Instagram as a Growing Business
Over the past three years we've watched with amazement as Instagram has grown to a global community of more than 150 million people capturing and sharing the world's moments. Instagram is a place whe...
Twitter's IPO filing is official — S-1 now publicly available
S-1 now publicly available — FORM S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT — Twitter, Inc. — Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this registration statem...
Adobe's network compromised: 2.9 million customer names, encrypted credit and debit card numbers, and source code
Software firm Adobe today revealed its network was compromised. Information that was leaked included 2.9 million customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers …
Samsung mobile chief Kevin Packingham has left the company for unspecified reasons
Samsung's Mobile Chief Departs — Kevin Packingham, the chief product officer for the mobile division of Samsung Electronics, who was involved in introducing several of Samsung's popular Galaxy devic...
Google will launch a native Google Music iOS app later this month
If you've been against trying Google's Play Music All Access streaming service for lack of an official iOS app, it may soon be time to change your tune. Sources aware of Google's plans have let slip ...
Schools Complain iOS 7 Upgrade Stripped Filters From Students' iPads
Apple's iOS 7 was supposed to make it easier for schools to manage the iPads that are becoming increasingly common in the classroom. But for some, the latest version of the mobile operating system is...
Apple Buys Cue For Over $40M To Compete With Google Now
Personal assistant app Cue has been acquired, we've confirmed with a person who should know. The app has sold for between $40 million to $60 million, we're hearing from two sources, including TechCru...
Amazon Readies Set-Top Box for Holidays
Streaming Video Device Would Rival Roku, Apple TV — Amazon.com Inc. is taking steps toward releasing a video-streaming device in time for the holiday selling season, according to people briefed on t...
Some iPhone 5s owners reporting bad accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass readings
The iPhone 5S Motion Sensors Are Totally Screwed Up — Since the iPhone 5S landed in the hands of new owners a few weeks ago, there have been reports that on-board sensors like the gyroscope, compass...
Microsoft's Ballmer gets docked for Windows 8, Surface RT
Summary: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recieved 76 percent of the total incentive award for which he was eligible in fiscal 2013. Issues plaguing the Windows division were to blame. — Microsoft's ann...
Apple finishing up Mavericks as development shifts to OS X ‘Syrah’ with iOS 7-influence
Apple is closing in on finishing up work on OS X Mavericks ahead of its public launch, according to a source familiar with the new operating system's development. This source says that the operating ...
HTC reports first-ever quarterly loss, at $101M, on revenue of $1.6B
HTC confirms first quarterly loss in company's history — HTC has released its unaudited earnings for the first quarter of 2013, and the results confirm what the company itself predicted in July — it...
Microsoft in talks with HTC to add Windows to Android phones at little or no cost
Microsoft Said to Ask HTC to Put Windows on More Phones — Microsoft Corp. is talking to HTC about adding its Windows operating system to HTC's Android-based smartphones at little or no cost …
Chrome For iOS Bug Shows Private Browsing Search History In Google Mobile Search Bar
Update: Google has gotten back to us to let us know that this is an unfortunate but unavoidable loophole that comes with building a browser on iOS. It's noted in the company's support docs around Inc...
How the feds took down the Dread Pirate Roberts
What he wouldn't give for a holocaust cloak. — The Dread Pirate Roberts, head of the most brazen drug trafficking site in the world, was a walking contradiction. Though the government says he raked...
LG preps curved display smartphone, the G Flex
Samsung isn't the only company planning a smartphone with a curved display. LG will likely unveil the device in November, CNET has learned, although plans are not yet final. — Get ready for the LG ...
Jukeboxing: Rdio brings free radio to mobile apps to stay in the ring against Spotify
Rdio is releasing a free version of its service today on iOS and Android, bringing personalized radio to non-paying users of its mobile apps for the first time. Free of advertising for now …
Snapchat introduces “Stories”, a rolling compilation of snaps from the last 24 hours
Snapchat's next big thing: ‘Stories’ that don't just disappear — The app that introduced ephemeral messages sets its sights on Facebook — Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's hands are shaking as he points...
Samsung execs shown confidential Apple-Nokia patent license terms, allegedly misused information
It came to light on Wednesday that at least fifty Samsung employees retained access to highly confidential Apple-Nokia licensing terms originating from the Apple v. Samsung court trial …
How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying
Photo: Courtesy of Philip Weiss Auctions — It began as an ordinary purse snatching. On an early Baltimore morning in 1976, a local street thug crouched alongside his green Monte Carlo, pretending t...
Cue, The Startup Formerly Known As Greplin, Shuts Down Its App
Cue, the personal assistant app that grew out of a promising search product, has shut down. — The company left a brief note on their main page today, shown below. … The company was backed with at le...
Netflix app for iPad and iPhone updated with HD video and AirPlay streaming
Netflix brought 1080p streaming to Android 4.3 this summer, and now iPhone / iPad users can experience HD streams as well, provided they've updated to iOS 7. Another new feature in the latest update ...
Aiming to Get Into Smaller Devices, Intel Announces Big Push Into Arduino
Intel's latest effort to expand beyond its PC roots involves reaching out to hobbyists. — At Maker Fair in Rome, the chipmaker is announcing plans to partner with open-source hardware specialist Ard...
Social Networks in a Battle for the Second Screen
After “Breaking Bad” drew 10.3 million viewers to one of the most crowd-satisfying finales in television history on Sunday, Twitter and Facebook raced to tell the news media about the throngs who shar...
Runnable launches, lets developers find, edit, and even run code snippets on its site
Ex-Amazon Engineer Builds Library for World's Software Code — In 2004, Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos decreed that any software built by an Amazon engineer must be shared with every other engineer at th...
OS X Mavericks goes Golden Master, now out for developers
In line with our report from earlier today, Apple has released OS X Mavericks Golden Master (GM) to developers. It became available to AppleSeed users and Apple employees earlier today. This GM stag...
France approves law stopping Amazon from shipping discounted books for free
French lawmakers have it up to “here” with Amazon's book-selling tactics and they're not going to take it any more. In a rare alliance, France's ruling Socialist Party and the opposition UMP Party ap...
Netskope Comes Out Of Stealth With $21M From Social+Capital And Lightspeed And A Cloud Platform To Manage Enterpise Apps
The double rise of cloud-based services and consumerization have been two of the biggest developments in enterprise IT, but they have also led to one of the biggest conundrums …
Yahoo reveals a new vulnerability reporting policy with rewards of up to $15,000
Yahoo revealed today that it will dole out rewards of up to $15,000 (and starting from $150) to individuals and firms that inform the company of bugs and vulnerabilities classified as new, unique and/...