December 3, 2013 Google Joins a Heavyweight Competition in Cloud Computing by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY The search giant, which for years has been evasive about its plans for the cloud, will announce rates and features for…
December 3, 2013 Apple Buys Topsy, a Social Media Analytics Firm by BRIAN X. CHEN and VINDU GOEL By BRIAN X. CHEN and VINDU GOEL The hardware maker acquired Topsy Labs, which focuses on analyzing the half a billion messages sent over…
December 2, 2013 Which iPad? It Depends. What Do You Want to Do? by DAMON DARLIN By DAMON DARLIN The iPad Mini complements Apple’s already best-in-class tablet offerings, so deciding which one to get boils down to what you will…
December 2, 2013 The Allure of the Print Book by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON A number of new research reports and surveys are finding that teenagers and adults are continuing to read print books and…
December 2, 2013 Favorite tweets Amazon's drone unveiling is part of Jeff Bezos’s pre-lobbying strategy, telling the FAA not to get in their way: http://t.co/hRS3AbgyaT — New York Magazine…
December 2, 2013 Online and Offline Stores Duke It Out This Week by JENNA WORTHAM By JENNA WORTHAM Physical and online retailers are in a sort of arms race, pushing each other to start holiday sales earlier and earlier….
December 2, 2013 Steam sets a new record as over 7 million gamers log in at once Assuming Steam’s user base is still around the 65 million mark, as Valve reported at the end of the October, over 10 percent of…
December 2, 2013 Out of Print, Maybe, but Not Out of Mind by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Some features of physical books may be getting a second life online, but efforts to completely reimagine the core experience of…
December 2, 2013 U.S. HealthCare.gov Website Faces New Tests as Traffic Builds by REUTERS By REUTERS President Barack Obama and his HealthCare.gov website face another critical test starting this week, as Americans who have been unable to enroll…