Teardown estimates Moto G components cost $123, leaving a profit margin of less than 5%
Google Squeezes Margins on Moto G Phone — A ‘Teardown’ of $199 Device Pegs Component Costs at $123 — Google Inc. 's Motorola unit is selling its new Moto G smartphone at starkly thinner profit mar...
FBI's search for ‘Mo,’ suspect in bomb threats, highlights use of malware for surveillance
The man who called himself “Mo” had dark hair, a foreign accent and — if the pictures he e-mailed to federal investigators could be believed — an Iranian military uniform.
Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
How two alienated, angry geeks broke the story of the year — Early one morning last December, Glenn Greenwald opened his laptop, scanned through his e-mail, and made a decision that almost cost him ...
Baidu and China Telecom Stop Accepting Bitcoin, Price Slumps Again
The bitcoin price has continued to drop overnight on major bitcoin exchanges. The price on exchanges included in the Bitcoin Price Index all currently sit below $700, with the BPI overall having drop...
Smooth operators: why phone companies don't fight the NSA
Will AT&T and Verizon ever push back against NSA surveillance? Don't bet on it — Last week, the New York Times unearthed a troubling twist to the endless stream of bad surveillance news. Not only ...
Hundreds of thousands of already deployed iOS devices can be configured as iBeacon transmitters by retailers
The Open Secret Of iBeacon: Apple Could Have 250M Potential Units In The Wild By 2014 — Yesterday, Apple began a small press push on its new iBeacon technology …
Why is Microsoft scared of Chromebooks?
Something has Redmond spooked — “It's pretty much a brick,” says Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison as he rejects a Samsung Chromebook brought in by an actor playing a customer. Microsoft really doesn't wan...
Too many startups are now building poorly differentiated messaging apps
Overrun With Messaging Apps — Because I'll install almost any app on my iPhone just to take a look, I've got a jam-packed folder called “messaging apps” that's now five pages deep.
Check if you're the victim of a database breach with ‘Have I Been Pwned?’
It seems to me that there is almost always a website making the news headlines, attempting to explain to innocent users that hackers breached its security, and stole the email addresses and passwords ...
Google says 91.4% of non-spam emails sent to Gmail users are now authenticated using antiphishing standards
Google today declared that after almost a decade of fighting phishing emails, the Internet-wide efforts are finally paying off. The company revealed that 91.4 percent …
Japan's SoftBank moves to undercut Square's lower payment processing fees for small retailers
Twitter's Dorsey Vies With SoftBank's Son for Japan Shops: Tech — Twitter Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey sparked a price war over Japanese credit-card transactions with SoftBank Corp. (9984)'s Masayosh...
Verizon Is Acquiring Content Delivery Network EdgeCast For More Than $350 Million
Verizon is looking to get deeper into the content delivery business with the acquisition of Los Angeles-based CDN provider EdgeCast Networks, TechCrunch has heard. Owning EdgeCast, and combining …