Kodak may enter Chapter 11
| Eastman Kodak is preparing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing in case it is unable to sell its digital patents to raise capital, according to The Wall Street Journal. |
AT&T pays up to Tivo
| AT&T Inc has agreed to pay TiVo Inc a minimum of $215 million and additional monthly licensing fees to settle a patent infringement dispute related to recording live TV. |
Video: The history of Microsoft
| Look back through the history of one of technology's biggest innovators. |
Hootsuite: Social media's neutral zone
| Read a Q&A with Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes. Hootsuite is a young, innovative Vancouver-based social media company. |
Universal Music sues Grooveshark for $17 billion in damages
| Universal Music Group, the biggest of the record label groups, has filed a lawsuit against Grooveshark claiming it owes them more than $17 billion. |
China's iPhone riots help Apple profits
| Massive crowds rioting in Beijing over a delay in the Chinese launch of the latest iPhone should translate to massive profits when Apple Inc. reports quarterly earnings. |
RIM execs fired over drunken behaviour on flight
| RIM has announced the firing of two senior executives over reckless drunkenness that forced the diversion of a trans-Pacific flight. |
Facebook gearing up for going public
| Facebook Inc., preparing for a potential initial public offering, plans to hire thousands of employees in the next year and add an engineering office in New York to lure technical talent. |
RIM execs to be paid $1 per year
| The two chiefs of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion have slashed their annual pay to a dollar each as the company's stock price sank under the weight of gloomy earnings figures. |
Trouble in Canada's digital sector
| It has been a challenging few weeks for Canada's digital sector. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) suffered through a prolonged service interruption, compounded by a less than stellar crisis management response. Last week, Kobo released their entry in the tablet wars, the Vox, to devastating reviews and serious service problems. |
Facebook preparing for 2012 IPO according to sources
| Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network, is preparing for a initial public stock offering next year, according to a source familiar with the matter. |
Groupon shares fall below IPO
| Shares of Groupon Inc. fell for a third day, sinking below the company's initial public offering price of $20 less than three weeks after the daily deal company went public. |
Samsung says it's in last-stage talks to launch Google TV, which may change how we surf
| Samsung Electronics the world's top TV maker, is in last-stage talks with Google to roll out its Google TVs, the head of Samsung's TV division told reporters on Tuesday. |
HP seeks stability after turbulent year
| Hewlett-Packard Co.'s quarterly results surpassed Wall Street's tempered expectations, reassuring investors that the technology giant is on its way to stability after a tumultuous year. |
RIM shares soar on takeover rumors
| Research In Motion's shares have taken off amid unconfirmed reports that tech heavyweights Microsoft, Nokia and Amazon had looked to take over the BlackBerry smartphone maker. |
Apple scores limited victory in patent war
| Apple Inc has scored a narrow victory against Taiwan's HTC Corp in a patent lawsuit over smartphone technology that will set the stage for further battles between rival makers in the fiercely competitive market. |
Google looks to challenge Amazon with online shopping service
| Google Inc. is pondering an Internet service to help consumers shop online and take advantage of same-day delivery, hoping to stanch the loss of Web traffic to Amazon. |
RIM takes financial hit from PlayBook
| Research In Motion Ltd. has warned it would be writing off about $485 million US against its third-quarter financial results due to discounts it has to give to unload slow-moving BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computers. |
New Victoria game studio to have ripple effect on tech scene
| The decision by Microsoft to open a game design studio in Victoria will have "a huge ripple effect" on technology and education in the city, observers say. |
Samsung not buying RIM
| Despite rumours to the contrary, it now seems South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., maker of the Galaxy line of mobile devices, is not one of the many technology giants reportedly kicking the tires of Research In Motion Ltd |
Canada's digital economy strategy lags behind trading partners
| Internet and e-commerce professor Michael Geist explains what is wrong with Canada's digital economy strategy. |
RIM leaning toward board shakeup
| Research In Motion Ltd. is preparing to unveil a corporate shakeup at the beleaguered BlackBerry maker that could see co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie relinquish their titles as co-chairmen of the board, sources say. |
Samsung closing in on strong Q4
| Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips and smartphones, is set to report a robust quarterly profit rise, starting 2012 on an upbeat note aided by record-smashing sales of smartphones. |
RIM cool to Amazon takeover talk
| Research In Motion Ltd. has rejected take-over overtures from Amazon.com Inc. and other potential buyers because the BlackBerry maker prefers to fix its problems on its own. |
Saudi prince buys $300 million stake in Twitter
| Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an investor in some of the world's top companies, has bought a stake in Twitter for $300 million, gaining another foothold in the global media industry. |
How Zynga became a $9 billion company
| Here's a look at how Zynga, founded by serial entrepreneur Mark Pincus, went from being an obscure company called "Presidio Media" in 2007 to the games powerhouse valued at $9 billion today. |
Steve Jobs gets graphic novel
| Graphic novel "The Zen of Steve Jobs," by Forbes reporter Caleb Melby, will be released in January, according to the book's publisher. |
Apple's quarterly revenue soars
| Apple Inc.'s quarterly results blew past Wall Street's expectations as U.S. consumers snapped up near-record numbers of iPhones and iPads, sending its shares up eight per cent. |
Android OS mobiles gain on iPhone in smartphone war
| Market share for the iPhone in the third quarter fell while combined share for handset makers that sell phones with rival Google's Android operating system doubled. |
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Facebook investors
| Read the letter Mark Zuckerberg sent out to investors as Facebook filed papers to raise at least $5 billion in one of the most hotly anticipated IPOs of the decade. |
Facebook IPO could come next week
| Facebook may file papers for an initial public offering next week that would value the social network at up to $100 billion. |
Kodak files for bankruptcy protection
| It was anything but a Kodak moment for film pioneer Eastman Kodak Company as the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. |
Apple buys Israel's Anobit for $500 million
| Apple has bought Israel's Anobit, a maker of flash storage technology, for up to $500 million, the Calcalist financial daily reported on Tuesday. |
Does RIM need to ditch Blackberry?
| An increasing number of technology investors and experts are asking whether Research in Motion needs to ditch its BlackBerry handset business to survive. |
Right move, wrong guy for RIM
| Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. have fallen sharply investors shrugged off the prospect of meaningful change at the BlackBerry maker, despite a major management shakeup. |
Disney makes YouTube debut
| Google Inc.'s YouTube announced a deal with Walt Disney Co. to offer rentals of the studio's movies, letting U.S. and Canadian users watch such films as Cars 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. |
Amazon may move into sports goods
| Amazon.com's Quidsi unit may be getting into sporting goods, challenging retailers in this niche, including Dick's Sporting Goods, Hibbett Sports and Cabela's, analysts at Credit Suisse have said. |
Apple cash could bail out Greece
| With its report recent, Apple's 116 per cent profit growth helped push its total cash to $97.6 billion--enough to cover Greece's debt payments, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. |
Twitter not worried about Google+
| Twitter is much more than a social network and has no time to waste worrying about newcomers like Google+ as it becomes more important as an information service and builds its advertising business, co-founder Jack Dorsey has said. |
RIM looks into hacking claims
| Three hackers say they have exploited a vulnerability in Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet to gain root access to the device, a claim that could damage the BlackBerry maker's hard-won reputation for security. |
