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Tech issues: No room at the LinkedIn for prostitutes; Square bans gun sales; Nintendo game and gay marriage

Today we're rounding up tidbits of tech "issues" from this week, from guns to prostitution to gay marriage: • LinkedIn doesn't want to be the network for the world's oldest profession. This week, the Mountain View company updated its Read More →

Ashish Thakkar and the Mara Group Take a flying leap at becoming the Skype Facebook, Google Talk of Africa

Ashish Thakkar is a big believer in sub-Saharan Africa  and he thinks Silicon Valley should become a big believer, too. "It's time for Africa," says Thakkar, who I first wrote about in August.  And he really means it. Thakkar, 31, who's Read More →

Watch out, Union Square. Here comes Apple!

Apparently unhappy with having simply a jaw-dropping store almost dead-center in the heart of downtown San Francisco, Apple now wants to relocate three blocks north to be totally dead-center. According to  the San Francisco Chronicle, Apple plans to open its new Read More →

Apple hits another insanely great milestone

It  took them nearly five years to do it. But Apple cheerfully announced today that its App Store had hit the 50 billion mark in apps downloaded since the store opened for business in 2008.  It had taken Apple nearly Read More →

Look what’s coming fast in Apple’s rear-view window!

As if Apple didn't already have its hands full with competition on the smartphone front from rivals like Samsung. Now it's Google who's not only nipping at Apple's heels on the subscription-online-radio front, but clamping down its jaws on its Read More →

Bid to eat lunch with Jack Dorsey hits $15,600

We just learned that Twitter is worth $10 billion,  and now it appears that eating lunch with the company's founder, Jack Dorsey, also comes with a hefty price tag. The highest bid to dine with Dorsey is $15,600, with Read More →
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