LG Display unveils curved handset display for November launch
(Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc's (066570.KS) display unit said on Monday it will start mass production of curved smartphone displays as the South Korean phone maker plans to launch a smartphone with t...
Meltdowns Hobble NSA Data Center
Investigators Stumped by What's Causing Power Surges That Destroy Equipment — Chronic electrical surges at the massive new data-storage facility central to the National Security Agency's spying oper...
NSA surveillance panel temporarily shut down after staff is furloughed
Surveillance panel shut down — A panel President Barack Obama set up in August to assess the government's use of surveillance technologies hit some turbulence related to the government shutdown last...
iTunes Radio to reach UK and Canada before Pandora, also expanding to Australia and NZ in early 2014
Apple Said to Expand ITunes Radio to U.K. Before Pandora — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to expand iTunes Radio to English-speaking countries outside the U.S. by early 2014 …
New York Attorney General subpoenas Airbnb for data on thousands of local hosts
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hits AirBnB with subpoena for user data — State is concerned about hotel occupancy taxes and possible evictions by greedy building owners.
Steve Ballmer's final shareholder letter: “We are still in the early days of our transformation”
Shareholder Letter — TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS, CUSTOMERS, PARTNERS AND EMPLOYEES: This is a unique letter for me — the last shareholder letter I will write as the CEO of the company I love.
European Union considering tougher cloud privacy rules after surveillance disclosures
Europe Aims to Regulate the Cloud — LONDON — The words “cloud computing” never appeared in a 119-page digital privacy regulation introduced in Europe last year. — They do now.
Those Giant Fox News Touchscreens Are Microsoft Perceptive Pixel Displays Running Windows 8
Huge iPads or tiny journalists? That's the question that many are asking after Fox News released a video detailing a new set that includes a number of analysts sat before massive touch interfaces.
SEC Clears Apple's Tax Strategy
Four months after opening its review of Apple's finances, the Securities and Exchange Commission has closed it, having found nothing untoward about the company's handling of its overseas cash and rela...
Software, Design Defects Cripple Health-Care Website
Government Acknowledges It Needs to Fix Design and Software Problems — Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for ...
Urban Compass, A 5-Month-Old Startup Worth $150 Million, Will Help New Yorkers Buy — As Well As Rent — Homes
As Well As Rent — Homes — Ori Allon's young startup, Urban Compass, has found early traction helping New Yorkers rent apartments. Soon, Urban Compass will help them buy apartments too.
How Spotify Engineered the New Music Economy
Steve Cooper didn't expect much from Spotify. — When the New York-based band Spirit Animal released “The Black Jack White” last spring, the band's frontman didn't have high hopes about the streaming...
Twitter Tweaks Its Welcome Screen to Better Explain Itself
Twitter's IPO is just around the corner — and it's already showing signs of change. — The company quietly updated the Twitter.com homepage over the weekend, changing the visual design and welcome te...
HTC's One Max could have a fingerprint scanner
Leaked images of HTC's upcoming One Max show what appears to be a fingerprint scanner. The pictures come from Chinese social network Sina Weibo, and show the huge HTC One Max with the back of its cas...
Twitter's lucrative data mining business earned $47.5m in 2012
Twitter's Data Business Proves Lucrative — Twitter Disclosed It Earned $47.5 Million From Selling Off Information It Gathers — In its IPO filing Thursday, Twitter Inc. disclosed how much the micro...
Pinterest Or Pintrips? Pinterest Files A Trademark Infringement Suit Against Travel Planning Startup
Pinterest has made a point of discouraging the many social media companies that riff on Pinterest in their own brand names, with some of the more prominent of these going so far as to rebrand their se...