Next: Yahoo Also Eyeing Automated Video App Maker Qwiki in $50 Million Deal
According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is considering paying up to $50 million for Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allow users to turn photos, music and video...
Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment
Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak...
FiftyThree, Maker Of Drawing App Paper, Raises $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz And Others
FiftyThree, the startup behind the wildly popular drawing app Paper, has closed a Series A round of financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Highline Ventures, Thrive Capital, SV ...
Apple testing deep LinkedIn integration for iOS 7
Further bolstering the presence of third-party social networks in iOS, Apple is testing deep LinkedIn integration for the upcoming release of iOS 7, according to code-based references found inside of ...
Maker of ‘Candy Crush Saga’ Plans IPO
Candy Crush Saga is lining up something besides jelly beans: bankers. — Midasplayer International Holding Co., the publisher of online and mobile games including the popular Candy Crush Saga, has hi...
Power Testing: Can Two New Laptops Really Last All Day?
Most consumers pay little or no attention to the processors and other chips that power their computers, and rightly so. In recent years, changes to the design of these chips haven't made major, notic...
Huawei Ascend P6 announced: 6.18mm thickness, 4.7-inch 720p display
We knew it was in the works given the sheer quantity of leaks but, with a small sigh of relief, Huawei's Ascend P6 is now official. At the company's London launch, the handset has been revealed with ...
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP benchmarks: prepare for ludicrous speed
Today we had a chance to play with Qualcomm's latest dev tablet (MDP) which packs the company's mighty Snapdragon 800 SoC (MSM8974). The device is slightly larger than last year's MDP and features a ...
AT&T starts nationwide FaceTime over cellular rollout
AT&T appears to be in the midst of rolling out support for Apple's FaceTime video calling service for iPhone on its cellular network, making good on a promise to support all video chat apps over wirel...
Privacy authorities issue Google a ‘please explain’ on Glass
Summary: Ten privacy authorities from countries including Australia, Canada, and Israel have sent a joint letter to Google asking the company to address privacy concerns over Google Glass. — Josh Ta...
Apple TV gets iTunes Radio, Conference Room display option in beta update
Apple TV received little attention during Worldwide Developers Conference, but the diminutive set-top box still has the Cupertino company's attention, as new videos reveal iTunes Radio and a new Confe...
Grasping for a Vine: Video for Instagram Will Be Sole Reveal at Facebook Event Thursday
Instagram plans to release a video product this Thursday at a press event at Facebook's headquarters, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, marking the first time the robust …
Facebook's Zuckerberg Meets Samsung Executives Amid Mobile Push
Facebook Inc. (FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to boost advertising sales from mobile devices, is meeting with Samsung Electronics Co. executives today in Seoul. — Zuckerberg wa...
A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry
Millions of people use the tool Ghostery to block online tracking technology—few realize that it feeds data to the ad industry. — WHY IT MATTERS — There are few options for those wishing to avoid ...
Airbnb vs Hotels: A Price Comparison
Price of Airbnb vs Hotel by US City — Mouseover to get price comparison detail — Size of bubble corresponds to number of Airbnb listings (logarithmic scale) — At Priceonomics, we like to get mor...
Having problems with your Netflix? You can blame Verizon
If you are trying to get Netflix and use Verizon's broadband, then there is a good chance that your video performance is less than optimal. Some Verizon customers might even go as far as calling it a...
HP swaps PC, printer unit captains: It's all about China, Lenovo
Summary: Todd Bradley steps down from HP's PC and printer unit to be replaced by Dion Weisler, a former Lenovo and Acer executive. HP is hoping Bradley and Weisler can form an executive tag team that...
Top Wall Street Journal Reporter Jessica Lessin Going Solo
Jessica Lessin, a San Francisco-based senior technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal of several years, is quitting (somewhat abruptly) to launch her own tech website. It will sting a bit.
Voice recognition tool Dragon updates Android app with hands-free driver mode and voice notifications
Nuance Communications today released an update to its Dragon Mobile Assistant app for Android. Users with supported devices will find that it now includes hands-free driver technology …
Twitter's Geography: Visualized and Explained
Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo has called the popular microblogging service “the pulse of the planet.” With a little less than eight percent of the world's population on Twitter, that pulse has room to g...
AMD Prepares Move to ‘Seattle,’ Its First ARM Chip
Advanced Micro Devices has been using the same technology foundation as Intel since the 1980s. Now the underdog chip supplier is fleshing out plans to diverge. — The company on Tuesday is announcin...
Adobe releases Creative Cloud into the wild
Adobe has released its long-awaited and highly controversial Creative Cloud suite of applications for both longtime professional devotees and the newcomers it hopes to attract. Having historically op...
Microsoft Builds Its Own iAd for Windows 8 Apps
New Technology Means a Banner Can Watch You — Microsoft is creating its own new native ad formats for Windows 8, not unlike Apple's iAd, which is designed to increase ad revenue in the iOS ecosystem...
AT&T and Goal Zero deploy solar-powered Street Charge stations in NYC, we go hands-on (video)
If you'e lucky, your smartphone's battery can just make it through a full day, with the percentage meter dropping to the single digits as you finally get a chance to plug in.