Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2013 Results
Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the second quarter, which ended June 30, 2013. — “We've made good progress growing our community, deepening engagement and delivering...
From TVs to tablets: Everything you love, across all your screens
When I was growing up, my family had a single screen we huddled around every day: the television set in the living room. Nowadays, we “huddle” around multiple screens—laptops, smartphones and tablets...
Xbox One retail consoles double as debug units, Microsoft to allow indie self-publishing
Microsoft's Xbox One is getting decidedly more indie-friendly with today's confirmation from Microsoft that its forthcoming game console will double as a developer debug unit.
Why Chromecast is such a big deal for Google, and a threat to Apple
Google officially launched its next big idea for the living room Wednesday, and the cast of people presenting the new product dubbed Chromecast at the company's breakfast event in San Francisco looked...
House Narrowly Rejects Effort To Halt NSA Program
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to continue the collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records in the fight against terrorism. The House rejected a measure to end the program's ...
Facebook Beats as Mobile Revenue Jumps to 41 Percent of Ads Business
Facebook's numbers are in, and they look good across the board — especially in mobile. — The social giant posted its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday afternoon, reporting earnings per share of 1...
Android 4.3 announced, rolling out to Nexus devices today
Google's famously breakneck Android update pace may have slowed in recent times, but that's what makes point upgrades like today's newly revealed Android 4.3 all the more interesting. Shipping with t...
Google announces thinner, lighter Nexus 7 with higher-res screen, arrives July 30th for $230
When we reviewed the Nexus 7 last summer, we said it was the best tablet $200 could buy. A year later, that still might be true if it wasn't for the fact that there's a new Nexus 7 in town.
Chipotle Faked Its Twitter Hack
Chipotle appeared to be the latest brand to have its Twitter account hacked on Sunday when its main account, @ChipotleTweets, posted a series of confusing and seemingly random tweets over the course o...
Blueprints Of NSA's Ridiculously Expensive Data Center In Utah Suggest It Holds Less Info Than Thought
The NSA data center in Utah will be up and running by the end of September — For the last two months, we've been bombarded with stories about the information-collection practices …
Meet Helpouts, Google's Secret Project That Turns Hangouts Into A Commerce Platform
While its roots lie in search, today, Google wears many hats. From self-driving cars and wearable technology to social networking and mobile operating systems, there are few industries where the sear...
Google will pay for free wireless in S.F. parks
Ali LeBel (foreground) adjusts her smart phone in Alamo Square Tuesday July 23, 2013, one of the locations where new wireless will be added. Google will pay to install wireless access in 31 San Franc...
June Tablet Update: iPad Usage Share Surpasses 84%
Since Chitika Insights' last study on the tablet market, Apple iPad users' share of U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic has increased by nearly two percentage points, from 82.4% in May 2013, to 84.3%...
Google's new Nexus 7 with Android 4.3 hands-on
The new Nexus 7 is in our hands and as you'd expect, it's an improvement over last year's model in every appreciable way. The big show here is obviously the 1920 x 1200 screen, which Google claims ha...
FTC finalizes Google patents settlement
Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission finalized its settlement with Google on Wednesday over the anticompetitive use of patents. — The commission first announced the terms ...
Head of BlackBerry's PlayBook Tablet Is Leaving
David J. Smith Has Resigned as the Tablet Is No Longer Supported — A senior BlackBerry Ltd. executive who was in charge of the largely unsuccessful PlayBook tablet is leaving the company. — David ...
Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys
Whether the FBI or NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn't stopped the U.S. government from trying. — Lar...
EA made more money on Apple's App Store than through Origin
Updated at 2:40 p.m. — corrected inaccurate comparison to platforms. — The mobile-based future is here, and publisher Electronic Arts is reaping the rewards. EA reported today that it made more mon...
Twitter fakes real users' tweets to promote ad platform
What if one of the most powerful media companies in the world made words come out of its customers' mouths to promote its new ad platform? — Twitter posted on its blog today about a new, wider relea...
Exclusive: Zulily hires banks for possible IPO - sources
(Reuters) - Zulily hired investment banks in recent weeks to advise the fast-growing e-commerce company on a possible initial public offering, according to two people familiar with the situation. — ...
New Nexus 7 up for pre-order at Best Buy with Android 4.3 and $229.99 starting price
As if that Best Buy Nexus 7 flyer wasn't enough, the big retailer is stepping up its efforts to preempt Google's tablet announcement by posting its pre-order pages for the device ahead of the official...
Nokia Lumia 1020 review
There was no shortage of stunned faces in the audience when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress 17 months ago. Who would have thought a Symbian-powered device w...
Michael Dell ups buyout offer; shareholder vote pushed off to Aug. 2
Dell announced today that its founder Michael Dell, along with partner Silver Lake, will pay $13.75 per share to bring the company private. — Dell founder Michael Dell, along with his partner, inves...
[APK Teardown] Google Play Music v5.1
Google jumped the gun just a little bit and shipped tomorrow's version of Google Music today, which means we've got about 12 hours to spoil …
Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter
There are certain words Google doesn't want its users to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in the first letters of any private body part, cuss word, or a non traditional sexual orien...
Nvidia Brings Kepler To Mobile, Offers Same Graphics Power As iPad 4 With One-Third The Battery Drain
At the SIGGRAPH conference going on this week, Nvidia has made a potentially huge announcement regarding the future of mobile gaming: the company is bringing its Kepler graphics architecture …
BlackBerry's upcoming A10 flagship leaks in photos and video
BlackBerry is reported to be working on a bigger and faster flagship smartphone called the A10, and a new series of leaked photos have provided one of our best looks yet at the upcoming device.
NYT Reporter's Upcoming Twitter Book Hints at a Founding Tale of Palace Intrigue
Something Twittery this way comes. — The upcoming book detailing the backstory on Twitter, penned by New York Times columnist and reporter Nick Bilton, was listed for preorder on Amazon this morning...
LG sells a record-breaking 12.1m smartphones in Q2 2013, revenue up 10.1% YoY to $13.6b
LG announced today its second-quarter earnings of KRW15.23 trillion ($13.6 billion), up 10.1 percent year-over-year due to sales increases in most of its business units.
NVIDIA QUADRO K6000 becomes new world's most powerful graphics card for professionals
This week at the annual computer graphics conference known as Siggraph, NVIDIA has let loose information on their next-generation NVIDIA QUADRO K6000. This is NVIDIA QUADRO release …
IBM, Pivotal team up on open governance model for Cloud Foundry
Summary: The IBM-Pivotal partnership includes establishing an advisory board as well as co-hosting a conference this September. — IBM is teaming up with EMC's Pivotal Initiative on establishing a ne...
Symantec spots two Android apps using ‘master key’ vulnerability
Hackers are now using a critical vulnerability in Android to modify legitimate smartphone applications, putting users at risk of being spied on. — Security vendor Symantec wrote on Tuesday that it f...