AllThingsD

As mobile usage increases, Google and Facebook are quickly losing out on their primary source of revenue. But if Mary Meeker's estimates are accurate, that could change very soon. Meeker, a former Wall Street analyst and a current partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, gave a detailed...

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson will step down and be replaced on an interim basis by the company's head of global media, Ross Levinsohn, according to AllThingsD citing sources. Thompson is leaving in the midst of a scandal involving a fake computer science degree on his bio. This is a...

Yesterday, shares of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) were hit after AllThingsD reported that Howard Schultz of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) would be leaving the company's board voluntary. Efrusy, who also sits on the board, will not seek re-election. Groupon responded, naming Daniel Henry and Robert Bass to...

As we told you back in December of last year, it was bound to happen. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has just bought Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) for $1.9 billion, or $46 per share. The transactions is the latest on a wave of smaller cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SAAS) players consolidating into larger but...

The leading daily deals site has found a deal of its own: a new company. Mertado, a social shopping startup that aimed to present consumers with a selection of unique or lifestyle-oriented products, has been acquired by Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN). On February 28, 2012, Mertado.com will shut down. “...

The nation's largest online retailer is offering consumers the chance to compare prices and walk away $5 richer. Now before you scoff and say, “I don't need five bucks,” just remember that most consumers will go out of their way to save $0.50 on a 12-pack of Coke (NYSE: KO) or $2 on a package of...

Over the weekend, we learned that Alibaba CEO Jack Ma had expressed his interest in buying Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), as Yahoo owns 39% of the Chinese Internet company. Today, we got a report that Silver Lake, Alibaba Group, and Russia's Digital Sky Technologies are in serious talks about a potential...

Is AOL's massive acquisition finally paying off? According to AllThingsD, the Huffington Post has announced that it has topped one billion page views for the month of August. This announcement coincides with AOL's (NYSE: AOL) acquisition of an “online grassroots platform” called Localocracy,...

Will the Kindle Fire be the first tablet since the HP TouchPad to take a loss on every unit sold? Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster seems to think so, telling AllThingsD that Amazon is “likely losing about $50 per Kindle Fire.” He says this without providing any data to support this assumption....

UPDATE: According to a report from All Things Digital, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is having a press conference next week in New York on September 28. Some are speculating it could be the long-awaited Amazon tablet, as it tries to compete with the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. This is an update to an...