The great Skype legal mess is about to come to an end, thanks to a settlement between eBay — and private investors led by Silver Lake Partners — and Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. As part of the deal, the two Skype founders will get 10 percent of the company in exchange for [...] Full story...
Over the past few days I’ve watched this meme about the so-called “geowars” ahead of SXSW gather steam, both in the blogosphere and on Twitter.
“Metcalfe’s Law” has long been accepted as characterizing the value — and value growth — of fully connected networks.
There are countless ways to track your brand on social media. Simple methods include using Twitter search and Google Alerts; more elaborate tools include Radian6's newly announced Engagement Console, which will scour numerous social platforms for any mention of your brand.
Structure, our premier conference devoted to Internet infrastructure and cloud computing, has been expanded to two days in order to fully explore both the progress the industry has made and how things are expected to evolve going forward.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking in Abu Dhabi this week, confirmed that the Chrome OS operating system is on track for the second half of this year.
There's a big geeky holiday coming this weekend -- and no I don't mean SXSW. It's Pi Day on Sunday, aka March 14, aka 3/14.
Apple touts the iPad as "magical and revolutionary" but it's not the device alone that can make that claim.
New figures from Compete.com indicate smartphone owners are more receptive to mobile coupons than to other types of pitches on their phones.
Mike Sievert, chief commercial officer at Clearwire, said the company's mobile users (those on laptops and dongles outside the home) consume more than an average of 7GB per month of data.
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