Ethan Kaplan, a former music exec, says he doesn&39't think it&39's wise to assume Netflix&39's model will work for music. (Credit: Rachel Kaplan)... read more »
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One of the fun aspects of Twitter is that you can pretend to be someone else--or just make a name up for yourself--and express your true feelings abo... read more »
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Radiation data from Tokyo (static image). (Credit: altTokyo.com) The intensifying nuclear crisis in Japan is raising anxieties on both sides of t... read more »
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Please don't tell Google, but its Street View cars haven't been up my street yet. I don't know why. Perhaps my rather forceful neighbor from Tennesse... read more »
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When Craigslist withdrew from the adult services business last year, some wondered whether the prostitution business would be driven to less obvious ... read more »
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The Texas attorney general's office has demanded Google turn over a broad range of internal documents as part of an antitrust review of the sear... read more »
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On a day when the stock market got creamed--at one point down more than 200 points--shares of Netflix were up more than 14 percent in early afternoon... read more »
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BeamItDown, the maker of the iFlowReader apps for iOS, had harsh words for Apple as it announced the end of its e-reader app. (Credit: BeamItDown) ... read more »
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Twitter today told developers explicitly that they should stop making third-party clients, citing repeated privacy policy violations and an inconsis... read more »
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There are few things we love more here at Springwise than seeing a good idea spread. So we couldn''t resist mentioning CASHurDrive, a new carvertising... read more »
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Sometimes it's hard to choose which social-networking site fully encapsulates man's generosity to man. I wanted to plump for Facebook. Its depth of ... read more »
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When we see someone else's redemption, it gives us hope for our own. Perhaps someone will finally see us the way we would like to be seen. Perhaps so... read more »
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It might have slipped your mind, but the world is, or was, actually ending today. I know, I know. You've been busy. But today is, or was, indeed, Jud... read more »
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Andreessen Horowitz has invested more than $80 million in Twitter via purchasing stock in private secondary markets. When called about it by BoomTo... read more »
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Sources claim Barnes &' Noble has captured 50 percent of the non-Apple tablet market in North America. (Credit: Barnes &' Noble) For compe... read more »
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(Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) When it comes to change, sometimes it's hard to believe in. And sometimes it's just hard to believe ... read more »
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Alibaba.com, the largest e-commerce site in China, announced today that two senior executives had resigned after an internal investigation found... read more »
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NEW YORK--Edgar Bronfman Jr., CEO of Warner Music Group and heir to a huge beverage fortune, received more than $17 million in total compensation for... read more »
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Even when the group in question is slightly whiny and humorless, if enough people band together, they can pull off a revolution. In this case, I happ... read more »
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The agreement by Netflix and other top video-rental services to wait 28 days before renting newly released DVDs appears to be boosting disc sales--as... read more »
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