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Amazon Is Said to Have Tested a Wireless Network
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has tested a new wireless network that would allow customers to connect its devices to the Internet, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — The wireless network, ...
Insight: At Apple, Tim Cook leads a quiet cultural revolution
(Reuters) - Shortly after signing on as chief operating officer at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg was looking to connect with people in a similar role - No. 2 to a brilliant and passionate young founder. ...
Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever
A Certificate Of Incorporation unearthed by AllThingsD today shows that Uber has closed $361.2 million in its latest round. It's unknown why TPG, which picked up 775,092 shares, paid a lower per-shar...
Apple, closer to its vision for a TV set, wants ESPN, HBO, Viacom, and others to come along
Years of halting negotiating with cable companies haven't gotten Apple much closer to its grand vision for television. But a newer strategy of talking directly to content providers seems more promisi...
Ubuntu Edge smartphone misses its crowdfunding goal by over $19 million
When Canonical launched its crowdfunding campaign for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone last month it set an ambitious goal: raising $32 million through Indiegogo. As it turns out, that goal was a little to...
Google Now updated with car rentals, concert tickets and more
Traffic and weather updates are great, but Google Now never shines better than when you're on vacation. To that end, Mountain View has taught the feature a few new tricks, equipping it with cards for...
Windows Phone, Latin America's second most widely used mobile platform
In one year, the operating system went from fourth to second place with good growth figures, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. — This press release has been edited p...
Crowdtilt Launches Crowdhoster, A WordPress For Crowdfunding, To Let Anyone Create And Customize Their Own Campaigns
Thanks to the JOBS Act and the rise of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the parade of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding has gone mainstream.
Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage
Alex Polvi is living the great Silicon Valley archetype. Together with some old school friends, he's piecing together a tech revolution from inside a two-car Palo Alto garage. — He's like Dave Pack...
Fan fave Nginx web server goes commercial
The Nginx web server, which has been adopted by a growing cadre of web sites in its open-source form, is now going commercial with a new NGINX Plus release. — The commercial version wraps new featur...
Steve Case's Second Life as D.C.'s Favorite Businessman
It helps that he's an hour late and his audience has spent the time getting into a keg of Shiner Bock, but when Steve Case walks into the Austin (Tex.) offices of the startup he's just invested $40 mi...
Windows 8: Lenovo brings back Start menu, sidesteps Windows Store with Pokki
Lenovo, which recently took the title of world's largest PC maker, is going around Microsoft to restore something much closer to the traditional Start Menu in its Windows 8 machines, in addition to le...
Intel Leads $17 Million Financing of Maginatics
Maginatics Inc. is assembling a roster of some of the biggest U.S. technology companies as investors, adding Intel Corp. (INTC) to the list, as the storage startup aims for mass adoption. — The Moun...
MakerBot's $1,400 Digitizer Now Available To Pre-Order, Will Ship By Mid-October
The folks at MakerBot have been teasing their Digitizer desktop 3D scanner since this past March, but now they're just about ready push it out the door. For $1,400, you too can scan all the little kn...