Microsoft names Corporate Vice President Amy Hood as new Microsoft chief financial officer
Former CFO for the Microsoft Business Division succeeds outgoing CFO Peter Klein. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Amy Hood was named Microsoft chief financial officer …
This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl)
Jennie Lamere was the only woman to present at a Boston hackathon. She won it. — Imagine you forget to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones the night it airs. Even if coworkers stay mum …
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion
Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal docu...
Dear Apple, let's talk about photos
I'm Peter, a Rails developer and entrepreneur. I'm an ex-computer vision researcher, the former CEO of Clickpass and a YC alum. I now work with an awesome team building Copyin - email for teams — ...
Godzilla vs. Mothra, the sequel
What happens when two giants collide? — FORTUNE — Amazon and Google are on a collision course. — When I was at eBay, we had a belief that no one was going to compete with us by replicating exactly...
T-Mobile Says Has Sold 500,000 iPhones, Q1 Revenue Dipped 7 Percent
T-Mobile released full first quarter financials late Tuesday evening, reporting a 7 percent dip in revenue from a year earlier. — Adjusted earnings, excluding interest, tax, depreciation and amortiz...
Nokia video compares Lumia 928 camera against GS III and iPhone 5
The first footage from the PureView camera aboard Nokia's Lumia 928 is up on the phone's official landing page, showing how it compares against the iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S III at shooting vide...
Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade
During the dot-com boom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital investment firm, all but minted money, making prescient early investments in Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Goog...
Internet in Syria has been restored after being disconnected for over 19 hours
Internet in Syria has been restored on Wednesday at 14:13 UTC. The country went offline on Tuesday at around 18:45 UTC as Internet connectivity was completely cut across the nation.
Dots, Betaworks' New Super Addictive iOS Game, Nabs 1 Million Downloads In One Week
Dots, a game launched just last week out of betaworks, has reached over 1 million downloads in just one week of availability. — According to a blog post, the app hit number 1 in eight countries …
Fusion-io founders quit to start new venture, shares slump
(Reuters) - Memory drive maker Fusion-io Inc said founders David Flynn, the chief executive, and Rick White, chief marketing officer, have resigned to set up another venture, sending the company's sha...
The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm. — The idea arises from experiments suggesting that the portion of your brain dedicated to processing sound from your ears coul...
Google adds notification center to Chromium for Mac in preparation for porting Google Now to OS X
Over the last few months, the Chrome OS notification center was ported to Chromium and then to Chrome Canary, but the feature was limited to just Windows. Now it looks like the first attempts …
Rogers determined to butt heads with Netflix
Canadian television providers are planning to cut their own cords, with several of the country's largest media companies developing subscription-based services to compete with online rivals such as Ne...
Hewlett-Packard faces $1bn lawsuit from shareholders over Autonomy deal
HP accused of ignoring evidence on ‘vastly overvalued’ acquisition while Autonomy founder denies financial impropriety — Hewlett-Packard tried to pull out of its $11bn (£7bn) takeover of British sof...
AOL's Earnings Are Light, but Revenue and Ad Sales Are on Track
This looks like a pretty good performance from AOL: Tim Armstrong's Internet company came in a couple pennies light on earnings in its Q1, but hit its revenue marks. — As important: Its underlying n...
Marissa Mayer's moonshot: Yahoo on every device
With more than 700 million users Yahoo has a good start, but getting the next billion users will be a challenge. — NEW YORK—Marissa Mayer has clear vision of what a moonshot — an epic accomplishment...
Sharp to reportedly start ‘iPhone 5S’ LCD production in June
A report from the Far East on Tuesday says struggling LCD manufacturer and Apple supplier Sharp is ready to ramp up display manufacture for the next-generation iPhone, with mass production slated to s...
HealthTap scores $24M from Khosla & others, former Square COO Keith Rabois joins board
This story is part of a series exploring the themes of our upcoming health tech conference, May 20-21 in San Francisco. Read the full series here. — Health Q&A startup HealthTap has raised $24 mill...
Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy
Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. — Our industry...
Feds Drop Hacking Charges in Video-Poker Glitching Case
They know when to fold 'em. Las Vegas prosecutors targeting two men who took advantage of a software bug to win a small fortune at video poker have dropped all hacking charges from the case, cashing ...
Twitter favorites @Sunnyvale with new office lease
Sunnyvale, you have a new follower: Twitter. — Twitter Inc. has signed for an 8,000-square-foot space at 400 West California Ave., part of Sunnyvale Business Park and just a skip away from the Sunny...
Internet Service on Planes: FCC to Consider Using Satellite Airwaves
WASHINGTON—In-flight Internet speeds could rival those on the ground under a proposal expected to move forward on Thursday. — U.S. airlines have been rolling out Internet service on flights for seve...