Loading ...Patrick Salyer doesn’t work at Facebook. He doesn’t own any of its stock. But he’s one of thousands of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and around the world who stand to make a lot of money when the Menlo Park social network goes public later this year. Salyer, 30, is chief executive of Gigya, a Palo [...]
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Windows’ contribution last quarter to Microsoft’s revenue hit its lowest point since Vista’s swan song more than two years earlier, according to figures released by the company Thursday. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, the Windows division accounted for 22.7% of the company’s total sales, its lowest share since the 20.3% that the group recorded [...]
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Electronics retailer Best Buy is headed for the exits. I can’t say when exactly, but my guess is that it’s only a matter of time, maybe a few more years. Consider a few key metrics. Despite the disappearance of competitors including Circuit City, the company is losing market share. Its last earnings announcement disappointed investors. [...]
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Activations of new iOS and Android devices soared on Christmas Day, jumping by 142% over the same day last year, a Web metrics company said. Meanwhile, Google’s head of mobile claimed that 3.7 million new Android smartphones and tablets had been activated last weekend. According to Flurry, which provides metrics services to app developers, total [...]
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How much is a tweet worth? And how much does a Twitter follower cost? In base economic terms, the value of individual Twitter updates seems to be negligible; after all, what is a Twitter post but a few bits of data sent caroming through the Internet? But in a world where social media’s influence [...]
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Hosting and domain registrar company Go Daddy has lost more than 37,000 domains in the past two days due to the company’s wishy-washy stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act. The fleeing domains comes as a result of the intense backlash from customers and Internet critics after Go Daddy appeared on an official list of [...]
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Just as the popularity of Mozilla’s Firefox browser seemed to be ebbing, Google (NSDQ:GOOG) has provided a major boost with a deal to pay Mozilla $300 million annually to keep Google as Firefox’s default search engine, according to a report. Mozilla and Google have agreed to continue their search agreement for another three years, amounting [...]
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BT is claiming billions of dollars of damages from Google in a lawsuit filed in the US that says the Android mobile operating system infringes a number of its key patents. The lawsuit, filed in Delaware, relates to six patents mostly from the 1990s, which BT says are infringed by the Google Maps, Google Music, [...]
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It was hard not to get swept up in Victor Muller’s enthusiasm about saving Saab. The founder of Spyker Cars, the Dutch exotic car company, was convinced he could restore the Swedish brand’s luster after General Motors‘ kicked it to the curb in early 2010. He would practically leap out of his seat during interviews [...]
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