Google Google Buys Sparrow Email App: A Trojan Horse for Google+? In a bit of a shocker, Sparrow announced Friday that the app and whole team has been acquired by Google. Sparrow makes the favored third-party email app for Gmail users on Mac and iOS. Google doesn't often put effort into native desktop software, and the Gmail iOS app has always had only the bare minimum features, so this is an unusual move. Jon Mitchell View comments
Yahoo Mayer's Mission: Yet To Be Defined New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have the same problem: Find a way to monetize a massive and sticky user base. But Zuckerberg has two things Mayer doesn’t - a company with a clear-cut mission statement, and time. Dave Copeland View comments
E-Books Why Senator Schumer Wants the Apple E-Book Pricing Lawsuit to Disappear Charles Schumer is not pleased. The Democratic senator from New York wrote an impassioned op-ed in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week decrying the U.S. government's antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which accuses the company of colluding with publishers to raise the prices of e-books. But wait: Wouldn't cheaper books be good for consumers… John Paul Titlow View comments
Microsoft Microsoft's "Magic Wall" Tech on Windows 8 Laptops & Tablets by Next Year Microsoft announced its acquisition of Perceptive Pixel just as it was preparing to launch Windows 8, Office 13 and the Surface tablet. The timing wasn't by chance: The maker of huge multi-touch screens - check out CNN's eight-foot "magic wall" - is an integral part of software giant's bet-the-company leap into mobile and tablet… Mobile Bill Snyder View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups [Video] This Week's Top Stories: Yahoo's New CEO, Google's Big Bucks & MS Office 2013 Eliot Weisberg View comments