Netflix's Internet video subscription service works around the clock, but it's unusual for more than two dozen of the company's engineers and top managers to be huddled in a conference room at 10:30 on a midsummer Wednesday evening.This is a special occasion. It's near the end of a grueling day ...
If you're like most Americans, you don't wear a wristwatch. But increasingly, electronics companies are betting you'll slap one on your wrist if it's more like a smartphone than a simple timepiece.In the past year, Sony and startup Pebble have released devices called "smart watches" because ...
5Instead, the 27-year-old from Cincinnati goes to a website before the day's Major League Baseball games begin and picks players who he expects will hit and pitch better than players selected by other bettors. When the players do well in the real games, Batsche, who pays $2 to play, can win as ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- David Karp, founder and chief executive of Tumblr, rang the Nasdaq opening bell Friday to celebrate his company's $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo Inc.Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was on hand to take pictures and cheer on the Tumblr team. Turns out the Tumblr team had even more to ...
Consider, for a moment, the possibility of a completely addictive electronic game that had a more noble objective than destroying pigs with slingshot-flung birds or traveling through post-apocalyptic wastelands.What about a game that was geared toward teen girls SEmD a free game that kept them ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., where Engelbart had been a fellow since ...
