The second coming of Facebook
Back in 2010 Mark Zuckerberg made a very bad decision. Instead of building separate apps for iPhones, Androids, BlackBerrys, Nokia devices, and, yes, even Microsoft phones, he put his engineers to wo...
Laurene Powell Jobs on immigration reform & Steve Jobs' ‘private legacy’
Laurene Powell Jobs is speaking publicly for the first time since her husband Steve Jobs' death to advocate for immigration reform. — “I started getting more and more active around immigration refor...
Google Proposes Settlement Terms to EU Regulators
In a settlement proposal to European Union antitrust lawyers, Google Inc. for the first time has agreed to submit to a legally binding commitment to make minor changes to the look of its Web-search en...
Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Power Consumption Alone
There's a gold rush going on these days, or a Bitcoin rush, at least. Driven by the recent swings in the value of a Bitcoin, more and more people are learning about and becoming interested in the cur...
Why a Warby Parker flagship retail store is a big moment for online brands (video)
A few years ago when I floated the idea that Amazon would one day experiment with the idea of a retail store in order to project the Amazon experience, it was universally ridiculed.
Computer Security Legend Mudge Leaves DARPA for Google Job
Peter Zatko, the computer hacking expert better known by the handle Mudge, says he's leaving his job as a program manager at DARPA to join Google. He announced the change overnight on Twitter. — Za...
Start-ups founded by immigrants are creating jobs all over America
ON APRIL 19th Jack Markell, the governor of Delaware, is due to visit a new factory being built in his state by Bloom Energy, a start-up based in Silicon Valley. Bloom makes clean power-generation sy...
Iterations: How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin's Future
There isn't just a bubble in the Bitcoin economy, there's a bubble in the number of posts about Bitcoin. I'll pile on, even after this week's mini-crash, but with a twist. A few weeks ago, I wrote s...
Europeans Reach Deal With Google on Search Results
Google has for the first time agreed to legally binding changes to its search results after an antitrust investigation by European regulators into whether it abuses its dominance of online search. — ...
Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Touch-Enabled Watch Device
TAIPEI—Microsoft Corp. is working on designs for a touch-enabled watch device, executives at suppliers said, potentially joining rivals like Apple Inc. in working on a new class of computing products.
Here's How To Get Facebook Home Running On Nearly Any Android Device
In case you happened to miss the furor earlier today (or yesterday, depending on your timezone), Facebook officially pushed its Facebook Home launcher into the Google Play Store for owners of a select...
‘Chinese Google’ Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
It doesn't look like much. The brick office building sits next to a strip mall in Cupertino, California, about an hour south of San Francisco, and if you walk inside, you'll find a California state f...