Priceline.com Agrees to Acquire KAYAK Software Corporation
Priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ: PCLN) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement for the Priceline Group to acquire KAYAK in a stock and cash transaction. Under the terms of the ag...
7 Navy SEALs disciplined for role with video game
PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — (CBS News) The U.S. Navy SEALs are part of an elite force that operates in the shadows, best known for killing Osama bin Laden. However, CBS News has learned a group of SEALs ...
Samsung's Galaxy S III overtakes the iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in Q3 2012
Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III handset usurped the Apple iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012, according to a new report released by market research and consu...
AT&T's flip-flop on FaceTime over cellular should scare you
A ‘cautious approach’ exposes the FCC's greatest shortcoming — Weeks after taking enormous heat from consumers, public interest groups, and the media (like us), AT&T is doing an about-face on its co...
7,000 Starbucks Locations Added to the Square Wallet
Starbucks is now accepting Square's mobile payment application at about 7,000 of its stores, as part of a wide-ranging agreement between the two companies. — The rollout is right on schedule, coming...
Google dips below 90% market share of UK Search
October proved to be scary month not just for Halloween but also for Google's share of the UK search market. — The latest search stats show that 89.33% of all UK Internet searches were conducted on ...
Verizon won't charge Sandy victims for voice and text usage
As New York and New Jersey residents struggle to get back on their feet after last week's superstorm, the carrier announces it will waive voice and text charges for a two-week period. — As Hurricane...
Foxconn reportedly plans to set up plants in US
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly plans to establish manufacturing plants in the US and is currently conducting evaluations in cities such as Detroit and Los Angeles, accordi...
Google decline in China continues as its search share falls to 4th place, maps to 6th
It's been more than two and a half years since Google left the Chinese search market, and the market share for its search and maps segments has continued to wane. — Marbridge Daily recently called a...
Apple out of China's top five smartphone list in Q3
Coolpad smartphones took third place in market share for China, according to Canalys — Apple dropped out of the top five list in China's smartphone market for the third quarter, as local handset ven...
Egyptian Prosecutor Orders a Ban on Internet Porn
Censorship circumvention software is about to become very popular in Egypt. On Wednesday, the country's Prosecutor General, Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, ordered government ministries to enforce a ban on por...
Facebook open sources Corona — a better way to do webscale Hadoop
a better way to do webscale Hadoop — Facebook is at it again, building more software to make Hadoop a better way to do big data at web scale. Its latest creation, which the company has also open sou...
Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year
(Reuters) - Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon of corporate venture-...
Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share
PC maker Lenovo has reported its earnings for Q2, and there was plenty of good news: $8.7 billion in sales, a record high, a PC market share of 15.6 percent, it's largest ever and operating profit of ...
Verizon's Shammo: We'll finish LTE buildout by mid-2013
Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) will finish its LTE deployment by the middle of 2013, according to Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo. The timeline is about six months earlier than Verizon has previo...
Apple quietly pulls apology-hiding code from U.K. site
Visitors to Apple's U.K. Web site are no longer forced to scroll down to view a court-ordered apology to Samsung, after Apple tried to bury it using hidden code. — Less than a week after Apple was r...
Apple Invents Very Cool Next-Gen Dual Mode Headphones!
Apple has invented a very cool next-gen headphone design that could be operated in two modes. The first mode is the normal every day in-ear design that all headphones offer. The second mode is where...
Nvidia CEO: Consumers realize a great tablet is better than a cheap PC
Graphics chip giant Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said in a conference call with analysts today that consumers realize “a great tablet is better than a cheap PC.” — That's an interesting sta...
Google introduces six-month trial for Cloud SQL, ups storage 10x to 100GB, adds EU datacenter
Google today announced a major update to its Cloud SQL, which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google's cloud. The highlights are this: 10 times more storage, faster reads …
JAM with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online
If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star. JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables friends in different locations to play music together in ...
Groupon falls short of analyst expectations, reporting Q3 revenues of $568.6 million and earnings per share of $0.00
Today Groupon reported its third quarter financial results, including top line revenue of $568.6 million, and earnings per share of $0.00.
Facebook amps up Friendship Pages to highlight your online relationships
Facebook today announced a big visual update to its Friendship Pages to highlight the time you've spent with a family member or friend. In effect, Facebook has essentially auto-created perfect lovey-...
The Narcissism Of Minor Silicon Valley Differences
There's a prevalent myth in Silicon Valley, the myth that people aren't snobs here. This isn't true. A sort of reverse/meta-snobbery exists here, mostly intellectual in its nature, and the line betw...
The New Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
Our apps never stop evolving. Every few weeks, we release an update that adds something new or improves an existing feature. It's not often that we launch a complete redesign. In fact, it happens o...
Tumblr Updates Its iOS App To Be “Completely Native,” Features Redesigned Dashboard, Notifications And Gestures
Tumblr, the micro-blogging service that allows everyone to be a creative publisher, has updated its iOS app to become faster and more engaging. Tumblr says it's “completely native.”
BlackBerry 10 gets US government certification, first time RIM products approved ahead of launch
Research In Motion today announced that the BlackBerry 10 platform has received Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS PUB 140-2) certification.
Sprint updates Samsung Galaxy Note II with Multi-Window feature
Multi-Window is a key feature for the Samsung Galaxy Note II because it adds split-screen functionality to the device's 5.5-inch display — allowing you to run two apps at the same time — but unfortuna...
JAM with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online
If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star. JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables friends in different locations to play music together in ...
T-Mobile USA Q3 2012 earnings: Revenue drops 6 percent to $4.9 billion, profit down 15 percent
T-Mobile USA just announced its Q3 2012 financials, and both revenue and profits are down over last year: the company took in $4.9 billion, 6.4 percent less than last year, and earned $1.2 billion, a ...
Patent suits target Google, Intel, hundreds more for encrypting web traffic
Enlarge / A figure from the patent that has been asserted against Intel, Google, and hundreds of other companies providing SSL and TLS on their websites. — Google — An unknown company's four-year ...
Google experimenting with free mobile access to its web services in developing markets
Google is testing out a new way to bring its services to mobile users free of charge. Dubbed Google Free Zone, the service will facilitate the use of Gmail, Google+, and Google Search via a special d...
After a 5-year beta period, Wikipedia finally moves into the video era with an HTML5 player
With more than half-a-billion monthly visitors, Wikipedia needs little introduction. — But while the not-for-profit is renowned for its crowdsourced, text and image-based online encyclopedia …
You Might Have Gotten An Email From Twitter About Your Account Being Compromised, It's Real
Keep your eyes peeled, Twitter users: Twitter is sending out emails to some of its users telling them it has reset their password and asking them to create a new one. If you can't log into your accou...
Walk in a Mall, Receive a Mobile Coupon
Smart online shoppers always search the Web for a coupon before they make a purchase. RetailMeNot, one of the leading coupon Web sites, is also trying to offer coupons for mall shoppers via their cel...
The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing Perfection
In the new version of Paper released last week, you mix colors with your fingers, like it's paint—only somehow more beautiful. This one magical feature burned a year of development time, resurrected ...
IE10 Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 differences detailed
As we have mentioned already today, Friday is turning out to be a big day for Microsoft and Windows Phone 8 as the first devices running the mobile OS go on sale to the public in the US. The people w...
Sony Network Entertainment prez Tim Schaaff retires, will remain on board of directors
Tim Schaaff came over to Sony from Apple back in 2005 with a mission of aligning its vast consumer electronics and entertainment interests, and today the company has announced he's retiring from his p...
Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams Raises $1.7M To Start Hiring At Social News Reader Nuzzel
Social news startup Nuzzel has raised more than $1.7 million in seed funding. — I say “startup,” but at this point the only person working full-time on the project is Jonathan Abrams …
Judge blocks California's new ban on anonymity for sex offenders
On Tuesday, voters in California overwhelmingly approved Proposition 35, which ratcheted up penalties for those convicted of sex crimes, including human trafficking. The proposition included a provis...
Apple proposing new Bonjour sharing standard
In order to remedy the woes many universities are experiencing using Apple's Bonjour zero-configuration Multicast DNS technology on large scale networks, NetworkWorld reports that the company is propo...
LearnStreet Launches With $1M From Vinod Khosla To Help You Learn How To Build, Test And Push Code
For more than a few years now, engineering talent has been in high demand but it also seems that, of late, coding has become cool. Okay, maybe not cool, but thanks to a fleet of startups …
BitTorrent Traffic Increases 40% in Half a Year
Many Internet traffic reports have been published over the years. Back in 2004, long before the BitTorrent boom began, studies indicated that BitTorrent was responsible for an impressive 35% of all I...
Supreme Court Rejects Hearing For Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde
Earlier this year the copyright infringement sentence of Peter Sunde was made final. This meant that the former Pirate Bay spokesman should have begun an eight month jail sentence in May, but this di...
Web radio growing faster than on-demand services (study)
Webcasters, such as Pandora, saw following increase by 27 percent while on-demand players, such as Spotify and Rhapsody grew by 18 percent. — Music listening patterns continue to evolve and not just...
Adobe investigating Reader X security hole allegedly selling on the black market for $50,000
Just one day after Adobe patched flaws in its Flash Player software for Windows, OS X, Linux, and Android, Group IB security researchers claim to have discovered a -day security hole in Adobe Reader X...
With 400 million registered users, China's YY chat client looks to raise up to $97 million in US IPO [update]
Chinese social entertainment company YY has updated its documents with the Securities Exchange Commission for its upcoming IPO, revealing that it hopes to bring in as much as $97 million …