We've noticed a growing interest in rap music among the tech elite in the last couple of years. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, MC Hammer, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and SV Angel partner Ron Conway famously remixed MC Hammer's "Too Legit To Quit" song in support of the tech-friendly, then San Franc... Read more...
PayPal Inc. is suing Google and two of its executives -- accusing them of stealing trade secrets and poaching employees -- in a move that ups the stakes as the two companies vie for a piece of the fast-growing mobile payments market. The suit, filed in a Santa Clara County federal court, came h... Read more...
Seattle Times Earlier in December, co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen decided that it would be a good idea to sue Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo, Google’s YouTube, OfficeMax, Office Depot and Staples for violation of one of his patents. The patent in question relates to s... Read more...
With the fate of the $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T in Washington's hands, all the big tech players are moving their pawns. And now the Computer & Communications Industry Association, a trade group that includes Google, Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo and Facebook, has come out aga... Read more...
Well, that didn't take long. JP Morgan has officially raised $1.2 billion for a digital growth fund, which will invest in late-stage tech startups. That's about double the amount that the fund was previously reported to be raising. It's not clear whether the previously reported amount was wro... Read more...
This month, we were reminded how important it is that social media companies do what they can to protect the sensitive data they hold from the prying eyes of the government. As many news outlets have reported, the US Department of Justice recently obtained a court order for records from Twitter ... Read more...
In the music business, they would call it a comeback. Almost a decade ago, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, European technology entrepreneurs, unleashed the Napster-like file-sharing program Kazaa on the Web, allowing millions of users3 bll to freely download songs, movies and TV shows. Kazaa... Read more...
Beginning today Tuesday November 10, 2009, Google will be paying the remaining Wifi bill this year for 47 air ports nation wide. This includes airports in Miami and Orlando, 2 out of 30 busiest airports, as well as five others in Florida. Travelers through smaller airports, such as Montana's Billi... Read more...