Google, Facebook Spent ...
More dollars were poured into the Beltway from technology companies in the first quarter of 2012. As shown through previous lobbying spends, each quarter, Facebook and Google continue to spend more and more on lobbying efforts in Washington D.C. In the most recent disclosure reports...New iPhone Unlock Shoul...
iPhone unlocks are usually a tetchy experience – you have to have the right firmware on the right model iPhone at the right time. Now, however, thanks to a method that spoofs the activation server, you can unlock almost any iPhone semi-permanently. The system, called Subscriber...More Anti-Trust Woes Ah...
Editor’s note : Charley Moore is a lawyer and the founder of online legal service Rocket Lawyer . Follow him on Twitter @charlesmooreesq . When John D. Rockefeller was told about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to break up Standard Oil, the founding titan turned to his...
Google Drive Said To La...
Rumors and reports of Google Drive’s imminent launch have been coming hard and fast lately, but this one may just take the cake. The folks at The Next Web managed to get their hands on a draft of Google’s official Drive announcement from one of the search giant’s partners, and...The Mobile Paradox...
Editor’s note : Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of just.me . He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. Follow him on Twitter @kteare . Google’s stock declined by over 4% yesterday. Many have put this down to the company’s...Twitter Nabs Former Sal...
After hiring a new VP of Communications , Twitter is adding key engineering staff. Chris Fry, a former exec at Salesforce, has joined Twitter as VP of Engineering. According to Fry’s LinkedIn profile , he was previously the Senior Vice President of Development at Salesforce, where...How the IPO Ruined Goog...
Editor’s Note: Ian Lurie is CEO of Portent Inc , an internet marketing agency that he founded in 1995. He co-published Web Marketing All-In-One for Dummies , where he wrote the sections on SEO, blogging, social media and web analytics. He also wrote Conversation Marketing: Internet...Local Search App Around...
Wow, AroundMe has really been flying under the radar. The location-aware mobile search app is announcing today that it’s now passed the 6 million mark for monthly unique visitors. To put that in perspective, Yelp’s mobile apps see 5.7 million+ monthly uniques these days. Not...Study: 61% of U.S. Hous...
In the U.S., 61% of all households currently have WiFi networks installed at home. According to data from Strategy Analytics , this means the U.S. is ahead of countries like Spain (57.1%), Mexico (31.5%) and India (2.5%). At the same time, though, this only puts the U.S. somewhere in the...