If the lawsuit filed by the Justice Department this week kills the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, some analysts say it could leave T-Mobile in a much worse position than it was before the deal was announced in March, reports The New York Times. READ MORE
Sony, Hitachi, and Toshiba will use a Japanese government fund to merge their LCD display businesses and better compete in global markets, the New York Times reports. READ MORE
Web 2.0 is fully upon us. But many are asking, What’s next? The New York Times might have an answer: In a prelude of things to come, the Times has released an interesting semantic web experiment called Longitude. READ MORE
Today’s online-advertisement world is filled with the Madoff-esque, the questionable, and the distinctly not-safe-for-work. Some hope shines through though: DoubleVerify, a start-up that offers a policing service for naughty ads, has raised $33 million in its third funding round. READ MORE
Stand back. Watch out. Walmart’s retail dominance may soon stretch beyond its white-and-blue tiled floors. READ MORE
Even if you’ve updated your computer systems lately, you’re likely still using old computer software to manage your supply chain. (This is where you minimize this window, click open your program, and everything freezes.) After you’ve hit control-alt-delete, check this: Kenandy, a year-old start-up, made a surprise announcement that it raised $10.5 million and created new supply-chain software that’s based off social networking and housed in cloud computing on Salesforce.com. READ MORE
These days, your next-door neighbor uploads pictures of the kids in the pool to Facebook. Dad might tag you in a Christmastime post — one that has at least three exclamation points, presumably. Grandma might even tweet about a great raspberry-scone recipe she stumbled upon. Half of all American adults use social-networking sites, according to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. READ MORE
Facebook announced its annual big to-do today, sending out invites to developers for its F8 conference on Sept. 22. Each year, techies descend on the conference location, which will be at The Design Center in San Francisco this year, to chat, mingle, and listen to Facebook’s latest plans. READ MORE
Diffbot, a Palo Alto, Calif. start-up, hopes its new technology will let websites create content that appeal more to the human eye. READ MORE
To compete with Instagram, a photo-sharing application, Facebook is adding filters to its mobile application in the coming months. READ MORE
