Former Yahoo COO De Castro was paid more than CEO, made at least $88M for 15 months of work
Yahoo's No. 2 Executive Made More Than His Boss (and Virtually Everyone Else) — It's hard to shed too many tears for Henrique de Castro, who was fired this week as Yahoo's No. 2 executive.
Apple continues hiring raid on medical sensor field as it develops eye scanning technology
Apple is moving to expand its personnel working on wearable computers and medical-sensor-laden devices by hiring more scientists and specialists in the medical sensor field.
Lightroom for iPad briefly appears on Adobe's website, coming soon with $99/year cloud subscription
Adobe will soon make the iPad an even more viable solution for mobile content creation: the company will soon unleash a version of its popular Lightroom photo editing suite that is optimized for table...
Security firm IntelCrawler says it has identified Target malware author
Security firm IntelCrawler said Friday that it has identified a Russian teenager as the author of the malware probably used in the cyberattacks against Target and Neiman Marcus, and that it expects mo...
Stores Confront New World of Reduced Shopper Traffic
E-Commerce Not Only Siphons Off Sales, but Changes Shopping Habits — Best Buy Co. on Thursday became the latest retailer to chime in with weak holiday results. Like other chains, the electronics re...
Why Obama's NSA Reforms Won't Solve Silicon Valley's Trust Problem
When Barack Obama announced his reforms of National Security Agency surveillance programs today, few people were as interested as Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer, and Steve Ballme...
Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates
One of the coolest things about Chrome is the silent, automatic updates that always ensure that users are always running the latest version. While Chrome itself is updated automatically by Google …
43% of websites on Techmeme's leaderboard are powered by WordPress, 42% use a custom CMS
WordPress & Techmeme 100 — Whenever I visit a site I can usually tell whether it's WordPress or not within an instant — there's just something about a WordPress site that is distinctive.
Microsoft re-releases latest Surface Pro 2 update following initial issues
Microsoft is re-releasing its latest Surface Pro 2 firmware update today. Following issues with the update last month, the software maker pulled it to investigate and correct the problems.
Storehouse, an iPad app by a former Apple designer, lets users create stories from media
Storehouse: An Apple Vet Tries To Move The Needle On Long-Form Visual Communication — The way we communicate is increasingly visual. The devices that we carry with us are uniquely suited …
Cisco's Security Report finds that 91% of attacks in 2013 were Java exploits
Java Primary Cause of 91 Percent of Attacks: Cisco — There are many different risks and attacks that IT professionals had to deal with in 2013, but no one technology was more abused or more culpable...
Intel's 64-bit Bay Trail chip arriving on Android tablets in Q2
Intel's Bay Trail chip arriving on Android tablets in Q2 — Intel's quad-core Atom processor will come to Android tablets in the second quarter, CEO Brian Krzanich said Thursday during a quarterly ea...
Lax Android in-app purchase rules could get Google Play FTC attention [Updated]
Google has been been criticized for having just the sort of lax in-app purchase policies in the Google Play store that Apple will pay out a hefty $32.5m to settle over, after parents complained their ...