No One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
There is perhaps no one more excited for Google Glass than Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg. — On Wednesday at the University of California, San Francisco's Mission Bay medical campus, the Faceboo...
Recent Cyberattacks
As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion. — Consistent with our security response practices, we chose not to make a sta...
Orange Acquired Dailymotion For $168 Million By Buying Out Remaining 51% Stake [Update: Orange Confirms]
Back in January 2011, Orange acquired 49 percent of Dailymotion for $78 million (€59 million), and declared that they wanted to buy out the remaining 51 percent.
Exclusive Preview: Google's New Built-from-Scratch Googleplex
Google occupies some of the most famous offices in the world—think cafés everywhere you look, treadmills with laptops attached to them, pool tables and bowling alleys …
Hands-on with the Ubuntu Touch Linux smartphone
The early and surprisingly nice version bodes well for Canonical's Linux smartphone — but you may not want to install it yourself Ubuntu Touch's home screen Developers got their first hands-on peek ye...
Apple Pulls Controversial Proxy Proposal After Court Ruling
Apple has withdrawn from its proxy statement a controversial proposal it had intended to place before shareholders that had drawn the ire, and a lawsuit, from hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Green...
Google's Offer Extensions rolling out within a week, integrating deals with search
Google's Offer Extensions, which pair ads in search result pages with Groupon-like deals and special discounts, is set to roll out to all advertisers by the end of February, according to an ad industr...
Study Shows iPhone 300% More Reliable Than Samsung Smartphones
The study looked at data from 722,558 problem reports listed on the site …
NKorea to allow mobile Internet for foreigners
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea will soon allow foreigners to tweet, Skype and surf the Internet from their cellphones, iPads and other mobile devices in its second relaxation of controls on...
Facebook to Partner With Acxiom, Epsilon to Match Store Purchases With User Profiles
Can Facebook Ads Drive Offline Buying? — Use a loyalty card for discounts at the drug store? The ads you see on Facebook could start looking familiar. — Facebook is testing out a new kind …
NBCU Spent $195 Million To Buy Back Half Of MSNBC.com
Thanks to Comcast's 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, we now know how much NBCUniversal spent to buy back the 50% of MSNBC.com that was owned by Microsoft. — The total purchas...
Nevada governor signs online gambling bill law after measure fast-tracked through Legislature
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Gov. Brian Sandoval signed legislation Thursday legalizing online gambling in Nevada, capping a dizzying day at the Legislature as lawmakers passed the bill through the Assembly an...
PayPal Here Is Coming To The UK, Its First Mobile Payment Market In Europe, Armed With A New Way To Read Your Card
Make way for one more player in the European mobile payments space, and a big one at that. Today, the online payments giant PayPal announced that from this summer …
Facebook Gives Graph Search To More People, Makes Those Left Out Jealous
Five weeks after launch, Facebook gave reporters a ‘State Of Graph Search’ today at its Menlo Park HQ. It's been rolled out from the original 100,000 users to “hundreds of thousands,” and now a news ...
France to invest €20bn in high-speed broadband for the entire country
Summary: French president François Hollande wants very high-speed broadband to reach every household in the country by 2023 - a plan that will need private as well as public investment. — Valéry Mar...
Nokia to fight rivals with cheaper models: sources
(Reuters) - Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is set to launch cheaper handset models in an attempt to fend off growing competition from Chinese rivals in the low-end market, company sources said on Fr...
HP's Whitman says ‘no plans to break up the company’
HP's CEO has again dismissed rumors that HP may be broken up into smaller businesses — Hewlett-Packard's CEO has dismissed persistent rumors that the company might break itself up in a move that cou...