Pinterest Is Not "Playing Dumb" About Making Money (TechCrunch)
18 Feb 2012 11:15am GMT TechCrunch: Pinterest Is Not “Playing Dumb” About Making Money — It seems like everyone's discovered Pinterest this week! Alongside the countless posts dissecting its userbase over, sideways, and under have been a series of stories about how it's “secretly” “monetizing” — a fact unearthed …
Aleynikov goes free (Felix Salmon)
18 Feb 2012 11:05am GMT Felix Salmon: Aleynikov goes free — Count me in, with Choire Sicha, as being very happy that Sergey Aleynikov is once again a free man. To cut a long story short, Aleynikov used to work in high-frequency trading for Goldman Sachs, earning $400,000 a year. He then got offered a job in Chicago, earning three times that amount.
Groupon On A Buying Spree: Buys Mobile Payment Specialist Kima Labs (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
18 Feb 2012 10:25am GMT Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Groupon On A Buying Spree: Buys Mobile Payment Specialist Kima Labs — Another acquisition for Groupon, and a sign of how the e-commerce company is getting more focused on mobile as a route to future growth: it has picked up Kima Labs, which makes mobile barcode reading app Barcode Hero and mobile payment app TapBuy.
iPhone 4 antennagate class-action lawsuit settled, owners to receive $15 or a free case (Richard Lawler/Engadget)
18 Feb 2012 9:45am GMT Richard Lawler / Engadget: iPhone 4 antennagate class-action lawsuit settled, owners to receive $15 or a free case — According to CNET, a class-action lawsuit over the iPhone 4's troublesome antenna, aka Antennagate, has been settled. The planned resolution will net US residents who bought one and presumably either $15 in cash or (another?) free bumper case.
Current flash memory technologies won't scale beyond 2024, researchers say (Bryan Bishop/The Verge)
18 Feb 2012 7:00am GMT Bryan Bishop / The Verge: Current flash memory technologies won't scale beyond 2024, researchers say — NAND flash memory has become increasingly popular in recent years, giving new zip to computers through solid-state drives and providing storage in almost all modern mobile devices.