App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013
Record-Breaking December with Over $1 Billion in Sales — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 7, 2014Apple® today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 ...
Sony CEO Kaz Hirai says cloud TV won't compete with cable, 4K adoption could take seven years
At a sit down with Sony CEO Kaz Hirai, the company head spoke on the new products and services introduced at CES 2014, some of which were just introduced today.
When Mark Met Evan
It's safe to assume that Evan Spiegel and Mark Zuckerberg are not best buds. — Spiegel, the Snapchat CEO, Monday tweeted a screenshot of an e-mail exchange from November 2012 with the Facebook chief...
Biz Stone and Ben Finkel launch Jelly: “a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks”
Introducing Jelly — Humanity is connected like never before. In fact, recent white papers have concluded that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” …
Apple continues China push by opening an official store on Alibaba's Tmall
Apple Opens Store on Alibaba's Tmall — In its latest attempt to boost China sales, Apple Inc. opened an official store on Tmall, a major online marketplace run by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Gr...
An Introduction To Yahoo Tech!
Online customer reviews are fantastic, but there's still something to be said for reading a critic you know. Over time, you get to know her opinions, preferences, and style. In fact, even if you can...
Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service for TVs, consoles, and phones
The PlayStation 4 won't recognize discs from previous Sony game consoles, but that might not matter for long. Sony has just announced PlayStation Now, a service that will bring streaming PlayStation ...
Anonymous burglars who exposed FBI's spying program in 1971 come forward for the first time
Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows — Stealing J. Edgar Hoover's Secrets: One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spyin...
Yahoo News Digest: Get In The Know In No Time
With the introduction of mobile devices, plenty of things have changed. The way we find, consume and share news has evolved. As things become more complex in nature, news consumption has become over...
Android on Windows gets another supporter in AMD
It's not just Intel — Last week, we told you about Intel's plans to join Windows and Android at the hip, possibly launching a new brand of computer at this year's Consumer Electronics Show that can ...
Google Launches Private SF Bay Ferry Service To Shuttle Workers
REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) - Just as Bay Area high-tech firms such as Google have been using private shuttle buses to transport their workers to their jobs, Google is taking it to another level with its ow...
The Next Civil Rights Issue: Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet
I was 12 hours into a summer vacation in Palm Springs when my phone hummed to life, buzzing twice next to me in the dark of my hotel room. I squinted at the screen. It was 5:30 a.m., and a friend wa...
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell—and why the Internet will never be...
Sony announces internet TV service, plans to start testing it later this year
Sony wants to launch its own online TV service with a cloud DVR and live TV feeds. The service will scheduled to go into testing in the U.S. later this year. — Not discouraged by Intel's failure to...
Google identifies house numbers in Street View using a neural network for image recognition
How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View — Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network t...
Apple seeks removal of court-appointed antitrust monitor
(Reuters) - Apple Inc is seeking the removal of a lawyer appointed by a court to monitor its antitrust compliance following a ruling last year that the company had conspired to fix e-book prices. — ...
China suspends ban on sale of foreign video game consoles
(Reuters) - (Adds context, size of China's video game market, company comments) — China's State Council said it has temporarily lifted a ban on selling foreign video game consoles, paving the way fo...
T-Mobile CEO on Being Thrown Out of AT&T's Party: “I Just Wanted to Hear Macklemore”
T-Mobile CEO John Legere has been trying to crash AT&T's party metaphorically for a while now. — On Monday, he decided to do it literally, working his way into a party that the telecom giant was thr...
Vine Co-Founder Steps Down From Lead Role at Company
Dom Hofmann, co-founder of the social video-sharing service Vine, has stepped down from his lead general manager role at the company, according to three sources close to the situation. — Hofmann, wh...
At least eight security experts cancel appearance at RSA Conference over NSA ties
At least eight security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties — At least eight computer security researchers have withdrawn from a major security conference in a protest …
Researchers warn of new, meaner ransomware with unbreakable crypto
Security researchers have uncovered evidence of a new piece of malware that may be able to take gigabytes' worth of data hostage unless end users pay a ransom. — Discussions of the new malware, alte...
The Four Stages of Disruption
Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics. While I was speaking with some entrepre...
Yahoo Advertising revamped to unify web, mobile, and video ad products
Introducing the new Yahoo Advertising — Today we are announcing a unified approach to digital advertising that only Yahoo can deliver - across premium and audience-focused display, native and search...
Can Apple's Angela Ahrendts Spark A Retail Revolution?
When the Burberry CEO takes over as Apple's retail chief this spring, she'll arrive with a sterling track record and an open, collaborative spirit that's sure to shake things up in the executive ranks...
Wolfram's Connected Devices Project starts to catalog all electronics for the internet of things
Stephen Wolfram recently described his programming language — called, understandably, Wolfram Language — as his “most important project.” The easy-to-use language, Wolfram says in his blog …
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch under fire from US Air Force over HP claims
Accounting row renewed by US Air Force report rasing possibility of Mike Lynch and two US firms being barred from federal contracts — Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, has defended himself agains...
Yahoo Announces That It Has Acquired “Intelligent Homescreen” Startup Aviate
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement on-stage at her Consumer Electronics Show keynote — that the company has acquired Aviate, a startup that automatically organizes the apps on yo...
Sony announces Oculus Rift virtual reality headset competitor
Sony Entertainment president Mike Fasulo briefly shows off the company's new virtual reality headset. — CES 2014 … Movie watchers and gamers who just like to enjoy their content alone may like Sony'...
Sony's new Core fitness tracker will be the ‘heart’ of its wearable experience (hands-on)
Sony's not new to the wearable market, but the company just entered the fitness-tracking market in a big way — during its CES press conference, the company announced Core.
Apple is reportedly having screen technology, battery, and manufacturing issues while building the iWatch
Apple has hit a few snags while developing its much-anticipated iWatch device, according to sources cited by The Information. Issues include challenges with the screen technology …
Polaroid's Socialmatic Camera Is All About Sharing Your Shots
We were cautiously optimistic when the concept for the real-life Instagram camera, the Socialmatic, popped up online last year. Now, despite a few concerns, Polaroid is officially making the design a...
Breakdown in progress: Fab narrows its European business down to only selling custom-made furniture
Big changes appear to continue to be afoot at highly valued U.S. e-commerce company Fab, which has recently been in the news pretty much exclusively when something negative happens …
Sprint launches new ‘Framily’ plans that let you and your friends team up to save money on your bill
Sprint will soon launch a competitive new way for you to save on your monthly phone bill. According to a source familiar with the service, the new option will be called a ‘Framily’ plan …
Ford CEO Mulally makes it official: Not joining Microsoft
Ford CEO Alan Mulally said today that he will not leave the company to join Microsoft. — In an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, the highly-coveted executive said that he would stay wi...
Indian Startup Little Eye Labs Confirms Its Acquisition By Facebook, Deal Worth $10-$15M
Last month, we reported that Facebook was planning to buy Little Eye Labs, an Indian startup that makes a software tool for analyzing the performance of Android apps.
Fab CEO Jason Goldberg's 3,500-Word Mea Culpa: “We Had Started to Dream in Billions”
A new year, a new Jason Goldberg? After watching himself and his e-commerce company Fab take a very public beating in the second half of 2013, Goldberg kicked off the new year today with a 3,500-word...
Kanye's Lawyer Moves to Block Coinye
Lawyers for Kanye West filed cease-and-desist papers against the seven anonymous coders behind Coinye West, a virtual currency that went from chatroom joke to Internet sensation last week. — The leg...
The Shady Practice of Mobile App Install Ads
When former CBS Interactive exec Jason Kint tried to read this Associated Press story on his iPhone on Jan. 1, he wasn't just given an intrusive copy-blocking Candy Crush ad. He was automatically red...
TiVo Moves Storage Of TV Shows Into The Cloud With New Network DVR Service
DVR manufacturer TiVo has spent most of the last 15 years building hardware that would allow consumers to record their favorite TV shows and watch them later. Now the company is working toward buildi...
Samsung's Ultra HD TVs will stream 4K video from Amazon, Comcast, DirecTV, Netflix and more
Samsung's Ultra HD TVs won't sell themselves — they need the content to justify all those extra pixels. To that end, the Korean tech giant has just announced partnerships with companies that will del...
Bruce Schneier Joins Startup Co3 Systems
UPDATE-Bruce Schneier, the famed cryptographer and author who recently left his longtime post at BT, has taken a new position as CTO of Co3 Systems, a startup that provides incident response systems. ...
Cyanogen will partner with OnePlus on its debut phone, the ‘OnePlus One’
Ex-Oppo exec Pete Lau has just announced that his new company OnePlus will partner with Cyanogen on its first smartphone, which will be called the “OnePlus One.” He and Cyanogen's Steve Kondik announ...
Vizio's Portable Smart Audio players run Android, play from built-in streaming apps
Don't call it a wireless speaker. Though Vizio's new Portable Smart Audio players are capable of streaming music over WiFi and Bluetooth, that's not how they were meant to be used.
Epson introduces new Moverio glasses with head-motion tracking and camera
Everybody knows about those other smart glasses, but they're certainly not the only ones making a big fuss these days. Epson has been working on a similar product called the Moverio BT-100, for the l...
Verint to acquire KANA Software for $514 million
Verint Systems Inc., one of Long Island's largest and fastest-growing software companies, has reached an agreement to buy a Silicon Valley competitor for $514 million. — The pending purchase of KANA...
Groupon testing a service allowing small brick-and-mortar stores to sell excess inventory
Groupon's Next Big Thing? Helping Mom-and-Pop Shops Unload Extra Inventory. — Can Groupon be the T.J. Maxx for local retail stores? — The Chicago-based deals company is currently testing …