Silicon Alley Insider (Tuesday)

The recent brouhaha around Facebook’s privacy policies — the complications, the simplifications, the push, and the push-back — is a side-story.

The real issue is positioning. And the real cost will be felt if and when a meaningful percentage of Facebook’s ...

Silicon Alley Insider (Tuesday)

Apple and AT&T are struggling to deal with the crush of people hoping to pre-order iPhone 4 today.

Apple's website just serves up a message saying "Your request could not be processed."

This, of course, is leaving many a desperate iPhone fan frustrated. Anytime there's an...

Venturebeat (Tuesday)

Tesla Motors, one of the most-watched cleantech IPO candidates this year  since it filed at the end of January, has made its date with destiny: June 29. And it’s raised its sights on how much it hopes to raise from public investors, from $100 million to $178 million — or 11.1 mill...

Venturebeat (Tuesday)

Twitter’s engineers apparently weren’t joking last week when they said the service wouldn’t be able to keep up with the World Cup.

The microblogging service has suffered bout after bout of errors today, reminiscent of its early instability when the company was just starti...

Silicon Alley Insider (Tuesday)

FanPulse, a service that lets sports fans talk to each other during games, has always appealed to us in theory, but until now, it hasn't had enough users to be all that fun in practice. The World Cup just changed that.

Users check-in to games they're watching, where they share Twitt...

Venturebeat (Tuesday)

As Facebook continues its inexorable growth across the globe, a host of Silicon Valley startups are betting that it’s no longer the best place online to hang out with your closest friends.

The latest of these projects, Treehouse, launches today. It’s a mobile app from the found...