VentureBeat:
Rumors are swirling today that Tesla Motors is seriously considering an initial public offering sometime soon. The talk has been tracked to two anonymous sources, who say the six-year-old company could cash in big on the battery-powered car trend before electric and hybrid models from companies like General Motors, Mitsubis (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids."Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation is essential to meeting the chal (Read More)
VentureBeat:
AdMob, the mobile ad network that Google plans to acquire for $750 million, today released their October 2009 Metrics Report examining market share for top devices and the operating systems that run on them.One stat in particular caught our eye. In the US, Android had 20 percent share of smartphone traffic, up from only sev (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Chester French is a rock band that has built an application on the Force.com platform. That's compelling for the simple fact that when a rock and roll band develops its own application, you know that the market is seeing a far wider adoption than it has ever before.Even more, it's an important reminder of the advantage of b (Read More)
Gizmodo:
So, what does it take to snatch a combined 75% of US mobile internet traffic? Two operating systems, a handful of phones, and one great browser core. That the iPhone is a massive source of online traffic isn't a surprise—that's been apparent since the week it launched. What's interesting here is Android's rise, which is dra (Read More)
Engadget:
Remember back in the day when the West was still wild, the gold rush was still in full effect, you owned whatever land you could manage to fence off, and tycoons were being made and broken on a daily basis? No? Well, some of you whippersnappers might be too young to recall it, but trust us, it happened -- and it seems like (Read More)
Mashable!:
Google Chrome is lightning-fast, holds over 3% of the browser market, and will soon become an operating system. Yet while it has several decisive advantages over Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and other browsers, there is one thing it does not have: extensions.We’ve known that extensions were coming to Chrome since Fe (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At a time when publications targeting small business owners are in decline or dying (R.I.P. Fortune Small Business), the Web is thriving with experimentation. One effort that is just getting off its feet is Bizmore, a site backed by former junk bond king Michael Milken and executive-coaching firm Vistage International. Bi (Read More)
Engadget:
Immediate obsolescence is an age old problem in the computer industry, but it doesn't look like the upcoming Core i9 "Gulftown" processor is going to do anything to solve it. Word is from early benchmarks of the upcoming Intel processor is that it bests the current Core i7 at the top of the heap with speed gains as large as (Read More)
New York Times:
Google, leader in Web search, said it was buying the Silicon Valley display advertising technology startup Teracent, a move that expands its competition with display leader Yahoo. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
October numbers are in, and Comscore, Compete, Google, and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or August and has begun to decline slowly.According to Comscore, October 2009 traffic was down 8% from from September 2009, while Compete shows a more modest decline of 2.1%. Still, on a year-over (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Have you ever considered cloning your dog? I have. Ruby is so cute and sweet, but she probably won't be around a decade from now. Since I don't know how to find her family and she can't have babies, it's the only way possible to keep a part of her near me forever. I contacted RNL Biostar, a Maryland-based company that has s (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[UK] Cambridge, UK-based Taptu, the mobile optimised search engine that, in particular, targets touch screen devices, has released a dedicated Android app. The service already offers a generic browser-based version for mobile phones, along with a native app for the iPhone which disappointingly for Android users, appears to (Read More)