Tag archive: Paul Allen

Newt Gingrich has always been a polarizing figure in politics, and he’s embracing that reputation to a tee during his run for the Republican nomination. Yet amidst all of the crazy he has spewed thus far in his campaign, there is one gem to be found in the dangerous rough of Gingrich’s ideas – the moon. Now, this should not be considered an endorsement for Gingrich, nor should it even be thought of as an agreement with the specifics of his moon… Read More

According to a recent study conducted by Sharaholic, Pinterest drove more referral traffic to sites in January than Google+, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn and MySpace all combined. In addition, it's threatening to unseat Twitter, Google news, Google images, Gmail and Stumble Upon in the coming months to slide into the number two spot behind Facebook. Since July 2011, referral traffic from Pinterest has grown from 0.17 percent to 3.6 percent… Read More

Facebook is undeniably the 800-pound gorilla of the social networking world, but at least one watcher thinks Google+ is going to give it a run for its money—and offers some numbers to back up the claim. Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, a self-appointed “unofficial statistician” for Google+, claims the rise of Android and Google's integration of Google+ into its other offerings is going to fuel user adoption of the… Read More

According to unofficial tracking conducted by Google+ watcher and Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, the upstart social network is rapidly gaining new users and recently passed 62 million users as of December 25. He also estimates that approximately 625,000 people are signing up for Google+ each day and the network will likely break through 100 million users by late February 2012. Assuming that the current rate of growth continues over the next… Read More

With government funded space flight taking a hit lately, Seattle billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has stepped in with a pioneering vision for commercial space travel. Allen, on Tuesday, unveiled designs for an efficient air-launch system that resembled a giant airplane split into two fuselages. The craft will take both government and commercial payloads into orbit, with human missions as an eventual goal. Though one might be… Read More

The death of Steve Jobs has, and will continue to dominate the blogospheres and news feeds for several days to come—and rightly so. Few people have had such a significant and measureable impact on modern life, and his absence will be felt. Over the next weeks, months and even years, the retrospectives and remembrances will flood in, and the man will be transformed to legend. Part of that legend will always be kept in context with the rivalry… Read More

By the estimation of Ancestry.com co-founder Paul Allen, the Google+ network is looking at a total of 18 million users of the invitation-only social network by the end of Tuesday. Yesterday, the service added 763,000 new users which constituted the slowest day of growth since Google opened up the floodgates on July 6. The growth rate has dropped 50 percent from the peak of public interest, but Allen notes that Google hasn't attempted to… Read More

Google+ may still be in invite-only testing mode. But that hasn't stopped the new social network from amassing an estimated 10 million users in the two weeks since the site went live. That number comes via Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, who estimates that Plus “could reach 20 million users by this coming weekend,” if Google continues to allow new people to join. According to Allen, “the number of Google+ users… Read More

If there are aliens out there, it looks like we're going to have to wait for them to come to us before we find them. The California-based SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, a not-for-profit organization that exists “to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe,” has had to call a halt to its search for extra-terrestrial life because it has run out of money. The search,… Read More

Paul Allen's new book, Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft, will hit book shelves this week. Most of the early buzz has dwelled on Allen's contentious relationship with Bill Gates, who Allen claims tried to dilute his shares when he had cancer in the early days of Microsoft. Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes asks about the major controversies in the book while touring Allen's huge estate, including his museum of jet… Read More

Bill Gates may be the world's most giving philanthropist, but he's not always been so charitable, even with his close friends — at least according to a new memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. In the book, entitled “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft,” Allen offers a “revisionist take” on the early days of Microsoft, reports the Wall Street Journal. Allen's side of the story paints… Read More

With the barrage of lawsuits flying between tech giants these days, it's great to see someone grab a big pen, run out, and Rambo his way through the madness. Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, has revised and refiled his epic patent suit against almost every Internet giant around. Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, Netflix, OfficeMax, and Staples have been sued for infringing on patents won by Interval Research Corp.,… Read More

Judge Marsha Pechman of the U.S. District Court for western Washington has dismissed a broad patent lawsuit brought by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Interval Licensing LLC against a broad swath of Internet and technology companies, saying that the suit failed to identify specific products or services that infringed on Interval patents, noting that defendants and the court could not be left to guess about what products might be… Read More

In a predictable turn of events, Apple, Google, and Facebook dominated tech headlines yesterday, overshadowing the fairly momentous opening day of the Web 2.0 Summit. Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco runs through November 17, and we’ve picked out some of the more intriguing moments from yesterday. Here’s a look at what you missed while you were busy downloading the Beatles anthology. Zuckerberg takes the stage Facebook CEO Mark… Read More