Apple Inc looks to poach BlackBerry Ltd workers in Waterloo
Apple Inc. has all but destroyed BlackBerry Ltd.'s business model and now it's after the Canadian company's decimated workforce. — Just days after BlackBerry Ltd. revealed plans to lay off 40% of it...
Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar
Andreessen Horowitz is one of the biggest venture firms around and an investor in some of the most prominent consumer startups in recent years, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Groupon and Zyng...
Can Silicon Valley boot camps get you a $120K job?
These crash courses accomplish in 12 weeks (or less) what top computer science schools might teach in four years. Welcome to the 21st century vocational school. — FORTUNE — Hiring a good software e...
Terms of Service update
We are updating the Google Terms of Service. The new Terms will go live on November 11, 2013 and you can read them here. — Because many of you are allergic to legalese, here's a plain English summa...
Apps on iPhone 5s Crashing at Twice the Rate as on Other iPhone 5 Models
Whenever there is a new operating system, it's not surprising to see apps crash at a somewhat higher rate, given all the changes. — But one of the interesting things in Apple's latest iPhone transit...
Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA
Ten years ago, the calling service had a reputation as a tool for evading surveillance but now it is under scrutiny for covertly passing data to government agencies — Skype is being investigated by ...
Sheryl Sandberg: The real story
The motorcade that snaked through 1 Hacker Way earlier this year surprised even jaded Facebook employees, who are used to on-campus celebrity sightings and visits from politicians and world leaders. ...
Best Buy offering between $200 and $350 for Microsoft Surface trade-ins
As it has previously done for iPads, Best Buy is now running a trade-in promotion for Microsoft's Surface tablet. The retailer is guaranteeing that customers will receive a gift card worth at least $...
New York Comic Con using attendee Twitter accounts to send promo tweets
Some registered press, professionals and fans attending New York Comic Con this year seemed unusually enthusiastic about the show on Twitter. That's because the New York City-based convention was twe...
Instagram no longer lets users disable video autoplay, a small but important step towards ads
Instagram announced earlier this month that it will begin serving in-feed advertising before the end of the year, and the Facebook-owned photo and video app has made a subtle, but important …
Chrome rises from 1.5% to 3% of iOS use since June 2012 launch
After stagnating for months, usage of Google's Chrome browser for iOS in North America is on the rise. According to data from its ad network, Chitika says Chrome for iOS has climbed to 3 percent of i...
Anonymous comments could suffer under European Court of Human Rights ruling
An Estonian court did not violate a local news site's right to free expression by holding it liable for offensive anonymous comments made under one of its stories, the ECHR has ruled.
Amazon Is Courting YouTube Networks for Short-Video Push
E-commerce Giant Widely Considered YouTube's Biggest Threat — Not content to contend only with Netflix and Hulu for long-form video content like movies and TV shows, Amazon is exploring a push into ...
GE's Radical Software Helps Jet Engines Fix Themselves
The card-based UI and focus on contextual smarts make comparisons to Google Now a no-brainer. … A few years back, after an internal audit of their vast and various business holdings, the folks at Gene...
Brazil investigates Google over antitrust charges
(Reuters) - Brazil is investigating Google Inc for anticompetitive practices alleged by Microsoft Corp and Brazilian rivals, adding to government pressure in one of Google's fastest-growing major mark...
Hulu Said Close to Naming Fox's Hopkins CEO of Web TV Service
Hulu, the Web streaming service controlled by Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox, is close to naming Fox executive Mike Hopkins as its chief executive officer, two people with knowledge of the matter sa...