Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one  —  Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one  —  LAS VEGAS—Lenovo announced several new desktop PCs at CES.  And in a move that's sure to give Microsoft heartburn …

Evernote CEO promises improved software quality, stability, and simplicity in 2014  —  On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014  —  I got the wrong sort of birthday present yesterday: a sincerely-written post by Jason Kincaid lamenting a perceived decline in the quality of Evernote software over the past few months.

How Mark Zuckerberg turned around Facebook by prioritizing mobile ad revenues  —  Profitable Learning Curve for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg  —  In Taking Facebook Public, Reshaping It Around Mobile Phones, Chief Gained Focus on Bottom Line … MENLO PARK, Calif.— Mark Zuckerberg needed help.

Netflix can't afford content you want, so it scours a limited library for things you may like  —  Netflix's dumbed-down algorithms  —  Alexis Madrigal has a rollicking investigation into Netflix's movie genres — all 76,897 of them, from category #1 (African-American Crime Documentaries) …

A family's three generations show a tradition of reinvention in Silicon Valley  —  Silicon Valley Lost, And Found  —  Silicon Valley is a place that is just as much about people reinventing themselves as it is about people reinventing industries.  —  As a new year turns …

LaCie Debuts Fuel, a Take-Anywhere Wireless Drive for Mobiles  —  Mac or Windows, Red Sox or Yankees, Bruce or Prince — no matter what our allegiances, we all have one thing in common.  We are all data-storage junkies.  We hoard 32GB USB sticks and we drool over Thunderbolt hard drives like they're sports cars.

CBS Tests Twitter Rules By Placing Film Critic's Tweet In An Ad  —  On Saturday, the print edition of the New York Times carried a full-page ad for the movie Inside Llewyn Davis with a single tweet by A.O. Scott, a film critic for the newspaper.  —  While he tweeted the words of praise …

When Growth Hacking Goes Bad  —  Andreessen Horowitz-backed music lyrics and annotations Rap Genius was the latest to stray over to the darker side of so-called “growth hacking,” with its spammy SEO tactics disguised as an affiliate program.  Called out, exposed and now punished by Google, the site's traffic has tanked.

Square And Griffin Debut An Integrated Merchant Case And Holder For iPhones And Readers, Will Create More Accessories For Sellers  —  Last year, Square debuted Stand, a piece of hardware that turns a merchant's iPad into a card-swiping register.  The idea was to provide a simple and elegant …