As Internet valuations climb and bankers circle Silicon Valley in an increasingly frothy tech market, many eyes are on one particularly desirable target: Twitter. Discussions with some potential suitors have produced an estimated valuation of $8 billion to $10 billion.
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In the wake of AOL's deal to buy the Huffington Post, some Madison Ave. executives say that the site's liberal political bent could turn off some AOL advertisers. Others say it's clicks and audience that matter.
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Activision's quarterly loss narrowed as the publisher of games such as "Call of Duty" and "World of Warcraft" recorded smaller charges. The company said it will discontinue "Guitar Hero" development.
Hewlett-Packard laid out plans to deliver a tablet computer and smartphones featuring a recently acquired operating system. But the tech giant must come from behind to win over consumers and developers who have already invested in rival systems.
Nokia is in talks with Microsoft about using the U.S. software giant's operating system on mobile phones.
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Cisco Systems posted an 18% profit drop in its latest quarter amid growing competitive pressures in its core network switching business despite a 6% increase in overall sales.
Scott McNealy, co-founder and former CEO of computer maker Sun Microsystems, explains in an interview why he is pessimistic about Silicon Valley's economic prospects.
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Clearwire has abandoned its retail strategy to focus on being a wholesale network provider of fast wireless service, opening the door for additional investment in the struggling company by Sprint Nextel.
Mobile phone makers are flocking to Silicon Valley as the biggest advances in phones no longer come in hardware but software—the sweet spot of the local tech industry and companies like Apple and Google.
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Australian telecommunications provider Telstra reported a greater-than-expected 36% drop in fiscal first-half net profit despite increased numbers of customers.
The Bay Area's independent video rental stores are still trying to make a go of it, a daunting challenge in an area where early technology adopters are increasingly gravitating toward streaming movie services.
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Microsoft tapped company veteran Satya Nadella to lead its big server and tools business, highlighting the technology giant's confidence in its executive bench.
Apple has started production of a new version of its iPad tablet computer, which will have a front-facing camera and faster processor. It will be available through Verizon and AT&T.;
Andreessen Horowitz has invested more than $80 million in Twitter via purchasing stock in secondary markets.
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The secondary market for smartphones is just getting going. That should be good news for Apple, as it is likely to give people more reason to opt for an iPhone over competing brands.
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China's Huawei and its U.S. partner, Amerilink Telecom, have significantly scaled back their partnership after failing to land a network-upgrade deal with Sprint Nextel.
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Hewlett-Packard announced its entry into the mobile device space today, but is entering a market already crowded with strong contenders.
In an internal memo, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has described the company as besieged on all sides by competitors and in desperate need of a huge transformation.
Many companies are betting that wedding electrical and optical technologies will eventually transform computers and other devices. Some researchers at the University of California at Berkeley think they have made a big step toward the altar.
Newly minted Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop fired off a memo to Nokia employees that must have more than a few palms getting sweaty. With an urgency reminiscent of his former boss Bill Gates' famous 1995 "Internet tidal wave" memo, Mr. Elop wrote that "our platform is burning" and urged the company to bold action.
So far smartphones come with only one screen, but why can't we have two?
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Dell's Streak 7 is the least expensive tablet from a major manufacturer and claims to be the first capable of 4G cellular speeds, but the compromises made to get the price down make it impossible to recommend.
Katherine Boehret looks at Tello, a new website and mobile app that encourages users to chime in on their customer-service experiences, good or bad.
VIPs are cultivating coolness through social media, and the arbiters of the new hierarchy have names like Klout, PeerIndex and Twitalyzer. The companies use secret formulas to generate scores gauging users' influence.
Defeating a chess champion is a piece of cake compared to parsing puns and analyzing language.
The wide range of estimates for crowd counts at protests in Egypt highlights how, even in the age of satellites and computerized image scanning, calculating the size of mass gatherings remains a highly inexact science.
Some major benefits of the new Verizon iPhone service include crisp, clear calls with relatively few drops. But AT&T; offers faster data downloads.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, who recently struck a deal to build a corporate campus in San Francisco, talks about why he decided against moving his company to Silicon Valley.
San Francisco is installing parking meters that will be able to tell drivers where they can find an available parking spot, with the eventual goal of reducing traffic congestion.
IPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. 13th in a series.
Among the winners: computer screens that can bend, adjustable eyeglasses, a low-cost genetic test, an online marketplace for receivables and a new way to battle malware.
The Gold award in The Wall Street Journal's 2010 Technology Innovation Awards goes to Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute for technology that brings the commercial development of high-quality flexible displays closer to reality.
From computing systems to wireless, the most innovative technologies in 17 categories, as chosen by the judges.
An update on past winners of the Journal's Innovation Awards.
Andreessen Horowitz has become the first venture firm to collect all four of the highest-valued (and most hyped?) privately held social-media companies around.
After two rough years, health-care venture capitalists are adapting to deal with what could be more tough times ahead.
In this morning's Web roundup, a start-up gets $1 million in seed funding to let consumers rate the employee who served them. Meanwhile sales-lead generation comany gets a vote of confidence from Institutional Venture Partners. And the Winklevoss twins have some advice for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: grow up!
During a brief phone chat this evening following fiscal Q2 results, Cisco Systems (CSCO) CEO John Chambers defended his company's growth prospects and margin ability, while expanding upon what would seem to be the question of the hour, namely, the prospect that budget tightening in state and local governments is [...]
Cisco Systems (CSCO)CEO John Cambers said the company sees revenue rising in the current quarter by 4% to 6% versus the prior-year quarter, and revenue in Q4 rising by 8% to 11%. That would put this quarter's revenue at $10.78 billion to $10.99 billion, which at the midpoint of $10.89 billion, [...]
Shares of Activision-Blizzard (ATVI) are down 69 cents, or 6%, at $11 after the company reported Q4 revenue and earnings per share ahead of expectations, raised its dividend, and set a new $1.5 billion share repurchase program, but forecast the current quarter and the year below estimates as it said [...]
Cisco Systems (CSCO) this evening reported fiscal Q2 results ahead of analysts' estimates, but shares traded down following the results. Q2 revenue rose 6%, year over year, to $10.4 billion, with non-GAAP EPS of 37 cents, beating the averageestimate of $10.24 billion in revenue and 35 cents per share in earnings. Cisco's [...]