Monthly archive October, 2010

Groupon recently signed a co-marketing deal with eBay, and this morning TechCrunch is reporting that the company has scored another partnership with another Silicon Valley company, Yahoo. Details about the deal are few, but it appears Read More →

• Apple's iPhone 4 — 14.1 million units shipped in 3Q — has helped propel the company to No. 4 among the world's mobile phone vendors, according to an IDC report released yesterday, as the mobile phone market Read More →

"We're early; there's no question we're early. I think we kind of nailed it. When you see it, you just go 'ooooh.' " — CEO Steve Ballmer at the Microsoft developers conference, talking about the Windows Phone 7 — Read More →

Words from around the world for which there is no direct English translation. Also, because you never know when you might need a way out, safety coffins. Plus: Is your football/baseball/hockey/basketball team prone to getting blown Read More →

In the latest episode of Do You Hear What I Hear on the Mobile Phone Rumor Mill, here's the following: • With Stacy Higginbotham at GigaOm reporting, citing unnamed sources, that Apple is working on a SIM card that would Read More →

• Shares of Symantec, the Mountain View company best known for its security software, are up more than 4 percent this morning to $16.48, a day after it reported second-quarter earnings that beat expectations. Symantec's profit fell 12 percent, to Read More →