Facebook ‘dead and buried to teens’, research finds
Comprehensive European research has found that teens are leaving the service in droves - and the biggest deterrent is their parents — Teens are being put off Facebook by friend requests from their p...
Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack
Target has confirmed that encrypted debit card PIN data was stolen as part of the massive hack carried out against the retailer between late November and early December. The company previously admitt...
NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules
Judge William Pauley noted the dragnet program was ‘controversial but lawful’ and dismissed lawsuit brought by ACLU — A federal judge has ruled that the National Security Agency's mass collection of...
Nokia pulls Here Maps from the App Store, blames iOS 7
In the wake of Maps-gate, Nokia was one of several outfits that rushed to Apple's aid with a navigation app of its very own. A year later, however, and that same offering has been yanked from the App...
Paul Graham Says Women “Haven't Been Hacking For the Past 10 Years”
The Information just proved that it's worth the $400 price of admission. On display in an interview with Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham is the clearest picture of Silicon Valley's unacknowledged ...
Dear Quartz, maybe it's you that needs new glasses and a map. 2013 was not a lost year for tech
If anything, in 2013 it became even more fashionable for some of our fellow scribes and righteous founders to lament the lack of innovation in Silicon Valley.
Behind UPS's Christmas Eve Snafu
Unexpected Surge in Online Orders Overwhelmed Louisville, Ky., Hub. In the earliest hours of Dec. 24, packages poured into United Parcel Service Inc. 's main air hub in Louisville, Ky. And they were ...
Nintendo to close eShop temporarily due to high traffic, merger woes
Nintendo is experiencing some serious hiccups in its newly unified eShop platform, and the system is scheduled to go offline for 12 hours starting at 4pm EST/1pm PT, according to The Next Web.
Google Play is giving away ‘Yeezus’ and top singles from 2013
Google's making it easy to catch up on some of the best music of the year. As part of what it's calling Play Picks 2013, it's offering Kanye West's Yeezus and Chvrches' The Bones of What You Believe ...
Rdio closes Vdio: 'We weren't able to deliver the differentiated customer experience we had hoped for'
Rdio has shuttered Vdio, its on-demand service for buying and renting movies and TV shows. — “We have decided to discontinue the Vdio beta service,” the company said in an email.
As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You
SAN FRANCISCO — Before the Internet, books were written — and published — blindly, hopefully. Sometimes they sold, usually they did not, but no one had a clue what readers did when they opened them u...
Apple to put Carl Icahn's $50 billion stock buyback plan up for vote at next shareholder meeting, advises to vote against it
Carl Icahn stock proposal on ballot for Apple shareholder meeting — Carl Icahn, shown in 2006, wants Apple to increase its stock buyback program.
Bitcoin exchanges suspend operations in India amid govt warning
Summary: India's Bitcoin trading platforms, including the largest, have suspended services following a recent public warning by the central bank over the risks of virtual currencies. — India's large...
After unexplained 5% rise on Thursday, Twitter's stock dropped 13% today
Twitter's Selloff Accelerates: Market Cap Falls By $4 Billion … The drop in shares of Twitter Inc. accelerated near the close of trading Friday, with its stock dropping more than 10%.
HTC details the Android software update process with one long infographic
Years after Android hit store shelves and even after the lengthy and sometimes arduous update process has been detailed, HTC releases a new infographic taking a look at the whole process from beginnin...
Snapchat Downplays Phone Number Matching Hack, Says It's Added New Counter-Measures
Following security researchers publishing a way to match Snapchat usernames to phone numbers, Snapchat has published a skimpy statement making the hack sound impractical and noting “We recently added ...
Google received 235 million DMCA takedown requests in 2013, discarded 9%
Google Discarded 21,000,000 Takedown Requests in 2013 — Since last year copyright holders have started to increase the number of DMCA takedown requests they send to Google. — In 2011 Google was as...
China Unicom Launches Chinese Cloud Computing Service ‘Wo Cloud’
Chinese telecom China Unicom has launched a full-service cloud computing and big data brand called “Wo-Cloud” built on OpenStack open-source cloud software and delivered from data centers in Hohhot an...
Apple renews bid for U.S. ban on Samsung products
Apple on Thursday filed a motion to renew its ongoing bid to stop sales of Samsung products found to be infringing on three key utility patents, including the contentious '915 property for pinch-to-zo...
Google Loses Bid for Wiretap Suit Appeals Court Rehearing
Google Inc. (GOOG) lost a bid for a rehearing before a federal appeals court that said the operator of the world's most-used search engine must face claims that its Street View program violated federa...
A New Twist in International Relations: The Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-the-U.S. Clause
By now, we've heard from tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Cisco Systems that the National Security Agency's spying poses a threat to their international business and, in Cisco's case, is al...