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Outrage over Steve Jobs angel in Taiwan ad

Feb 6, 2012 10:44 am

A Taiwanese television commercial featuring a Steve Jobs look-alike angel complete with white wings and a halo has caused uproar, with critics saying it is disrespectful towards Apple's late founder. [more]

Zuckerberg May Sell to Pay Taxes

Feb 6, 2012 10:09 am

Mark Zuckerberg may sell about $1.67 billion of Facebook stock in the company's initial public offering to pay off taxes he will owe when he exercises options to buy 120 million shares [more]

AutoTrader.com Said to Be in Talks for Initial Offering

Feb 6, 2012 10:01 am

AutoTrader.com Inc., which runs a website linking buyers and sellers of new and used cars, is talking to banks about a potential initial public offering, a person with knowledge of the discussions said. [more]

HTC Forecast Trails Estimates as It Awaits Smartphone Models

Feb 6, 2012 9:48 am

HTC Corp., Asia’s second-largest smartphone maker, forecast revenue that missed analysts’ estimates as it awaits the introduction of new products to help it rebound from its first profit drop in two years. [more]

Sony, Panasonic Expect Worsening Losses as Samsung Dominates

Feb 6, 2012 9:44 am

Japan’s biggest makers of phones, televisions and chips say they’ll lose about $17 billion this year, about three-quarters of what Samsung Electronics Co. will spend on research to lengthen the lead over its competitors. [more]

Record 10,000 tweets per second at Super Bowl

Feb 6, 2012 9:32 am

Twitter said users were firing off a record 10,000 tweets per second in the final three minutes of the Super Bowl. [more]

Popular Bittorrent Website BTJunkie Closes Its Doors

Feb 6, 2012 9:15 am

Users of the popular Bittorrent indexing website BTJunkie who try to access the site’s content in a web browser are not seeing the usual site layout, but a goodbye message instead. The message states that the site operators have decided to close down the service voluntarily after more than... [more]

HTC Forecasts First-Quarter Sales That Miss Analyst Estimates

Feb 6, 2012 9:10 am

HTC Corp., Asia’s second-largest smartphone maker, forecast first-quarter revenue that missed analyst estimates as it seeks to rebound from its first profit drop in two years. [more]

IBM Almost Doubles New CEO Rometty’s Salary to $1.5 Million

Feb 6, 2012 8:52 am

International Business Machines Corp. almost doubled the salary of Virginia “Ginni” Rometty after promoting her as the chief executive officer of the world’s largest computer-services provider at the start of the year. [more]

Vodafone Said to Abandon Greek Merger After Opposition

Feb 6, 2012 8:04 am

Vodafone Group Plc has decided to abandon an attempt to merge its Greek unit with rival Wind Hellas after facing European Union regulatory opposition, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. [more]

TDC Earnings Miss Estimates on Danish Mobile Price Competition

Feb 6, 2012 7:56 am

TDC A/S, Denmark’s biggest phone company, reported fourth-quarter earnings that missed analyst estimates on competition in the Danish mobile market. [more]

Telenor Seeks Norway’s Help After Cancellation of India Permits

Feb 6, 2012 7:55 am

Telenor ASA has enlisted the help of the Norwegian government to protect its investment in India following the cancellation of 122 mobile-phone licenses by the nation’s top court. [more]

Observing Super Bowl Sunday (roundup)

Feb 6, 2012 7:29 am

Eli Manning connected with Mario Manningham for the big game's biggest play, but did tech advertisers manage to connect with consumers? CNET's writers take a look at this and other Super Bowl issues. [more]

Misys Holds Merger Talks With Swiss Software Maker Temenos

Feb 6, 2012 7:12 am

Misys Plc, the U.K. software maker that failed to reach a deal to be taken over by Fidelity National Information Services Inc. last August, is in talks to merge with Temenos Group AG of Switzerland. [more]

Li’s Hutchison to Buy Orange Austria in $1.7 Billion Deal

Feb 6, 2012 7:11 am

Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. agreed to buy Orange Austria in a deal valued at 1.3 billion euros ($1.7 billion), adding to more than $31 billion of investments in overseas mobile-phone operations. [more]

Nikon Gains After Raising Forecast on Cameras: Tokyo Mover

Feb 6, 2012 6:47 am

Nikon Corp. surged the most in three years in Tokyo trading after the world’s second-biggest maker of professional-grade cameras raised its operating profit forecast on higher-than-expected sales. [more]

Hacker Group Anonymous Intercepted U.S. Call Over Investigation

Feb 6, 2012 6:38 am

The U.S. government said the online hacker group Anonymous intercepted a telephone call between FBI agents and U.K. authorities involving a joint investigation of the group. [more]

Motorola Mobility Wins Second German Ruling Against Apple

Feb 6, 2012 6:36 am

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. won a German patent ruling over Apple Inc.’s iCloud service that may allow the company to block sales of devices including iPhone and iPad in the country if they use the software that accesses it. [more]

Olympus to Hold Special Shareholders Meeting April 20

Feb 6, 2012 6:28 am

Olympus Corp., the Japanese camera maker suing 19 current and former executives over accounting fraud, will hold an emergency shareholders meeting on April 20, it said yesterday in a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. [more]

KT Corp Fourth-Quarter Profit Rises, Helped by One-Time Gain

Feb 6, 2012 6:25 am

KT Corp., South Korea’s largest phone and Internet company, reported a 13 percent increase in fourth- quarter profit as a one-time gain masked higher costs and falling sales from phone calls. [more]

Should Apple heed Chrysler's, GE's Super Bowl make-it-here message?

Feb 6, 2012 6:21 am

One of the salient themes in Super Bowl ads was bringing manufacturing back to America. A lesson for Apple? [more]

Big Year for Tech Mergers

Feb 6, 2012 6:01 am

Companies are scrambling to handle a torrent of data, pushing them into bigger M&A frenzy since 2007 [more]

A New Net

Feb 6, 2012 6:00 am

A startup called Nicira is launching a product today with the audacious goal of making all Internet services smarter, faster, and cheaper. In 2003 Martìn Casado found himself with no small challenge on his hands: he needed to reinvent the technology that underpins the Internet. It had been... [more]

Letting Hackers Compete, Facebook Eyes New Talent

Feb 6, 2012 6:00 am

The social network puts engineers, not HR, in charge of a global search for young programmers. Late this January, some 75,000 people around the planet sat in front of their computers and pondered how to make anagrams from a bowl of alphabet soup. They were participants in the Hacker Cup, an... [more]

The 20 most entertaining Super Bowl tweets

Feb 6, 2012 5:29 am

In the social media age, you don't need to be at a party to enjoy clever or catty comments about the Super Bowl. [more]

Vodafone Said to Abandon Greek Merger After Opposition

Feb 6, 2012 5:17 am

Vodafone Group Plc has decided to abandon an attempt to merge its Greek unit with rival Wind Hellas after facing European Union regulatory opposition, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. [more]

Nikon Gains After Raising Forecast on Cameras: Tokyo Mover

Feb 6, 2012 5:04 am

Nikon Corp. surged the most in three years in Tokyo trading after the world’s second-biggest maker of professional-grade cameras raised its operating profit forecast on higher-than-expected sales. [more]

Clint Eastwood in 'Super Bowl ads winners and losers (second half)'

Feb 6, 2012 4:24 am

What better way to recover from the halftime show? More ads that continued to offer little in the way of originality of either strategy or execution. On the other hand, we had Clint Eastwood advertising Chrysler and Detroit. [more]

AutoTrader.com Said to Be in Talks for Initial Offering

Feb 6, 2012 4:10 am

AutoTrader.com Inc., which runs a website linking buyers and sellers of new and used cars, is talking to banks about a potential initial public offering, a person with knowledge of the discussions said. [more]

Sony, Panasonic Expect Worsening Losses as Samsung Dominates

Feb 6, 2012 4:07 am

Japan’s biggest makers of phones, televisions and chips say they’ll lose about $17 billion this year, about three-quarters of what Samsung Electronics Co. will spend on research to lengthen the lead over its competitors. [more]

Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free

Feb 6, 2012 4:01 am

Samsung's Super Bowl ad--for the Galaxy Note--claims that this is the product that can finally stop Apple fanboys from having to stand in line, waiting for Apple's latest. [more]

KT Corp Fourth-Quarter Profit Rises, Helped by One-Time Gain

Feb 6, 2012 3:56 am

KT Corp., South Korea’s largest phone and Internet company, reported a 13 percent increase in fourth- quarter profit as a one-time gain masked higher costs and falling sales from phone calls. [more]

KT Fourth-Quarter Profit Misses Estimates on Tariff Cut, Costs

Feb 6, 2012 3:02 am

KT Corp., South Korea’s largest phone and Internet company, reported fourth-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates after the carrier cut tariffs under an agreement with the government while costs increased. [more]

Nikon Jumps After Higher Profit Forecast on Cameras: Tokyo Mover

Feb 6, 2012 2:49 am

Nikon Corp. surged the most in three years in Tokyo trading after the world’s second-biggest maker of professional-grade cameras raised its profit forecast on higher- than-expected sales. [more]

Billionaire Gives Tips for Switching IPhone Plans From AT&T

Feb 6, 2012 2:47 am

Billionaire Carlos Slim’s U.S. mobile carrier is giving users instructions for switching their AT&T Inc. iPhones to his prepaid calling plans, showing them how to disable software aimed at preventing customers from defecting. [more]

Zynga Shares Jump After Facebook IPO Filing: San Francisco Mover

Feb 6, 2012 2:45 am

Zynga Inc., the biggest developer of games for social-networking sites, climbed 26 percent in two days, boosted by Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering filing. [more]

The Super Bowl ads: Tech winners and losers (first half)

Feb 6, 2012 2:30 am

Which tech company had the best first half ad in the Super Bowl? Here's a detailed analysis, written as it happened. [more]

White Male Facebook Board Prompts Questions

Feb 6, 2012 1:57 am

While most of Facebook’s more than 800 million users are women, and females are more active social networkers, the company’s board lacks women and minority members [more]

Hacker Group Anonymous Intercepted U.S. Call Over Probe

Feb 6, 2012 1:51 am

The online hacker group Anonymous intercepted a telephone call between FBI agents and U.K. authorities involving a joint investigation of the group, according to the U.S. government. [more]

Zuckerberg May Sell to Pay Taxes

Feb 6, 2012 1:44 am

Mark Zuckerberg may sell about $1.67 billion of Facebook stock in the company's initial public offering to pay off taxes he will owe when he exercises options to buy 120 million shares [more]

Inotera Sees no Impact on Business from Micron CEO’s Death

Feb 6, 2012 1:44 am

Inotera Memories Inc. expects no impact on its operations after the death of Micron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Appleton. [more]

Google Sponsors Conservative Conference

Feb 6, 2012 1:44 am

Google Inc., whose chairman has served as an adviser to President Barack Obama, is one of the sponsors of this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference, co-hosted by the Tea Party. [more]

Facebook’s Mobility Challenge

Feb 6, 2012 1:27 am

Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use. [more]

Screenshot Captor 3 Released

Feb 6, 2012 12:56 am

One essential tool in a blogger’s repertoire is a screenshot capturing software. These programs range from basic applications to sophisticated tools that offer editors and other features that make life a lot easier. Screenshot Captor is one of those Swiss army knifes in the screenshot... [more]

JPMorgan, BofA Sued by New York Over Use of Mortgage Database

Feb 6, 2012 12:49 am

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. were sued by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over the use of a mortgage database that the state said led to improper foreclosures. [more]

iPad, Kindle Fire are not post-PC, says IDC analyst

Feb 6, 2012 12:19 am

Sorry Steve, it's not post-PC, it's PC-plus, says IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell. [more]

Aliens crave Earth wives in Chevy Volt Super Bowl ad

Feb 5, 2012 11:57 pm

In an attempt to suggest that Chevy Volt's technology is more sophisticated than anything in the galaxy, Chevy's Super Bowl ad features aliens who don't just admire the Volt's advanced design. [more]

The Media Equation: At BuzzFeed, the Significant and the Silly

Feb 5, 2012 11:43 pm

The Web site is trying for pollination: providing the kind of content that will have visitors passing along links from one person to the next, that will in turn bring them around to BuzzFeed. [more]

Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics

Feb 5, 2012 9:30 pm

Women around the world, fed up with Facebook's policy of not allowing breast-feeding pictures, are staging protests at Facebook offices and using Facebook to coordinate those efforts. [more]

Kia offers 5 hours of Adriana Lima for Super Bowl?

Feb 5, 2012 9:12 pm

How many people will prefer watching 5 hours of model Adriana Lima on YouTube moving very, very slowly to the New York Giants defense moving very, very quickly? Or might people do both? [more]

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