As Best Buy attempts a return to financial well-being, it’s decided to sell the 50 percent share it still owns in Best Buy Europe to fellow joint venture partner Carphone Warehouse. The price is set at about 500 million GBP ($775 million, mostly i…
How Google Ventures and the Glass Collective are taking Glass to the next level “The initial versions of Glass were just Sergey [Brin]‘s Oakleys with a phone taped to them,” Bill Maris, managing partner of Google Ventures, told me in a noisy cafe …
Thermal imaging cameras are highly useful tools for military and law enforcement types, letting them see humans inside buildings or land a helicopter in the fog. High-definition models are too heavy for servicemen to tote, however, so DARPA and a …
Answering questions after today’s Facebook Home event, Mark Zuckerberg was full of praise for Google’s smartphone platform. “We think that Google takes their commitment to openness in the ecosystem really seriously,” he said, regardin…
This latest acquisition rumor concerning the fate of Vodafone and Verizon is a doozy. While it was initially believed that Vodafone would sell back its 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless to the carrier’s parent company, the deal could go the other way with the help of a surprising partner. According to a report from [...]
The mystery partner that placed the largest order in BlackBerry’s history has been revealed. AllThingsD’s sources have confirmed a report today from research firm Detwiler Fenton that the “established partner” that ordered one million…
An early build of Windows Blue, the next version of Windows, has leaked online on the same day that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer celebrates his 57th birthday. Build 9364, a partner version that was originally compiled on March 15th, ha…
New York City’s rat problem isn’t exactly new, and there have been numerous extermination proposals over the years that have attempted to get it under control, so the city’s trying a new tactic. According to a report from Bloomberg Bu…
HTC might have rekindled its old romance with Microsoft for its 8X and 8S Windows Phones, but Nokia is still the closest partner to Redmond. In an interview with Pocket-lint, Microsoft’s senior Windows Phone marketing manager, Casey M…
Google’s Eric Schmidt sees Apple as a “tremendous innovator,” even if he’s not above taking some digs at the iPad. At Google’s Big Tent event in India, Schmidt briefly assessed his competitors in a question and answer session. “I’m a …
