Apple CEO on challenge of keeping company cutting edge
Steve Jobs' hand-picked successor, current Apple CEO Tim Cook, talks exclusively to Rock Center Anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams about Apple's battle with Samsung, glitches with their maps ap...
Richard O'Dwyer's two-year extradition ordeal ends in New York
TVShack founder avoids prosecution under copyright laws and says: 'It is a pity the UK government didn't try and resolve this' — A British student's two-year fight to avoid extradition to the US end...
Pinterest Cuts Off Spammers (Hey Instagram, Hope You're Next)
Pinterest today is undertaking a cleansing of spammy and fake accounts. It plans to delete them. — The site already has a spam reporting system for pins and comments. It tries to take care of bad ...
BitTorrent and uTorrent mobile apps on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone pass 10 million downloads
On Thursday, BitTorrent announced an impressive milestone: 10,000,000 mobile downloads, and counting, for its Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps. This is impressive if you keep in mind …
Series A crunch: By the numbers
If you thought the Series A crunch is bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet. — FORTUNE — A growing number of tech startups are having trouble graduating from seed or angel funding to traditional ventu...
Bids for Google's Motorola Set-Top Box Business Due Soon
Google Inc. is wrapping up an auction of Motorola's set-top box business, according to people involved in the deal, as it continues downsizing the hardware unit. — The Mountain View, Calif., company...
Apple Joins Google in $500 Million-Plus Bid for Kodak Patents
Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) have joined forces to offer more than $500 million to buy Eastman Kodak Co. (EKDKQ)'s patents out of bankruptcy, said two people with knowledge of the situatio...
Google Apps discontinues basic package, asks new customers to pony up $50 per user for premium
Looking towards Mountain View to provide a suite of digital tools for your new business? Make sure to pen per-user costs into your ledger — Google Apps isn't free anymore.
U.S. patent office declares ‘the Steve Jobs patent’ entirely invalid on non-final basis
For the second time in less than two months, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a first Office action tentatively declaring a key Apple multitouch patent invalid.
Live Blog: Google's Vic Gundotra At SMX Social Media Marketing
Our SMX Social Media Marketing conference is winding down today and the final event on the agenda is a keynote conversation involving Vic Gundotra, the Senior VP of Engineering for Google+, and our ow...
They Know What You're Shopping For
'You're looking at the premium package, right?' Companies today are increasingly tying people's real-life identities to their online browsing habits. — Georgia resident Andy Morar is in the market ...
Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an Expansion
SAN JOSE, Calif. — John T. Chambers has readied his last great act as the leader of Cisco Systems, fearing major changes in the technology business that could doom his company. — In an interview at ...
Kim Dotcom posts screenshots of upcoming Mega site: key generator, registration, and file manager
Kim Dotcom just took to Twitter and posted three new screenshots of his upcoming Mega service, which will be hosted at the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz.
For Netflix and the SEC, a Facebook Share Should Be Public Enough
Most people worry about over-sharing on Facebook. Under-sharing? Not so much. — Except, that is, for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is considering taking action against Netflix for ...
Exclusive: Google to replace M&A chief, launch late-stage investment fund
(Reuters) - Google Inc is replacing the head of its in-house mergers and acquisitions group with one of its top lawyers and is planning to create a new late-stage investment group that longtime and ou...
iPhone 5 Now ‘In Stock’ in Apple's Online Stores for Several Countries
Just days after shipping estimates for new iPhone 5 orders improved to 2-4 business days, they are taking the final step with Apple now listing the device as “in stock” in many of its online stores.
Besides Scalpers, Few Turn Out for iPad Mini Launch in Beijing
Apple's Power Within
Whether Apple's share-price plunge is justified comes down to one question: Is the iPhone maker a hardware or a software company? Right now, it is more the latter. And that is why the 22% drop in th...
Facebook in Talks to Buy Microsoft's Atlas Ad Platform
According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is looking seriously at purchasing Microsoft's Atlas Solutions ad-serving platform. — Sources said the social networking giant has been conducti...
On Legacy iPhones and Cannibalization
By continuing to sell legacy iPhones after the debut of the device's latest iteration, Apple, which has long catered to the higher end of the markets it plays in, is extending its reach to price-sensi...
Google Nearer to Selling Motorola Set-Top Line
Google Inc. is wrapping up an auction of Motorola's set-top box business, according to people involved in the deal, as it continues downsizing the hardware unit. — The Mountain View, Calif., company...
Netflix CEO Hastings deserves SEC scrutiny
Netflix investors shouldn't be expected to search everywhere for information. — FORTUNE — Back in July, Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings disclosed what may have been material company information via...
Online Learning Marketplace Udemy Lands $12M To Expand Its Course Catalog, Go Cross-Platform
In 2010, Udemy set out to capitalize on the growing market for video-based online education by launching a learning platform that allows anyone to teach and participate in online video classes.
Galaxy S III ‘Premium Suite’ features detailed: Multi-Window, Page Buddy and more (video)
Samsung started pushing a new Jelly Bean update to its Galaxy S III phones yesterday, and it's posted a video breaking down some of the features. Many of the “Premium Suite” upgrades are cribbed …
BlueStacks Hits 5M Installs, Rumored To Be Bringing 750K+ Android Apps To Windows RT Devices
It appears that BlueStacks isn't just a flash in the pan. The Silicon Valley-based startup, which makes software that allows users to run their Android apps on Macs and PCs …
U.S. judge names lead plaintiffs in Facebook litigation
(Reuters) - A group of investors including state pension funds in North Carolina and Arkansas will be the lead plaintiffs in securities lawsuits arising out of Facebook Inc's $16 billion initial publi...
AMD cuts chip orders to GlobalFoundries as PC market slumps
Advanced Micro Devices has cut orders to contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries, expecting a “choppy demand environment” in the next few quarters. — Advanced Micro Devices has cut orders to cont...
Facebook's Dan Levy Touts Small Business Growth: Advertisers Have Nearly Doubled Since January, Promoted 2.5M Posts
Dan Levy, who leads the small business team at Facebook, is on stage right now at the Interactive Local Media West conference in Los Angeles, where he's talking …
Mapping Apple's Retail Expansion
Apple opened its first retail stores on May 19, 2001 - one in Virginia and the other in California. In the Steve Jobs biography, author Walter Isaacson wrote how Jobs had wanted Apple to have its own...
Intel prepping Atom bombs to drop on ARM microservers
Roadmap is top secret, dual-core ‘Centerton’ Atom looms — To hear Intel Fellow Matt Adiletta tell it, Chipzilla not only invented the term microserver but saw the trend towards wimpy computing comin...