Google's Investigating Rap Genius For Using Spammy SEO to Grow Traffic
How has Rap Genius distinguished itself all the other lyrics sites? With sweet, sweet old school spam techniques, or at Silicon Valley likes to call it “growth hacking.” The tactic is so shady that ...
Justine Sacco And The Self-Inflicted Perils Of Twitter
A few weeks ago, I had a drink with my friend Justine Sacco and we talked about what makes for a good Tweet. — Justine is an easy person to like — frank, funny, quick to laugh. To a reporter, she's...
Oppo N1 CyanogenMod Edition Now Available, Along With A Factory Image And Source Code
Yes, CyanogenMod fans, there is a Santa Claus. Cyanogen Inc. announced early on Christmas Eve morning that the long-awaited Oppo N1 CyanogenMod Edition is now available on Oppo's web store.
Samsung Phone Studied for Possible Security Gap
Israeli Researchers Point to Alleged Vulnerability in Galaxy S4 — SEOUL—The security platform for Samsung Electronics Co. 's best-selling Galaxy S4 smartphone suffers from a vulnerability that could...
Google sues to protect Android device makers from Rockstar patent infringement suits
Google sues to protect Android device makers from Apple-backed patent hell — Google has filed a new lawsuit to challenge an Apple-backed consortium known as Rockstar that is using dubious patents …
Prestigious speaker Mikko Hypponen cancels RSA talk to protest NSA deal
Friday's report that RSA received $10 million to make an NSA-favored random number generator the default setting in its BSAFE crypto tool aren't yet creating any problems on Wall Street, with stock fo...
SoftBank gets closer to buying T-Mobile: report
(Reuters) - Japan-based SoftBank Corp (TYO:9984) is in final stages of talks with T-Mobile (TMUS.N)parent company Deutsche Telekom (DTE.DE)about acquiring the U.S.-based wireless carrier, the Nikkei n...
Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies
Italy's Parliament today passed a new measure on web advertising, the so-called “Google tax,” which will require Italian companies to purchase their Internet ads from locally registered companies, ins...
U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year
Two big shifts happened in the American cellphone industry over the past year: Cellular networks got faster, and smartphone screens got bigger. As a result, people's consumption of mobile data nearly...
Hulu must face privacy lawsuit, U.S. judge rules
(Reuters) - Hulu has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the video streaming service of illegally sharing users' viewing history with Facebook Inc and business metrics com...
Biz Break: Apple hits 2013 high after China Mobile deal, Facebook and Twitter reach records
A woman using a phone walks past Apple's logo near its retail outlet in Beijing Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Apple and China Mobile announced a long-anticipated agreement Monday to bring the iPhone to the ...
Twitter Shares Soar to Record on Optimism for Mobile-Ad Growth
Twitter Inc. (TWTR), the microblogging service that held its initial public offering last month, rose to a record for a third trading day amid optimism that the company has room to expand sales in dig...
Mozilla's Asm.js Gets Another Step Closer To Native Performance
Mozilla's asm.js is a strict subset of JavaScript that Firefox can run significantly faster than regular JavaScript code. Thanks to the so-called OdinMonkey module for Firefox's built-in JavaScript e...
Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple
One of the key tenets of the argument that the National Security Agency and some lawmakers have constructed to justify the agency's collection of phone metadata is that the information it's collecting...
BlackBerry co-founder Lazardis cuts stake to under 5%, won't pursue bid for company
BlackBerry Co-Founder Lazardis Cut Stake to Under 5% — Lazardis Indicated He Doesn't Plan To Pursue Bid for Company — TORONTO— BlackBerry Ltd. co-founder Michael Lazaridis disclosed …
Mariposa botnet ‘mastermind’ jailed in Slovenia
A hacker accused of masterminding one of the biggest ever botnets has been sentenced to just under 5 years in jail. — Matjaz Skorjanc was arrested in 2010 after a two-year investigation into malware...