Alibaba Reaches 1 Trillion RMB ($157B) in Sales to Become Biggest E-commerce Company in the World

12 years ago

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba sold one trillion RMB worth of goods in 2012, the company announced today.  That’s $157 billion U.S. in gross merchandise…

Keep the Internet Free and Open

12 years ago

Starting in 1973, when my colleagues and I proposed the technology behind the Internet, we advocated for an open standard…

What’s Up With Whatsapp? Facebook Might Want To Buy It, That’s What

12 years ago

Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has…

Google+ is not Facebook

12 years ago

When someone sees me using Google+, I am usually asked what is it and after I tell them that its…

How Syria Turned Off the Internet

12 years ago

Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1029 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped.…

New iPhone 5S and next-gen iPad Allegedly due in mid 2013

12 years ago

Earlier this month we heard rumours suggesting that the iPhone 5S will enter production early next year. Well, now a…

Product Leaks – the Latest PR stunt

12 years ago

No publicity is bad publicity, said a wise man. The film industry swears by this law and has never failed…

Announcing Google Drive Site Publishing

12 years ago

Would you like to programmatically publish some web content? Or let your users do so in the context of your…

The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn’t The Problem At Groupon

12 years ago

In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart technical team. It was one…

Scott Forstall Deserved to be Ousted from Apple Says Former Apple Exec

12 years ago

The man known as the "father" of the iPod has invested his energy in a home appliance: a thermostat. Tony…