Travel search engine Kayak was all set to go public almost two years ago, but a dismal economy and an iffy stock market forced the Connecticut-based company to pull its offering. Times have changed, at least for online travel companies, and Kayak is ready to try again.
Andrew Zolli is a funny kind of optimist. As a futurist, he thinks it may be too late to pull the world back from many of the most dire global crises—climate change, financial meltdown, the energy crunch. But in that unpleasant future he sees an opportunity
If there’s one thing tech-business obsessives seem to love more than a good success story, it’s a good failure story. The social media schadenfreude commenced Tuesday morning as Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins tried to convince shareholders at the company’s annual meeting that the BlackBerry had a future.
Nextdoor and Topix, two online community networks, hope virtual fences will translate to real businesses.
Microsoft is buying Perceptive Pixel for its touchscreen expertise and a few patents, just in case Apple decides to throw a lawsuit at the Surface tablet.
Deprived of TV as a kid, Geoff Huston read a lot of books, which led to a love of words that, oddly enough, led to the internet in Australia. Now Huston says the openness he prizes in the internet is under threat.
Facebook is leading the charge against corrupting app-store leaderboards from Apple and Google.
Manchester United isn’t a soccer team—at least not in the business sense. It’s an ad-dependent, content-producing media company that wants to go public. Sound familiar?
When you consider the San Francisco Giants’ success in this year’s All Star vote there is clearly something else at play than just baseball. For the Giants and other Major League teams, it’s all about All Star tech savvy.
As a fresh torrent of money floods into their market, app makers are getting paranoid, constantly on the lookout for dirty tricks that can pump up traffic and user growth at strategic times, hoodwinking investors and corrupting app-store leaderboards .
It’s great that we’re opening up a path to early-stage investing so that everyone can dabble in some VC action. But we shouldn’t forget about the people who want to bring a dream to life without quitting their day jobs.
Which video sharing app should you commit to? Viddy or Socialcam? Anil Dash breaks it down for you.
As a country, we’ve made a historical commitment to ensuring that virtually every American has access to reasonably priced, standard, high-quality communications. Our national phone system was the envy of the world when it was first built. Now we’re moving to a time of deep communications inequality.
Users and developers may be howling over Twitter’s crackdown on third-party apps, but the intent is clear: Twitter wants to gain more Apple-like control over the Twitter user experience.
The cognitive perils of having lots of open windows have been somewhat overblown. It’s not always bad for us—and sometimes it can be very good.
Einstein may have worked in the patent office, but Switzerland at the turn of the 20th century didn’t have Google, Facebook and and other Silicon Valley giants stalking the earth in search of top science and engineering talent.
Women tell Google its social network is too clunky and nerdy.
Barack Obama may have come out as a BlackBerry addict, but it hasn’t been just Tea Partiers who have defected from the president’s preferred mobile platform in the years since he took office. The Waterloo, Canada-based smartphone maker has lost customers across the political spectrum, erecting multiple milestones of failure along its path toward disintegration.
Before Nancy Hafkin came along, Internet in Africa hardly existed. The Internet Hall of Fame inductee helped build the internet infrastructure across Africa, and just as critical helped change beliefs about who should have access to information and the internet.
The circus of fun at Google I/O — skydivers wearing Google Glass, tons of fancy swag, free food and booze — isn’t meant for all the big company representatives, the eager students, or the press.
YouTube will overhaul its comment system to better control its notorious peanut gallery.
Bowing to exasperated women, Google promises to dress geeks better.
Google’s Nexus Q is not just a gleaming, consumer electronics device. It’s also Google’s best shot at controlling the future of media, and building the most dominant software platform in a winner-take-all contest.
At Tuesday’s “Zynga Unleashed” event, the gaming company was out to prove that its mobile business has legs.
What Airbnb did for renting out extra bedrooms and couches in homes, Sidecar wants to do for vacant passenger and back seats in cars.
The $1.2 billion purchase of Yammer by Microsoft is only the latest acquisition in a string of similar deals. Earlier this month, Salesforce.com spent $689 million to buy Buddy Media, which makes Facebook tools for interacting with customers. Oracle last month bought Virtue, which helps companies coordinate social network posts, for $300 million. And analysts expect acquisitions of “Facebook for business” plays to continue.
Education non-profit Khan Academy has become a hot destination for top programmers in Silicon Valley, despite a complete lack of stock options or IPO prospects.
Amid the cardboard tube fighting at its annual developer conference, Google I/O, the Mountain View company faces the challenge of topping two major rivals to see who owns June.
With Twitter, Jack Dorsey changed the way the world communicates. His latest startup, Square, aims to transform how we spend money.
For startups like car service Uber, downtime and idle resources are fuel for profits.
