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The other shoe has dropped on Microsoft's recent Bing redesign, and it dropped right on Google.
Microsoft is adding a new Sidebar to Bing search that shows your contacts and activity on all your social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and —... Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook has gone out of its way to remind investors in the bluntest terms possible that it thinks long-term, and will not manage the business to make quarterly earnings targets.
Mark Zuckerberg hinted at it in his letter to investors in the company's ... Read the rest of this entry »
The new Nokia Lumia 900 is a hot seller at some AT&T stores, trailing only behind the iPhone.
At least that's according to a channel check of 15 stores by Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt, as reported by Barron's earlier today. Earlier this week... Read the rest of this entry »
Cisco just posted earnings for the quarter, and it's a solid if unspectacular beat. (PDF here.)
Non-GAAP EPS came in at $0.48, one cent ahead of expectations.
Sales were $11.59 billion, right on target with analyst expectations of $11.57 billion.
Cisc... Read the rest of this entry »
Engineer Robert Cezar Matei turned down a job offer at Instagram, but he's not kicking himself over it.
Instead, he took a job at Quora.
Today, as TechCrunch just noted, he posted a long explanation of his relationship with Instagram and founder Kevin ... Read the rest of this entry »
Ben Horowitz of super-powerful VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has no time for "the cry babies of Silicon Valley."
Sarah Lacy at PandoDaily talked to Horowitz today about the recent practice of VC firms funding "scouts" -- they're like angels that get thei... Read the rest of this entry »
HP's chief financial officer Cathie Lesjak blindsided her old boss at a board meeting and told assembled directors she was totally opposed to HP's $11 billion acquisition of enterprise search company Autonomy.
Fortune reports that Lesjak had told then-... Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, Microsoft invested $300 million in a new joint venture with Barnes & Noble's digital division.
Microsoft has only done five of these equity investments in the last decade. It's much more likely for Microsoft to acquire companies outright... Read the rest of this entry »
As we reported earlier today, Facebook CFO David Ebersman is the bass player in Feedbomb, a band filled with current and former Facebook employees.
He keeps a low profile. So low, in fact, that we didn't really notice him when the band played a gig las... Read the rest of this entry »
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson tried to blame Google for releasing Android updates to different phones on different times, saying that it was part of a "negotiated arrangement."
As 9to5 Google reported earlier, an audience member at the Milken Global ... Read the rest of this entry »