
The data center in Luleå, Sweden, is highly energy-efficient as it uses hydroelectric power. It may also prove handy in keeping Facebook on the right side of European data protection legislation. Read more »
Belly is offering a bunch of new tools to small businesses to help them amp up their loyalty programs and market to new customers. Read more »
Want to correlate data from a NoSQL database with data from Salesforce, Stripe or Mailchimp? MetricaDB, a finalist in our Structure 2013 LaunchPad competition, wants to make that easy for you. Read more »
Vodafone has made a “preliminary approach” to Germany’s top cable provider, but no bids have been revealed yet. Reports suggest Liberty Global might also be interested. Read more »
The next big technology wave — the internet of things (IoT) — promises to transform how people interact with the world and make everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises a ton of money in the process. With Xively’s IoT public cloud, you can easily capitalize on this huge opportunity. Read more »
The company that claims Kevin Mitnick, The Clinton Foundation, Wal-Mart and Rush Limbaugh as customers will use its new funding to market and promote its secure cloud services. Read more »
Anytime Apple announces a new piece of hardware or changes its software, we get a lot of people weighing in on those developments. The news of iOS 7 wasn’t any different. There are hundreds of posts out there, but here are seven I like. Read more »
This is what happens when people get fat broadband connections — marketers see the opportunity to turn static custom offers and billing statements into “personalized” videos. Read more »
Silverback Learning, a startup hatched out of a school district in Idaho, has raised $2.5 million as it plans to expand to school districts nationwide. Read more »
AMD is joining the Chrome game but we’re still waiting for Intel Haswell hardware. Apple has it and now the MacBook Air gets 12 hours of battery life! We share a pair of great extensions and talk about iTunes in the browser. Read more »
The Swedish reverse-lookup phone directory service, which recently invited third-party developers to access its databases, is on a roll. And India continues to provide the company’s most fertile ground for growth. Read more »
Facebook, Google and Microsoft want to show users just how much the federal government requests access to data. The actions are attempts to save face on the privacy front following reports of the PRISM program. Read more »
We know the NSA is collecting our call records, but there are far bigger fonts of information carriers hold. The mobile network is highly managed, tracking our internet habits from the websites we visit to the apps we use. Read more »
One of the “key features” of iOS 6 didn’t merit a mention by Apple in the introduction of iOS 7. But perhaps Apple has something bigger planned. Read more »
The growing popularity of solar leases, falling prices of solar panels and efforts to reduce the costs of marketing, sales and permitting, have steadily boosted the growth of the solar market in recent years. Read more »
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets a free tier of its own on Amazon Web Services, perhaps in a bid to unseat Ubuntu which runs more than half of all EC2 instances. Read more »
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot of issues to deal with right now, from PRISM and allegations of governent cooperation to questions about the company’s revenue. On Tuesday, he got to add stockholder questions to that list. Read more »
New studies show websites fending off 95 percent more exploits than five years ago, and 30 percent safer than last year. Are mobile devices throwing a wrench in the works? Backend APIs, leveraging web logic for mobile and brute scrapers. How simple strategies are often most secure. Read more »
After getting involved in Hurricane Sandy Relief, Airbnb has finally introduced an emergency shelter tool for areas affected by disasters. Read more »
A lot of Americans might say they support NSA surveillance of their online activities, but many other people — including folks overseas — aren’t so thrilled. Can these laws withstand pressure from a tech lobby concerned about lost profits from fleeing users? Read more »
After a wave of initial shock at the revelations about NSA surveillance, there seems to be a pervasive feeling of resignation about our data being collected by the government. Have we grown too used to being spied on? Read more »
