Despite the recent pairing between Yahoo and Google, signs indicate that Microsoft is after the Sunnyvale-based Yahoo for its search capabilities. That doesn’t come as a huge surprise since that was the essence of the last round of talks before the deal was completely yanked off the table. And if we’re likening this courtship [...]
This may be the first survey we’ve seen that puts Facebook ahead of the News Corp.-owned MySpace in U.S. traffic. It also puts Twitter as the third-biggest social-media site in the country by total page views, with only about six million unique visitors but a whopping 54 million views.
Still, statistics are like tequila shots. Always [...]
The software driver will enable the ability to have two views–left eye and right eye–which, at the push of a button, appear blurry and pixelated to the naked eye. When viewed through 3D lenses though, the game pops into three-dimensional mode.
The important part is that game developers won’t have to do anything differently. They just [...]
“Our team has been busy reviewing each submission and we’re amazed and excited by what we’ve seen,” Lee wrote. “We’re blown away by the remarkable amount of creativity, dedication, and hard work put into each application. The competition is intense!”
FBFund was first devised by Facebook last year, with cash provided by company investors Accel Partners [...]
The reality is this: the tech industry is dominated by companies that are willing to do something a bit more innovative and a bit more thoughtful of consumer desire. How many people are really buying that extra DVD player at Wal-Mart? How many people really want that run-of-the-mill home theater system or that ugly desktop [...]
“We strongly believe that success for Windows 7 includes an open and honest, and two-way, discussion about how we balance all of these interests and deliver software on the scale of Windows,” he wrote. “We promise and will deliver such a dialogue with this blog.”
Microsoft had already said that Windows 7 would be on the [...]
European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software market dominance in its effort to standardize the Office Open XML file formats.
He said that Microsoft will “fully cooperate” with any investigation from the Commission.
The Wall Street Journal in February reported that the investigation had started.
Clarification: Robertson said that a Google employee joined the [...]
Google’s shares have been sustaining a beating since mid-August, falling even further Thursday in early-morning trading to as low as $406.38 a share.
Google’s share price hit a new 52-week low Wednesday and continued its downward trek in early-morning trading Thursday.
But by late morning trading, the stock rebounded and was up roughly 1.5 percent to $420.66 [...]
On Wednesday evening five of Hollywood’s content producers gathered at the TechCrunch50 conference to chat about what the entertainment industry is doing to adapt in the ever-changing landscape of content consumption.
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, who was moderating the panel, asked if it was simply an issue of ownership. Producer and director Stan Rogow said simply that [...]
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The personal finance Web application Mint is adding investment tracking, making it a more well rounded service for people with moderately complex financial situations, as opposed to people who care solely about cash flow.
Other new features in Mint include deeper comparative data. You can now see how much other people [...]
