New tailored suggestions for you to follow on Twitter
Every day, hundreds of thousands of people sign up for Twitter to get closer to the things they care about — friends, businesses, celebrities, news and information from all over. If you've used Twitt...
Facebook Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 421,233,615 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $38 per share. The shares are expected to begin ...
Comcast to Replace Usage Cap With Improved Data Usage Management Approaches
Today, the way people use video and access information has changed dramatically. Four years ago, when we first instituted a broadband Internet data usage threshold, the iPhone had just been introduce...
Hewlett-Packard Said to Consider Cutting as Many as 25,000 Jobs
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) is considering cutting as many as 25,000 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, to reduce costs and help the company contend with ebbing demand for computers and services, peop...
Verizon Clarifies: Unlimited Data Plans Will Die Slow Death
Verizon on Wednesday outlined its goals with shared data plans, and some news organizations incorrectly reported that it was killing unlimited data plans the instant that shared data plans were introd...
J. Crew CEO, Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler Reveals Steve Jobs' iCar Dream, Confirms “Living Room” Plans
J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider's perspective on Steve Jobs's vision: “Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar.”
Schumer And Casey's Ex-PATRIOT Act: Details Of How They Plan To Get Saverin's $67M And More
Charles Schumer and Bob Casey, the two U.S. Senators behind the Ex-PATRIOT act — a proposal to go after early Facebook backer Eduardo Saverin and others like him that have renounced U.S. citizenship …
Amazon to Sell Ads on Kindle Fire Welcome Screen — If You Have $600K
If You Have $600K — Amazon Seeks Big Money as It Brings Advertising to its Hottest Tablet — The Kindle Fire is Amazon.com's best-selling product, the company said in its first-quarter-earnings rele...
Apple wins dispute over iPhone5.com domain name
Apple has successfully won its dispute over the iPhone5.com domain, after it took its complaint to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), — WIPO recently posted to its website that the...
What app problem? Microsoft is developing a service to migrate all your Android apps to a new Windows Phone
According to a patent application filed in November 2010, Microsoft is working on a service that would let you migrate apps and app data between devices and even between different mobile operating sys...
Microsoft talks Windows Store features, Metro app sandboxing for Windows 8 developers
In a post today on Microsoft's Building Windows 8 blog, program manager John Hanzen took a deep dive on two topics that are set to separate the platform's Metro style apps apart from every Windows app...
Sony hires Woz as advisor to Steve Jobs film, which Sorkin says won't be a ‘straight ahead biopic’
As the production gets underway for the Steve Jobs biopic being penned by Aaron Sorkin, some details are coming to light. According to a report from Reuters, via the Chicago Tribune …
Scoop: Google, Microsoft both targeting Amazon with new clouds
Google is hard at work on a cloud computing offering that will compete directly with the popular Amazon EC2 cloud, according to a source familiar with Google's plans. Not to be outdone, other sources...
India Set to Overtake US as Facebook's Largest Market
India is set to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest Facebook market by number of users as early as 2015, according to social media analysts, driven by the growing internet penetration in the coun...
The Best Cities For Tech Jobs
With Facebook poised to go public, the attention of the tech world, and Wall Street, is firmly focused on Silicon Valley. Without question, the west side of San Francisco Bay is by far the most prodi...
Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook's Saverin's Tax ‘Scheme’
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again...
Twitter Implements Do Not Track Privacy Option
It's no secret that Facebook is worth about $100 billion because it collected personal data about its users. A lot of data. — Although Twitter tracks its users too — albeit in a much less aggressiv...
How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked the Valley
In 2006, when he was 22, Mark Zuckerberg gave up writing computer code to focus on managing his rapidly growing startup. Like Jim Brown retiring from football at 29 or E.M. Forster abandoning the nov...
HTC shipping custom Android builds on US devices to avoid Apple patents
The HTC One X for AT&T and Evo 4G LTE for Sprint already bear the distinction of being the first Android devices to face an import block at US Customs for potentially infringing an Apple patent, but t...
Say hello to the real real-time Web
It's not just a buzzword, but a technological shift—the instantly accessible Web. — Real-time technologies are making Web apps faster—and in some cases, indistinguishable from desktop apps. — Garr...
The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS
Summary: The Pirate Bay is back online. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that kept the site offline fo...
Spotify Is Raising Millions in a Deal That Would Value It at $4 Billion
The mega funding rounds are back. — Spotify, the social music service, is in the process of raising hundreds of millions of dollars in a deal that would value the company at as much as $4 billion …
Eduardo Saverin Backs Mobile Wallet Contender Crowdmob
Eduardo Saverin may no longer be a U.S. citizen. But that's not stopping him from investing in American companies. — In fact, he just closed a deal. He's backing Crowdmob, a startup that's blendin...
White House's cybersecurity official retiring
The White House's cybersecurity coordinator said Thursday that he is stepping down at the end of this month after a 2 1 / 2-year tenure in which the administration has increased its focus on cyber iss...
Anonymous takes down Indian government sites in response to clampdown on The Pirate Bay, Vimeo and others
Anonymous have just successfully taken down their latest target, this time setting their sights on the Indian authorities, The DNetworks reports. — One of the Anonymous Twitter accounts …
FCC chooses spectrum for wireless medical devices
(Reuters) - The U.S. telecommunications regulator is expected to announce plans on Thursday to set aside spectrum to connect wireless medical devices for more convenient health monitoring. — The Fed...
Pipe: file sharing in the Facebook age is about to get real
The appeal of Pipe can't be witnessed on paper, but is instead evident in its visual simplicity. You drag a file from your desktop onto a Super Mario-esque green pipe on your screen and the file disa...
Met Police uses ‘quick’ mobile data extraction system against suspects
Police will have immediate access to data on handset — The Metropolitan Police has rolled out a mobile device data extraction system to allow officers to extract data “within minutes” from suspects'...
Flashback makers missed out on their payday, Symantec says
The high-profile Flashback Trojan that is estimated to have infected more than 600,000 Macs at its peak earlier this year would have earned its creators $14,000 in the course of three weeks. — The o...
Amazon to Sell Ads on Kindle Fire Welcome Screen — If You Have $600K
If You Have $600K — Amazon Seeks Big Money as It Brings Advertising to Its Hottest Tablet — The Kindle Fire is Amazon.com's best-selling product, the company said in its first-quarter-earnings rele...
T-Mobile to launch new no-contract mobile broadband plans on May 20th
T-Mobile's making it easier for customers to use its growing HSPA+ network for mobile broadband by introducing some new, contract free plans. As of May 20th, T-Mobile will offer four new prepaid mobi...
Plastic Logic shutters US offices, gets out of making its own e-readers
Plastic Logic has something of a rollercoaster history, having had to drop the QUE proReader before it even shipped and getting a $700 million cash injection that ultimately swung its attention to Rus...
Even as Settlement Hopes Appear, Facebook Blames Shoddy Checking in Answer to Yahoo Patent Fraud Claim
When last we tuned in to the ongoing drama that is the patent infringement lawsuit Yahoo aimed at Facebook, Yahoo had a CEO — Scott Thompson — who was full steam ahead in pressing the controversial le...
Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days
Summary: The Pirate Bay is down. Wikileaks is down. Visa was down. Are all these Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a coincidence? Right now it's not clear, but something is definitely h...
The Weather Channel launches redesigned iOS app, with new social, local and personal features
The Weather Channel has rolled out a new version of its iOS app which sees a massive interface overhaul and a number of key new features introduced. — Launched in the UK in July 2001 …