Apple Likely to Unveil “iPad Mini” at October 23 Event
October 10, the date on which Apple was rumored to be distributing invitations to a second fall product event, passed without a word from its Cupertino, Calif., HQ. The silence from the iconic tech c...
Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web
Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gc...
iPhone 5 Usage Surpasses Samsung Galaxy S III Less than 3 Weeks on Market
Apple and Samsung are unquestionably two of the top players in smartphone marketplace. Following the release of Apple's iPhone 5 on September 21st, Chitika Insights was interested in comparing the We...
Windows 8 packaging and pricing revealed, standard OEM starting at $99, Pro Pack $139
We're almost there. Just a few more days until the big reveal. But that doesn't mean there aren't still a few final Windows 8 secrets to be revealed. Two of those are the price and the packaging …
Apple agrees on licensing terms for use of iconic Swiss clock design
Apple has agreed to pay the Swiss national railway (SBB) for use of its iconic clock design in iOS 6's Clock application. Last month, Apple was accused of plagiarizing the design, made famous by watc...
Best Buy to Match Online Prices
Retailer Will Match Online Prices, Shrugs off ‘Showrooming’ — Best Buy Co. is planning to match the prices of Internet competitors such as Amazon.com Inc. this holiday season, even as it plays down ...
Exclusive: FTC moving closer to Google antitrust case - sources
(Reuters) - The majority of top decision-makers at the Federal Trade Commission believe that an antitrust case should be brought against Google Inc (GOOG.O), meaning the search giant could soon be hea...
Exclusive: Upcoming Gmail For Android 4.2 Will Finally Have Pinch-To-Zoom, Swipeaway Delete/Archive [Video]
Today, we are thrilled to share some exciting news about the next version of Gmail for Android. We may or may not be in possession of an unreleased version of Gmail …
AMD to Cut Up to 30 Percent of Workforce
Days after warning of a huge sales and earnings miss, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is close to announcing a significant reduction in its workforce that could be be made public as early as next wee...
Apple Has Quietly Started Tracking iPhone Users Again, And It's Tricky To Opt Out
Apple's launch of the iPhone 5 in September came with a bunch of new commercials to promote the device. — But Apple didn't shout quite so loud about an enhancement to its new mobile operating system...
Shares of Workday soar 72 percent in trading debut
(Reuters) - Shares of Workday Inc soared 72 percent in their market debut on Friday, as the market for enterprise software continues to hold strong. — The Pleasanton, California-based company, consi...
PayPal Said to Be Cutting As Many as 400 Jobs
EBay Inc. (EBAY)'s PayPal is cutting as many as 400 jobs, or about 3 percent of the workforce, an effort by President David Marcus to reorganize the payment processor and trim costs, a person with kno...
YouTube Search now ranks videos according to time spent watching, rather than clicks
If you're not using YouTube to find a very specific video, there's a good chance you'll enter some generic terms in the search box, thus throwing up a mass of user-generated content for you to sift th...
How Foursquare plans to monetize: no dumb banners, all specific targeting
Specific discounts for specific customers — that's the key to Foursquare's future monetization success, according to Dennis Crowley. — Speaking to Sarah Lacy at PandoMonthly in New York tonight …
BlackBerry rep shows off L-Series smartphone, forgets it's meant to be a secret (video)
While the rest of us are chasing after dev phones and blurrycam shots, BlackBerry representatives in Mexico seem to be happy to wave honest-to-goodness L-Series handsets around on video.
Netflix app for Windows 8 officially available in the Windows Store
Windows 8 won't be officially out for another couple of weeks, but that hasn't stopped Netflix from getting its app ready well ahead of time. The streaming media company just launched its official ap...
Version 3.9.16 of Google Play Allows for Removal of Apps From “All Apps” List
Today, there is a new version of the Google Play APK out for Android users. Version 3.9.16 brings the ability to remove a single or a list of applications from the “All Apps” list inside the applicat...
Source: Former Nokia Vet Anssi Vanjoki Will Be CEO Of EQT-Owned Vertu, Android To Replace Symbian
Word has come through that Nokia has completed its sale of luxury phone brand Vertu to investment firm EQT VI. But TechCrunch has heard from sources that Anssi Vanjoki …
Hulu Struggles To Survive The Influence Of Its Parent Companies
Jason Kilar's vision for Hulu transformed web video. So why is Hulu in trouble and Kilar rumored to be on his way out? Because his vision transformed web video. — It's an unseasonably warm summer ...
Google's Driverless Car Draws Political Power
Internet Giant Hones Its Lobbying Skills in State Capitols; Giving Test Drives to Lawmakers — See one of Google's self-driving cars, which the Internet giant has been developing since 2009. While t...
Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
The South Carolina Supreme Court finds that under the Stored Communcations Act, reading someone's cloud-based e-mail is ok. — Indrani Soemardjan — In a case decided on Wednesday, the South Carolin...
Marissa Mayer: Ready to rumble at Yahoo
Mayer - No. 3 on the 40 Under 40 - is changing the culture and welcoming new faces to the troubled web company. But this new chief (and new mom) has miles to go before she sleeps. — FORTUNE — On a ...
Google German Criminal Street View Probe Said to Be Dropped
German prosecutors will drop a criminal probe into whether Google Inc. (GOOG) illegally gathered wireless-network data for its Street View mapping service, two people familiar with the issue said.
As mobile rises, desktop search declines for the first time
Analysts at the Macquarie Group say mobile devices could account for a third of all search traffic by year's end. — In a sign of the mobile-centric times, desktop Web search declined in September fo...
Microsoft To Make Same Privacy Change Google Was Attacked For; No One Seems To Care
Earlier this year, Google announced a privacy policy change that was widely covered by tech blogs, the mainstream press and which generated much governmental concern. Last month, Microsoft announced ...
First Results Are In: Facebook's New Custom Audience CRM Ads Increase Conversions And Lower Costs
Just three weeks after Facebook formally launched Custom Audience ads that can target people by lists of email addresses or phone numbers, TechCrunch has attained the first reports on their performanc...