Facebook’s record-setting IPO reportedly set for May 17th
Depending on whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approves the company’s paperwork, Facebook’s highly anticipated IPO could be coming on May 17th, TechCrunch reported …
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Verizon reports Q1: Earnings up 16%, 734,000 net subscriber additions
Verizon on Wednesday reported earnings for the first quarter that narrowly beat analysts’ expectations. The nation’s top carrier posted a profit of $0.59 per share, …
Nokia posts huge $1.7 billion Q1 loss; sales boss resigns as smartphone sales plummet 50%
Nokia warned that its first-quarter earnings would be weak, and the numbers are now in. Revenue declined 30% to €7.4 billion, or $9.7 billion USD last …
Amazon’s cloud infrastructure said to power 1% of the Internet
Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure has seen tremendous growth and is silently becoming a core element of the Internet. According to research from DeepField Networks, one-third of the …
HTC One S review
HTC is in a bind, too. Not a Nokia-sized bind, perhaps, but a tough situation nonetheless. The Taiwan-based vendor has been making terrific smartphones for …
Twitter promises it will not become a patent troll
Twitter’s lead engineer confirmed in a post on the company’s blog on Tuesday that Twitter will not use its patents aggressively. “Patent trolling” is a …
Apple’s next iPhone launch could be most important in smartphone history
Apple’s iPhone 4S marked the biggest device launch in the company’s history. A number of industry watchers and news sites were expecting a completely redesigned handset, …
Windows Phone marketing boss leaves Microsoft after just five months
BGR exclusively broke the news last November that Samsung’s vice president of consumer and enterprise services Gavin Kim had left the company to join Microsoft. As …
Windows 8 aims to take huge chunk of iPad share in less than a year
Microsoft and its partners have seemingly set some very lofty goals for Windows 8. Citing multiple anonymous sources at various unnamed Taiwan-based original device manufacturers, …
Samsung and Apple CEOs agree to meet and discuss patents
Samsung and Apple’s CEOs have finally agreed to meet to discuss a possible settlement to the companies on-going legal battle, Reuters reported on Tuesday. U.S. District …
Megaupload was working on IPO prior to shutdown
Before Megaupload was shut down by the United States government, the company was preparing to go public and enter the U.S. stock market with a …
HTC rebound hits early rough patch
HTC’s stock was hit hard on Tuesday following news of Samsung’s imminent Galaxy S III announcement, which couldn’t have come at a worse time for …
Nokia to announce its first manufacturing plant in Vietnam on April 23rd
Over the last few months, Nokia has closed scaled back several of its Western factories and shed over 3,000 employees in a recent effort to cut …
FCC fines Google $25,000 for unauthorized data collection and impeding investigation
The Federal Communications Commission has fined Google $25,000 for impeding a U.S. investigation into the data collection scandal surrounding its Street View project, in which the Internet giant …
One in five U.S. adults still doesn’t use the Internet
The Pew Internet & American Life Project’s latest poll indicates that one in five adults in the United States still doesn’t use the Internet. “Senior …
Apple and Chinese environmental group to audit factory due to pollution concerns
Apple, alongside a Chinese environmental group, will audit one of its supplier’s factories in China for the first time, IDG News Service reported on Monday. …
Samsung Galaxy S III launch details reveal multiple models, official device of 2012 Olympics
As we get closer to the official announcement of Samsung’s Galaxy S III, more information is beginning to surface. In addition to our exclusive reports …
Google’s Sergey Brin: Apple and Facebook pose huge threat to Internet freedom
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said during an interview published on Sunday that Apple and Facebook pose serious threats to Internet freedom because of their closed …
Samsung Galaxy S III to feature ceramic and metal case, physical home button
We exclusively reported that the Samsung Galaxy S III will feature a ceramic case, but looking at Samsung’s Unpacked event invitation that went out Monday …
AT&T to launch HTC One X within a week
We have been informed by a trusted source that HTC’s One X, one of the best smartphones ever to come out of Taiwan, will be available …
Amazon said to be inflating streaming library size [updated]
Online retail giant Amazon is said to be stretching the truth regarding the size of its streaming content library when reporting numbers to the public. …
Non-profit ISP focused on privacy raises over $43,000 in one day
Nicholas Merrill’s crowd-funded Internet Service Provider raised more than $43,000 in donations in less than 24 hours, CNET reported on Thursday. “I had no idea that …
Netflix paid $1 million for a recommendation algorithm it never used
Netflix in 2006 held an open competition to find the collaborative filtering algorithm that would best predict whether or not a user would like a …
Spotify to make a ‘special announcement’ on April 18th
Spotify on Friday sent out press invites for a special announcement in New York City on April 18th. It’s not entirely clear what the event …
U.S government attempts to silence Megaupload’s lawyers
Lawyers representing the six major Hollywood studios, the United States government and Megaupload met in District Judge Liam O’Grady’s courtroom on Friday, CNET reported. The …
Apple to DOJ: We’re the good guys, not the bad guys
In a filing with the United States district court for southern New York, Apple claims the Department of Justice has its story all wrong. The …
Veto of radical strategy shift led to former RIM CEO’s resignation
Former Research In Motion co-chief executive Jim Balsillie sought a radical shift in strategy before he stepped down, Reuters reported on Friday. Citing two unnamed …
Australian government considering lawsuit against Apple over eBook price-fixing
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has urged local retailers to voice their concerns about eBook price-fixing as it considers a lawsuit against Apple and …
Microsoft forms subsidiary to work on various open-source projects
Microsoft on Thursday formed a new subsidiary that will work with open-source projects, open-standards groups and interoperability initiatives. The subsidiary is called Microsoft Open Technologies …
Non-profit ISP wages war on FBI and DOJ by putting privacy first [video]
Nicholas Merrill, formerly the head of a New York-based Internet Service Provider that fought the FBI and DOJ in court over the constitutionality of the …
