When every player in the online publishing industry is desperately hanging on to apps as a revival distribution method, Conde Nast decided that Wired would go free for 30 days, under Adobe’s sponsorship, another company with hinging hopes on the mobile sector. Wired’s mobile take on interactive print media had an early start.  In May ...

Google is adding another name on its complaints list, that of Daum Communications and NHN., owner of Naver, the largest search engine in South Korea. According to this particularly complaint, to be investigated by South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission, seven out of ten new phones sold in the country run Android, which offers Google’s search engine ...

Apple went on a fishing expedition and caught Microsoft’s data center general manager Kevin Timmons, who had been serving Microsoft for only a year-and-a-half. Microsoft in its turn picked up Timmons from Yahoo! where he served the company for 13 years. Considering that Timmons helped Microsoft build an energy efficient infrastructure beneath Microsoft’s cloud and ...

A month ago an Iron Mountain investor made a few nominations to the company’s board, and required a review of its operations and structure. Yesterday, president and CEO Bob Brennan resigned from his position and Richard Reese was nominated in his place. Between 1981 and 2008, Reese was chief executive for Iron Mountain and since ...

When Spotify entered the market it offered the classic music streaming services as any other player in the domain without charging listeners, gaining tremendous popularity on the European continent. Last year, the company decided to limit the number of free streaming to 20 per month and is now having over 1 million paid subscribers and ...

Along with AOL’s content redesign triggered by the merger with Huffington Post, CPG/Health, Travel, Automotive, Finance and Entertainment become central in AOL’s latest effort of refining its ad sales approach under John Burke’s guide. With this revamp of the ad section, the ads will be centralized and not displayed on several domains. AOL is very ...

Juniper Networks top management is welcoming Nawaf Bitar as senior vice president and general manager of Emerging Technologies, after working for Cisco as a vice president of engineering and operations for the security technology business unit for the past 4 years and on various executive and management roles at Network Appliance, Silicon Graphics and HP/Apollo. ...

According to analyst Brian White from Ticonderoga Securities, Apple is taking fast steps in preparing the launch of its Smart TV. White participated in a China electronics trade show this week and said in a note to investors that he picked up “data points” that point toward a “Smart TV” launch by Apple, possibly by ...

Sugar, one of the most successful media companies for women-centric content, got $15 million in funding from Institutional Venture partners and Sequoia Capital, gathering a total of $46 million from the last 5 years’ funding rounds.  The money from the last funding session will be invested in “for brand extensions, acquisitions, and international growth.” In ...

Back in January 2011, the Chinese telecom equipment company Huawei filed a suit against Motorola and Nokia Siemens for a potential threat of Motorla sharing Huawei trade secrets to Nokia Siemens. In practical terms, what Huawei wanted was to prevent the transfer of manpower from Motorola’s UMTS and GSM equipment businesses to Nokia Siemens Network, ...