Good Day For Mobile Ads: Millennial IPO Soars
Updated: Millennial closed at an even $25 on the day, up 92 percent from the opening price and earning the company a one-day stock mar…
View ArticleRIM Finally Comes Clean, But Time Not On Its Side
The year of denial is over at Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM). In a frank and overdue conversation with investors Thursday, new CEO Thorsten…
View ArticleNine publishers ready to embrace Zite’s mobile news app
Almost a year after Zite’s news reader app for the iPad drew the ire of several publishers — not to mention a few angry letters — the company is making friends with its former antagonists. Zite has now...
View ArticleNew Google Currents fixes syncing, goes international
Google says it has fixed one of the biggest problems with its Currents mobile news reader app--glacial content syncing--while also rolling out to international publishers with a new update released...
View ArticleHouse passes CISPA in surprise vote
The U.S. House of Representatives surprised the tech industry Thursday by voting on, and passing, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) after having originally scheduled a vote for...
View ArticleConde Nast’s Sauerberg: Get busy innovating, or get busy dying
It can be a scary world out there for modern media companies, but it’s actually very simple, according to Conde Nast president Bob Sauerberg. “If content is going to remain king, we have got to...
View ArticleParker: Apple tried to keep Spotify out of the U.S.
It took Spotify seemingly forever to launch in the U.S. after making its debut in Europe, and while the licensing discussions were complicated, Apple played a role in holding up Spotify's U.S....
View ArticleGoogle’s Wojcicki fires back at “misinformed” Ari Emanuel
Google’s Susan Wojcicki defended the search giant Thursday against the newest claims from the content industry that it has amassed a fortune partly on the back of pirated content, made the previous...
View ArticleWhat happened at WWDC 2012: iOS 6, new MacBooks
Apple didn’t disappoint during its annual conference for software developers on Monday, unveiling a meaty new update to iOS, new MacBooks including a brand-new category of MacBook Pro, and a few new...
View ArticleThe iPhone at 5: a GigaOM retrospective
To live and work in the technology industry is to be obsessed with the possibilities of the future, and to not spend very much time thinking about the past. But there are some historical events that...
View ArticleSpotify could have browser-based version coming soon
Apps are old-school: on the desktop anyway. Launching a browser-based version of its popular music service could let Spotify reach more users and allow people to access its services from multiple...
View ArticleQ4 Earnings roundup: Verizon, Apple move iPhones, Google gets clicks
It’s earnings season once again. We’ll organize all of our Q4 earnings stories from the major companies on GigaOM’s radar in this post. First up on Tuesday, Verizon, Google, and IBM, followed Wednesday...
View ArticleQuora gets into the publishing business with new blogging platform
Newspapers might be dying, but there is no shortage of companies who want to get into the publishing business. Or the blogging business, at least. Quora plans to announce Wednesday that it’s rolling...
View Article@ CES: Unprofitable Motorola Says It Has to Be Different To Make Money
Why do Android phone makers keep pumping out slightly different versions of smartphones with custom user interfaces that frustrate developers to no end? Because they have to, according to Motorola...
View ArticleThe GigaOM Quiz: test your tech knowledge
Think you know your stuff when it comes to the fast-changing worlds of technology and media? Try your hand at our GigaOM Quiz below. In the age of Google, finding the answers to these questions is...
View ArticlepaidContent Live 2013 coverage
The only constant in the modern media business is chaos. We can all agree we’re in the midst of an historic and seismic shift in which all media becomes digital, but the business models, technologies,...
View ArticleGigaOM hits Google I/O 2013 (roundup)
In just a few short years, Google I/O has evolved into one of the must-attend-or-watch events on the technology calendar. Thousands of developers are expected to take part in the 2013 edition, which...
View ArticleReport: Yahoo eager to close $1.1 billion cash deal for Tumblr by Sunday evening
Tumblr’s fate could be decided Sunday by Yahoo’s board of directors. AllThingsD reported late Friday that Yahoo is closing in on a $1.1 billion deal for the site, moving quickly to cement what would be...
View ArticleMeeker: The next ten years will be about wearable computing and personal data
The photo wars aren’t over, but a shift is about to take place in terms of the content we upload and share to the internet, according to Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker and her trademark Powerpoint slides...
View ArticleNo IPO hints as Twitter’s Costolo focuses on simplicity and security
Now that it’s been a year since Facebook went public, the next big IPO circus is likely to involve Twitter. CEO Dick Costolo — as expected — didn’t announce concrete plans for such an IPO Wednesday...
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