Exclusive: Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown)
Facebook's high-profile CTO Bret Taylor is leaving the Silicon Valley social networking giant later this summer, with future plans to work on an undetermined start-up. — The move is likely to be of ...
Apple Gives Podcasts a Gentle Push Out of iTunes
Podcasts were supposed to be a big deal several years ago, but that boom never happened. Now there's at least anecdotal evidence that the format is actually picking up steam, as creators, listeners a...
Microsoft Manufacturing Tablet to Rival Apple iPad, Says Insider (Exclusive)
Microsoft is set to unveil a tablet next week that will mark its entry into rival Apple's territory with its own branded product, TheWrap has learned. The company has scheduled a secretive event for ...
Dropbox for iOS updated with automatic photo uploads, gallery view, and a new way to earn bonus storage
Dropbox has just updated its iOS client to version 1.5, and the new release includes some notable additions. First on the list is automatic uploads for photos and videos in your camera roll …
Secret Agent Samsung: How The Handset Maker Kept The Galaxy S III Hush-Hush
Samsung pulled off a sort of miracle last month by announcing the Samsung Galaxy S III prior to it leaking. Admittedly, the specs leaked, but the final design was kept a secret until the official rev...
The Two Horsemen of the Enterprise Software Apocalypse
At 71, Dave Duffield ought to be retired. He's spent a half-century starting technology companies and is worth billions. He has a $35 million Dassault Falcon 900EX jet, homes in the Bay Area and Pal...
Apple charges 54% more to replace Retina MacBook Pro's battery
Nonupgradeable battery, other ‘Air-izing’ traits of new notebook prompts repair expert to say, ‘We have to draw a line in the sand’ — Apple customers who purchase the company's new Retina MacBook Pr...
‘Online snooping’ scheme to cost £1.8bn
Home Office reveals pricetag for tracking emails, phone use and Facebook and Twitter accounts as Theresa May attacks critics as ‘conspiracy theorists’ — The government's “online snooping” scheme to ...
Not as SPDY as You Thought
SPDY is awesome. It's the first real upgrade to HTTP in 10+ years, it tackles high latency mobile networks performance issues and it makes the web more secure. SPDY is different than HTTP in many wa...
Forthcoming Facebook Motion Said to Discuss Nasdaq's Role in I.P.O.
Facebook is preparing for battle. — One month after its botched initial public offering, the social network is set to file a motion to consolidate all the shareholder lawsuits against the company …
Parts of Amazon Web Services suffer an outage
Amazon web services are having trouble this evening and in the process are taking down some major sites. Among sites being impacted are Quora and HipChat. In addition, the Amazon outage has had an i...
SEC Pressed Facebook For Details On Mobile Revenue Before IPO
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pressed Facebook Inc. (FB) executives to explain in more detail how a user shift to mobile devices could impact the company's profits, according to document...
E-Commerce Is Head Over Heels for Pinterest, and for Good Reason
No one knows for sure what social commerce will be in the future, but it's starting to look a lot like Pinterest. — Based on a report shared exclusively with AllThingsD, Pinterest is on pace to beco...
The Slow Web
Timely not real-time. Rhythm not random. Moderation not excess. Knowledge not information. These are a few of the many characteristics of the Slow Web. It's not so much a checklist as a feeling, ...
Focus Squarely On Europe, Mobile Payments Startup iZettle Gets $31.4M From Greylock, MasterCard & More
Just days after releasing an API to integrate its payment platform into third-party apps, iZettle, known as the “Square of Europe” for its dongle-based iOS mobile payment system …
Why Apple Is Going “Containment” Not “Thermonuclear” Against Google In iOS 6
I keep hearing people talking about Apple finally going “thermonuclear” on Google with the forthcoming iOS 6 mobile operating system. No, it hasn't. In fact, there are good reasons why it can't …
Motorola Solutions snags British computer maker Psion for $200 million in cash
Motorola Solutions (not the company owned by Google) announced today that it has agreed terms to acquire British computer maker Psion for $200 million in cash. — According to the company's press rel...
Dropbox killing public folders, makes sharing both more and less convenient
In April we brought you news that Dropbox was introducing the ability to create public links for any files in your Dropbox folder. Now, German site Mobiflip is reporting that, from July 31st …
iPad Sees Small Drop, Nook Tops Kindle Fire In New Tablet Traffic Rankings
Web traffic from the Apple iPad saw a slight drop in early June, according to new data from the Chitika Ad network, which analyzed a sample containing hundreds of millions of impressions to arrive at ...
RIM to pay Lazaridis, Balsillie combined $12-million after exit
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, who built Research In Motion Ltd. into a global smartphone giant before presiding over the company's long slide, will receive a payout of around $12-million after hav...
Geofencing alerts to come to Find My Friends this fall
This fall, you can stop asking your friend “Are you here yet?”—your phone will tell you for them. According to Apple's iOS 6 website, the company's Find My Friends app is set to add a new geofencing ...
NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne school dinner photo ban lifted
Martha's NeverSeconds blog started as a writing project with her dad — A ban on a nine-year-old girl taking photographs of her school meals has been lifted. — Martha Payne, from Argyll, got more t...
Intel dismisses ‘x86 tax’, sees no future for ARM or any of its competitors
Walking cautiously through the automatic revolving door of a swanky, black, shiny, minimalist hotel in London, the first thing I notice about Mike Bell, Intel's chief of mobile, is that he's large.
Kodak Loses Ruling In Fight With Apple Over Patents
Eastman Kodak Co. failed to persuade a judge to rule that Apple Inc. (AAPL) has no interest in a group of patents Kodak is putting up for sale as part of its bankruptcy reorganization. — U.S. Bankru...
ICANN Glitch Reveals Personal Details of gTLD Applicants
The Internet's governing body this week admitted that it inadvertently revealed the mailing addresses and contact details of those who applied for the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). — Those ...
PopTip Offers Real-Time Twitter Poll Result Tracking, Hashtags And Correct Spelling Not Required
More often than not, a crowdsourced answer is the right one. Just take a look at Estimize — the anonymous user base of 6,500 users is more accurate than Wall Street 67 percent …
Nokia prepared to sell patents if price right: CFO
“We will sell patents at the right price,” Mr. Ihamuotila said during …
PopCap survey shows 44 percent of people play mobile games
Today, developer PopCap (maker of Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies) has released the results of its third annual survey of mobile game consumption in the United States and United Kingdom. And, no surpri...