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Apple Is About To Lose The iPhone Trademark In Brazil (AAPL)

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's copyright regulator will strip Apple Inc of the right to use its iPhone trademark in Latin America's biggest market and granted the trademark to a local company that...

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Don’t Like Television? Then You’re Not Going To Like The Future Of Twitter...

According to a number of anonymous reports, Twitter is in the process of buying Bluefin Labs, an analytics company that specializes in broadcast media — an acquisition that would be its largest ever....

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How We'll Know When Google Play Really Has Caught Up To The iOS App Store

Apple pioneered the modern mobile app market, made smartphone apps massively popular and created a new industry. But it’s not alone at the top anymore: Bloomberg Businessweek posted a good feature...

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We Need To Think Beyond The Aaron In ‘Aaron’s Law’

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)’s disproportionate penalties and lack of nuance played a role in Aaron Swartz’ prosecution and likely in his subsequent suicide. So three weeks ago, California...

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Everyone Expects LinkedIn To Crush Its Earnings Today

Ahead of the Bell: Can LinkedIn extend uninterrupted streak of pleasant earnings surprises?MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — LinkedIn 's knack of surprising Wall Street, an unbroken streak that winds back...

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Dell's Buyout Could Be A Scheme To Avoid Taxes

The idea that Dell’s planned $24 billion leveraged buyout is basically about avoiding America’s pesky global tax regime isn’t as far-fetched as it may sound at first.Like most American tech companies,...

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Microsoft Busted A Major Cybercrime Ring

BOSTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Software makers Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp said they disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs...

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Samsung Is Going To Invest $100 Million In American Startups

MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is looking for some Silicon Valley magic.The company, a household name in televisions and mobile devices, is expanding its presence in the region...

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Everyone at Yipit is Now Learning to Code

The spread of the internet will put people into two groups: “People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.” - Marc AndreessenFive years ago, I was firmly in...

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Snapchat And The Erasable Future Of Social Media

In the fall of 2012, Sally Ike, a senior at Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J., heard from a friend about a hilarious new app you could download on your smartphone. Snapchat was free, her friend...

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Why I Bet Google's Hi-Def, Touchscreen Chromebook Is Real

Android Authority has snagged an intriguing video that purports to show a sleek, new Chromebook with 2560 x 1700 resolution touchscreen called the Chromebook Pixel. The video claims the machine is...

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Let me not bury the lede. I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the...

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Dell's Largest Independent Shareholder Hates The $24 Billion PE Deal

(Reuters) - Dell Inc's largest independent shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management Inc, has told the computer maker that a $24.4 billion buyout bid undervalues it, adding to a chorus of investor...

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A Court Is About To Determine The Fate Of Software Patents And The...

A federal appeals court is set to consider a case closely watched by Google Inc, Facebook Inc and other technology companies that could determine how far the patent system should go in protecting...

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Why Amazon's Virtual Coins Raise My Hackles

When I heard about Amazon Coins, the company's virtual currency for making Kindle Fire app and in-app purchases starting in May, I immediately grew worried.Amazon's customer focus, something I find...

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How Einhorn Turned From Apple Advocate To Agitator

Hedge fund star manager David Einhorn was arguably Apple Inc's biggest cheerleader on Wall Street with a stake worth about $600 million and an oft-cited prediction that the company's market value would...

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Actually, It Looks Like GoDaddy Lost Up To $7 Million On That Controversial...

"Love 'em or hate 'em, you have to admit GoDaddy's Super Bowl ads are effective."That's how Mashable opened its recent blog post on GoDaddy's biggest sales day in the company's history. What's...

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7 Ways To Safeguard Your Private Information If Facebook Ever Gets Hacked

We’re coming up on three years since Mark Zuckerberg famously announced, “The age of privacy is over.” Some of us, however, still value our privacy.The nonstop Facebook information grabs of late,...

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Draw Quest

Drawing is one form of creative expression that has not made a rapid transition to the digital/online world. The tablet may well change that. Paper is one of the most amazing tablet apps I have seen....

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Video Of The Week: My Talk With Startup Milan

Last October, I skyped into an entrepreneur meetup in Milan and talked for 30 minutes. This was arranged by AVC community member David Semeria. The main topics were building a tech community outside of...

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