They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don't They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board.
Earlier today, Yahoo's persistent thorn, activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point poison-penned another letter to the board of the Silicon Valley Internet company …
AT&T HTC One X bootloader denied official unlock solution due to ‘restrictions’
Yesterday, MoDaCo noticed that the bootloader on the AT&T version of the HTC One X was locked and that HTC's online tool for unlocking it didn't work. We reached out to HTC on the matter …
Official Fix for PHP Flaw Easily Bypassed, Researchers Say
On Wednesday, a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP was accidently exposed to the Web, prompting fears that it may be used to target vulnerable websites on a massive scale. The bug itself was ...
The Campus Tsunami
Online education is not new. The University of Phoenix started its online degree program in 1989. Four million college students took at least one online class during the fall of 2007. — But, over ...
White House Reiterates Plans To Veto CISPA In Its Current Form; Though For The Wrong Reasons
As I'm sure you remember, the House passed CISPA with a few amendments — some of which may have limited the possible abuses, while at the same time expanding the scope.
Touché brings touch control to everyday things
Forget smartphones or tablets - the future of touch control could be doorknobs, furniture or even your own body. Researchers at Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have created Touché, a sys...
2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner
When Google first showed off Android, they showed it running on a device very similar to Blackberries or Nokia E-class devices of the time. This device was the Google Sooner - an OMAP850 device built...
YC Price Guide Startup Priceonomics Raises $1.5M Seed From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel
How much should you pay for a used iPhone, TV, or bicycle? Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and more think you need to know, so they've invested $1.5 million into Priceonomics, a Y Combin...
Yahoo, Alibaba Working on New, Taxable Deal
Yahoo Inc. has been working on a new deal to sell a portion of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. back to the Asian company, and a transaction could be completed within weeks, people familiar wit...
Facebook blames Scoble snafu on spam false positive
Summary: Facebook has explained why a comment made by Robert Scoble earlier today was blocked for being “irrelevant or inappropriate.” The social networking giant is blaming it on a spam false positi...
The Other Facebook Founder
Atop $2 Billion Fortune, Eduardo Saverin Gave Up Silicon Valley for Singapore's Tech, Society Scene — SINGAPORE—Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most famous chief executives in th...
Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. Who's Next?
On Wednesday we uncovered a potentially worrying trend of VCs investing in very early stage companies by giving money to network rich, cash poor entrepreneurs — or “scouts.” — Ostensibly, the trend ...
Hachi Combines LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter & Google Into One, Lets You Search All Your Connections At Once
OK, this is cool. A new networking utility called Hachi is taking some of the best functionality offered by LinkedIn (searching by name, company, title, etc. and seeing …