Exclusive: Yahoo's Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion
Yahoo's embattled CEO Scott Thompson (pictured here) is set to step down from his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, in what will be dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science d...
German TV maker Loewe denies Apple acquisition rumour, says report has “absolutely nothing to it”
Following an AppleInsider report that hit last night stating that Apple was in talks to acquire the company, German TV maker Loewe has today officially denied rumours of a $113 million buyout …
HBO's ‘Game Of Thrones’ On Track To Be Crowned Most Pirated Show Of 2012
Brace yourselves, HBO. The pirates are coming. — With its popularity swelling and no easy way to watch for viewers without cable, HBO's hit series “Game of Thrones” is inspiring massive levels of p...
LiqhtSquared Moves Toward Bankruptcy
Hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. venture is preparing for a potential bankruptcy-protection filing, as negotiations with lenders to avoid a potential default faltered, according t...
Baidu to rival Android and iOS in China with cloud-centric smartphone platform
Chinese Internet giant Baidu is set to make a move to rival Google and others in China's smartphone market with the upcoming launch of ‘Baidu Cloud’, a smartphone platform that integrates with its clo...
Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic
Hollywood, software giants and the major music labels see BitTorrent as one of the largest threats to their business. — Billions in revenue are lost each year, they claim. But not for long if the R...
Iran forbids banks and other firms from corresponding with users of Gmail and other foreign email services
Iran has continued its online crackdown, and its move towards a national Internet, by introducing a new regulation that instructs banks, insurances firms and telecom companies …
Marc Andreessen Visits Peter Thiel's Stanford Class To Talk Startups, How He Invests & The Future
It wasn't so long ago that Peter Thiel began publicly pushing the somewhat controversial idea that higher education is in a bubble, or launching an initiative to help smart young people “stop out of s...
Anti-WiFi wallpaper lets cellular and radio through
The WiFi-blocking wallpaper uses a triangular snowflake-patterned mesh to filter out selected frequencies — Better WiFi security could soon be just a few rolls of wallpaper away. French researchers...