On Wednesday, the Authors Guild, publishers Penguin and Macmillan, and Apple (s AAPL) filed their opposition to the Department of Justice’s proposed ebook pricing settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins(s NWS) and Simon & Schuster(s CBS). I covered Apple’s response yesterday. Here’s a summary of the filings from Penguin, Macmillan and the Authors Guild. Like Apple, Penguin and Macmillan are fighti
Touchnote Lets You Mail A Postcard To Your Pretend Friends On Facebook Without Knowing Where They Live You know those hundreds of Facebook friends you think you have? I bet you don’t even know where most of them live. I mean, actually live, not where they hang out online. Of course you don’t. They’re not your real friends, duh. But let’s pretend some of them are. And to impress and delight them, y
Blur Group Takes Its B2B Services Exchange Into The Tech Vertical Blur Group, the B2B services exchange which originally launched to disrupt the creative agency type model employed by Madison Avenue, has followed through on its promise to expand into other verticals. Today it’s launching blur Technology to enable businesses to source “expert providers” to help with things like building mobile and
Close your eyes and imagine the sexiest car you can think of. You're picturing a 1995 Pontiac Grand AM, right? Okay, so maybe you're not. But after listening to this slightly ambitious Craigslist ad for the used car you just might change your mind. The car's price tag is "slashed" from $199,000 down to just $700 and the current owner promises driving it will be better than your last four romantic
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
BestVendor is releasing the result of its 2012 Freelancer Survey tomorrow, revealing the most popular tools and apps for freelancers and entrepreneurs. But the company gave VentureBeat a sneak peek today. The single most popular tool? Überpopular file-sharing, storage, and back-up service DropBox. Evernote, the electronic memory app, comes in at No. 4. The number of times Google shows up on the li
Obvious Corp., the startup incubator that Evan Williams and Biz Stone put together after they left Twitter, launched an ambitious new effort on Tuesday called Medium — a lightweight publishing platform the company says is part of an attempt to rethink how (and presumably also why) we publish content on the web in an age of what our own Om Malik has called democratized distribution. The two previou
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. As promised, Microsoft has released Windows 8 RTM, the finalized version of the OS meant for PC manufacturers and developers of Windows apps. The Windows 8 operating system will land on physical and virtual shelves on Oct. 26, but to get ready, Mic
In a memo filed with the Southern District of New York this afternoon (PDF; embedded below), Apple (s APPL) argues that the Department of Justice’s proposed settlement with three book publishers forces Apple to tear up existing contracts. That is “fundamentally unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented,” Apple says: It’s not settling, so it’s entitled to a trial. “Apple is taking a bold stance by ignori
Back in the day, before the printing press made books a widely available commodity, students sat through class transcribing each and every word of a published work, as dictated by the teacher. We still take notes today, sure, but note-taking and lectures themselves have come a long way. So as you tie your shoes, zip up your backpack, and head off to your first day of college (or second, third, or
Apple (s aapl) has “Think Different” and Facebook (s fb) has the “Hacker Way.” Now, emerging tech giant Twitter is trying out corporate creeds of its own. “Defend and respect the user’s voice” is one of ten short phrases the company has posted on a wall of its San Francisco office. The phrases, which are also individually inscribed on company laptops, represent the company’s “core values” accordin
After losing long-time Googler Benjamin Ling to social network Badoo, the search giant is seeing another exec head to the UK site. This time, Jeff Hardy, who was Head of Global Partnerships for Google+ Local, is leaving the company to join Badoo as VP of Partnerships and M&A. At Google, we’re told Hardy was instrumental negotiating content deals and partnerships for Google+ local listings, includi
Google Maps Now Features Schedules For More Than 1 Million Transit Stops Worldwide Google Maps now features public transit schedules for more than 500 cities and one million transit stops worldwide. To make all of this information more accessible to its users on the go, Google today launched an update to Google Maps for Android. The updated Google Maps app now, for example, allows users to choose
Just over a week after NASA successfully landed its Curiosity Rover on Mars, India announced its own plans to launch its first mission to Earth's next-door neighbor. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the plan, which will involve an unmanned orbiter and cost nearly $64 million, during a speech celebrating India's sixty-fifth year of independence. "This spaceship to Mars will be a huge step fo
People die trying to look cool. Vanity is the sad reason why people don’t wear bike helmets. So two Swedish women set out to invent “the invisible bicycle helmet”, They’ve succeeded, and the end product isn’t a made of clear plexiglass and there’s no lightbending-stealth technology. In fact it’s not really a helmet at all. Hövding is a rapidly-inflating airbag that deploys from a collar around you
Why Is There Anime Porn on Subway's Facebook Page? [NSFW] Visitors to Subway's Facebook Page got treated to some off-brand messaging on Wednesday thanks to what appears to be a lack of vigilance regarding the Page's "Posts by Others" link. As of this writing, visitors who clicked that link got shown some anime porn by a user named Yichao Ravioli. Ravioli posted at least half a dozen ribald anime i
Microsoft is taking to task developers who are using the word 'Metro' in their app titles. As if the drama surrounding Microsoft’s abandonment of its Metro branding wasn’t silly enough, now it seems Microsoft is taking to task developers who are using ‘Metro’ in their app titles. A recent revision to Microsoft’s app naming guide for the Windows Store added a key new line: “Make sure your app name
What Will Microsoft And Nokia’s September 5 Press Conference Be About? PROBABLY NOKIA’S NEW WINDOWS PHONE 8 DEVICES. But seriously, Microsoft very publicly revealed the future of its Windows Phone platform a few months back. At the time Nokia though, didn’t have much more to announce than some conciliatory apps for all the people whose Lumias wouldn’t work with Windows Phone 8. Now it looks like N
Last year, smartphone sales overtook PC sales for the first time, and Android is currently the global market platform leader. However, platform wars are heating up. And with Android's open nature and heavy reliance on device partners, Android is in transition. In a recent report, BI Intelligence takes a deep look into Android, detailing market penetration and market share by device type, analyzing
Broken Certificates Force Microsoft To Put Windows Phone Marketplace App Publishing On Hold About two weeks ago, Microsoft deployed its new Windows Phone Dev Center with a completely rebuilt backend infrastructure. While this transition went smoothly at first, Microsoft encountered an embarrassing bug this week that caused it to put a temporary stop to app publishing to the Windows Phone Marketpla
One of the most eagerly anticipated CEO announcements in recent media history arrived on Tuesday, with the news that former BBC director-general Mark Thompson has been given the top spot at the New York Times — which has been without a chief executive since former CEO Janet Robinson left in December of last year. As the newspaper grapples with the rapid decline in print advertising that is bleedin
YC-Backed viaCycle Is A Zipcar For Bikes, Coming To San Francisco Soon ViaCycle, a new Y Combinator-backed startup, wants to be to bike sharing what Zipcar has become for cars. While there are many cities around the world where bike sharing is a fact of daily life, only a few cities in the U.S. currently offer similar programs and the ones that exist are often expensive to operate. The viaCycle te
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