Some influential tech voices deeply critical of today’s search technology hailed the victory of IBM’s Watson at Jeopardy! as a forerunner of a new type of more intelligent, useful and less spammy search. Here’s why that’s still…
Yahoo, which holds roughly 40% of Alibaba’s Chinese parent, Alibaba Group Holding, had been pining for an IPO of the e-commerce giant’s sister company, Taobao. Now, though, with a fraud probe underway, Yahoo’s chances of cashin…
It’s all over but the shouting, when it comes to the highly-publicized, man vs. machine contest on Jeopardy! But a debate has surfaced over whether IBM’s Watson supercomputer had a built-in advantage in the event, when it came …
Given recent valuations for the likes of Zynga, you’d think investors would be frothing at the mouth for any IPOs in this sector. But only a few players look serious about going public soon, and investors aren’t putting as much…
The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have launched an antitrust investigation into Apple’s new media store, amid concern that the company will use its leverage in the multimedia device market to undermine competi…