Clint Boulton

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), whose co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have discussed building an elevator to space, is no stranger to thinking about and tackling daunting challenges. The company Feb. 6 moved to aggregate so-called “moonshot technology” projects intended to help solve worldwide problems, such as tackling water scarcity and efficient drug delivery. The Website, wesolveforx.com, […]

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) is the world’s top-selling smartphone, but more first-time smartphone buyers purchased a handset based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system, according to The NPD Group. Android commanded 48 percent of the U.S. smartphone market through the fourth quarter, compared with 43 percent for Apple’s iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. However, 57 […]

When companies cite certain risk factors in their S-1 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it’s expected they will list competitors in their space. Companies also like to list market uncertainties. Facebook, which filed its S-1 prospectus for a $5 billion IPO last week, listed mobile as one of those risks. “We do not […]

IPO Facebook’s IPO is currently estimated at $5 billion, which would shatter Google’s record $1.9 billion for largest U.S. Internet IPO. Moreover, that $5 billion could actually be more by the time Facebook goes public. Zucks Rich! Let’s start at the top with Mark Zuckerberg. The 27-year-old founder commands 533.8 million shares, or 28.4 percent, […]

Could Google Glasses one day join Google Goggles in the pantheon of the company’s popular products? Perhaps. But, please, enough p-words. 9to5 Google said Google is building special glasses that look like Oakley’s Thump MP3 sunglasses that actually have the computing firepower and features of today’s high-end smartphones: That means voice input, output and a […]

Tablet shipments could top 125 million units in 2012, led by Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad and tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 8 operating systems. So goes the prognostication from equity analysts at Jefferies & Co., which actually shaved off 25 million units from its earlier estimate for this year because the […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) likes to boast that there are more than 200 million devices, including over 300 different types of smartphones and tablets, based on its Android operating system in the market worldwide. But while consumers are dazzled and perhaps dizzy from the sheer volume of choices in front of them, Android OEMs who have practiced […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is ready to build out its high-speed fiber network in Kansas, paving the way for the company to build thousands of miles of cables and other infrastructure across Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. The company selected Kansas City out of more than 1,100 companies last March as the winning bidder for […]

One of the big knocks on Google Wallet, the company’s smartphone-based mobile-payment service, is that it’s only been available on one phone to date–the Samsung Nexus S from Sprint. That is no longer true. The Wallet app may be installed and used on Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Nexus handsets fueled by a SIM card […]

Facebook’s IPO will newly mint many millionaires, but many of the social network’s 845 million users can’t be accorded the same largesse. The majority of Facebook users receive more from their Facebook friends than they give, according to new information from the Pew Internet Project, which only counted from a small pool of 269 respondents […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) Feb. 3 said that it failed to wipe some user data from roughly 100 out of a batch of 6,200 Motorola Xoom WiFi tablets that were refurbished and resold via daily deals Website Woot between October and December 2011. Original owners who performed a factory data reset before returning the device were […]

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) may have missed its analyst estimates for the fourth quarter, but the company’s Kindle Fire tablet remains a hot ticket item. Some 6 percent of 2,607 North American consumers surveyed in January claimed to own a Kindle Fire, double the percentage of a month ago, according to ChangeWave Research. Moreover, consumers appear to […]