Techdirt (Friday)
This is a guest post from regular commenter, Ima Fish, and is cross posted from his own blog:

Marion Maneker over at the Big Money website wrote a piece entitled "The Weird Logic of Paywall Challengers."  He attempts to show that the argu...

Venturebeat (Friday)

Be prepared to be scared about your cell phone privacy. Two security researchers showed today how they can track down cell phone numbers, identify the person who owns the phone, and then track the whereabouts of that person. And they can do it w...

Techdirt (Thursday)
Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a company, called Leader Technologies with an incredibly broad patent (7,139,761) that covered associating a piece of data with multiple categories, that was suing Facebook for infringement. Our usual group of patent s...

Silicon Alley Insider (Thursday)

In April, location-services provider Skyhook Wireless lost one of its biggest, most important partners: Apple, which ditched Skyhook and Google for its own location-based services on its latest mobile devices and operating systems.

(The co...

Techmeme (Thursday)

Michael V. Copeland / Fortune:
Google: The search party is over  —  Yes, the company is still growing at rates that would be the envy of the rest of the Fortune 500.  But its core business is slowing, its stock is down, its An...

Venturebeat (Thursday)

Along the way to creating Silicon Valley’s definitive people reviews site, Unvarnished cofounder Peter Kazanjy ran into a problem. And he’s solving it with what looks like visual inspiration from HotOrNot.com, the dating-rating site. Unvarn...