Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Site, and Obama
WASHINGTON — As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama's chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away, at a bu...
New Linux worm targets routers, cameras, “Internet of things” devices
Researchers have discovered a Linux worm capable of infecting a wide range of home routers, set-top boxes, security cameras, and other consumer devices that are increasingly equipped with an Internet ...
Thanksgiving 2013 mobile shopping: PayPal sees 91% increase, eBay Enterprise sees orders rise 127%
PayPal and eBay Enterprise today revealed some statistics for yesterday's holiday craze. Between 2012 and 2013, both companies saw big jumps, although not as large as between 2011 and 2012.
Kanye West Courts Silicon Valley Investors, But VCs Don't Want DONDA
Nucleic rapper Kanye West, embodiment of the New Uncanny, appears to have found himself in the same position as many an entrepreneur before him: long on ideas and short on financing. And what better ...
Hard disk drive prices finally settle down two years after Thailand flood crisis
Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later — We are two years removed from the horrific flooding that caused the Thailand Drive Crisis that created a worldwide shortage of hard disk drives.
The fall (and rise?) of Yahoo: How the web giant crumbled and built some great tech in the process
At one point not so long ago, Yahoo was one of the top technology companies in the world. “The only exception [was] Google,” Bassel Ojjeh, a former senior vice president of data technologies …
Pay Attention, Snapchat! China's WeChat Messaging App Does E-Commerce Well.
American messaging services could learn a thing or two from WeChat. — The mobile-focused app is massively popular in China and spreading quickly abroad; of the 270-million-plus regular users of the ...
Robin Wauters and five others launch Tech.eu to cover the European tech industry
We have lift-off — From the Archipelago of the Azores to the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, approximately 740 million people - more than double the population of the United St...
A profile of Snapchat's 23-year-old CEO Evan Spiegel
Snapchat's Evan Spiegel: Saying no to $3B, and feeling lucky — Like many a young man, Evan Thomas Spiegel is enamored of expensive cars. Unlike many young men, he can afford them. — A little more...
Is Instagram Eyeing Up @instagram.com Email Addresses For Its Users As Part Of A Messaging Service?
Last week, Om Malik at GigaOm reported that Instagram was working on a messaging feature to complement its already very-popular social photo app, now with some 150 million monthly active users.