Saturday, October 19, 2013
Evernote CEO on how company was saved at eleventh hour | Bootstrap - CNET News
At the annual Y Combinator startup school, Phil Libin details the most important lessons he's learned from his founding of three companies -- and how Evernote stepped back from the precipice of failure.
Google's Third Quarter Results and Other News You Need to Know
Google announced its Q3 results — the company brought in an impressive $14.9 billion in revenue, 12% more than the third quarter of 2012.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Amazon, HTC to develop line of smartphones, report says | Mobile - CNET News
The online retail titan is working with mobile-device maker HTC to produce smartphones, according to the Financial Times.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Rupert Murdoch calls for Google to be 'exposed' | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
Utter Stupidity
"So I am imagining Rupert Murdoch on Sunday night, slurping on a glass of fine, golden beer, seated in a red velvet smoking jacket.
Clutching his phone, filled with the kind of irritating news a boss often receives, he cast his frustrations to the wind. Or, rather to the Twitterati.
For Sunday night, News Corp.'s heart and soul offered: "'Please expose Eric Schmidt, Google' etc. Just wait!"
There is so little here, and yet so much. Firstly, what secrets can possibly be hidden by the always open government of Google? What dark insinuations are being proposed here?
Is it merely to do with the alleged theft of all the world's news? Or might there be something even more menacing and filled with acronyms such as NSA, LSD, or LOL?
And why single out Executive Chairman Schmidt? Why not Google's true self-driving force, Larry Page? Is there something of a personal nature that Murdoch would like exposed?"
Monday, October 14, 2013
HP gets serious about Android and Chrome | Mobile - CNET News
Hewlett-Packard saw the future this week, and that future has more and more Android and Chrome devices in it.
Why You Might Want Your Face in Google’s Ads | Cult of Android
Danny Sullivan wrote a nice FAQ on “shared endorsements.”
But in a nutshell, here’s what it’s all about. On November 11, Google will start adding names, Google+ profile pictures and partial comments of over-18 users in small thumbnail size to paid advertisements and in other contexts under specific conditions. First, the user pictured in the ad must have plus-oned, positively reviewed, shared, circled a brand’s Google+ page, commented on a brand’s Google+ page or posted about that product publicly. Second, the viewer of the ad must be in at least one Google+ circle of the person shown in the ad as an endorser.
Read more at http://www.cultofandroid.com/43112/why-you-might-want-your-face-in-googles-ads/#8Z672bAuEzWJmORv.99
Broadcasters petition Supreme Court in Aereo fight | Internet & Media - CNET News
Over-the-air television networks rankled by Aereo's service are asking the US Supreme Court to weigh in, saying courts have drawn conflicting conclusions and the service threatens the broadcast industry.