NetworkEffect talks to UberMedia, the perpetually renamed year-old start-up, about business of buying up independent Twitter clients that compete with Twitter’s own options. Read More »

While he has been striking a lot of content deals of late for AOL, there seems to have been enough time in his day in trying to turn around the struggling Web giant for Media & Studios President David Eun to make a rap-techo-whatever video for the troops. While many division leaders might just release a dull memo, the former Google exec went right to the videotape, and I meant really went for it. Read More »

For a time, Sean P. Means of the Salt Lake Tribune maintained a macabre list of unemployed American film critics on his blog, the Movie Cricket. He had to abandon it when it began to resemble a list of American film critics. Read More »

Mike Murphy–Facebook’s first head of advertising sales, who left the social networking giant in October to take some personal time off–seems done with relaxing. He is now taking a part-time, but significant, role at online gaming phenom Zynga to help formulate its advertising strategy. In addition, though, Murphy is also close to formalizing an additional consulting relationship with Facebook. Read More »

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have raised nearly a billion dollars in the 18 months since they founded their Silicon Valley venture firm, Andreessen Horowitz, even though they’ve never been venture capitalists before. Read More »

David Rice is also the author of “Geekonomics,” a 2007 book that argues that software is infrastructure, and that when it’s badly made or insecure, society suffers. And now, he’s reportedly due to start at Apple in March. Read More »

When Groupon Inc. announced earlier this month that it raised $950 million in venture capital (the press release’s headline casually touted “like, a billion dollars”), many publications quickly called this funding round a record. Read More »

Apple said today its App Store has hit more than 10 billion downloads worldwide, equating to roughly 62 apps for each one of its 160 million iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Read More »

It’s a big, wide and very digital world out there and that’s why I’m headed around the globe–quite literally–for the next week to see some non-Silicon Valley tech trends and more. Read More »

Drama in the boardroom at Hewlett-Packard during the last decade has often overshadowed the company itself. Perhaps yesterday’s sudden shake-up will bring that to an end. Read More »

As promised, after posting highlights last week, here’s the full video from an interview with Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at our D@CES event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The chipmaker exec talked a lot about how mobile is about to see super-duper-duper smartphones and more. Read More »

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) Read More »

Looks like Sirius XM’s run of good luck will continue well into the new year. New-vehicle retail sales data from J.D. Power and Associates suggests an increase in consumer demand for new cars. And for Sirius that means continued subsciber growth–perhaps even significant subscriber growth. Read More »

Aiming to build some buzz for its forthcoming tablet, Toshiba has launched a teaser site that touts all the things its slate will have that the current iPad lacks. Of course, the iPad has its own advantages, not the least of which is that it can be bought today. Read More »

Facebook finally issued a rare press release today to say it has raised a total of $1.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation from Goldman Sachs and its clients. Read More »

With the first-year anniversaries of the iPad and iPhone 4 fast approaching, and both devices destined for an update per Apple’s annual mobile device refresh cycle, the Apple rumor mill is undergoing a refresh of its own. Read More »

Zynga’s acquisition spree continues today with its ninth in the past eight months. Read More »

Have you been frustrated lately by search results on Google? If so, you’re not alone, and Google knows it. Read More »

More advertising and sponsorships will be inevitable this year in Zynga’s popular Facebook game titles as the privately held company attempts to diversify its revenue stream. Read More »

The surging smartphone market allowed the Taiwanese cellphone maker to report solid quarterly results and offer a prediction of more to come, but some analysts had been looking for an even rosier prediction. The Android and Windows phone maker expects to sell 8.5 million smartphones in the January quarter. Read More »