jason hirschhorn's Media ReDEFined

56 Reasons to Watch TV This Summer

2012-05-25T04:58:32Z

Think summer's a bad season for TV? We have 56 reasons you're wrong. Your DVR will be working as hard as your air conditioner if you check out the full mix of new and returning series the networks have planned for the next three months. They range from new dramas like HBO's "The...

Pandora now controls over 70% of top U.S. Internet radio market

2012-05-25T05:15:31Z

Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy recently announced that the music streaming service had surpassed 150 million users in the United States and was the second most downloaded app in the history of Apple’s App Store. According to the company’s recent earnings report for the first quarter of fiscal 2013,...

Article: How Mobile Expedites Search, Approval and Purchase of Products

2012-05-25T04:01:00Z

Jon Friedman's Media Web: Apple’s iPhone hype: Siri is all hot air

2012-05-25T05:00:07Z

Apple’s Siri innovation of the iPhone 4S is a lot of hype for a product that is, at best, semi-useful, writes media columnist Jon Friedman

Apple improves app discovery with ‘Editors’ Choice’ and free ‘App of the Week’ features

2012-05-25T04:36:39Z

With more than half a million apps in the App Store, discovery is a huge challenge for iPhone users. Apple has long acknowledged the issue, having acquired Chomp to help improve things, but it has made a couple of subtle introductions that are aimed at better showcasing the content available for...

The Game Mechanics of Customer Loyalty

2012-05-25T04:14:03Z

Gabe Zichermann is a public speaker, designer, and author of the books Game-Based Marketing and Gamification by Design. Follow him @gzicherm Most of the interest in gamification and user engagement for startups centers on customer acquisition. This is partly because of the short time around...

★ More on Apple’s Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch From the App Store

2012-05-25T03:59:14Z

After some interesting back-and-forth with a few informed sources, I think Apple’s removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch from the iOS App Store is not as mysterious or capricious as I first thought. The key is to focus on what’s new in version 3 of the app: The other major feature in Airfoil...

Hamptons mags catching the digital wave

2012-05-25T03:45:25Z

Plum Hamptons may be gone, a victim of the bankruptcy of the parent Plum Network, but the Hamptons publishing scene appears to be thriving once again.“It’s healthy, it’s a noticeable difference from last year,” said Justin Mitchell, publisher of 9-year-old Social Life, which is throwing a cover...

The Return of D'Angelo - GQ

2012-05-24T22:47:33Z

He was once hailed as the next Marvin Gaye. Then, after his ripped body threatened to overshadow his music, he vanished into addiction. So what the hell was he doing recently singing his heart out in a Pentecostal church in Stockholm? And how are his abs? Amy Wallace witnessed D'Angelo's ecstatic...

Tech Has Transformed How We Find Missing Children

2012-05-25T03:16:57Z

A former Manhattan store owner confessed Thursday morning to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 — the boy whose disappearance sparked the now-famous face on the milk carton. If you can’t remember the last time you saw someone’s face on a milk carton, or never even heard of the concept,...

China Telecom launches UK mobile service, reveals plans for other European markets

2012-05-25T03:18:16Z

China Telecom has launched a UK mobile service this week, just in time for the upcoming Olympic Games in London, and revealed plans to expand its operations to other key European markets in the coming months. In partnership with Everything Everywhere — the joint operation between T-Mobile and...

Editorial: Life in the Uncurated City

2012-05-25T03:22:12Z

The New York City Department of Records has given us the digital equivalent of a box full of nearly 900,000 photographs. Every version of the city is there to be seen.

China Tycoon Places Risky Bet on U.S. Movie Market

2012-05-25T12:20:01Z

Wang Jianlin, a rags-to-riches mogul, is taking over AMC Entertainment and promising to integrate it into a global brand called the Wanda Group.

When DVRs sleep, do they dream about energy-saving chips?

2012-05-25T02:38:51Z

Ranked by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) as a domestic electrical power hog on gluttonous par with the refrigerator, the HD DVR is about to be put to sleep. Don’t worry. It’ll wake up in time to record Jersey Shore. But the question is, how deep a sleep will your DVR go into and how...

Neil Armstrong Opens Up

2012-05-24T19:20:00Z

More than 42 years after his remarkable mission, the usually laconic Neil Armstrong speaks in great detail on his famous–and the world’s first–moon landing.

LivingSocial attempts a more hands-on approach to local commerce

2012-05-25T01:44:32Z

In its latest experiment in local commerce, LivingSocial is getting hands on with a new events space in downtown DC. Called 918 F, the space hosts a variety of events including cooking classes, zumba sessions, pop-up restaurants, and painting classes with wine. When LivingSocial...

Google tackles piracy by removing millions of URLs

2012-05-25T01:17:18Z

A new Google report shows that piracy and copyright infringement are growing exponentially, with 1.2 million URL removal requests per month, and Microsoft seems to be a particular complainant. [Read more]

Speculation Builds About Hong Kong Billionaire Joseph Lau's Empire After Bribery Case Set

2012-05-25T00:27:28Z

Speculation about the future of the business empire of Hong Kong billionaire is building after it was disclosed on Wednesday that he will face bribery and money-laundering charges in Macau. The South China Morning Post in its lead front-page story today, "Tycoon May Hand Over the Reins," reports...

Cannes Festival scraps screening of "The Anti-Semite"

2012-05-25T00:57:07Z

The Cannes film festival has scrapped the screening of the film "The Anti-Semite", by controversial French comic Dieudonne, according to an official.

Mayor Arrested for Hacking Website that Tried to Recall Him

2012-05-25T01:11:28Z

A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly infiltrating and sabotaging a website tied to an effort to recall him. The story gives a new and troubling definition to the term “political hack.” The FBI has accused Felix Roque, mayor of West New York, N.J., and...

Mashable’s Exclusive Q&A With Stan Lee: Here’s a Teaser [VIDEO]

2012-05-25T00:47:51Z

Mashable has interviewed plenty of luminaries in its time, but few can compete with comic book legend Stan Lee — the creative force behind iconic Marvel characters including Spiderman, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk and many more. We sat down with Stan via Skype video chat for an exclusive Q&A...

Facebook, You’ve Got a Friend: Matt Mullenweg Thinks You Own the Future of Advertising

2012-05-25T00:41:54Z

At PandoMonthly in New York tonight, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said the page-view mentality is “poisonous” and in-stream advertising is the future. Speaking to Sarah Lacy, Mullenweg confessed to using an ad blocker when browsing the Web. Publishers get angry at that technology because they...

Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own Instagram

2012-05-25T00:35:38Z

Just a month after announcing its plans to devour hit app Instagram to the tune of $1 billion, Facebook has released its very own photo sharing app. But is two a crowd? Camera, Facebook's brand new photo sharing app, is built to do precisely the same thing as its...

Darwinian innovation, social media, and what is next for the Valley and its investment community

2012-05-25T00:31:29Z

There’s been some excellent commentary on the subject of technological innovation in the past few days, and where and how it occurs. As you might expect, Silicon Valley has been the discussion’s in-room elephant. Views of its present, past, and future prominence are as diverse the people who...

Here's the Official Yahoo Filing on Alibaba Deal

2012-05-24T21:34:20Z

I am a bit sleepy and getting ready for our 10th D: All Things Digital conference next week, so you are going to have to read for yourself this short regulatory filing Yahoo just made about its recent deal to sell half of its large stake in China’s Alibaba Group for about $7 billion. The deets...

My Other Phone Is a Phone

2012-05-24T23:30:29Z

A new study from Forrester Research on technology adoption by urban Chinese consumers also illustrates the power of the mobile Internet in China. Out of more than 3,600 people surveyed, 71 percent use their phones to go online at least once daily. Their e-commerce-related activities are outlined in...

When should you give up on an idea?

2012-05-25T01:32:51Z

Suppose you launch your new startup and don’t get the traction you were hoping for. How do you know whether to give up or keep going? This is a tough question. There are lots of examples that support seemingly contradictory theories. Instagram pivoted before launch, and Pinterest refused to pivot...

In N.Y.C. And L.A., Movie Tickets Are Ticking Higher

2012-05-25T00:01:20Z

Cha-ching. Looks like the price of movie tickets is once again moving higher. BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield notes in a blog post today that Regal Cinemas is raising ticket prices effective Friday for both 2D and 3D films in its theaters in New York and Los Angeles. Exact pricing varies...

Matt Mullenweg: Distributed Workforces are All About Results

2012-05-25T00:11:08Z

During a PandoMonthly fireside chat this evening, WordPress founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg discussed the reasons for building a distributed company. “I would say going into the office every day is a productivity loss,” Mullenweg says. “Most offices are fairly soul-crushing environments. I think...

Matt Mullenweg: I’m Worried That Silicon Valley Might Be Destroying the World

2012-05-25T00:06:23Z

Speaking tonight to Sarah Lacy at PandoMonthly in New York, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg confessed to feeling conflicted about one of the blogging service’s upcoming features: Notifications. Mullenweg said he’s concerned that Silicon Valley is creating products that are so engaging that...

Yahoo Courts Second Screen App Developers With New Tools To Connect Phones And TV

2012-05-25T00:00:43Z

Launched in 2009, Yahoo’s Connected TV was one of the first platforms to introduce an open app development kit (ADK) for Internet-capable TVs. Now it’s making those apps even more powerful, by allowing developers to build apps that integrate TV and mobile capabilities. At a meeting with developers...

Brands Will Go Gaga Over This New Facebook Feature

2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

Facebook has released a new feature that shows advertisers the percent of fans that have seen and Liked specific posts on brand pages, Mashable reports. This will allow brand page administrators to see what works and what doesn't. After GM pulled its $10 million Facebook ad budget right before the...

Start-Ups Vie in Managing Devices

2012-05-25T01:18:53Z

A new wave of start-ups are trying to take away BlackBerry maker Research in Motion's business of helping companies manage mobile devices.

Houston, We Have A Problem

2012-05-24T23:46:15Z

Inside Google’s Hangar 211 at NASA/Ames Moffett Field MTP readers will recall that one of the perks of being a Google insider is that you get to park your private jet at Moffett Field, the NASA installation near the headquarters of the Leviathan of Mountain View, a/k/a the Googleplex. This is the...

Text or Talk: Is Technology Making You Lonely?

2012-05-24T23:12:46Z

by??Margie Warrell As social media reshapes how we connect, we have to rethink what we need to feel fulfilled in our relationships, and realize that no amount of tweets, texts or status updates can provide it. ??While social networking is a great tool, there's a profound difference between an...

The World According to Wes

2012-05-24T22:52:00Z

It’s an open question who’s more obsessive: Wes Anderson or his most ardent fans. The director’s meticulously crafted, off-kilter features have won over legions of filmgoers who now get to go to town on a new Anderson movie.

Diller, TV Networks Head for Showdown

2012-05-25T12:50:35Z

Major TV networks' efforts to shut down the Aereo video-streaming service will be tested in federal court next week. The service has financial backing from Barry Diller,.

What 1,000 text messages tell us about a special relationship

2012-05-24T23:00:01Z

We learn today the rather sordid reality concealed behind Jeremy Hunt's solemn statement to Parliament last month that "I have strictly followed due process". More than 1,000 text messages were exchanged between his office and the News Corp team pursuing the most controversial British media...

Why San Francisco is a test bed for transportation tech

2012-05-24T23:18:34Z

You may have noticed there’s a growing amount of alternative, tech-focused, ways to get around San Francisco these days. Car sharing groups Zipcar and City CarShare have big communities here, there’s the new car sharing 2.0 groups like RelayRides and Getaround, and the next-gen taxi services of...

4 Movies That Could Benefit From The 'G.I. Joe' Release Change

2012-05-24T21:33:53Z

"G.I. Joe: Retaliation" will have to wait another nine months to seek retribution. This week, in a shocking move, Paramount bumped the summer blockbuster off its June 29 release date and moved it to March 29, 2013. Per studio insiders, the change was done to give director Jon Chu time to convert...

Can an Algorithm Teach Leadership?

2012-05-24T21:51:01Z

An interview with Marcus Buckingham, founder of TMBC and author of StandOut. For more, visit the HBR article Leadership Development in the Age of the Algorithm. Download this podcast A written transcript will be available by May 31.

Business Matters: Yahoo! Music Says 'Yoo-Hoo!'

2012-05-25T01:42:00Z

What has 27 million U.S. visitors each month and seems to get less attention in the music business than many music blogs? Yahoo! Music. Also, two recent NME.com stories are the perfect example of why you should be careful about what you read/pass on as news; and Pandora's good day or two...

How 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' Became This Summer's Surprise Indie Smash

2012-05-24T22:52:51Z

"The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is poised to leap out of the arthouse and into the mainstream. The story of a group of British retirees, grappling with illness and financial burdens, who decide to move to India is hardly the stuff of summer blockbusters. Yet the Fox Searchlight and Participant...

RIM sales chief hired by audio company Sonos: sources

2012-05-24T22:52:41Z

TORONTO (Reuters) - Patrick Spence, who resigned this week as global head of sales at struggling BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd, has been hired as chief commercial officer at wireless home audio company Sonos Inc, several sources with knowledge of his plans said.

Microsoft Office said to be coming to iPad, Android tablets

2012-05-24T23:17:36Z

It looks as if fall could be a very busy season for Microsoft. The software maker appears poised to release Office for iPad and Android tablets and an Outlook Web app for iOS this fall, according to reports.

Facebook's IPO: What Does it Mean for Musicians?

2012-05-22T19:42:53Z

FB-NASDAQ_051812001.jpg Wide For over a week now, Facebook’s messy IPO has dominated the business page headlines. A question that rarely gets asked in all this kerfuffle: what impact will this IPO have on musicians? As key...

Op-Ed | Are We Failing to Fulfill the Potential of Fashion Film?

2012-05-23T23:17:44Z

NEW YORK, United States — Each season, shortly after the four main fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris, marketers in our industry begin planning their print campaigns for the following season. It often takes us weeks, if not months, to assemble our creative teams and produce...

Read Cyma Zarghami’s Commencement Address to University of Vermont Class of 2012

2012-05-22T19:00:28Z

Cyma Zarghami addresses the UVM Class of 2012 (Photo credit: Sally McCay) Cyma Zarghami traveled to Burlington, VT this weekend to connect with an audience slightly older than her typical K6-11 demo. The Nickelodeon President delivered the commencement address to the Class of 2012 at The...

How Theaters Play Favorites During Blockbuster Season

2012-05-25T04:35:22Z

How Theaters Play Favorites During Blockbuster Season

Social Drawing, an Up-and-Coming Marketing Tool

2012-05-24T22:37:44Z

To promote the new season of "Cake Boss" on TLC, there will be contests to design a cake using Doodle.ly, a social-drawing app.

Facebook provides reach data directly on Timeline posts

2012-05-24T22:35:30Z

Some Facebook page owners can now view certain post metrics directly from their Timeline, including the percentage of fans that saw a given post and the percentage of those who saw the post as a result of paid promotion. This gives page owners an at-a-glance understanding of how many fans they are...

The Power of Networks: Fractals of Complexity

2012-05-24T22:19:38Z

What's the Big Idea? All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” - Albert Einstein In the latest RSA Animate production, Manuel Lima explores the power of network visualization in our increasingly complex world. A senior UX design lead at Microsoft, Lima explains how the...

TV Networks Ponder Fridays as Chance for Niche Shows

2012-05-24T14:16:02Z

Major TV networks are moving little-watched shows with signficant DVR audiences to Fridays, testing whether the technology can help programs like "Community" make it on a night with few viewers.

Art Brodsky: When The FCC Chairman Comforted Cable

2012-05-24T21:28:56Z

There probably was no great need for Comcast toraise the usage caps on its broadband service, as it did last week from 250 gigabytes (GB) to 300 GB per month. If the company thought for an instant that the modest increase bought it any good will from its theoretical regulators, it needn't have...

PayPal Snags 15 Retailers for In-Store Payments

2012-05-24T21:06:01Z

In a coup, PayPal is competing at the register with credit cards, signing 15 major retailers including Barnes & Noble, Foot Locker, JC Penney and Toys 'R' Us to accept its online payments at their brick-and-mortar stores.

Sony Pictures agrees to pay for "Men in Black 3" 3-D glasses

2012-05-24T20:17:00Z

Sony Pictures Entertainment has backed down from its refusal to pay for the 3-D glasses on this weekend's science fiction sequel "Men in Black 3." But the studio still doesn't see eye to eye with exhibitors on the issue.

Financial Times exec: iOS apps don’t work for publishers

2012-05-24T21:50:12Z

It’s been close to a year since the Financial Times left the iTunes app store to launch a a web app for its paid content, and FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw told the audience at GigaOM’s paidContent 2012 conference that this move has more than paid off. “It’s been a tremendous experience,”...

David Simon: End of daily publication for Times-Picayune ‘grievous news’

2012-05-24T21:34:40Z

David Simon, whose HBO series “Treme” chronicles life in post-Katrina New Orleans, told Poynter that The Times-Picayune’s decision to cut publication to three days a week and cut staff is “grievous news as it would be for any American… Read more

The Competition Versus Google

2012-05-24T21:41:14Z

Making rival search companies happy, at users' expense.

Facebook Launches Promoted Posts, Pay As Little As $5 For More Fans To See Page Content

2012-05-23T17:58:19Z

Facebook’s Promoted posts are live for some pages in the US, as of yesterday. And are rolling out to many more. Some are reporting that pages with fewer than 500 fans may not yet see the feature. This means pages can now pay to “promote” a post from their Timeline so that it will reach a greater...

New TED ebook warns of the demise of guys

2012-05-23T16:40:02Z

Have boys bottomed out? A new TED Book says yes. The culprit: the rampant overuse of video games and online porn. In their provocative ebook The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It, celebrated psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan say that an addiction...

The Politics of Music: Words Are the Only Weapon

2012-05-22T09:17:21Z

How can we celebrate and seek comfort in pop entertainment while dissidents are beaten and repressed? The only beneficiaries of "apolitical art" is the regime which avoids scrutiny. von Leyla Yunus

Eurovision in Azerbaijan: Don't Call It Culture

2012-05-24T15:04:47Z

The European Song Contest is a thoroughly politicized event, not a celebration of culture. The strained relationship between the Azerbaijani hosts and their Armenian guests is only the most obvious example of the politics of art. von Maria Martirosyan

Why I'm Leaving Facebook : The New Yorker

2012-05-24T21:22:35Z

I established a Facebook account in 2008. My motivation was ignoble: I wanted to distribute my journalism more widely. I have acquired since then just over four thousand “friends”—in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, the Middle East, and of course, closer to home. I have discovered the appeal of...

NBCU Exploring Buyback of MSNBC.com | Adweek

2012-05-24T21:45:49Z

Executives looking to push more of cable voice onto the Web

Fashion World Mulls Facebook IPO’s Impact - Digital - Media - WWD.com

2012-05-24T21:49:37Z

Union chief: NFL doesn't deny collusion claim

2012-05-24T21:54:40Z

NFL players union chief DeMaurice Smith says the league isn't exactly refuting his organization's claim of collusion.

Andy Samberg impersonates Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage at Harvard

2012-05-24T21:14:31Z

If you haven’t seen Andy Samberg on Saturday Night Live, you’re truly missing out on some hilarious comedy. During a College Class Day speech at Harvard yesterday, Samberg did his popular impersonations of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and actors Mark Wahlberg and Nicolas Cage. The other speaker...

New Revenue Sharing Deal End Olympic Fued

2012-05-24T20:23:32Z

? A new revenue sharing deal between the U.S. and Olympic Committee, announced today during a press conference, ends years of bad blood between the two governing bodies. ? Ending two years of nagging negotiations, the landmark deal was signed by USOC and the IOC after receiving final approval from...

Cyber Criminal Found Guilty Of Hijacking 30 Million Computers

2012-05-24T20:31:15Z

Russian cybercrime mastermind Georgy Avanesov was found guilty of computer sabotage by an Armenian court on Tuesday and sentenced to four years in prison. The trial is monumental, not only for the sentencing of a criminal who hijacked millions of computers, but also because it is reportedly the...

Larry Magid: Android Offers Lots of Options and Some Annoyances

2012-05-24T20:07:39Z

I was an Android user for years and still have several Android devices. But last October I bought an iPhone 4S and I'm glad I did. I remember the exact date I bought it, because it was the last time Apple updated the iPhone. Unlike Android devices, there is only one new iPhone and one new iPad a...

Facebook hires team behind UX research and design firm Bolt Peters

2012-05-24T21:02:05Z

Facebook has hired the team behind the San Francisco-based user experience research and design firm, Bolt Peters. Bolt Peters will end operations on June 22 to join Facebook’s design team. The firm has fewer than 10 people, but it is unclear how many of them will become employees of the social...

Facebook's Dilemma: Invade Privacy or Go Bust

2012-05-24T16:30:00Z

A gripping article by Michael Wolff in MIT's Technology Review argues that Facebook faces a grim alternative future: either gain revenues in increasingly intrusive and ethically dubious ways—or go bust in the not very distant future:

New and returning TV series in May and June

2012-05-24T20:59:27Z

New and returning TV series in May and June

‘Privacy Is Awesome’ Campaign Aims to Kill CISPA

2012-05-24T20:50:03Z

Fight for the Future, a nonprofit with the self-described goal of protecting the Internet, has launched an informational campaign designed to kill off the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) once and for all. The campaign, called “Privacy is Awesome,” says that CISPA’s been tucked...

The Def Jam Rapstar Curse: Konami, Autumn Games accused of fraud by City National Bank

2012-05-24T20:45:22Z

Def Jam Rapstar continues to cause grief for its creators as publisher Konami is accused of fraud.

This 19-Year-Old Squatted In AOL's Office For Two Months Without Anyone Catching On (AOL)

2012-05-24T20:40:00Z

Eric Simons, a 19-year-old entrepreneur from Chicago, secretly squatted at AOL's Palo Alto campus for two months, reports CNET. Simons was part of an incubator program hosted by AOL called K12. After the program ended, Simons discovered the badges still worked. So he settled down at AOL to build...

TV Networks Ponder Fridays as Chance for Niche Shows

2012-05-24T14:16:02Z

Major TV networks are moving little-watched shows with signficant DVR audiences to Fridays, testing whether the technology can help programs like "Community" make it on a night with few viewers.

In-app subscriptions come to Google Play, includes 'bundling' capabilities

2012-05-24T20:19:32Z

Google announced on Thursday that Android developers can now use in-app Billing to sell monthly or annual subscriptions from inside of apps sold in Google Play. The feature brings Google Play up to speed with Apple's iTunes App Store, which rolled out this feature over one year ago. With the new...

THE FOUNDERS: Guestmob CEO Travels Far In Bid To Transform Hotel Deals

2012-05-24T20:19:00Z

[This is part of an ongoing VentureWire series that will examine entrepreneurs and the new, potentially disruptive technologies they are working on.] Yann Ngongang grew up in Cameroon with a profound curiosity about technology. Like many children in the 1980s, Yann Ngongang wanted a...

FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit | Security & Privacy - CNET News

2012-05-24T20:08:36Z

CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.

Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core - Telegraph

2012-05-24T18:35:55Z

Apple’s design guru Jonathan Ive, who receives a knighthood today for creating products such as the iPad, tells Shane Richmond why this country’s industrial heritage lies behind his success.

Eric Yaverbaum: The Value -- and Valuation -- of Facebook

2012-05-24T19:54:36Z

Like or Unlike? On Friday, May 18, Facebook went public. Regardless of when you are reading this post, I would wager that discussion about the implications of the IPO still dominates the news about social media, with an emphasis on what happened, why it happened, and the implications for...

Jeremy Hunt's text messages to Frédéric Michel

2012-05-24T23:08:46Z

Culture secretary told parliament he had no unofficial contact with News Corp lobbyist while considering the BSkyB bid Jeremy Hunt exchanged texts with Frédéric Michel at least four times despite telling parliament he had no unofficial contact with the News Corp lobbyist while he was considering...

The History of Facebook's Developer Platform

2012-05-24T19:48:17Z

The History of Facebook's Developer Platform : Via

In social data, a fight between science and privacy

2012-05-24T20:00:20Z

There is a fight brewing between academics and industry over the use of your Facebook activity or search history. Academics are upset that companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook have the keys to the underlying data, but they won’t share. The issue may be a small war between universities and...

Why Yahoo's Axis Is Going to Fail

2012-05-24T19:30:00Z

Axis, Yahoo's "new kind of browser" that launched yesterday, is an attempt to do something noble and important. Yahoo has taken away the search results page, the intermediate step where a search engine makes most of its money, in order to get the user straight to where she's...

Barcoded babies: Grand idea or simply ridiculous?

2012-05-24T19:15:08Z

What if the world eliminated plastic ID cards and replaced them with embedded unique barcodes the moment we are born? That's the latest pitch in BBC's '60-second idea' series.

The Truth About What Facebook Is Really Worth

2012-05-24T12:06:47Z

The social network's bungled public offering isn't the only obstacle to putting a fair price on its stock.

How Tim Cook is changing Apple

2012-05-24T11:37:18Z