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Today in Tech: new BlackBerry phone details, Groupon IPO
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Groupon is moving ahead with an initial public offering (IPO), which is expected to happen some time this spring. The daily deals site, which just recently raised a record $950 million, now values itself at $15 billion. (New York Times)
The launch for News Corp's heavily-publicized iPad newspaper, the Daily, has reportedly been pushed back several weeks MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 14, 2011 8:34 AM ETPosted in: Apple, AT&T, Atrix, BlackBerry, Boy Genius Report, daily, DigiTimes, Groupon, Intel, IOS (Apple), ipad newspaper, Nvidia Tegra, Research in Motion, RIM, Verizon iPhone, Xoom -
Today in Tech: Apple iOS 4.3 details, MySpace spinoff
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Apple released iOS 4.3 beta to developers and quickly enough, users found some rather interesting new features, chief among them: four and five finger-multitouch gesture support for the iPad. A five-finger pinch brings users back to the home screen, a four-finger swipe up or down shows or hides the multitasking bar, and four-finger swipes to the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 13, 2011 8:27 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Boy Genius Report, iOS, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, Lowell McAdam, Mobile, TechCrunch, Verizon Communications, Verizon iPhone -
Today in Tech: Yahoo layoff details, Facebook, and iAds
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
"Chrome OS will be killed next year (or "merged" with Android). ... Chrome OS has no purpose that isn't better served by Android (perhaps with a few mods to support a non-touch display)." -- Gmail creator Paul Buchheit (Boy Genius Report and TechCrunch)
Unfortunately, Yahoo finally made good on all those layoff rumors by cutting roughly 600 jobs, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 15, 2010 7:59 AM ETPosted in: Air Force, Apple, Bain & Company, Barnes and Noble, Boy Genius Report, Cheryl Rosner, China, Email, Financial, Firefox, Glassdoor, Google, IBM, Japan, LivingSocial, Mobile, Mozilla, Nokia, Nook Color, Tablet, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Tron, WikiLeaks, Yahoo, Yahoo layoffs -
Today in Tech: RIM PlayBook, Groupon, Facebook
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web.
Groupon reportedly turned down Google's rumored $6 billion buyout offer because its board was concerned about anti-trust scrutiny from regulators. (Google is already knee-deep in two anti-trust investigations.) CEO Andrew Mason also says he wants the company to stay independent in the near future. (Tech Trader Daily and ABC News)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 9, 2010 7:51 AM ET
A group of hackers MOREPosted in: Andrew Mason, Boy Genius Report, Cameron Winklevoss, Financial, Google, Groupon, iPad, iPhone, Mark Zuckerberg, Mastercard, Mobile, RadioShack, Tablet, WikiLeaks, YouTube -
Apple PR: Steve Jobs iPhone 4 "conversation" is a fake
Apple's CEO did not tell an angry customer "calm down," "retire," "it's just a phone"
An e-mail exchange being attributed to Steve Jobs is a fake, and was not written by him, according to Apple (AAPL) public relations.
The conversation was published Thursday by The Boy Genius Report and linked to by more than three dozen other sites. In it, a writer pretending to be Apple's CEO tries several times to mollify MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 1, 2010 7:14 PM ET
