One of the challenges of enrolling in a number of loyalty and rewards programs is keeping track of all of your miles and points and then actually kno...
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I&'m not sure what took so long, but Amazon today finally announced the ability to gift Kindle ebooks to anyone &8212' just as you would any other pro...
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Today&'s funding announcements include software for children&'s apps, easy advertising, malware protection and bionic knees:Ruckus Media lands $3.5M f...
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As promised, my guest on Ask a VC this week is James Chan of Neoteny Labs, an early stage Singaporean investment firm. Chan isn&'t some banker-fied ex...
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There is something about exchanging information by bumping fists that is deeply satisfying. What I like most about the iPhone app Bump is that it&'s...
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It used to be that if a Western game showed up in China, it was pirated. But times have changed, and Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase.com have annou...
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LG isn&'t the only company with a 4G tablet for T-Mobile on the horizon. The carrier announced today that Dell will be bringing its Streak 7 tablet to...
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It&'s been a really bad day at Yahoo. Today, the company handed out over 500 pink slips to employees, laying off 4% of its workforce less than two wee...
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If Groupon&'s rebuke of Google last Friday taught us anything, it&'s that sometimes the coolness conferred by just saying no is worth more than any a...
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Google showed off more details of its Android 3.0 operating system for tablet computers today, code-named Honeycomb. We had a chance to get up close t...
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You probably haven&'t heard of Ambarella. But the quality of your hybrid digital camera and video camcorder is far better than it used to be because o...
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Jumio, a mobile payments startup based in Mountain View, Calif., announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in a first round of funding led by Fa...
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Last weeka4‚¬a4„s dispute between Google and Facebook continued today over a rather arcane topic &8212' data portability.Google appeared to pick a fig...
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Last week, MercuryNews.com revealed that Apple made a massive land purchase near their current headquarters in Cupertino, CA. They actually bought th...
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Concerns about privacy on social networks have increased drastically since a year ago among older users, but not younger ones, a new study shows.Forre...
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Angry Birds and its variants have dominated the top ranks of iPhone games for the past year. But on Thursday, a game called Bubble Ball ousted Angry B...
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