New Tools for Surfacing Conversations on Facebook
If there is something interesting going on, people are talking about it on Facebook. From favorite television shows to sporting events to the latest news; the conversations are happening on Facebook....
Apple's Latest iPhone Puts Focus Back on Fingerprint Security
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc.'s latest product launch could breathe new life into a technology that failed to take hold the first time: fingerprint scanners. — Placing a finger on a computer or smartphon...
iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data
The US intelligence agency NSA has been taking advantage of the smartphone boom. It has developed the ability to hack into iPhones, android devices and even the BlackBerry, previously believed to be ...
Driving mobile advertising forward: welcoming MoPub to the Flock
We're excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire MoPub, a mobile-focused advertising exchange. MoPub's technology lets mobile application publishers manage their inventory and optimize multiple...
New PlayStation Vita coming October 10th: lighter, thinner, more battery life
If it's big enough for a live broadcast (with English translation), it's going to be good, right? Sony has announced a new version of its PS Vita, just weeks after announcing a price-drop across both...
Crypto prof asked to remove NSA-related blog post
Matthew Green is a well-known cryptography professor, currently teaching in the computer science department of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Last week, Green authored a long and interesting ...
Windows Unit Gets Fresh Leaders as Phone, PC and Xbox Efforts Move Closer Together
Less than two months after the big “One Microsoft” reorganization plan was announced, more units are starting to learn how the high-level changes will affect their operations. — Asa Mathat / AllThin...
LinkedIn CEO: We're aiming for 3B profiles and a map of the world's economy
SAN FRANCISCO — Today, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner spoke about his company's future, and his vision is absolutely huge in the scope of its ambition. — “Our longer-term vision is ... to build the world'...
Google offers new concessions to avoid fine in EU antitrust case
(Reuters) - Google has offered further concessions aimed at ending a three-year investigation into complaints it was blocking competitors and to avert a possible $5 billion fine, the European Commissi...
Google+ Launches Embeds, Starts To Highlight WordPress.com
Starting today, Google+ users will be able to embed their posts anywhere on the web. The new feature provides its users with the code needed to embed posts …
Carl Icahn Ends Effort To Take Control of Dell
The last bit of lingering drama 14-month old effort to take the computer company Dell private in a leveraged buyout just came to a close as activist investor Carl Icahn said he would not pursue any fu...
Opera Launches Coast, A Slick New WebKit-Based iPad Browser
About a year and a half ago, a small team at Opera started working on a new browser for tablets and today, it is launching the result of this project: Opera Coast, a new, almost chrome-less browser fo...
Google, Yahoo and Facebook urge the US government for permission to release national security requests
Google, Facebook and Yahoo have filed separate motions with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) today, requesting that they are allowed to publicly disclose the number …
Worries That Microsoft Is Growing Too Tricky to Manage
SEATTLE — At a time when many people in business believe the number of products at Microsoft should be getting smaller, it is about to become a lot bigger. — Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of ...
Microsoft holding Surface 2 event on September 23rd in New York City
Microsoft is preparing to launch its next-generation tablets at an event in New York City on September 23rd. The software maker has emailed press invites to the media today, asking them to save the d...
Xbox Music gets iOS and Android apps, free web playback; cloud locker to follow
The times they are a-changin' at Microsoft, and we are not just talking about the company's executive leadership: Xbox Music, the company's Spotify-like music subscription service, is launching on iOS...