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What do LeBron James and Sheryl Sandberg have in common? They both are standing behind a new public awareness program telling men…
Do you ever look at your phone bill and wonder, “what the heck are all those fees?” While it’s a natural impulse to…
Tim McCoy, the director of product design at Pivotal Labs, gave a brief presentation Wednesday on the history of technology and design butting up against each other.
Google is proposing a URL-based naming system for navigating the internet of things that it calls The Physical Web. Here’s how it will work and why it might not.
Cable subscribers in Hungary have been watching a million minutes of YouTube every day since the video service became available on their set-top boxes.
Qualcomm(s qcom) EVP Peggy Johnson is leaving the company that’s been her home for 24 years, a source tells Gigaom. And according to…
The Obama Administration’s expected choice to lead the Patent Office is a Johnson & Johnson lawyer who has been a key figure in blocking attempts to reform the patent system.
Cisco’s (S CSCO) chief futurist Dave Evans has left the company, reports blogger Brad Reese. According to Evans’s Linkedin profile, Evans is…
Windows Phone just joined the platforms that Microsoft(s msft) supports with a remote control app for accessing a PC from a handset.…
Steve Mollenkopf became the third CEO of Qualcomm Tuesday, ending the reign of the Jacobs family over the 28-year-old business. Mollenkopf replaces…
Wanted: Channel partners with storage and virtualization expertise in mid-sized accounts for DataGravity’s undisclosed product.
A firefighter who can also develop apps is one of the early Google Glass Explorers. He’s working on software for Google’s wearable display to help save lives during a fire and it’s like something out of The Matrix: Instant information on demand.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303754404579312904182126302 Verizon’s (S VZ) FIOS TV is the first pay TV provider to get a new, customizable kids TV channel dubbed My…
The home automation market size is around $8.8 billion. Here’s an overview of some business models to capture the opportunity.
Qualcomm, facing some headwinds in its business, is looking to trim some fat, sources tell us. The company cut some VP level executives and many others in order to rein in expenses. Some details…
August, a smart lock company that hopes to launch its product in the spring has raised $8 million in first round capital led by Maveron. But are such locks ready for prime time?
Longtime digital hold-out Harpers has finally joined the mobile world. Here’s a look, plus some new observations on sub-compact publishing by 29th Street, an emerging leader in the digital magazine world.
So just who is making all those API calls to your Amazon Web Services and what are those calls doing? Amazon’s new CloudTrail aims to corral that for you.
Netflix teamed up with Disney for a super-powered original content deal that will bring more than four TV new exclusive TV shows to the service.
The startup, once known as Convergent.IO, is coming out of stealth with Coho DataStream that is says nukes bottlenecks to enable scale-out storage.
As the consumerization of IT continues to change what employees expect from their devices and software, a reliance on employee-centric recruiting software is also changing how employees interact with HR.
Interactive Harry Potter website and digital bookstore Pottermore.com has a new CEO: Susan Jurevics, who was previously an SVP at Sony and led Sony’s partnership with Pottermore.
The cloud price wars continue as ProfitBricks chops prices on CPU cores and RAM by 50 percent and claims more flexible options than even Amazon Web Services.
Some members of the book publishing industry are furious that President Obama is giving a jobs speech from Amazon’s warehouse in Tennessee on Tuesday.
You run 18 different web apps — so do you know where your passwords are? I thought not. Meldium now has funding to help solve that problem for you.
Shhhhh, it looks like cloud computing is not immune from industry consolidation and Amazon Web Services gets testy about private cloud adoption.
ReelSurfer set out to build a tool for people who don’t shoot their own videos. Then Reuters started using it.
Ron Johnson, former retail chief of Apple was hired by JC Penney as a man with the silver bullet. Both didn’t realize: winning comes from team (and timing).
Former Apple retail chief Ron Johnson’s job as CEO of J.C. Penney didn’t work out. Meanwhile, Apple hasn’t found anyone to fill his old position.
Oh, North Korea, you like to keep us guessing. The unpredictable kingdom’s Twitter habits are as inscrutable as the rest of its behavior.
Fewer publishers are treating apps as a make-or-break business decision. Instead, a shift in the economics of app making means publishers can choose from a wider variety of app options that are tailored to the type of content they produce.
Europe’s federated cloud launched this summer is already providing new ways to apply data to solve science and policy problems. It also shows the opportunities that come with combining public data and private partnerships.
Philip Jacob, who started online shopping site StyleFeeder, grew it to a milllion registered users, and sold it to Time Inc., is joining Boston startup Stackdriver to help it develop technology to manage applications across cloud infrastructures.
James Bond is 50, a nation of deadbeats, Stone Age brains dealing with Facebook, living literally inside the computer and reverse network effects — these are some of the topics I have put together for this week’s seven recommended reads. Plus a great essay on men’s style.
Planning on live tweeting your reactions to NYC Fashion Week in September? A partnership between a social media analytics company and a video livestream company could bring additional information back to brands on what users like, or Tweet, the most.
Ready to re-sell some of your favorite clothes? Poshmark is working to make it easier for users to sort through thousands of listings of items for sale on the company’s popular iPhone app
A little over a year after Amazon announced that it was selling more ebooks than print books in the U.S., the company has hit the same milestone in the UK. Another surprise: “50 Shades” author E.L. James has sold more books than J.K. Rowling on Amazon.co.uk.
If you haven’t heard IBM Fellow Jeff Jonas talk about how the right algorithm can help you figure out who’s who among a sea of data points, you’re missing out. The good news is Jonas’s vision is now a product.
In the latest example of the justice system’s ongoing discomfort with social media, a federal judge has refused a request by Chase Bank to use Facebook (s FB) to serve legal papers on an identity thief.
Steve Jobs’ incendiary comments about Android in his biography have been ruled fair game for Motorola’s lawyers in its upcoming trial versus Apple. The judge also laid out some other ground rules this week, including forbidding Apple lawyers from playing up Jobs’ or Apple’s popularity.
Sanford Bernstein senior analyst Todd Juenger doesn’t believe digital media companies like YouTube, Yahoo and AOL can entice advertisers into committing huge portions of dollars all in one buying session, a la TV’s traditional upfront market.
Sure, staying up until the wee hours to talk to your colleague in Israel or Asia may be a bummer, but both a business professor and practitioners say that, with the right tools, working across multiple time zones can actually be a benefit.
There’s no shortage of places that will recommend a new gadget. But how do you manage all the gadgets you get? ItemBase, a new startup out of Berlin, wants to help.
Jeff Jonas is now an IBM Fellow, according to a post on The Smarter Planet blog. We obviously think the world of him — Jonas has been a featured speaker at our Structure Data events twice.
Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic novel that started out as Twilight fan fiction and that will now be re-published by Random House’s Vintage,…
Chris Hughes, the 28-year-old Facebook co-founder and the founder of social action site Jumo, is moving from social networking to media with…
Scientists have a limitless hunger for computing power and storage. That’s why three European agencies — CERN, the force behind the Large Hadron Collider; the European Molecular Biology Laboratory; and the European Space Agency and supporters — are cooking up a European science cloud.
One of Kickstarter’s founders has come under fire for saying that the service will provide more funding this year than the the National Endowment for the Arts, but the reality is that the service has become a significant platform for movies, books and other artistic projects.
It looks like Silicon Alley has a way to go before it’s taken seriously by its west coast counterpart. This weekend, the San Jose Mercury Ne…
Apple is at CES despite not having an official exhibiting presence at the show, according to a new report. More than 250 employees are reportedly registered to attend the show, which makes perfect sense if Apple wants to check out the competition without showing its hand.
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) famously avoids the biggest event on the tech industry calendar, and given the traffic on Paradise Road this morning you…
Video discovery startup SetJam just got acquired by Motorola Mobility, according to CEO Ryan Janssen. The company will provide some personalization and recommendations technology which can be integrated into Moto set-top boxes, as its cable and IPTV customers seek to provide more IP- and cloud-based services.
Barely two months after slowly exiting Myspace as its last CEO under News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), Mike Jones is debuting his new company, Science…
A never-before-seen interview with Steve Jobs debuts Wednesday night in 17 theaters. Taped in 1995, before Apple bought NeXT and Jobs returned to the company he founded, this interview stands as a historical snapshot of Jobs between the two defining periods of his life at Apple.
Virginia “Ginni” Rometty is just the ninth CEO in IBM’s 100-year history The announcement earlier this week that she would succeed Sam Palmisano was not surprising or controversial, even though Rometti is IBM’s first female CEO, and now arguably the most powerful women in business.
Last week, an advance quote from the Steve Jobs biography seemed to suggest that an Apple television set could be on the way, and a new investor note Monday from Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, citing supply chain sources, lends more credence to that possibility.
Learning to play nicely with publishers may have helped iPad magazine startup Zite earn a payday. The company’s iPad app is reportedly the s…
Capital New York, a year-old news site that covers “how things work in New York,” has raised $1.7 million and is staffing up, including thre…
Just because it works in the United States, doesn’t mean it will work in China. It’s a lesson some of our biggest tech brands have learned the hard way. And as Groupon attempts expands east, critics say its already making the same mistakes.
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) still hasn’t released an iPhone 5 — or whatever the next iteration of the iPhone will be called — but it has, once agai…
The Chinese tech scene is dominated by a small group of entrepreneurs who paid their dues in Silicon Valley before returning to create successful startups. But “returnees” are also laying the foundation for a startup culture that will allow grassroots entrepreneurs to flourish.
Technorati, the well-known blog search engine, which has transformed itself into a blog ad network, is switching CEOs. The company has appoi…
New Zite CEO Mark Johnson wasn’t totally surprised that his six-person startup received a cease-and-desist letter a few weeks ago from publi…
A shuffle at Zite as the startup regroups following publishers’ negative reactions to its personalized magazine iPad app. Advisor Mark Johns…
As the amount of captured data grows, how can businesses make more sense of it, use it for accurate predictions and better understand their customers? The answer may lie in the world of physics: the concept of space-time paired with data improves predictions through context.
Jeff Jonas, chief scientist at IBM Entity Analytics Group and an IBM Distinguished Engineer thinks the world has a big problem with big data and problem is only going to get bigger. In this video he discusses the coming data tsunami and its impact.
Jeff Jonas, chief scientist at IBM Entity Analytics Group and an IBM Distinguished Engineer thinks the world has a big problem with big data and the problem is only going to get bigger. In this video he discusses the coming data tsunami and its impact.
YouTube’s value isn’t always in introducing us to the newest and most popular videos, but in helping us track down long-forgotten ones. The site YouTube Time Machine serves up nostalgia via a randomized player that allows you to watch videos sorted by year of launch.
Two guys start filming their friend/younger brother as he starts an online relationship — that’s the genesis of the documentary Catfish. Nev Schulman, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost tell us how digital storage impacted the film and why people don’t believe it really happened.
The anarchic online community known as 4chan isn’t known for doing things that are cute and heart-warming — it’s mostly known for posting sophomoric humor and graphic sexual imagery. But today, someone decided the Internet should wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy birthday.
Is mobile media about search or apps? Depends who you ask. In a panel session at paidContent Mobile, Tricia Duryee, editor for paidContent s…
During Gannett’s last earnings call, CEO Craig Dubow said the company would introduce a subscription model for its USA Today iPad app just…
Over the weekend I got a copy of a note from investor meetings with Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs suggesting that the company was ab…
Things are finally coming together for Fluidinfo founder Terry Jones, who just closed an $800,000 round of funding led by Betaworks and launched his product, the FluidDB “platform for the web of things,” at TechCrunch Disrupt, after 13 years and three complete rewrites in the making.
MySpace is planning a major relaunch this fall, co-presidents Jason Hirschorn and Mike Jones said today. They said it will include a redesign to emphasize discovery and will be backed up with a marketing campaign to “help solidify this is what we’re going to be.”
A few more tea leaves to add in when comes to the Washington Post and paid content, courtesy of Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. and Ira Stoll, who w…
Can you build a successful company in a downturn? The answer is yes, as this video illustrates. Digg CEO Jay Adelson, venture capitalists such as Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Skype-backer Howard Hartenbaum and Bill Draper of Draper Richards weigh-in with their view and insights.
MySpace (NYSE: NWS) pulled up the curtain a little this week, letting in some light on a makeover still very much in progress and marking a…
[show=wowmydatesucked size=large]Coming out against Valentine’s Day isn’t a very controversial position — the pressure that comes with the day is enough to…
Not a day goes by when I don’t shake my fist at the computer in frustration; the recent explosion in web-based information…
Tyler and I are being bad tonight. We offered to drive to Target to pick up a few items for Barb and…
Update: See our live blog about the technical side of online viewing of Michael Jackson’s funeral service, where we review which streams…
Vibe magazine hit the deadpool today, but if Quincy Jones has his way, the music magazine he founded nearly two decades ago will thrive agai…
A buildout of a smarter power grid in the U.S. could be one of the largest creators of wealth in the decade. According to the Edison Electric Institute, it’ll take at least $50 billion for all the investor-owned utilities (which make up 70 percent of the U.S. utilities) to roll out smart grid networks. That opportunity is starting to look pretty attractive to both startups developing new wireless technologies that can monitor and manage electricity demands and telcos, which have spent billions building out their own nearly ubiquitous wireless networks. As the wireless industry has matured over the last decade, wireless radios and network technology have gotten sophisticated and cheap enough that the emergence of a smart grid will rest heavily on those years of innovation.
The top Yahoos are heading for the exits… Following right on the heels of departure announcement by top mobile exec Marco Boerries and *Ya…
The executive shakeup at Yahoo (s YHOO) continues. Blake Jorgensen, Yahoo’s chief financial officer, will leave the company, according to an SEC…
*Google* CEO Eric Schmidt may not be interested in the new federal CTO post but a member of his team is headed to Washington, D.C.: busines…
Travelocity CEO Michelle Peluso is packing her bags and will leave the online travel agency early next month. She’ll be replaced by Hugh Jon…
Palm (NSDQ: PALM) has appointed Douglas C. Jeffries, the former chief accounting officer at eBay (NSDQ: EBAY), as CFO, replacing Andy Brown,…
It’s been a long, hard year at Boing Boing TV (the Xeni Jardin-hosted online video show version of the blog Boing Boing)…
Say you’ve got a new book to promote. You could go to the time and effort of creating a unique web presence…
WePlay, the community and youth sports site incubated out of CAA, has raised an $8.6 million second round led by Deep Fork Capital. Past bac…
A major departure at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) this evening: Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division, is leavin…
Following Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) acquisition of Powerset, here’s more money for semantic search… Cognition Technologies, a developer of…
Keep an eye out on Copenhagen-based help desk-on-demand company Zendesk. The firm, started by Mikkel Svane, just raised half a million dollars…
At CTIA, I spoke to Jai Jaisimha, the AOL (NYSE: AOL) VP for mobile product and technology development, and the video is embedded below. He…
Video game maker EA has announced the surprise resignation of CFO Warren Jenson. So far, a replacement for Jenson, who has served in this ro…
Like pretty much every large magazine publisher, Hearst has been heavily focused on refining its online strategy for the past year. After a…
Heavy, the NYC-based broadband video service and now online video ad network, has hired back former Maxim Editor-in-Chief Jimmy Jellinek to…
Three weeks after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launched its bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Platform & Services President Kevin Johnson has sent an em…
With costs for the latest technology rising, smaller startups and their venture backers have decided that in some cases, old-school technology may be the best way to make a product — and a buck. Instead of following in the footsteps of the top chipmakers such as Intel, AMD and Samsung, which are packing more onto smaller chips, startups are turning to process technology from up to 10 years ago.
Entertainment Studios Inc.: Patrick Mahoney is joining as SVP-digital media. Mahoney most recently managed business development for ABC TV’s…
Bruce Jaffe, a key Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive involved in acquisitions, will leave the company at the end of February. According to Va…
Among the questions we’ve asked our panel of experts was this one: Will online video make it into the living room in…
You spend all year reading about what we think, so when it came time to look ahead to 2008, we thought it…
Chinese advertising firm Focus Media (NSDQ: FMCN) is exploring a spin-off of its fast growing mobile and internet advertising units, accordi…
In the largest payout of its kind in a fantasy sports league, Irwin Jacobs, chairman of the professional bass-fishing tournament group FLW O…
Even icons need marketing. Greg Joswiak, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) marketing whiz working with the iPod and the iPhone, talked with Fortune’s J…
If you read New York tabloids like I do, that is starting on the back page, then you are exposed to the…