Bruise inducing high-fives, anyone? They’re handing them out in Redmond, according to one mildly injured researcher, after breaking a data sorting record Yahoo set in 2009. The ruckus surrounds a benchmark called MinuteSort, which measures how much data can be sorted in 60 seconds… Tweet This Post

Taking cues from an ING Direct app that used its API, Bump Technologies has developed its own version of the mobile payments software, enabling phone-to-phone “Bump” transactions using PayPal. Yes, PayPal… Tweet This Post

With Toshiba’s toes having already crossed the 560Mbps wireless transfer speed barrier, Sony is instead forced to emphasize that its new TransferJet chip has “industry-leading short-range sensitivity.” Crucially though, the miniaturised 6mm x 6mm device also boasts lower consumption compared to Sony’s previous offerings, making it suitable for smartphones and tablets rather than just cameras [...]

It wouldn’t be so surprising (or newsworthy) if this was happening behind the scenes, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is now openly trying to recruit Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search engineers. In a blog post, Matt Cutts, who is Google’s most prominent search blogger, says straight out, “if you’re an excellent Yahoo engineer with solid experience in [...]

n the ongoing game of Internet exec musical chairs, Greg Coleman (pictured here), who has been a top exec at both Yahoo and AOL, is poised to become president of the Huffington Post, as well as chief revenue officer, several sources said… Tweet This Post

Apparently, not everyone leaves Yahoo (YHOO) to join Microsoft. On Friday, sources said, it was announced internally at Microsoft (MSFT) that Karl Siebrecht (pictured here), the former President of Atlas at aQuantive, is joining AdReady at the end of the month as President and COO… Tweet This Post

Google’s Michael Rubenstein — the departed VP who led development of both the DoubleClick and Google ad exchanges — has found a new gig: president of cloud computing startup AppNexus… Tweet This Post

Former Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and DoubleClick exec Michael Rubenstein is joining AppNexus, a company that provides online advertising via a cloud computing platform. Rubenstein has been named president of the New York-based company, AppNexus said in an e-mail release… Tweet This Post

Until now, most of Tim Armstrong’s hires since he joined AOL (NYSE: TWX) as CEO have been in advertising or the business side, including a number from his former employer Google. Newest hire Brad Garlinghouse is a switch in both cases: a product guy from portal competitor Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Garlinghouse was exploring companies big [...]

AOL, under new management and with a spinoff IPO on the horizon, continues to fill out its executive ranks. The newest hire: former Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse will join AOL as President of Internet and Mobile Communications. Garlinghouse will report directly to CEO Tim Armstrong. Tweet This Post

Gideon Yu, the former Facebook CFO unceremoniously shown the door in late March, has joined Khosla Ventures as a General Partner, we’ve heard from multiple sources… Tweet This Post

Google user interface designer Leland Rechis has quit the company to join microblogging startup Twitter, Twitter’s Director of Mobile Business Development announced today… Tweet This Post