ARM sees profit surge 23 percent, tests forecasters’ patience

Just when financial boffins expected ARM’s consistent double-digit growth to slow-down, the company has beaten their projections with a 23 percent rise in pre-tax profit compared to this quarter last year. It made £66.5 million ($103 million) in profit from £135.5 million ($213 million) in revenue from

Angry Birds with gesture controls collides with select Samsung Smart TVs

We first caught wind of Angry Birds’ impending arrival on Samsung Smart TVs earlier this month, and now the war against pigs is available as a free download on some of the company’s silver screens. Thanks to a built-in camera and the firm’s Smart Interaction tech, which typically help users navigate

Kipon preps Canon EF lens adapters for Micro Four Thirds, NEX cameras with electronic control

Adapters to fit Canon’s EF lenses on Micro Four Thirds and NEX camera bodies most definitely aren’t new. Without any electronic link, though, that Lumix GX1 or NEX-F3 owner has had to focus by hand, sometimes without any aperture control — what year is it, 1930? Kipon wants to make sure you’ll never

Fujifilm unwraps FinePix F800EXR camera with wireless sharing to Android, iOS

If your company doesn’t have a camera with WiFi sharing somewhere in your lineup, many will say you’re not even in the photography game. Fujifilm is definitely playing: welcome the FinePix F800EXR, its first camera with wireless sharing as part and parcel of the experience. Its centerpiece is a free

Ouya will be about the size of a Rubik’s Cube

No one is expecting the innovative Android-based Ouya game console to be huge in size, but it might be even smaller than you’ve pictured. “Our console is quite small, around the size of a Rubik’s cube, and so it will easily fit anywhere in a room, or be easy to throw in a backpack,”

NEA Has Closed On $2.6 Billion For Its 14th Fund, Perhaps The Biggest In VC History

New Enterprise Associates, the global venture capital firm with headquarters in Silicon Valley, confirmed today that it has raised $2.6 billion for NEA 14, its fourteenth venture capital fund. TechCrunch reported it was raising the fund back in May.

NEA is known for raising large funds, but this one

LG Q2 2012 earnings show a loss on cellphones, but higher profits overall thanks to home theater

LG has released its earnings statement for the Q2 2012 period, the claim of "turning a corner" in Q1 has just managed to hold up as it registered net profits of $138 million, up 46 percent from the same period last year. Revenues, while higher than Q1, were actually down from last year and blamed on

Foursquare Rolls Out Its First Big Money-Making Feature: ‘Promoted Updates’

Foursquare has revamped the experience of its app from the perspective of its users on both the consumer and merchant side. And on Wednesday, the company is pulling back the curtains on a long-awaited feature for all Foursquare watchers: Revenue generation.

Foursquare is announcing today the pilot launch

Ellen! Bieber! Seacrest! Stamped Revamps, Raises New Round From Celebs, Brian Lee, Tom Conrad, Eric Schmidt & Others

Stamped, the ex-Googler backed startup for sharing your favorite things, is rolling out a major revamp of its product today, and is adding a buzz-worthy lineup of new strategic investors, including celebrities like Justin Bieber, Ellen Degeneres, Ryan Seacrest, NBA all-star Baron Davis, Bieber’s manager

Boxpay aims for frictionless TV app purchases

A lot of consumers are getting into the market of smart TVs these days. Of course, the biggest problem is that there isn’t a cohesive, universal platform for Internet-connected TVs. We’re not even at the point where there are a couple platforms vying for dominance; we’ve stepped back