Breach Hits Card Processor Global Payments
Global Payments Inc., which processes credit cards and debit cards for banks and merchants, has been hit by a security breach that has put some 50,000 cardholders at risk, according to people with kno...
This Creepy App Isn't Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It's A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update]
This app is meant to all be in good fun, but it's potentially a weapon in the hands of stalkers. — “Boy, you sure have a lot of apps on your phone.” — “Well, it's my job.”
Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After
Yahoo is preparing to begin layoffs of what could be thousands of employees starting next week, according to multiple sources, and is then expected to announce a new restructuring of the company the w...
With Tablet Plan, Google Goes After Apple and Amazon
Google's long-awaited tablet might finally be on the way to becoming a reality. For at least two years, there have been reports that the search giant was working on something that could compete with ...
Twitter Takes Tweetdeck Offline After Apparent Bug Opens Access To Accounts
Twitter has taken Tweetdeck offline after an apparent bug has possibly given some Tweetdeck users access to others' accounts. — A Tweetdeck user in Australia, Geoff Evanson, says he discovered today...
Graphing on Google.com - Now in 3D
A few months ago we launched a graphing functionality right in search to help students and math lovers plot functions in an easy, simple way. In addition to calculating something simple like dividing...
Confirmed: Netflix buys DVD.com
Netflix buys DVD.com domain name. — [Update: Netflix has confirmed its purchase of DVD.com. A spokesperson tells Domain Name Wire “Netflix cares about keeping DVD healthy, and this is just one smal...
Apple Workers Put Tim Cook Atop List of Most Beloved CEOs
Tim Cook, the man Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hand-picked to be his successor, may never surpass Jobs in panache or vision, but as a leader, he's picking up right where Jobs left off. — Indeed, afte...
Apple supplier Foxconn cuts working hours, workers ask why
(Reuters) - When Chinese worker Wu Jun heard that her employer, the giant electronics assembly company Foxconn, had given employees landmark concessions her reaction was worry, not elation. — Wu, 23...
AT&T now accepting Lumia 900 pre-orders, only those seeking cyan or black need apply (update)
Friendly reminder here, folks. As expected, AT&T has opened the pre-order floodgates for the Nokia Lumia 900 today ahead of its April 8th release in the US. Interested parties can secure …
Old-time hacktivists to Anonymous: You've crossed the line
Despite shared concerns, pioneers in the movement say the methods of a newer generation abridge free speech and hurt the cause — Oxblood Ruffin of Cult of the Dead Cow and Hacktivismo — In Decembe...
BREAKING: LivingSocial Co-Founder And President Steps Down
Eddie Frederick, President and Co-Founder of LivingSocial, has stepped down from the board according to an email just sent out from CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy. Eddie has been at the company since the star...
Amazon's Appstore Generates More Revenue Per Daily User Than Google Play
According to new data released today by mobile analytics firm Flurry, Amazon's Appstore for Android is generating more revenue per daily user than the Google Android Market, which was recently rebrand...
Groupon Discloses ‘Material Weakness,’ Lower Quarterly Revenue
Groupon Inc. (GRPN), the largest provider of daily deals online, reported a “material weakness” in its financial controls and said fourth-quarter results were worse than previously stated because of h...
Chrome 18 arrives with hardware-accelerated Canvas
Version 18 of the Chrome Web browser has rolled out to the stable channel. The new version includes hardware-accelerated rendering for the HTML5 Canvas element on Windows and Mac OS X. — As we have...
Sega shutting down games, laying off people
Sega said today it will restructure its Western operations as it deals with the transformation from a maker of retail games to digital distribution. The restructuring will result in an unspecified nu...
When Stealing Isn't Stealing
THE Justice Department is building its case against Megaupload, the hugely popular file-sharing site that was indicted earlier this year on multiple counts of copyright infringement and related crimes...
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's Employment Contract Extended Through March 2016
UPDATED: “We are continuing to work on the comeback of AOL and have a plan that is beneficial for employees, customers and shareholders,” the company said. — NEW YORK - AOL said Friday it has extend...
SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork
Reality TV is a harsh business. One minute everyone is glued to Jersey Shore, the next you're looking at a canceled series and a backlog of ‘GTL’ shirts cluttering up the company store. One of the p...
Apple named Japan's top consumer brand for the first time
With more than half of all US households reportedly owning at least one of its products, Apple is a company that is continually topping satisfaction surveys in America and the world over. Today, the ...
Ahead of I.P.O., Mark Zuckerberg's Lawyers Expedite Disclosures
Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, is rushing to clear all his paperwork, ahead of the social network's highly anticipated initial public offering. — The Federal and Trade Commission discl...
Senator Al Franken: ‘privacy is a casualty’ of Google and Facebook's success
Senator Al Franken gave a rousing speech to the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section last night, calling for greater antitrust oversight of large media and tech companies as a way to ensure gr...
Facebook Valued at $102.8 Billion in Last SharesPost Auction
Facebook Inc. (FB)'s implied valued rose 8.9 percent to $102.8 billion in what is expected to be the last auction of its stock on SharesPost Inc.'s exchange before the social-networking company's init...
The Digital↔Physical: On building Flipboard for iPhone and Finding Edges for Our Digital Narratives
We had been on a long journey but I couldn't see it anywhere. There's a stage in a product cycle where you know it's going to ship. Where you can see the end.
Apple's Largest Retail Store Yet Coming to Dalian, China?
Apple appears to be working on plans to open its largest retail store yet, advertising a forthcoming store in the main Century City shopping district of Dalian, China. M.I.C. gadget posts a photo sho...
China's mobile phone subscriptions top a billion
BEIJING — China said Friday it had broken the barrier of one billion mobile phone accounts at the end of February, as more people in the world's most populous country ditch fixed phones. — The numbe...
E-books are the fastest-growing area of book sales, especially for youngsters
New data from the Association of American Publishers shows that a lot of y'all got e-readers over the holidays. Year-over-year, e-book sales have skyrocketed, especially for young adult and kids' tit...
Exclusive: Zynga's Engineering VP for New Gaming Platform Moves On
Neil Roseman, Zynga's VP of Engineering, has resigned after 15 months at the social games company, AllThingsD.com has confirmed. — Most recently, Roseman (pictured on the right, with Zynga's CEO Mar...
iTunes and Amazon royalty payments used to steal £500,000 by British gang
Members of a British gang who generated more than £500,000 in fraudulent royalties by buying music on Amazon and iTunes using stolen credit cards have been jailed. Apple was alerted to the issue …
Apple faces second class-action lawsuit over Siri
A new class-action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over its Siri voice recognition feature of the iPhone 4S with allegations that the company is falsely representing the service's capabilities. ...
Verizon Pitches Mobile Video
Verizon Communications Inc. Chief Executive Lowell C. McAdam said the company could have a wireless video service by year-end that lets pay-TV subscribers see some content on their mobile devices if r...
China's Alibaba tests social shopping with Pinterest clone
(Reuters) - It is a marriage made in heaven for shopping addicts. Social shopping, the merger of social networking and e-commerce which has hooked millions of users in the United States, has now capt...
Look at that DuckDuckGo! Daily search traffic is ballooning, up 227% in 3 months
True story: just yesterday I had a meeting with an entrepreneur, looked up something on his computer and noticed that he was using alternative search engine DuckDuckGo rather than Google or Bing.