The Cost Of Supporting Nokia (BI Intelligence) After years of losses, Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices (E&D) group was consistently in the black. But a year later, Microsoft began paying Nokia $250 million every quarter for carrying Windows Phone 8. In exchange, Nokia pays Microsoft a license fee for every Windows Phone it sells. Unfortunately, Nokia's flagship Windows Phone, the Lumia 900, is

Non-Techie Cofounder Learns Code, Builds New Site Feature in 6 Days McCreery is one of a slew of wannabe techies who are delving into the seemingly complex world of learning code. From politicians to entrepreneurs to high school students -- it's becoming apparent that knowing the basics of coding is beneficial for anyone working with technology, i.e. nearly every person. But don't worry, it's not

Hot startup Apigee landed another $20 million round of funding. That brings its total to $72 million since it launched in 2004. The reason it's on everyone's radar isn't the cash that CEO Chet Kapoor has raised, though—it's the team he's assembled. Notably, he hired Sam Ramji as VP of strategy in 2009. Ramji was at Microsoft where he had the difficult task of teaching Microsoft to like open source

Y Combinator-Backed SmartAsset Helps With The Tough Financial Decisions, Starting With Homebuying SmartAsset, a startup incubated by Y Combinator, aims to help consumers make the major financial decisions in their lives. Right now, the site is focused on homebuying — founder and CEO Michael Carvin tells me the service originated in his own experience purchasing a home. When he was trying to figure

Social Site Nextdoor Wants to Connect You With Your Neighbors Nextdoor announced on Tuesday that it just closed a new round of funding with existing and new funders: Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners and Shasta Ventures, among others, to the tune of $18.6 million. Nextdoor's CEO and Co-founder, Nirav Tolia, tells Mashable he plans to put the funding toward expanding their 32 perso

Keen, a mobile analytics startup, announced a $750,000 series A seed round from 500 Startups, Data Collective, SK Ventures, Cloud Power Fund and several big name individual investors, including Dropbox investor Pejman Nozad, early PayPal employee Jared Kopf and TechStars. You can find a full list of investors on AngelList. CEO Kyle Wild, a former Google Analytics employee, says that the company de

Spotted: Hasbro And Zynga’s First Physical Title, A Farmville Memory Game For Ages 4 And Up Zynga became a public company with $3.75 billion dollar market cap in part by taking existing physical games and introducing them to your browser and social graph. Poker and Scrabble are just two that immediately come to mind. But, lately we’ve seen Zynga flipping its model, turning to the offline world in

Viber Updates iPhone, Android Apps To Version 2.2: Group Messaging, Improved UI, Enhanced HD Calling Viber has just released version 2.2 of the app for both Android and iPhone, bringing some much-requested features to the platform for the very first time including group messaging and improved call quality. The UI has also been significantly improved, which should please Viber’s growing user base.

Is Speedy LTE Finally Coming To The UK? Ofcom Sets 4G Auction For Early 2013 It’s been a very long time coming, but the UK regulator Ofcom has finally revealed plans for the auction of 4G spectrum, which means that by late next year the UK may, finally, start to see a commercial rollout of 4G services like LTE. Bidding in the auction, for spectrum in the 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands, is likely to sta

Are you in need of a new iPhone case? You'll no doubt want to swing over to the New World Mall in Flushing, Queens, NY. Several stores feature bold collections of mobile accessories -- and bold might be an understatement. They may not be the most practical cases in the world. They're certainly not going to float in water. But they'll definitely catch the attention of passersby.

Mitt Romney Sees Sudden Unexplained Spike in Twitter Followers [UPDATED] The spikes were first noticed by Zach Green of 140elect.com, a blog which monitors Twitter trends relating to the 2012 presidential election. According to Green's data, Romney "was gaining around 3000-4000 new followers per day for the past month," then his account suddenly got 23,926 new followers on Friday, 93,054 on Saturd

Meet the Food Discovery Site for Foodies 'Frustrated With Yelp' Name: Taste Savant Quick Pitch: Taste Savant is a food-discovery platform featuring select reviews from trusted sources. Genius Idea: Users can view menus, make reservations and place delivery orders right from the website. If you don't have celebrity chef or food blogger friend showing you the tastiest spots to dine, your best bet is

Apple Taps Martin Scorsese And His Eyebrows For The Latest Siri Commercial The latest Siri commercial just hit, and like recent ad spots, Apple turned to a celebrity to endorse the lackluster iOS feature. And, also like the other commercials, the dialog between Siri and the user seems a bit more simple, almost mundane, in comparisons to the early Siri commercials. The first several Siri spots were

Ask anyone, and they'll tell you the iPod has changed the music industry. What they may not tell you is the more obscure, yet similarly profound, impact it's having on the lives of the elderly suffering from dementia. Experimentation with iPods and memory began when Dan Cohen, a social worker from Long Island, N.Y., distributed 200 iPods to four local nursing homes in 2008. "I knew music was the n

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French services company. He founded his second company in Palo Alto in 2005 and sold this company to Salesforce.com, becoming VP of Product Management. He joined GRP Partners

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Verizon has dropped the price of the Galaxy Nexus to just $99 with a new two-year contract, down from $299 when it launched on the carrier in December. Traditionally, cell phone manufacturers and carriers put their own software on top of the Android operating system before shipping phones out to consumers. The Galaxy Nexus is currently the only phone on the market running pure Android, a feature t

Imagine you live in a country where there is heavily restricted access to the Internet. Websites deemed objectionable are blocked. Even when government censors don’t directly vet content, writers practice a high degree of self censorship. The few publications that deviate from this standard are regularly shut down, and those responsible for producing them face potentially serious legal repercussio

Today, news broke that VMware bought startup Nicira for $1.26 billion. We got venture capitalist Ben Horowitz on the phone to explain why this young company -- that only came out of stealth mode in February -- was worth that much money. Horowitz was on the board of Nicira, and his firm, Andreessen Horowitz was an investor. Nicira makes a product called the Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) bui