Dish Launches $25.5 Billion Bid for Sprint
Satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp. is making a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., an effort to derail the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier's acquisition by Softbank Corp. of Japan. — Dish i...
Apple Dominates Best-Paid as Board Retains Jobs Deputies
Four of the five highest-paid employees at Standard & Poor's 500 companies aren't chief executive officers. They're Apple Inc. (AAPL) senior lieutenants receiving compensation packages designed to ke...
How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future
A small, covert team of engineers at Microsoft cast aside suggestions that the company spend US$60 million to turn its 500-acre headquarters into a smart campus to achieve energy savings and other eff...
Foxconn Steps Up Hiring As Apple Readies New iPhone
TAIPEI—Foxconn Technology Group has resumed hiring assembly-line workers in China after a postholiday freeze, in the latest sign that major customer Apple Inc. is gearing up for production of the new ...
Mozilla Will Debut Firefox OS in Five Countries in June
Mozilla, the nonprofit foundation behind the Firefox browser, is bringing its engineering acumen to bear on a new mobile operating system, Firefox OS. And it plans to debut this year. — But when ex...
YouTube adds support for live streaming on iOS with latest update
When Coachella streamed its concerts on YouTube this weekend, iOS users may have been disappointed to discover that the YouTube app didn't support live broadcasts. Now, Google is adding live event st...
EA backs off from Facebook in a big way
In a surprise announcement, Electronic Arts today revealed that it is retiring a number of its biggest Facebook games, including The Sims Social. — The Sims Social in particular has been extremely p...
Comcast confirms: Yes, we're encrypting basic cable now
Comcast customers, get ready for yet another TV transition: The cable provider has started to alert its customers in some markets that it is about to encrypt their basic cable signals, forcing them to...
Kodak Agrees to $210 Million Imaging Sale to Brother
Eastman Kodak Co. (EKDKQ), the bankrupt photography pioneer, agreed to sell document-imaging assets to Japanese office-equipment company Brother Industries Ltd. (6448) for about $210 million, setting ...
Trader admits fraud in $1 billion Apple stock scheme
(Reuters) - A former Rochdale Securities trader whose unauthorized purchase of about $1 billion of Apple Inc stock caused the demise of the financial services company pleaded guilty on Monday to wire ...
BitTorrent Surf Beta Launches Today On Chrome And Firefox
In early January, we launched an Alpha of BitTorrent Surf, a Chrome plugin that brings BitTorrent to your browser. — Today, we're ready to catch bigger waves. Yep. Puns. We went there. With big ...
Facebook and State Attorneys General Team Up to Educate Teens and Parents about Privacy
While some reports indicate that teen Facebook use is on the decline, Facebook along with the National Association of Attorneys General are about to become laser focused on educating that younger demo...
Kobo unveils limited edition Aura HD e-reader: 6.8-inch HD screen, ships April 25th for $169 (hands-on)
Late last year, Kobo went small. The introduction of the 5-inch Mini was no doubt, at least in part, an attempt to offer up a bit of variety in a space whose parameters are largely defined …
IBM executives head to Washington to press lawmakers on cybersecurity bill
Nearly 200 senior IBM executives are flying into Washington to press for the passage of a controversial cybersecurity bill that will come up for a vote in the House this week. — The IBM executives w...
Meet Xiaomi, the Biggest Smartphone Company You've Never Heard Of
Xiaomi may not be the biggest smartphone company in China, but it's probably the fastest-growing. And if you haven't yet heard of it, you will soon. Xiaomi sold 7.19 million handsets in 2012, and ex...
In wake of Boston tragedy, Google launches Person Finder
As it has done for every major tragedy in the last three years, starting with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Google has launched a Person Finder for Boston. — One of the primary strains for those wit...
Linux Foundation takes over Xen, enlists Amazon in war to rule the cloud
The Linux Foundation has taken control of the open source Xen virtualization platform and enlisted a dozen industry giants in a quest to be the leading software for building cloud networks.
Scammers in China Exploit Apple to Turn Fake iPhones into Real Ones
Apple has been taking quite a bit of stick over the last month for its after-sales service practices in China, and perhaps rightfully so. But instead of being exploited by Apple, police have discover...
‘Lean In’ Software Goes Corporate
The networking technology that powers Sheryl Sandberg's “Lean In” campaign has its own ambitions to rise inside corporations. — “Lean In” is the best-selling book written by Ms. Sandberg, the chief ...
Google Glass tech specs: 5MP/720P camera, 802.11b/g Wifi 16GB storage (12GB usable), full day battery
Along with today's Glass API release, Google now officially announced specs for the Glass Explorer editions. Notable is the camera which will take 5 Megapixel images or 720P video.
Intel Tries to Find a Foothold Beyond PCs
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For the last several months, Andy Bryant, the chairman of Intel, has been trying to put steel in the backs of the company's employees. At meetings, he tells them that Intel must...
Venture capitalists rethink big bets on China
Two years ago, it was one of the hottest areas in tech investing. Venture capitalists were lining up to throw money at it. But now, after disappointing IPOs, investors are fleeing. — Social networ...
Mozilla Launches TowTruck: An Experimental Project to Bring Google Drive-Like Collaboration to Any Site
Currently just a “proof of concept” from Mozilla Labs, TowTruck is a service which adds real-time collaboration to any website. — Similar to what you'd find in Google Drive …
Twitter Said to Seek Deals With Viacom, NBC to Feature TV Online
Twitter Inc. is close to reaching partnerships with television networks that would bring more high-quality video content and advertising to the social site, according to people familiar with the matte...
Apple says small number of Apple TVs have WiFi issues, opens replacement program
Apple has informed its official retail stores, AppleCare employees, and authorized resellers that a small number of third-generation Apple TV units have WiFi issues. These issues surround not being a...