October 31, 2013 In Singapore, Building Businesses for the Next Billion by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY While Silicon Valley concentrates on wealthy nations, start-ups and venture capitalists in places like Singapore are taking advantage of cheap software…
October 31, 2013 Signs Point to Coming Scarcity of iPad Minis by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Apple’s full-size iPad, recently renamed the iPad Air, will be available in stores on Friday. But the release date for…
October 30, 2013 Rising Mobile Ad Sales Propel Facebook Profit by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL The social network’s third-quarter results topped Wall Street expectations as revenue increased 60 percent from the same period a year ago….
October 30, 2013 Delayed Gratification for Maker of Grand Theft Auto by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Take-Two Interactive Software, the games publisher behind Grand Theft Auto V, had to delay its recognition of sales from the blockbuster…
October 30, 2013 NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to…
October 30, 2013 Wrist wars: Samsung Galaxy Gear vs. Qualcomm Toq vs. Sony Smartwatch 2 The smartwatch buzz — if you could call it that — began picking up steam when it was rumored that Apple was looking to…
October 30, 2013 MIT Wristband Tricks You Into Feeling Cool, Without A/C Here’s a scary statistic: In 2007, 87 percent of households in the U.S. used air conditioning, compared to just 11 percent of households in…
October 30, 2013 Google gets into Halloween spirit with spooky ‘Easter eggs’ Google has injected a few fun Easter eggs into its search for Halloween including facts about what witches eat and how to defeat the…
October 30, 2013 Samsung Shipped 130.1 Million Phones Last Quarter – Beat Apple, LG, and Nokia Combined – Droid Life Whether you hate it or love it, Samsung has pretty much single-handedly grown Android by an immense amount over the last couple of years….
October 30, 2013 You’re Just Too Monetizable for Google+ to Ever Go Away The snark surrounding the relative unpopularity of Google+ makes it easy to dismiss the service as an also-ran — another failed attempt by Google…