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Google Actually Sells Something – And It’s Sketchup, To Trimble

Google is known for making and buying things, so there was some surprise when the company announced today that it is selling longtime asset Sketchup, a 3-D modeling service known for its ease of use aimed at architects, game and film designers, and hobbyists.

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Nintendo Records First Ever Annual Loss Of $531 Million

Today Nintendo released its earnings report for the past fiscal year, revealing that the company is down $531 million. 2011 is its first ever year in the red.

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Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, And Others Chart The Demise of Mass Marketing

Let’s face it, the primary reason you go to a conference named The Art of Marketing is to hear provocative ideas like the one in this article’s title. In the process,.

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Google Was Planning This (Never-Released) Smartphone A Year Before The iPhone

According to documents associated with Oracle’s intellectual property case against Google, the latter company was planning a phone designed to interface with its map, calendar and email products – web-heavy.

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DITTO Grabs $3M For Augmented-Reality Shopping

Eyeglasses startup Ditto Inc. has closed a $3M first funding round led by August Capital to bring augmented-reality shopping to the masses.

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“Descriptive Camera” Prints Description, Not Photo

An NYU student created an unusual camera that outputs text, not photos, to describe the scene you snapped.

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Apple’s WWDC Is Sold Out, But You Can Still Get In On The Action

Yesterday, tickets for Apple‘s 2012 annual developers conference WWDC went on sale and sold out within two hours. The event, which will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone West from.

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Do You Still Own Stuff You Upload To Google Drive?

Fresh on the heels of Google‘s Dropbox-like remote storage service, Google Drive, is a furor over what the fine print in the service’s user agreement means for users’ intellectual property.

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Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 Announces U.S. Finalists

This past weekend, Microsoft announced the U.S. finalists of its annual Imagine Cup, where high school and college students have been working to solve social issues through software development for the.

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April Technori Pitch: Mineful, RecSpon, NoRedInk, MobCart, and StyleSeek

Technori is a monthly platform for Chicago startups to publicly showcase their service. This month Mineful, RecSpon, NoRedInk, MobCart, and StyleSeek took the stage.

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