If you were attacked by pirates, who would you want by your side? A loyal horde of head bangers, gangstas and hard-core punks? Or a brainy clutch of bookish types? I’d generally advise you to g...
A minor victory for the dissident investors waging a proxy fight against AOL: Institutional Shareholder Services is recommending that investors vote for two of Starboard Value LP’s three board ...
After three days of in-depth interviews at the D10 conference, you might think you know all about the speakers and demonstrators who graced the stage. But what are these people like when they’r...
If you believe the rumored numbers, it would have been the biggest acquisition in Internet history — and you definitely should believe the numbers. In the fall of 2010, search giant Google offe...
Negotiations by Dell to acquire Quest Software, first reported last month but never confirmed by either company, have broken off, according to a Reuters report. No reason was given for the end of tal...
Shares of daily-deals Web site Groupon Inc. fell to a record low Friday as a restriction on insider selling expired. Groupon GRPN traded down 9 percent to close at $9.69 in heavy volume as the broade...
Google Inc. has begun notifying Chinese users when they are using search terms that can trigger China’s Internet blocks, in its boldest challenge in two years to Beijing’s efforts to rest...
Apple once operated a factory in the United States. Will it ever open another one? Will we ever see an Apple device labeled “Designed by Apple in California -– Assembled in the United States...
Verizon Communications Inc. agreed to buy Hughes Telematics Inc., a provider of wireless-enabled services to cars, for $612 million in cash as the telecom heavyweight aims to broaden the way people u...
Here’s an unusual new role for the legendarily pugnacious Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel: Digital peacemaker. After he challenged Google to do a lot better with stopping content piracy in an...
Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman will join the board of Airtime, the soon-to-launch video start-up from Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning. Pittman, who founded MTV, was formerly COO of A...
Google Inc. said it filed an antitrust complaint Thursday in Europe arguing that Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. are using proxy companies to brandish patents and hurt the prospects of Google’s...
One of the more controversial stances that the software giant Oracle had taken as part of its dispute over Java with the search giant Google was that 37 specific application-programming interfaces &#...
Self-described Washington bureaucrat Jon Leibowitz spent some time talking with Walt Mossberg on the D conference stage about privacy and digital property. Once he stepped off the stage, though, he s...
It’s a rich time for Google: Ad revenue is up, the Chrome division will soon launch a new version of its Chromebook, and YouTube still receives hundreds of hours of video every single day. Chec...
Microsoft closed the acquisition of Skype eight months ago for a whopping $8.5 billion. And today at D10, Skype boss Tony Bates said that the integration of the two companies is going well, and that ...
Stanford President John Hennessy presides over one of the most prominent educational institutions on the globe, and he spent time onstage at the D conference talking about the future of costs, format...
After giving a demo of Quri, a new app that enables consumers to get paid to act as secret shoppers on behalf of brands, Justin Behar, co-founder of the company, spent a few minutes backstage at D10 ...
More than 15 percent of online adults in the U.S. are active Twitter users, according to a recent Pew Research study, with as many as 8 percent of those users tweeting from the microblogging service ...
Stanford President John Hennessy and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan are coming at online education from very different angles — one is an elite institution being shaken up by experiments, the...
There are many miraculous things on the Web today; advertising is not one of them. So said Walt Mossberg, in conversation with Google’s Susan Wojcicki and Sundar Pichai at the D: All Things Dig...
One question Sundar Pichai gets a whole lot is why Google has both Chrome OS and the ecosystem around it, including its own devices — which are under his purview — and the Android mobile ...
The Federal Trade Commission currently lacks the authority to assess penalties for transgressions against online privacy. Is the agency really up to the challenge of enforcing our privacy rights? Ons...
Sometimes the juxtapositions at D allow for companies on opposite sides of an argument to talk to each other in public. On the stage last night, Ari Emanuel repeatedly called on Google to help filter...
The forecast for this year’s D10 conference? Cloudy, with a chance of Box and Gobbler. At D10 today, the two cloud companies announced a partnership that will combine parts of Gobbler’s s...
A few days ahead of schedule, Microsoft on Thursday issued its near-final “release preview” version of Windows 8. The company had promised the updated test version would come by the first...
Skype President Tony Bates, the man behind Microsoft’s largest acquisition, outlined his ambitions for the Internet-calling service at D: All Things Digital. “If we can get to billions, I...
Tony Bates insists that Skype’s life as a Microsoft unit is going swimmingly. Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com “It’s been great,” Bates said, speaking Thursday at D: All Things Dig...
Jon Leibowitz is no newcomer to Washington. He has been at the Federal Trade Commission since 2004, dealing with antitrust issues at a national level. But his job looks much different today than it d...
After some delays, the HTC Evo 4G LTE will finally be available in Sprint stores on June 2, for $199.99 with a two-year contract. The smartphone runs the latest version of Android and has a 4.7-inch ...
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