He Was Fired: Here's Marissa Mayer's De Castro Buh-Bye Memo to Yahoo Staff
Here it is, the internal memo to Yahoo staff about the sudden — though it was not sudden, by any means — leave-taking today of its COO, Henrique De Castro, courtesy of one of my 10,563 sources left at...
Apple Agrees to FTC Consent Decree Over In-App Purchases (Memo)
Looks like Apple's settlement last year of a lawsuit over the unauthorized use of in-app purchasing in games and apps sold through the App Store wasn't enough for the Federal Trade Commission.
Apple to refund consumers at least $32.5M for in-app purchases made without parental consent
Apple Inc. Will Provide Full Consumer Refunds of At Least $32.5 Million to Settle FTC Complaint It Charged for Kids' In-App Purchases Without Parental Consent — Company Also Will Modify its Billing ...
Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro, Mayer's No. 2, to depart after failing to move lagging ad business
“Dead Man Walking” Walks: COO Henrique De Castro Out at Yahoo — As has long been rumored, Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro is departing Yahoo. I had reported last week that he was in big trouble …
HP to Re-Enter Smartphone Market With “Phablets” in India
Hewlett-Packard will today announce plans to re-enter the market for smartphones and tablets that it exited in 2011, with a pair of voice-enabled tablets that will debut in India later this year. — ...
How losing net neutrality will discourage investing in bandwidth-intensive startups
VC Pitches In A Year Or Two — Entrepreneur: I plan to launch a better streaming music service. It leverages the data on what you and your friends currently listen to, combines that with the schedul...
What's Net Neutrality? What Happened to Net Neutrality Yesterday? What Happens Next? A Q&A for the Rest of Us
Net neutrality is dead, and the Internet is in peril. — Or, maybe: Net neutrality is dead, and the Internet will be fine. — Or, perhaps: Net neutrality is threatened, but can be saved.
Apple-China Mobile deal a ‘watershed’ moment: Tim Cook
By: Reporting by Eunice Yoon, Written by Dhara Ranasinghe — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the deal to sell iPhones on China Mobile's vast network is a “watershed” moment. — A deal to sell iPhones on Chi...
Google Play Movies and TV Finally Comes to iOS
First Google Play Books made its way to iOS. Then Google Play Music undertook the pilgrimage. So, it should be little surprise that today Google Play Movies and TV has finally made the jump. This i...
A First Look at the Target Intrusion, Malware
Last weekend, Target finally disclosed at least one cause of the massive data breach that exposed personal and financial information on more than 110 million customers: Malicious software that infecte...
Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text
In a case of convenience for users trumping security, Starbucks has been storing the passwords for its mobile-payment app, along with geolocation data, in clear text — The Starbucks mobile app, the ...
Spotify Drops Free Web Listening Time Limit Everywhere - A Big Scalability Milestone
Spotify's advertising engine and paid customer conversion funnel are finally working well enough that today it eliminated all limits on free, ad-supported web listening in all countries.
Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group- court
Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers won clearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc, Google Inc and other companies of conspiring to drive down pay by not poaching each other's staff, after a f...
Google Adds Optional Data Compression Feature To Chrome For Mobile, Reducing Your Data Usage By Up To 50%
Google today is officially announcing the release of a data compression feature for its Chrome mobile web browser which allows you to reduce your data usage on smartphones and tablets …
Microsoft CEO Candidate List Is Said to Include Ericsson's Vestberg
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s board is considering Ericsson AB Chief Executive Officer Hans Vestberg as a potential successor to departing leader Steve Ballmer, according to people briefed on the search.
Obama surveillance plan “leaves in place many current programs, but embraces the spirit of reform”
Obama to Place Some Restraints on Surveillance — WASHINGTON — President Obama will issue new guidelines on Friday to curtail government surveillance, but will not embrace …
AOL hands over control of Patch to investment fund Hale Global, keeps small stake
AOL Finds a Home — Off Its Books — For Patch — Patch isn't dead, and AOL isn't officially done with it. But Tim Armstrong's big bet on local news has come to an end: The AOL CEO is handing over Pat...
EU-funded RoboEarth project is a cloud-based system for robots to learn from each other
Robots test their own world wide web, dubbed RoboEarth — A world wide web for robots to learn from each other and share information is being shown off for the first time.
Microsoft to extend Windows XP antimalware updates one year
Summary: Security updates for Windows XP will end this April, but updated antimalware signatures for the operating system will continue for another year. — Microsoft has announced that they will con...
Silent Circle & Geeksphone Join Forces To Build Blackphone: A Pro-Privacy Android-Based Smartphone
As the reality of the extent and invasiveness of the security services' dragnet surveillance programs hits home, the pro-privacy movement has been cranking up its own ideas to counter spy-tech with pr...
Fitbit offers apology, refund to users experiencing skin irritation from Fitbit Force
TORONTO - Wearable technology company Fitbit is apologizing to customers after some users took to the web to complain about painful skin irritations they allegedly developed after wearing the Fitbit F...
Viddy, the “Instagram for Video” That Wasn't, Acquired by Web Video Startup Fullscreen
Remember Viddy? — Back in 2012, the video-sharing app was growing like a weed, and lots of smart money bet that it would become an “Instagram for video.” Then Facebook, which had been fueling Viddy...
Surveillance-court judges oppose White House group's NSA proposals
Current and former judges on the nation's secret surveillance court said in a letter released Tuesday that several recommendations made by a White House review group would significantly increase the c...
Microsoft confirms Syrian Electronic Army hacked into employee email accounts
Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that a “small number” of employee email accounts were accessed during the latest round of attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army. The hacking group posted three in...
EU says needs more concessions from Google within weeks in anti-trust probe
A Google logo is seen at the entrance to the company's offices in Toronto September 5, 2013. — (Reuters) - The European Union wants Google to come up with more concessions within weeks if it is to a...
Bing Begins Rollout of Secure Search, Say Goodbye to More Keyword Data
ClickZ Intel is a resource hub for online marketers. Gain access to white papers, webinars, case studies and more! — In November, we reported that Microsoft was looking into switching their search ...
Box is giving away 50GB of free storage, as it introduces file previews and more to its iOS app
Box has released an update to its iOS apps that now features a sleeker and faster experience, new preview file capabilities, full text search functionality, and more.
HP Chromebook 11 with LTE spotted with $379 price (possible $50 rebate too)
Earlier this morning, I noted that Altair announced its chip would power the HP Chromebook 11 LTE model on Verizon's network. I figured the updated model would be available soon, but I didn't think i...
BitTorrent Creator's New Software DissidentX Hides Secrets In Plain Sight
Encryption tools help people keep secrets. Bram Cohen has a more subtle ambition: he wants to help people keep secret the act of keeping secrets. — For the last year Cohen, who created the breakthr...
Intel expands “Intel Inside” cloud branding beyond Amazon
Intel which parlayed the hell out of the “Intel Inside” sticker in the PC world, aims to replicate that branding success in cloud. As of Tuesday, 16 cloud providers can plaster the less-succinct “Pow...
Horizon Shoots All Of Your Videos In Landscape, No Matter How You Hold Your Phone
Good news! You just shot what might be the world's funniest video ever. You're going to be a friggin' YouTube sensation. You're totally going to hang out with Ellen. — Bad news: you shot the vide...
Zuckerberg Calls Snapchat A “Privacy Phenomenon”
Mark Zuckerberg thinks Facebook's innovated by creating a place where people could share what wasn't shared before, which is also why he thinks Snapchat is important. Today in a low-profile talk at S...
A third of SF cabbies switched from registered cabs to Uber, Lyft or Sidecar in the past year
San Francisco cab drivers are Uber's latest pickup — Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing upstarts are transforming a slow-to-change industry from the outside in. — FORTUNE — Being a cab driver isn't...
With $1.2M From Greylock, Yuri Milner And 500 Startups, First Opinion Lets You Text A Doctor Anytime
As mobile networks and digital communication tools improve, there's a huge opportunity to re-imagine the calcified old world of healthcare. Some services are looking to do that by bringing …
Call Marketing Company Invoca Raises $20M Round Led By Accel
Invoca, the call marketing company formerly known as RingRevenue, is announcing that it has raised $20 million in Series C funding. — The company has now raised more than $30 million, with the curre...
Spam-Fighting Startup Impermium Joins Google, Discontinues Third-Party Services
Impermium, a cybersecurity startup that was backed by top funds like Accel and Greylock, is joining Google. They had raised $9 million in funding from Highland Capital Partners, the Social+Capital Pa...
Cloud-Software Startup Zendesk Hires Bankers for IPO
Maker of Online Help-Desk Software Part of Wave of Cloud Companies — Zendesk Inc., a maker of online help-desk software for businesses, has hired banks in preparation for an initial public offering ...