Jony Ive paints a fresh, yet familiar, look for iOS 7
According to multiple people who have either seen or have been briefed on the upcoming iOS 7, the operating system sports a redesigned user-interface that will be attractive to new iOS users, but pote...
Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, more from iOS later this year
OS X 10.9, which is internally codenamed “Cabernet,” will focus on various “power-user” enhancements and take core features from iOS, according to our sources. Unlike operating system updates …
Jack Dorsey Talks Square and Wearable Devices
Many technology enthusiasts have had their eye on Glass, Google's monocle that looks like something out of Star Trek. But the Internet-connected eyewear doesn't really pique the interest of Jack Dors...
Google Now comes to iPhone and iPad with new Search app update
Google's iOS app offensive continues — After a promo video let the cat out of the bag last month, Google is making it official: with an update to the Google Search application, Google Now is availab...
Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion Challenging Amazon
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows Azure software and related programs have surpassed $1 billion in annual sales for the first time, a sign of progress in the effort to challenge Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) ...
That Horrible Tumblr Memo Was Actually a Fired Editor's Secret Revenge
Tumblr founder David Karp's abrupt farewell to his Storyboard team earlier this month was so disingenuous, so thick with noxious doublespeak, that it hardly seemed real. That's because it wasn't …
BlackBerry Rises as CEO Sees Q10 Selling Tens of Millions
BlackBerry (BBRY), the Canadian smartphone maker, climbed to its highest level in more than a month after Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins said he sees sales of its new Q10 device to be in the “...
Here Is How Foursquare Plans On Turning Your Life Into Ads
On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier today (RIP, Sam Biddle's press credentials!) Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley acknowledged the haters, before offering a confident dismissal: “I think there are a ...
Under the Hood: The natural language interface of Graph Search
Xiao Li is an engineering manager on the natural language team for Graph Search and Maxime Boucher is a research scientist for Graph Search. — The Graph Search engine is built upon highly structured...
The irony of the French government's intervention in the Yahoo! - Dailymotion deal...
Guardian Twitter accounts hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army
Twitter accounts belonging to The Guardian newspaper have fallen at the hands of hackers belonging to the Syrian Electronic Army. — The hackers have been making a habit of breaking into high profile...
Microsoft creates an Apple vs. Samsung wedding fight for its new Windows Phone ad
Microsoft has tried a number of ways to advertise Windows Phone handsets, but the latest pits two rivals against each other. In a new minute long spot that's due to air on US national TV, a wedding r...
Bang With Friends Is Raising ~ $1 Million To Help People Find Hook Up Buddies
Bang with Friends (BWF) is a Facebook app that does exactly what you're thinking it does. It helps people on Facebook find friends to hook up with rather than date. — So it may come as a shock that...
Android Took 64% Of All Smartphone Sales Globally In Q1; Windows Phone Continues Modest Gains, Says Kantar
Google's mobile OS Android continues to power ahead as the world's most popular smartphone platform, according to figures out today from Kantar Worldpanel Comtech …
After Minor Ventures, Ron Palmeri Rebuilds
Ron Palmeri's stealthy micro-VC firm, MkII Ventures, has made at least three new investments and attracted several new limited partners, including Pacific Partners, SV Angel and Michael Arrington's Cr...
A terrible idea: Samsung reworks Gangnam Style to promote the Galaxy S4 in India
When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4 in New York earlier this year, the company was criticized for the rather bizarre production that it put on to demonstrate the smartphone's new software features.
Yahoo rolls out six original shows and new TV partnerships
Aiming to bring users more content, the company is launching Web shows, starring Ed Helms, John Stamos, and Cheryl Hines, and debuting programming from WWE, ABC News, CNBC, and Conde Nast. — Yahoo C...
Handle Is A Priority Engine And Task Management App For Your Inbox
Menlo Ventures partner Shawn Carolan searched for over five years to find an investment tackling the problem of email overload. Carolan, who led investments in Apple-acquired Siri among others, perso...
Google, Twitter, Facebook and the new global battle over the future of free speech
A year ago this month, Stanford Law School hosted a little-noticed meeting that may help decide the future of free speech online. It took place in the faculty lounge, where participants were sustaine...
Notebook Refresh to Be Highlight of WWDC, Non-Retina MacBook Pro to Continue?
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new report forecasting that the product highlight of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which kicks off on June 10, will be the introducti...
Chat apps have overtaken SMS by message volume, but how big a disaster is that for carriers?
There's a reason why mobile carriers are scared of third-party messaging apps such as WhatsApp, and here it is: people are now sending more messages over these services than they are text messages.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 announced, a low-end 7-inch tablet that makes calls
Today, Samsung is announcing a new 7-inch tablet called the Galaxy Tab 3, but to our eyes, it doesn't look much different from the current 7-inch Tab 2. It swaps the previous Tab's 1 GHz dual-core pr...
Social Media's Effects On Markets Concern Regulators
Could the global economy hinge on 140 characters? — That is the question the financial industry and government regulators are trying to answer after a Twitter hoax on Tuesday that claimed President ...
Does anyone know why Google bought Motorola?
The products weren't great and the patents overvalued — so what did that $12.5 billion actually buy? — Why did Google spend $12.5 billion dollars to purchase Motorola Mobility? It's been nearly two...
Square Updates Its Register iPad App With Kitchen Tickets, Ordering Features To Better Serve Restaurants
Square's point-of-sale technology and iPad-powered register, Square Register is getting a big update today targeted at better serving restaurants. New features in the release include …
Samsung tells the design story behind the Galaxy S 4 (video)
In case you missed it, Samsung released a new phone over the weekend and now the company's put together a quick video describing the design notions behind its Galaxy S 4. Expect to hear the word intu...
Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4m
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against a former employee and consultant, alleging that the man gave away trade secrets to rival Mozilla. Opera is claiming a whopping 20 mi...
Twitter Is Testing Out Its Official Google Glass App In The Wild
It's only a matter of time before Twitter releases its own Google Glass app, as Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr dropped the hint that the company was looking into building one during this month's Glass Co...