Introducing Netflix Social
Movies and TV shows are better with friends. — We get suggestions from our friends for new things to watch and we connect with our friends through the shared enjoyment of a great movie or TV show. ...
A second spring of cleaning
We're living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It's been a long time since we have had this rate of change—it probably hasn't happened since ...
Samsung Targets Galaxy 4 at Apple's Core IPhone Market
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is making its biggest run yet at the iPhone's U.S. loyalists, unveiling the new Galaxy S4 a few blocks from Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s flagship store in New York and broadcas...
In Rare Move, Apple Goes on the Defensive Against Samsung
Apple Inc. is on the defensive. — In a rare interview a day before Samsung Electronics Co. announces a new flagship smartphone in New York, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller on Wednesday played do...
Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes As Users Report Problems Early On Making Payments
Google opened registration for its annual I/O developer conference today at 7 AM PDT, and just as it did last year, the event sold out pretty quickly. This year it took only 49 minutes …
Welcome Twitter for Windows 8
Today, we are releasing Twitter for Windows 8, a new app that makes it easier than ever to share and discover content on Windows 8 devices. In addition to familiar Twitter features, including the Hom...
Pebble Teardown
Welcome to the future of watch evolution. The Pebble E-Paper Watch is the “first watch built for the 21st century.” It can track your bikerides, display your text messages, and even tell the time! ...
VMware merges vCloud, Nicira to chase software defined data center
Summary: The company will launch VMware NSX, a combination of vCloud and Nicira technology, in the second half of 2013 to aim at the software defined data center. — VMware said it will merge its vCl...
Samsung Outspends Apple on Phone Advertising
In the smartphone business, following the money leads right to Samsung Electronics Co. — Outspent by rival Apple Inc. more than three to one in advertising for mobile phones in the U.S. in 2011, Sam...
Apple Stores in France banned from forcing employees to work late
A Paris court this week banned seven French Apple Stores from forcing employees to work night shifts, in response to a complaint filed by a group of national labor unions. As the AFP reports, the cou...
User Experience Lab: How we designed a new News Feed using your feedback
“My feed is cluttered.” That's a piece of feedback the News Feed team has heard countless times. An obvious interpretation could be that people think the design of Feed is too busy and want it to be...
Dell announces XPS 18: a giant all-in-one Windows 8 tablet starting at $899 (hands-on)
When we reviewed the best Windows 8 all-in-one desktop computers, it was a giant, bulky, pricey Dell desktop that rose to the top of the heap. Today, Dell's trying its hand at a radically different W...
Study: One in four teens access the internet primarily through mobile
Want to know what U.S. smartphone adoption might look like next year? You'd do well to start by taking a look at today's teenagers, who are owning smartphones and accessing the internet through mobil...
Peter Thiel On Not Selling Facebook To Yahoo - And Much More
As it turns out, the man who wants to build a sovereign ocean community off the coast of California is really down to earth. — Tuesday at South by Southwest (SXSW), serial entrepreneur, venture capi...
Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself?
The team sitting around the table at Groupon's Chicago headquarters in the early spring of 2011 were some of the brightest minds in technology and business. Marc Andreessen, the man who created the m...
How Apple Gets All the Good Apps
Apple tightly controls its software and hardware, and is fiercely competitive in battling its rivals, especially in the mobile market. And yet, while the company never creates apps for anyone else's ...
Exclusive: HTC One Headed to Verizon, Too
It looks like HTC's One really will be the one flagship for the Taiwanese phone maker. — When HTC announced the phone last month, it said the One would be sold at AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. A menti...
White House Petition Against CISPA Gets Over The 100,000 Signature Threshold
Yet another White House petition has made it over the 100,000 signature mark, which is necessary to get a response. This one is asking the White House not to support CISPA, arguing that the terms are...
Unannounced Motorola Android phone surfaces, isn't the fabled ‘X phone’ (video)
The fine folks at Tinhte have gotten their mitts on a Motorola-made Android phone that hasn't made its official debut. Right out of the gate, the outlet notes that it's not the rumored “X phone” …
Shigeru Miyamoto on Nintendo's innovative past, unsteady present and optimistic future
Before we talk, we play. — Set up in a backroom of Nintendo's Midtown Manhattan offices, Shigeru Miyamato sports a green Luigi t-shirt under a blue sports coat, matching pants and, as always, a smil...
PayPal Acquires Mobile App Development Studio Duff Research To Work On Its Mobile And Digital Wallet
PayPal is acquiring mobile app development studio Duff Research today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. … Duff Research, which has not raised any venture capital to date …
Uber, Lyft, Sidecar: Can the FTC fight local taxi commissions?
Taxi commissions are crushing disruptive transportation apps. — In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal s...