The Oracle of Omaha acquired his hometown newspaper in January and just snapped up dozens more in a $142 million deal. This is supposed to be the fastest declining industry in America. What is Warren Buffett up to? Here’s why the deal makes a lot more sense than it appears: A “three corner pool shot” This week’s deal makes Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, the proud owner of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and 62 other daily and weekly papers in Virginia and the South…

CSI: Waterloo? We’re not sure how compelling that spin-off would be (inexplicable popularity of the David Caruso-headlined Miami version aside). So, you’ll excuse us for scratching our collective tech head over this recently surfaced patent application filed by RIM in November of 2010…

Travel search site Kayak will likely time its IPO in the next few weeks to capitalize on the record-breaking Facebook IPO that will happen Friday, according to a CNBC report. The eight-year-old flight-, hotel-, and car-reservation service originally filed for its IPO back in Nov…

On the eve of Facebook’s initial public offering, and two weeks after writing a five-part series that tried to answer the question of whether we’re in a social media bubble, the most striking thing to me is how divided people are on whether these astronomical values and this unlikely craze can be sustained…

There are a few lessons you could take away from the fact that FacebookIPODayClosingPrice.com exists right now:  Ask and ye shall receive, especially if you’re Chris Sacca. The Hacker Way goes way beyond Facebook headquarters…

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denied Thursday that he is renouncing his U.S. citizenship and moving to Singapore to avoid paying capital gains taxes on his approximately $3 billion share in Facebook…

Podcasts may have fallen a bit out of fashion lately, but the new cloud-based podcast playback and discovery platform Player FM hopes that you’ll give the medium another chance. Launched by former Googler Michael Mahemoff just a few days ago, Player FM allows users to aggregate their personal podcast subscriptions online and play them on any computer or mobile device, right within the browser – no additional software required…

There’s a trend starting to emerge of judges wanting Apple to talk settlements with others rather than duke it out in the courtroom. Just two weeks after Apple and Samsung were steered towards talking about a potential deal, a Delaware court has ordered Apple and HTC to meet on August 28th in the hopes that they could shake hands and put an end to an increasingly hectic legal battle under the eyes of a mediating judge…

While privacy seems like a concept lost on Facebook, Twitter is showing that it understands its users’ need for security by supporting Mozilla Firefox’s “Do Not Track” feature, which lets you opt out of cookies that track personal data and online movements…

Social bookmarking site Pinterest has landed a $100 million round of funding on a $1.5 billion valuation today. The investment was led by Japanese e-commerce platform Rakuten. By taking money from a foreign technology company, Pinterest bucks the trend of U…

Verizon CFO Fran Shammo ruffled a few feathers yesterday when he mentioned at an investor conference that their every one of their customers would be on one of the carrier’s new data share plans…

A simple yet effective visual device in photography is the reflection. Images can be completely transformed when seen through the mirror of another surface. An ordinary puddle in the street can be a looking glass to capture an alternative perspective of the world around it, and the mirrored image in a pair of sunglasses can make for a standout portrait…