Square Cash lets anyone with a debit card send money instantly over email
What if sending money was as simple as sending an email? — That's the premise of Square Cash, launching today for all debit card users in the US, using any email service. To use Square Cash …
Angela Ahrendts to Join Apple as Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores
Apple® today announced that Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, will be joining Apple in a newly created position, as a senior vice president and member of our executive team, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.
Twitter headed to New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘TWTR’
Summary: The move to the NYSE is quite the contrast to Facebook's tumultuous public launch on the Nasdaq. — Twitter has filled in another blank as it goes through the legal process to become a publi...
Google Watch is happening soon, heavy into Kit Kat/Google Now functionality
I recently heard word that Google was putting the finishing touches on a Watch product. Details are slim but the person seemed to think that Google Now functionality would be at the center of the pro...
Intel says hardware bargains to multiply this fall: $99 tablets, $299 Haswell laptops, $349 2-in-1 hybrids
Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said he expects bargains galore this holiday season as computermakers take advantage of the latest Intel Haswell and Bay Trail microprocesso...
Sony's Latest Xperia Phones, SmartWatch 2 Launch in U.S.; No Carrier Announcements Yet
After making the rounds in Europe and Asia, Sony announced today the U.S. availability of its Xperia Z Ultra and Xperia Z1 smartphones, and the SmartWatch 2. But a word of caution: If you're eyeing o...
Many of the most-pirated movies aren't available for legitimate online purchase
Why does movie piracy persist after years of efforts to stamp it out? A new website called PiracyData.org suggests a simple explanation: people pirate movies because they don't have the option of pay...
Flickr redesigns individual picture pages with 25 percent larger photos
Flickr has been all about putting big, bold, beautiful photos front and center since the website's massive redesign in May, but Yahoo just found one more place to make those photos bigger and more bea...
Dave Morin Laid Off 20 Percent of Path Employees Today
Dave Morin's social networking app Path laid off 13 employees today, which represents 20 percent of the company's staff. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the layoffs, saying, “We're working t...
Supercell Dominates The Realm: Game Maker Sells A 51%, $1.53B Stake To SoftBank and GungHo Online
Another big move for Softbank into the gaming world, and a massive investment for Finnish gaming juggernaut Supercell: the company is selling a 51% stake for $1.53 billion to Japan's SoftBank …
Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
Inside the Internet juggernaut Amazon.com (AMZN), there's near constant pressure to perform. In dozens of interviews ranging over two years for my book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age o...
A web page that lasts forever: the plan to stop “link rot” in law and science
Imagine a research library where most of the books are missing footnotes — where the bottom of the pages are stained or ripped out, making it impossible for scholars to tell the sources of information...
Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture
(Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, who has made headlines around the world with his reporting on U.S. electronic surveillance programs, is leaving the Guardian newspaper to join a new media venture funded b...
UK retailer Argos announces the £100 MyTablet, an Android Jelly Bean tablet for kids
The UK's high streets are alive with the sound of own-brand tablets, or at least they will be soon after retailer Argos announced its first Android-powered device, following in the footsteps …
Apple releases new Java update, uninstalls Apple-provided Java applet plug-ins
Apple has released Java for OS X 2013-005, which “delivers improved security, reliability, and compatibility for Java SE 6″. The update is available in the Mac App Store.
Vox Media Raises $34 Million to Build SB Nation, the Verge, Polygon
Tech investors are supposed to avoid content businesses. But they do make exceptions: The people who brought you Huffington Post, for example, have been able to raise a ton of money for BuzzFeed.
Google Fiber now explicitly permits home servers
Google Fiber's terms of service caused some controversy in July when Google found itself defending the legality of a ban on servers. After a complaint, Google told the Federal Communications Commissi...
Twitter now lets you receive direct messages from any follower
Twitter is rolling out an option to ease the use of direct messages. Traditionally, Twitter has allowed users who follow each other to send direct messages back and forth, or for users to send direct...
General Assembly launches Dash, a Codecademy-style site that teaches you to code
General Assembly launched today a new service designed to help get more people to take advantage of its Web Development courses. Called Dash, users will be able to take courses in HTML, cascading sty...
Thousands of Sites Hacked Via vBulletin Hole
Attackers appear to have compromised tens of thousands of Web sites using a security weakness in sites powered by the forum software vBulletin, security experts warn. — Attack tool for exploiting vu...
3D printing gets metal with European Space Agency's AMAZE project
If you're invested in the future of 3D printing, the London Science Museum was the place to be today, as the European Space Agency and its partners hosted a consortium to celebrate the launch of the A...
School Districts Grapple With Glitches in Computer Tablets
Districts Grapple With Glitches as Some Say Devices Can Supplement Lessons — Two elementary-school pupils in the Los Angeles district tool around with their tablets in August. Problems have stalled...
Bing Gives IE11 Users A Quick Look At The Top Search Result With New “Pre-Rendering” Feature
Bing released a new search feature today that “almost instantly” renders the associated page of the top search result when clicked. With the goal of providing a “faster end-to-end search experience …