Google’s (GOOG) acquisition spree continues: It has bought Teracent, a startup that customizes online ads on the fly. All Things Digital had reported in September that Google was interested in the San Mateo-based company, which is filled with veterans of… Yahoo (YHOO). No purchase price disclosed, but I’m fairly confident this was in the sub-$50 million [...] Full story...
Apple’s recent reiteration of support for AT&T and its decision to debut the iPad on the carrier's network are fueling speculation that AT&T may hold on to its iPhone exclusive far longer than anyone is expecting.
After years of complaints, last year the music labels finally got what they wanted from Apple — the ability to raise prices on their songs.
Yesterday, the day after after Google aired its first national commercial on the Super Bowl, an exec at a rival Internet company marveled at what high favorable scores the "Parisian Love" advertisement got, adding that the possibilities of spoofs of it were also endless.
Intel loves to talk about Moore’s Law, its co-founder’s famed maxim about how rapidly miniaturization improves semiconductors.
A former Universal Music executive, now headed to Yahoo, explains concisely why his former employer and the other big guys are just playing out the string: CD sales are wasting away, and the digital boost they were counting on simply isn't big enough.
Redpoint Ventures announced that it had closed a new $400 million fund to invest in early-stage start-ups in the "social and mobile Internet, cloud computing and clean technology spaces.
On the flip side of the debate about whether Flash is ill, in rude health, or simply untroubled by Apple's wilful refusal to countenance it on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, we have an analysis from Peter-Paul Koch, a "mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer" who says (with plenty of swearing to boot, if you're in filter territory) that the iPhone is the Internet Explorer 6 de nos jours.
The company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.
Last week, a reader tipped me to an instance of potential plagiarism by Gerald Posner in the Daily Beast, for which Posner is chief investigative reporter.