All Things Digital
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Today in Tech: MySpace layoffs today, Verizon iPhone launch
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
As reported a week ago, MySpace intends to lay off 50%, or between 550 and 600, of its staff today under the guise of restructuring and shedding legacy business divisions. Afterwards, it's expected the struggling social network-turned-entertainment hub will look at sale options. Some possibilities: being picked up by a private equity buyer or even being MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 11, 2011 6:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: MySpace layoffs, Facebook worth $50 billion?
A curated selection of the holiday weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Cheap flat-panel maker Vizio intends to make a splash today by unveiling two notable products that marks a company first: the Via Phone with a 4-inch screen, front-facing camera for video calls, and a 5 megapixel rear cam, as well as the Via Tablet, sporting a 8-inch high-res screen, WiFi (of course), three speakers, and a MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 3, 2011 6:00 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Android, Apple, Facebook, Google, iTunes, Jack Dorsey, Mobile, MySpace, Samsung, Sequoia Capital, Square, TechCrunch, Verizon, Vizio, Vodaphone, Wall Street Journal, Wi-Fi -
Today in Tech: News Corp.'s iPad paper, Google TV delays
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
"In my experience, entrepreneurs moving into Yahoo! often got stuck doing PowerPoints about "strategy" instead of writing code and shipping products." -- former Yahoo developer and current Etsy CTO Chad Dickerson (TechCrunch)
Rupert Murdoch's much-talked about daily newspaper for the iPad, The Daily, will reportedly launch the week of January 17. Said a source to AllThingsD: "It MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 20, 2010 6:00 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Chad Dickerson, Google, iPad, Jon Rubinstein, News Corporation, Raj Vemulapalli, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Yahoo -
Today in Tech: Yahoo products RIP, Oracle beats Street
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Hot on the heels of layoffs comes news that Yahoo is shutting down eight products, including MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Picks, AltaVista, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Buzz and Delicious. Meanwhile, other products like Fire Eagle and Yahoo People Search will be merged, and Yahoo! Alerts and Yahoo! Calendar will be turned into features which will presumably be implemented elsewhere. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 17, 2010 8:27 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Facebook facial recognition, Twitter worth $3.7 billion?
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Next week, Facebook, which is on track to reach sales of $2 billion this year, will release a new facial recognition feature called Tag Suggestions that automatically suggests who users should tag in photos. Whenever users choose to tag people in their photos, Tag Suggestions will step in and offer up suggestions about who the friends in MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 16, 2010 8:17 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Apple, Bing, David Rosenblatt, DoubleClick, eBay, eMarketer, Facebook, Flipboard, Google, iMac, iPhone, LG Optimux 2X, Mac, MacBook Pro, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Mike McCue, New York Times, Next New Networks, Nexus S, Oracle, Tag Suggestions, Time, Twitter, YouTube -
Today in Tech: Yahoo layoffs today, Verizon iPhone, Windows 8
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Seems TechCrunch's report late last week regarding early Yahoo layoffs may have been premature and inaccurate. (See below.) According to All Things D, the layoffs at the Internet company actually start today, with many, but not necessarily all, of the 650 to 700 cuts coming from Yahoo's product division. (AllThingsD)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 14, 2010 6:00 AM ET
Microsoft may announce several tablet PCs from MOREPosted in: All Things Digital, Amazon, Apple, ereader, Financial, Galaxy Tab, Gawker, Google, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, MacDailyNews, Microsoft, Mobile, Tablet, TechCrunch, Yahoo, YouTube -
Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day
Google may now be the biggest smartphone vendor on earth.
Andy Rubin just Tweeted that Google (GOOG) is activating 300,000 phones a day. That passes Apple's (AAPL) iOS, that passes Blackberry (RIMM). That even matches any figures that Symbian has ever put up (though Canalys says Nokia might be at 325,000/day).
Google is closing in on an astounding 10 million phones per month. Recall that Apple just had its biggest quarter MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 8, 2010 11:45 PM ETPosted in: AAPL, All Things Digital, Android, Andy Rubin, AndyRubin, Apple, Apple Inc., GOOG, Google, Google Maps, Motorola, Nexus One -
Crowley: Foursquare funded through 2011
The founder of Dodgeball and Foursquare talks about funding, falling out with Google, and whether he'd partner up with Facebook or Yahoo.
Foursquare is Dennis Crowley's second go-around at a location-driven social networking service, and this time he's determined to make sure he gets to see it through.
Crowley sold his first company, Dodgeball, to Google (GOOG) but then had the frustrating experience of still having all these things he wanted to MORE
Beth Kowitt, Writer-Reporter - Dec 7, 2010 2:32 PM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Dennis Crowley, Dodgeball, Facebook, Foursquare, Foursquare Solutions, Google, Yahoo -
The Honeycomb effect
Android users have been waiting for the just released Gingerbread upgrade. But yesterday Andy Rubin leapfrogged them by demoing next-gen OS Honeycomb, and chatting about the time Google bit off more than it could chew.
The latest version of the Android operating system, Gingerbread, is barely out of the oven but Andy Rubin, who heads up Android for Google (GOOG), couldn't resist giving the audience at the D: Dive into Mobile MORE
Beth Kowitt, Writer-Reporter - Dec 7, 2010 1:14 PM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Android, AndyRubin, Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft, Mobile operating system, Motorola, Nexus One, operating system -
Today in Tech: iPad 2, Android 3.0, and Google ebooks
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
At All Things Digital's D: Dive Into Mobile last night, Android creator Andy Rubin revealed he and Nokia have discussed the idea of adopting Android as one of many alternatives for the handset-maker. Rubin also whipped out MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 7, 2010 6:47 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Andy Rubin, Facebook, FrontierVille, Google, iPad, Mastercard, PayPal, ReadWriteWeb, Tim O'Shaughnessy, VentureBeat, WikiLeaks
