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All Things Digital Sep 28 10 AOL best take a breather before its checkbook overheats and seizes up. On top of today's confirmation of the acquisitions of the TechCrunch blog empire and video distribution start-up 5Min Media, AOL announced it had purchased Thing Labs, maker of the Brizzly family of Web-based social software. The Thing Labs team, headed by Google and Blogger vet Jason Shellen, will continue to oversee Brizzly and the integration of some of its features into AIM and AOL Lifestream. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Full story...
I have five predictions of how Facebook will be maturing in the first year after its IPO.
The move to shared data plans could lure more consumers to go for a cellular-equipped tablet, but could also be bad news for those clinging to unlimited data plans.
This one is not quite as juicy, but it's still interesting.
A two percent decline in mobile phone shipments during the first quarter of 2012 may have hurt some handset vendors, but it did little to slow Samsung.
Harvey Geller, Universal Music Group's longtime lawyer, left the company earlier this week. A person familiar with Universal said Geller was now headed for another job but didn't have other details.
A new start-up called Electric Imp promises to turn almost any product into a connected device with the addition of a tiny card in a slot.
Google today formally launches some anticipated and previously glimpsed semantic features for its core English search engine on Google.
While Facebook is slowly working out the kinks to bring more games to mobile, there's a small company in Menlo Park, Calif.
The Chicago-based daily deals company expects to announce the appointment of Vinayak Hegde as VP of engineering later this afternoon.
Oracle takes its case that HP lied to its customers about Itanium to the court of customer opinion with a huge document dump.