In Twitter IPO, Wall Street reserved best info for top clients
Twitter's investment bankers are telling their clients one thing while Main Street hears a different story. — FORTUNE — Once again, Wall Street is telling its top paying clients one thing, and the r...
Google barge revealed: Artistic structure with ‘fish fins’
The barge portion of the Google barge mystery is only half the story — when completed, the full package is envisioned to be an “unprecedented artistic structure,” sporting a dozen or so gigantic sails...
Apple Stores to soon offer iPhone 5s & 5c screen replacements, other repairs
Apple is gearing up to soon begin hardware repairs for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in its chain of retail stores, according to sources with knowledge of the upcoming initiative.
First 3-D-Printed Metal Gun Shows Tech Maturity
A 3-D-printed metal gun made by direct metal laser sintering. — The world's first 3-D-printed metal gun aims to prove a point about the reliability of 3-D printing technology. But its makers don't ...
C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data
WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company's vast database of phone records, which includes A...
Nvidia CEO: Android ‘the most disruptive operating system in decades’
Profitable Tegra brings Android to phones, tablets, all-in-ones, settop boxes, gaming systems — Nvidia cofounder, president, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is a big, big fan of the Android operating system ...
Microsoft Updates Office 365, Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps
It's been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over 2 million consumers now subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium …
AT&T will include Lookout security software on all Android devices from now on
Security is a sensitive subject for Android users: Google has long maintained that anti-virus and malware prevention software isn't a necessity on its platform, but companies like Symantec regularly s...
Google starts testing ART, a potential replacement for Dalvik in Android
After a 2010 spat over how Java works in Android with Oracle, Google is moving on to a new way for apps run on mobile devices. Dubbed ART, the new runtime environment is available as a preview option...
China military hackers persist despite being outed by U.S.: report
(Reuters) - The disclosure early this year of a secretive Chinese military unit believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks has failed to halt the cyber intrusions, a U.S. computer security comp...
Lenovo Q2 boosted by market share gains in PCs, smartphones
Summary: The Chinese PC maker saw a 36 percent rise in its net profit to US$219.7 million, as it powers ahead despite an industry slump by expanding in mobile devices and better cost controls. — Des...
Autodesk invests $10 million in Deviantart
Autodesk has invested $10 million in the Los Angeles-based digital art community Deviantart. Word about the investment first got out in September, but an SEC filing now adds further details, showing ...
Amazon Kindle Fire HDX review (8.9-inch): a high-end tablet at a mid-range price
It's worth noting just how far Amazon has come since the early days of the Fire line. With the first generation, it was tough to see the tablet as anything more than a content-delivery device designe...
U.S. weighs proposal to end dual leadership role at NSA, Cyber Command
The Obama administration is considering ending a controversial policy that since 2010 has placed one military official at the head of both the nation's largest spy agency and its cyber-operations comm...
Kim Dotcom's Mega cloud storage exits beta, secure messaging and video chat due next year
The feds may have taken Megaupload to the big cloud storage facility in the sky, but Kim Dotcom's followup Mega is going strong and now out of beta. That official launch includes a new web UI …
Prominent VCs join the fight in Congress to stop patent trolls
VCs say it's harder for startups to survive with patent trolls waiting in the wings to make a quick buck. — startuppg — The first comprehensive anti-patent-troll bill was introduced in Congress la...