Why No Company Will Acquire Nokia Right Now
Huawei, which recently became the No.3 smartphone brand in the world, may be considering a Nokia acquisition. Wall Street reacted violently, prompting an 8% spike in Nokia's…
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SoftBank Cleared For Sprint Takeover As Dish Abandons Bid
Efforts to acquire Sprint have been a long and arduous fiasco for SoftBank, but the Japan-based carrier moved one step closer to completing the deal…
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Huawei Might Consider Buying Nokia If It Dumps Windows Phone
Shares of Nokia surged on Tuesday, mostly because Chinese electronics giant Huawei expressed interest in buying the struggling Finnish smartphone manufacturer. Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei's…
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Google's Kurzweil Says Humanity Is On The Brink Of Achieving Immortality
Never one to make conservative predictions, Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil thinks that humans will soon develop technology advanced enough to keep us alive forever.…
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Video: Daily Show's Lewis Black Mocks Google Glass, Xbox One Over Privacy
With all the controversy over the NSA's massive data mining operations, comedian Lewis Black has turned his eye toward two of the most potentially invasive…
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BMI Sues Pandora Over Terrestrial Radio Station Purchase
Pandora has been on a mission over the past couple of years to lower the royalty rates it pays music labels. The company argues that…
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BlackBerry Comeback Continues On Reports Of Strong Sales
Shares of BlackBerry rallied on Thursday on reports that the company's new smartphones are selling better than expected. Andy Perkins of Societe Generale said, per…
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Hulu Deal Imminent As DirecTV Reportedly Wins Bidding War
A Hulu sale is imminent and DirecTV is the likely victor, according to multiple unnamed sources speaking to Pando Daily. This would be possibly the best…
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Best Buy Giving Windows Its Own 'Store-Within-A-Store'
When you walk into your local Best Buy store you will usually find a miniature Apple Store and a Samsung experience section, and soon you can…
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Former Palm CEO Knocks HP For Killing webOS As Rivals Continue To Steal Its Features
When former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein signed off on selling his company to HP for $1.2 billion, little did he realize he was giving it…
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World Wide Web Inventor Decries NSA Data Collection Program
The man who invented the World Wide Web is not happy with all the surveillance that the National Security Agency is conducting on his creation.…
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Google Accused Of Selling Ads For Illegal Prescription Drugs
Mississippi state Attorney General Jim Hood has accused Google of allowing illegal online pharmacies to continue to advertise their counterfeit prescription drugs on its website.…
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Google Claims It Can Predict Box Office Performance With 94% Accuracy
A new study from Google suggests that the company can predict which new movies will be a hit up to four weeks before they reach…
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Netflix, Hulu, And The Future Of American Television
The latest NPD numbers show Hulu growing at a surprisingly robust pace. Its share of U.S. shows streamed in Q1 2013 jumped to 10% from 7%…
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NSA Collection Of Verizon Call Records Draws Instant Backlash
Revelations that the National Security Agency has been collecting call records for tens of millions of Verizon customers under a secret order from the Foreign…
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Video: Wi-Fi Gesture Recognition Tech Turns Your Entire Home Into A Clapper Ad
Anyone who remembers the '80s surely recalls the television ads for The Clapper, the sound recognition system that you could use to turn lights and…
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Dell Committee Gives Icahn's Buyout Bid A Thumbs Down
A special committee setup by Dell's board to examine Carl Icahn's proposal to buy the company has found that the investor's bid is short on funding,…
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BlackBerry Says 60% Of Fortune 500 Firms Are Testing New BlackBerry Products
BlackBerry watched as its once dominant enterprise business lost share to the likes of Samsung and Apple over the past few years. The company is…
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Why Facebook No Longer Looks Destined To Take Over The Internet
Just a little more than a year ago, Wall Street's IPO hype machine went into overdrive pushing Facebook as the next Google or Amazon —…
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Comcast Exec Insists Americans Don't Really Need Google Fiber-Like Speeds
It seems that cable companies really don't think that American consumers need 1Gbps Internet services such as those offered by Google Fiber. We've already seen…
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A Hard-Fought Battle Rages Over BlackBerry Sales Estimates
Pretty much on the same day as Digitimes reported that BlackBerry boosting its component orders, a directly opposite message was sent by Pacific Crest's James…
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WWDC 2013: Expectations Said To Be Low, Big Apple News Coming This Fall
As Apple fans gear up for the company's big summer conference next week, it feels like there might not be any surprises in store for…
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European ISPs Could Soon Be Barred From Throttling Traffic, Blocking Content
The European Commission's vice president and digital chief Neelie Kroes is spearheading a campaign that looks to change the way Europeans connect to the Internet.…
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Want A Top-10 App In America? It'll Cost You $60,000
Trademob has a fascinating piece on the cost of launching a top-10 app in various markets. In America, you need 80,000 downloads over a 72-hour period…
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Obama Hopes To Put An End To Patent Trolls With New Executive Orders
It is going to become more difficult for patent-holding firms, more commonly known as patent trolls, to harass American companies. According to The Wall Street…
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Google Now Spends More On Lobbying Than Lockheed Martin
Google is looking to extend its power and influence beyond the Internet and Silicon Valley. According to The New York Times, the company spent a…
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Google Expects Fiber To Be Profitable, Hints At New Markets
Google Fiber is seen by many as a regional experiment that will push current Internet service providers to offer faster speeds at more affordable speeds.…
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