Explosion at Manufacturer Foxconn Kills 2; Production Suspended
Shanghai - An explosion of unknown cause rocked a Foxconn consumer electronics manufacturing plant in China, killing at least two people and leading to...
Google to Shutter Newspaper Digitizing Initiative
Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has decided to shutter a three-year-old project that was digitizing content from some 2,000 newspapers, the company told...
Report: Google to Buy Modu Mobile Patent Portfolio for $4.9M
Mountain View, Calif. - Google is acquiring a mobile patent portfolio for $4.9 million from Modu, the defunct maker of a line of modular...
Amazon Debuts Electronics Trade-In Store
Seattle - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) has launched the Electronics Trade-In Store, which will offer Amazon.com Gift Cards to consumers who trade in used electronics such...
AOL, Facebook, Google to Test New IPv6 Internet Protocol
New York - AOL said on Thursday it will take part in what's being called "World IPv6 Day" -- a 24-hour test of the...
Amazon: Kindle Book Sales Top Hardcover, Paperback Combined
Seattle - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) said on Thursday that the company is now selling more Kindle e-books than hardcover and paperback books combined.
Amazon began selling...
Zynga Acquires Social Games Studio DNA Games
San Francisco - Social games publisher Zynga said on Wednesday that it has acquired DNA Games.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in...
Report: Less Than 5% of U.S. Consumers Own a Tablet
Los Angeles - Despite the hype surrounding Apple's iPad and similar tablets, just 4.8% of 12,000 consumers surveyed recently by Nielsen reported having purchased...
Report: Local Search Ad Revenue to Grow 62% by 2015
Chantilly, Va. - Revenue from local search advertising is expected to grow 62% to $8.2 billion by 2015, when nearly one-third of all search...
PBS to Launch LearningMedia Digital Education Service
Arlington, Va. - PBS on Wednesday announced plans to launch a new broadband education service called PBS LearningMedia in time for the 2011-12 school...
Senate Bill Would Update 1986 Digital Privacy Law
Washington - A new bill introduced in the Senate on Tuesday aims to beef up digital privacy law, by requiring law enforcement to obtain...
Facebook is Second Most Popular Search Tool in Latin America
Santiago, Chile - Facebook is the second most-popular means of Web search in Latin America, taking 2.8% of the total market behind Google's dominant...
Microsoft's Bing Integrates Facebook 'Likes' Into Search Results
Redmond, Wash. – Microsoft (NASD:MSFT) has announced a tighter integration of Facebook with its Bing search engine, which will now display stories and...
Washington Post Launches MasterClass Online Course Business
Washington - Taking a cue from its Kaplan education unit, The Washington Post on Tuesday launched a series of online courses written by its...
AOL's Patch to Launch Hyperlocal Sites in Primary States
New York - Patch, the hyperlocal news arm of AOL Huffington Post Media Group, said it will launch 33 new sites in New Hampshire,...
Microsoft's Bing Integrates Facebook 'Likes' Into Search Results
Redmond, Wash. - Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has announced a tighter integration of Facebook with its Bing search engine, which will now display stories and sites...
Winklevoss Twins Appeal Facebook Case to Supreme Court
Washington - The Winklevoss twins, who have been embroiled in a legal fight with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook while they were...
Video-on-Demand Ad Platform BlackArrow Gets $27 Million
San Jose, Calif. - BlackArrow, the provider of an ad platform for video-on-demand systems, announced on Tuesday that it has received a strategic investment...
DISH Names Ex-Sirius Head Joseph Clayton as President, CEO
Englewood, Colo. - Satellite TV operator DISH Network (NASD: DISH) said on Monday that it has named former Sirius Satellite Radio chairman and CEO Joseph...
AOL Huff Post Names Neil Katz Executive News Editor
New York - AOL Huffington Post Media Group said on Monday that it has named former CBSNews.com executive editor Neil Katz as its new...
