Gesture In The Picture, As Intel Reportedly Picks Up Omek But PrimeSense Dismisses Apple Acquisition Rumors
Yet more exits for Israeli startups, with the latest two developments a throwback to the hardware and engineering muscle that raised the tech profile of the region in the first place …
Revamped Google Maps for iOS launches: supports iPad, indoor maps, enhanced navigation
In line with last week's expectations of an updated Google Maps app, Google has begun rolling out version 2.0 of Google Maps for iOS today. Most notably, the new application includes support …
AT&T counters T-Mo's Jump with Next, its own phone upgrade program. Is it a better deal?
Not to be outdone by T-Mobile's new smartphone upgrade program Jump, AT&T is launching its own plans next week that will let customers trade up to new handsets before their contracts are up.
Google Pitches Online TV Service to Media Companies
Streaming of Traditional TV Programming Is Also Planned by Others — Google Inc. has approached media companies about licensing their content for an Internet TV service that would stream traditional ...
FBI Ransomware Now Targeting Apple's Mac OS X Users
For years, Windows users have been plagued by ransomware demanding several hundred dollars to unlock their computers. — The bad guys know there is a growing market of Apple consumers who, for the mo...
Chat Sensation WhatsApp Is Now Free — Sort Of
Sort Of — The enormously successful mobile chat tool WhatsApp, which Apple recently listed as the 6th most popular paid app of all time, is now free. It had been 99 cents, so this might not seem lik...
Airbnb Slows Hiring Overseas, Shifts Strategy
Airbnb Inc. is trying not to become another cautionary tale in international expansion. — One of technology's hottest startups, with a valuation of $2.5 billion, the online-accommodation rental serv...
Apple Owns 56% Of The Streaming Devices Market, Roku Second With 21%
We've just released our latest Frost & Sullivan report on the size of the Consumer Video Devices Market, which details the market drivers, restraints to market growth, product and pricing trends, comp...
Apple Launches Logic Pro X with Virtual Drummer and Flex Pitch
Apple today announced the launch of Logic Pro X, the next-generation version of its professional audio software. The release brings a completely revamped Logic Pro application including a new virtual...
Bill Gates on the future of education, programming and just about everything else
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has thoughts on a lot of things, from the demise of lecture halls to the awesomeness of the patent system. He took the stage at the company's annual Faculty Summit …
A Secret Surveillance Program Proves Challengeable in Theory Only
WASHINGTON — On Oct. 29, about seven months before the recent revelations about secret government surveillance programs, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. made a commitment to the Supreme Court...
A bird's eye view of the AT&T-Leap Wireless merger
I've already taken one crack at explaining why AT&T would want to buy regional carrier Leap Wireless. This deal is clearly about spectrum. AT&T wasn't able to get it by purchasing T-Mobile so it's h...
Opbeat Nets $2.7M From Facebook, Instagram Founders And More To Give Developers A Control Center For “Web Ops”
While it's apparently becoming easier and easier to become a developer — judging, at least, by the number of “learn to code!” platforms popping up by the month …
Rocket Internet Raises $500M From Kinnevik And Access, Plans More E-Commerce In Emerging Markets
Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based e-commerce incubator that has been behind dozens of startups around the world, is preparing to spin out a few more. The company today is announcing …
Funding for VC-backed companies dropped slightly in Q2, but number of IPOs rose
This past quarter represented the first drop in VC deal activity in five quarters, and funding levels were down 14 percent over last year, but we still saw a dramatic increase in the number of tech IP...
Dell Said to Consider Delaying Shareholders' Vote on Buyout
Dell Inc.'s (DELL) special committee of the board is considering delaying the July 18 shareholder vote on the buyout by founder Michael Dell, seeking a higher bid or time to win support for the $24.4 ...
Apple-Samsung phone battle to hit appeals court in August
A court's decision not to prevent multiple Samsung handsets from being sold in the U.S. despite their being found to infringe Apple patents will go before an appeal's court in early August. — The U....
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Hits One-Year Mark
Shares Have Soared More Than 70%, but Little Evidence Yet of a Real Turnaround — Yahoo Inc.'s share price has soared more than 70% since the arrival of Chief Executive Marissa Mayer one year ago, bu...