Reverting the changes to block functionality
Earlier today, we made a change to the way the “block” function of Twitter works. We have decided to revert the change after receiving feedback from many users - we never want to introduce features a...
Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers
Ever wonder why most e-mail clients hide images by default? The reason for the “display images” button is because images in an e-mail must be loaded from a third-party server. For promotional e-mail...
Introducing Instagram Direct
Today, we're excited to bring you Instagram Direct, a new way to send photo and video messages to friends. Over the past three years, the Instagram community has grown to over 150 million people capt...
FCC votes 3-2 to lift technical ban on in-flight cellphone use
The Federal Communications Commission took the first step toward removing regulations that ban phone calls while in flight. But FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler emphasized that the Department of Transportati...
Amazon said to launch Pantry to take on Costco, Sam's
Pantry is set to launch in 2014 and will let Amazon Prime members buy consumer packages goods that will be shipping in a set sized box with a maximum weight limit, sources say. — SAN FRANCISCO — Ama...
Microsoft Said to Consider Qualcomm's Mollenkopf for CEO Job
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s board is considering Qualcomm Inc. Chief Operating Officer Steve Mollenkopf among candidates to replace Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, said people familiar with the ma...
Google Said to Mull Designing Chips in Threat to Intel
Google Inc. (GOOG) is considering designing its own server processors using technology from ARM Holdings Plc (ARM), a move that could threaten Intel Corp. (INTC)'s market dominance, said a person with...
Oculus VR raises $75M from web browser inventor Marc Andreessen's VC firm to launch virtual reality goggles
Virtual reality goggle maker has raised a massive round of $75 million from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen's Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm to create a consumer version of its product.
Dell's Venture Arm Expands Investments With $300 Million Fund
Dell Ventures is launching a new $300 million venture fund that will broaden its investments beyond storage into several other types of startups, including cloud computing, big data, security, mobilit...
Fleksy wants to become your new iOS keyboard, everywhere
Can a software keyboard startup succeed where others failed? — In 2007, early iPhone users had a problem. They wanted to take a snippet of text from one place to another, and their phones wouldn't ...
Microsoft schedules BUILD 2014 developer conference for April 2nd
Microsoft is returning to San Francisco next year to host its BUILD developer conference. The software giant briefly revealed the dates for BUILD 2014 today, before pulling them from its news site.
Dell reveals new partnerships with Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, Red Hat
Dropbox for Business to be offered to Dell enterprise customers — Dell has announced a number of new partnerships it has formed with other companies at its Dell World event in Austin today.
Chromecast can now stream videos and music from Google Play's website
Google has been adding more and more ways to play content on a Chromecast, and today it's giving the media streamer a new trick: the ability to stream Google Play music and videos straight from the we...
YouTube expands live streaming to all channels, adds option to directly launch a Google+ Hangout On Air
YouTube today announced it is expanding its live streaming service to all YouTube channels. The Google-owned company now only has two requirements: your account must be verified and it has to be in g...
Bots now ‘account for 61% of web traffic’
The study suggests humans only account for 38.5% of internet traffic — If you are visiting this page the chances are that you are not a human, at least according to research. — A study by Incapsul...
How Stolen Smartphones End Up In The Hands Of Colombian Cartels
This article is part of a Huffington Post series exploring the global underground trade in stolen smartphones. Previous stories in the series can be found here. — BOGOTA, Colombia — In the capital ...
Toronto's Bitstrips Raises $3 Million After Users Created Over 30 Million Avatars
The resounding message from an update (in comic strip form I might add) from Bitstrips is that once the Toronto-based startup released their mobile app, the growth they experienced was both unexpected...
Google Will Now Only Charge For Ads That People Can Actually See
Google took a major step toward pleasing its advertisers Thursday by announcing it will now sell display ads based on viewability, a metric that will allow marketers to pay only for ad slots users are...
DirecTV Explores Online Video Service
Product Would Appeal to ‘Price Sensitive’ Young People, Satellite-TV Firm Says … DirecTV is exploring the idea of an online video service that would appeal to “price-sensitive” young people or other c...
Introducing Instagram Direct
Today, we're excited to bring you Instagram Direct, a new way to send photo and video messages to friends. Over the past three years, the Instagram community has grown to over 150 million people capt...
Bitcoin's Biggest Bet: Andreessen Horowitz Leads $25 Million Investment in Coinbase
Coinbase co-founders Brian Armstrong (l) and Fred Ehrsam, sporting we-got-money grins. — If you're a bitcoin doubter, you might want to turn away. The doors to venture funding in bitcoin startups a...
Google Maps for iOS will now show you your flight, hotel and restaurant reservations
Google has bumped Google Maps for iOS up to version 2.5.0 and with it brought some neat new additions for folks in selected locations. Maps will now pull information from your Gmail account and show ...
iPhone 5S makes rapid start in China and hits 10% of iPhones in use, data shows
CounterPoint Research report comes before China Mobile deal, while iOS 7 adoption running faster than last year, statistics show — Apple's iPhone 5S has been a dramatic hit in China, comprising 12% ...
IFTTT Launches iOS Location Channel With Integrations For Foursquare, Twitter, Instagram And Facebook
Today, IFTTT announces the addition of an iOS Location channel to its ‘Internet glue’ service. The channel will allow users to specify an ‘area’ that will allow them to trigger actions …
Former Google executive to run U.S. patent office
(Reuters) - Former Google Inc executive Michelle Lee has been named deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and will run the agency until a new director is named, the agency sa...
Gmail for desktop now automatically shows images in your messages, coming to Android and iOS 'in early 2014′
Google today announced a change to how Gmail handles images: on the desktop, the email service will show images in your messages automatically starting today.
LifeLock Acquires Mobile Wallet Platform Lemon For $42.6 Million, Launches LifeLock Wallet
Lemon, a digital wallet platform which allows users to store their ID, payment, loyalty cards and more on their smartphone, has been acquired by identity theft protection service LifeLock …
On Road to IPO, Shopify Raises $100M to ‘Bridge Clicks and Bricks’
Shopify's systems help merchants sell as easily online as they do offline, or vice versa.
Study of a million users of MOOCs says they are a failure, only four percent completed courses
After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought — Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 students from around the globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence …
AmazonFresh Launches In San Francisco
As we previously reported, Amazon has launched its grocery-delivery service in San Francisco today. — The service was previously available in Seattle and Los Angeles, but has now extended to the San...
Microsoft Brings Together 25 Partners For The Cloud OS Network To Drive More Windows Azure Use
Microsoft has been adding firepower to its Windows Azure cloud platform to compete against the likes of Google, Amazon and Dropbox and Box to attract enterprise users to create, host and distribute da...
Show us a better way than collecting metadata, NSA director says to critics
Critics of the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. residents' telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the country against attacks, the agency's ...
Twitter's Latest Partnership, With Truecaller In India, Links Phone Number Look-Ups With Tweeting
Twitter has been inking deals with third parties outside of the U.S. to drive more international usage, both in emerging and mature markets. Today comes news of yet another deal that it hopes …
Alliance for Wireless Power introduces Rezence as its consumer-friendly brand
The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) was formed over a year ago to come up with a wireless charging solution that would allow for greater spatial freedom when charging your favorite gadgets.
U.S. carriers, FCC reach accord on ‘unlocking’ cellphones
(Reuters) - U.S. wireless carriers will make it easier for consumers to “unlock” their mobile phones for use on a competitor's network, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said on T...
Samsung Said to Near EU Antitrust Settlement on Patents
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s offer to settle a European Union antitrust investigation over key patents requires only minor changes to win approval from regulators, according to two people famili...