The battle for top talent in the tech world has been accelerating recently, to the point where Google gave all its employees a 10 percent raise. Now New York Q&A site Stack Overflow is making it easier for programers feeling that seven year itch to head out for greener pastures by launching an updated jobs section today called Careers... MORE >
The sheets are still warm from the joint rollout of The Daily by Apple and Newscorp, but it sounds like the iPad only newspaper is already playing the... MORE >
Goldman Sachs recently created quite a sensation when it invested nearly half a billion dollars in Facebook. Now the investment bank is putting $70 million into AppSense, a desktop virtualization company headquarted in New... MORE >
Justin Wohlstadter navigated easily through the crush of long-legged beauties and laptop jockeys crowding the lobby of the Ace Hotel on a chilly Thursday night. His informal office when he’s not in the U.K. doing postgraduate work at Oxford, the wood-paneled bar is also his hunting ground for tech deals to fund as director of the investment company Penny Black, named for the world’s first prepaid adhesive stamp—“a ‘game changing’ idea,” as the Web... MORE >
This morning all the tech blogs were a-Twitter over Amazon's move into streaming movies. Netflix fired back this afternoon by announcing a new content deal with CBS. Some golden oldies are in the mix, including full seasons of Star Trek, Frasier and... MORE >
SeatGeek, which helps users find the best deals on tickets being sold on the secondary market, is on a roll. Today the company announced a new investment from courtside celebs, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s A Grade... MORE >
If you're a company with serious cash lying around and it's not being invested in tech start-ups, you must have missed the memo. Luxury car kingpin BMW announced a $100 million venture fund today, debuting with an investment in New York based My City Way. My City Way is a mobile app that provides users with information on public transportation, parking availability and local entertainment for over 40 cities in the... MORE >
Savvy prosecutors are now scouring Facebook to glean clues about potential jurors. A DA in Texas armed his prosecutors with iPads last year, and proposed trading the jury free wi-fi access in exchange for a quick "friending" to dig up more info, reports the Wall Street... MORE >
The folks at Stack Overflow know that just because a question has an answer, it doesn't mean you should ask... MORE >
The Daily was News Corp.'s valentine to Apple, a premium tablet product that was unveiled this month by Rupert Murdoch, Jesse Angelo, and Apple's Eddy... MORE >
The private sale service Gilt Groupe is looking to raise between $80-100 million in a deal that will value the company at around $1 billion, according to Business Insider's Henry Blodget. Breaking the news of Gilt's new valuation via Blodget is an interesting choice, since two of Gilt Groupe's co-founders, Kevin Ryan and Dwight Merriman, are also co-founders and board members of Business... MORE >
No one could say Paul Miller wasn't prolific, as he worked his way up the food chain -- contributing, associate, senior associate editor -- of Engadget, one of the web's biggest tech blogs. Over the weekend Miller announced his departure by blog post, noting that, "I’d love to be able to keep doing this forever, but unfortunately Engadget is owned by AOL, and AOL has proved an unwilling partner in this site’s... MORE >
It's been clear for a while now that Bill Gross and his UberMedia empire were on a collision course with Twitter. Gross has been buying up a number of third-party clients, bringing more and more of the activity on Twitter under his control, 20% by some... MORE >
Steven Colbert is known to enjoy the occasional ego-stroke, but on last night's show he took a stance against The Huffington Post's royalty-free coverage of all things him. A guy's gotta eat! So Colbert decided to turn the tables, launching a mirror site, The Colbuffington Re-Post, that is an exact copy of HuffPo located on the Colbert Nation site. You can read all about it over on The Huffington Post's Comedy Section. Damn, things be meta... MORE >
Mark Cuban hasn't done anything interesting in web or mobile since he made his fortune selling to Yahoo during the dot-com bubble, but yesterday he opened his yap to diss location-based services like Foursquare. "I think location-based services won't survive as standalone companies. They have to evolve to something different. The location-based side of their businesses are going to quickly become features of Facebook, Google and other ubiquitous... MORE >
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