A pair of slices from a massive scrape of Twitter’s API could be of great use to programmers and researchers alike — as long as users don’t mind. The company behind… Read more »
Internet service providers may become legally responsible for scam web sites and spam that passes over their lines if a new piece of legislation, the Investor Protection Act, gets turned… Read more »
Apple (s aapl) purchased digital mapmaker Placebase in July for an undisclosed sum, according to Seth Weintraub at Computerworld. Placebase, which we wrote about last year, is a Google (s… Read more »
Alcatel-Lucent (s ALU) CEO Ben Verwaayen gave a keynote speech this morning at the EmTech conference, running today and tomorrow at MIT. He spoke of tech innovations and — perhaps most… Read more »
Adobe (s adbe) said today it’s agreed to buy analytics and metrics firm Omniture (s omtr) for $1.8 billion in cash, or $21.50 a share. Customers want to integrate Adobe’s online… Read more »
Intuit said today it’s spending $170 million to acquire Mint.com, a site that helps people manage their personal finances through budgeting and spending trackers, among other features. Mint has around a… Read more »
Is Apple building a monthly television subscription service, like Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster claims? Maybe! Munster also thinks the Mac maker is going to launch a television that wirelessly syncs… Read more »
The iPod Touch might be hiding in the shadow of its big brother, the iPhone — both in volume, and revenue — but is it possible that the Touch is more… Read more »
Sacre bleu! Amazon (s amzn) and Google’s (s goog) digital book efforts could force publishers to slash prices and put them out of business, says Arnaud Nourry, head of French book… Read more »
Many companies are slashing budgets to improve the bottom line — or at least postponing purchases until later — but not all. Thirty-nine percent of small and medium businesses reported budget… Read more »