Jeff Bezos Doesn't Care What You Think About Amazon's Quarterly Earnings
If you are watching Amazon's quarterly earnings today, probing the numbers for signs of the online giant's continued vigor, feel free. But honestly, Jeff Bezos doesn't care what you think.
Keeping it simple: Chromecast, Google TV, and the zen of a $35 dongle
Google's latest foray into the living room may actually have a chance — Google's combined Chrome and Android event yesterday should have had a relatively small impact: the Nexus 7 was already widely...
Google Has Shown Another Living Room Device
Google's home-entertainment experiments extend beyond the gadget the company announced Wednesday, which turns TV sets into an extra screen for watching Web videos and other content. — The Internet g...
Google ends Chromecast-Netflix promotion ‘due to overwhelming demand’
Citing overwhelming demand, Google on Thursday said it has ended a Netflix promotion tied to its new Chromecast TV dongle. — The promotion gave users, new and existing, three free months of Netflix'...
Chromecast vs. AirPlay: how do they compare?
Can Google finally take on one of Apple's best features? — Google's new Chromecast HDMI stick is a lot of things: it's a simple new way to bring internet video to your living room after the company ...
No Dice: Zynga Decides to Abandon Real-Money Gaming Efforts in the U.S.
In its lackluster second-quarter report today, at the very bottom of its press release, Zynga made a very important strategic announcement, saying that it would not pursue real-money gaming in the U.S...
Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form. — The U.S. government has de...
The Most Powerful DJ App For Everyone Arrives With djay 2 [Review]
djay 2 by Algoriddim Category: Music Works With: iPhone, iPad Price: $1.99 (iPhone), $9.99 (iPad) DJing used to be something only the pros did. Hardware was (and still can be) incredibly expensive, a...
Geeksphone Peak+ up for preorder at €149 with FirefoxOS 1.1, 1GB RAM
Interested in jumping on the Geeksphone Firefox OS bandwagon? Its first consumer-oriented device, the Peak+, is up for pre-order and we now know a lot more about it. It doubles up the RAM to 1GB ove...
Samsung posts record $8.5B profit as mobile business shrinks
Operating profit jumps 47 percent over a year ago, but profit from the South Korean electronics giant's mobile division declined 3.5 percent from the previous quarter. — Samsung lauded sales of its ...
OpenStack's Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now.
An Open Letter to the OpenStack Community: — Our Future Depends on Embracing Amazon — Dear Stackers, — For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly position...
Expedia admits that TripAdvisor and Booking.com are hurting it hard
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was somewhat on the defensive today in answering investor questions on a call for second quarter 2013 for Expedia, the world's largest online travel agency. — The company saw a...
Laurene Powell Jobs backs ambitious media site
Ozy Media will create content for the so-called change generation. — FORTUNE — Laurene Powell Jobs, the intensely private widow of Steve Jobs, has teamed up with other Silicon Valley luminaries to b...
Verizon calls on President to veto coming iPhone ban
As an import ban on Apple products gets set to take effect two weeks from now, a Verizon executive is asking the White House to take the unusual step of intervening with the U.S. trade agency that imp...
Apple spent $16 Billion on Apple Shares Last Quarter
Though its original plan called for the repurchase of 10 million shares in its third fiscal quarter of 2013, Apple instead bought up 36 million shares.
Amazon Files Petition to Move Forward With CIA Contract
Amazon.com filed a complaint in federal court Wednesday seeking approval to move forward with a four-year, roughly $600 million cloud computing contract with the Central Intelligence Agency that was d...
Ilya Segalovich, Co-Founder And CTO Of Russian Search Giant Yandex, Passes Away From Cancer Complications
Very sad news this morning for Yandex — “the Google of Russia” — and for the country's wider technology community: Ilya Segalovich, Yandex's co-founder and CTO, has passed away from cancer complicatio...
BlackBerry Lays Off 250 Employees From Its New Product Testing And R&D Department
Layoffs at Waterloo-based smartphone industry pioneer BlackBerry cut deep last year, with around 5,000 employees being let go. Those cuts continue into 2013 as BlackBerry undergoes what CEO Thorsten ...
Six years later, how Apple keeps the iPhone chugging along
Between March and June, Apple's iPad shipments dipped 14 percent. The Mac is dropping along with the rest of the PC industry, and the iPod has declined so much it barely merits a mention from the com...
Boost for Amazon as Penguin agrees to end Apple e-books deal
The deal brings to an end the EU anticompetition case on e-books — Penguin has agreed to terminate its e-book agreement with Apple and to allow Amazon to set its own prices for electronic books in a...
Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks—With Me Behind The Wheel (Video)
With Me Behind The Wheel (Video) — Stomping on the brakes of a 3,500-pound Ford Escape that refuses to stop-or even slow down-produces a unique feeling of anxiety. In this case it also produces a de...
BillGuard launches for iPhone to combat the ‘$14bn’ lost by credit card users to hidden-fees and errors
Launched in the US back in April 2010, BillGuard sells itself as the world's first ‘people-powered antivirus system for bills’. — In a nutshell, BillGuard's predictive algorithms alert users …
Made in America 2.0: behind Google and Apple's sudden patriotism
Tech giants are making innovative electronics in the US again, but why? — The Moto X is on its way. The long-anticipated Android phone — expected to be the first truly Google-influenced product fro...
Fast Car: Uber Funding Auction Could Reach a $3.5B Valuation
Uber, the ride-logistics startup, could be valued at up to $3.5 billion in a new funding round led by TPG Capital, said multiple sources close to the discussions, which are ongoing but advanced. We h...
Big Blue Unleashes Big Data Security Intelligence
IBM has announced a new solution today designed to help organizations identify security vulnerabilities across a network in real-time, giving security officers up-to-date visibility to sort and priori...