Why Bitcoin Matters
Editor's note: Marc Andreessen's venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has invested just under $50 million in Bitcoin-related start-ups. The firm is actively searching for more Bitcoin-based inv...
Amazon considering online live TV service, has approached at least three media conglomerates seeking rights to distribute their channels
Amazon Considering Online Pay-TV Service — Live TV Channels Would Compete With Cable, Satellite — Amazon.com Inc. has approached big entertainment companies …
CONFIRMED: Man Interrogated By FBI For Wearing Prescription Google Glass At The Movies
A man who went to the movies with his wife in Columbus, Ohio, was subjected to a terrifying hour-long interrogation by the FBI because employees at the AMC theater saw him wearing Google Glass.
Developer activates Apple's upcoming iOS in the Car system, shows different interface
Ahead of Apple's launch of iOS in the Car later this year, developer Steven Troughton-Smith has seemingly activated the feature inside what we presume is the iOS Simulator. iOS in the Car allows an iO...
Today my startup failed
No soft landing, no happy ending—we simply failed. — It's been a long four year journey, full of highs and lows. I am simultaneously incredibly proud, and incredibly disappointed. — I'm incredibl...
Google and Apple shuttles will pay to use San Francisco's public bus stops
The shuttle buses that transport workers for huge tech firms like Google, Facebook, and Apple between San Francisco and Silicon Valley every day have come under heavy fire lately, but today a vote was...
Verizon agrees to buy Intel's failed internet TV project
After publicly announcing and failing to follow through with a big plan to launch a set-top box, Intel is selling the project to Verizon. The telecoms company will purchase assets of Intel Media, a d...
Snail mail scanning service Outbox is shutting down after less than a year
Outbox is Shutting Down—A Note of Gratitude — Dear loyal customers and Outbox supporters: — We announce today that we are ending the mail service, shutting down the Outbox brand, and focusing our ...
Yale's crackdown on student Web site creates another headache for administration
“I hope I don't get kicked out of Yale for this,” wrote Yale student Sean Haufler in a blog post explaining why he had created the Chrome extension Banned Bluebook. — Haufler made the extension in r...
Bitcoin payments now accepted at two Las Vegas casinos but for hotel check-in only
Downtown Las Vegas just stepped into the 21st century, thanks to two casino hotels, which are now accepting Bitcoin in exchange for accommodation. The Golden Gate and The D will now accept the virtua...
Announcing the Female Founders Conference
I'm delighted to announce that Kat Manalac, Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy and I are hosting Y Combinator's first Female Founders Conference on Saturday, March 1. We're going to gather together female ...
IBM's Q4 mixed, hardware unit tanks
Summary: IBM's challenge: Its new businesses aren't growing fast enough to offset struggling units such as the hardware division. — IBM's fourth quarter results were a mixed bag as the company's ear...
Yahoo's Next Problem: Tumblr's Traffic Isn't Growing
The past year has been an up-and-down affair for Yahoo , with the company and its CEO, Marissa Mayer, scoring numerous PR coups while failing to make headway in its core business of selling digital ad...
Yahoo Acquires Mobile Marketing Startup Sparq
Mobile marketing company Sparq announced on its site today that it has been acquired by Yahoo. The company did not disclose the purchase price. — Yahoo declined to illustrate the deal's financial d...
Another freebie bites the dust: LogMeIn pulls free remote access
It may not be a flood, but it's definitely a trickle. More software vendors are paring back “free” or freemium offerings. This week it's LogMeIn curtailing the free version of LogMeIn remote access.
BlackBerry Soars 10% On Pentagon Order, Shares Now Up 34% In 2014
BlackBerry has an almost uncanny ability to not die when it's been written off again and again. Today, the Pentagon has announced that it will install 80,000 BlackBerry handsets on its network by the...
Apple expands educational iBooks to new markets in Asia, Latin America & Europe
Apple on Tuesday announced that iBooks Texbooks and iTunes U Course Manager, two education-oriented products from the company, are expanding into new markets around the world, including Asia, Latin Am...
Google encourages employees to attend SF hearing on shuttle regulations, issues talking points
Google's “High Handed” Bus Memo — Like the last time people tried busing as a solution to a socioeconomic problem, the tech busing in San Francisco has become a hot-button topic.
Pinterest Is Experimenting With GIFs
You may soon be pinning GIFs alongside your favorite meals and workout photos — A new Pinterest feature available to select pinners allows them to play GIFs within the platform, a feature that was p...
Mobile gaming company Kabam doubles 2013 revenue to $360M, is “seriously considering” IPO
Social Game Maker Kabam Continues Growth — Mobile videogame maker Kabam said it tallied more than $360 million in gross revenue in 2013, doubling results from the prior year …
China orders real name register for online video uploads
(Reuters) - Chinese Internet users are now required to register their real names to upload videos to Chinese online video sites, an official body said, as the Communist Party tightens its control of t...
Coursera Flirts With Diplomas: Online ‘Specialization’ Is $250
Complete your studies at a traditional university, and you earn a cap-and-gown ceremony with a smiling dean handing you a diploma. Wrap up online instrucxtion, and nothing so thrilling awaits. But C...
It doesn't always end in tears: Inside Wealthfront's second orderly CEO switch
Adam Nash is replacing Andy Rachleff as CEO of Wealthfront — the company's third CEO in its young life. Rachleff was the “grown up” who originally replaced founder Dan Carroll, as the company moved o...
Time for an international convention on government access to data
General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — Last week, President Obama spoke about the role of the National Security Agency and announced some important change...
Ex-Googlers' Startup Shape Turns Hackers' Code-Morphing Tricks Against Them
For decades the information security industry's default analogy has been virus versus antivirus, a futile race to detect hackers' weapons as they constantly mutate. Now a few security veterans are fl...
16M Online Accounts Compromised, German Authorities Warn
Another day, another massive data breach. — Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, said Tuesday that the online accounts of some 16 million Internet users have been compromised b...
Amazon Drops S3 Prices By Up To 22%, EBS By Up To 50%, Launches New EC2 Instance Types
Barely a month passes without Amazon Web Services (AWS) dropping the price of something in its feature line-up, and this week, it's S3's and EBS's time to get a bit cheaper.
GitHub President Becomes CEO, CEO Becomes President In Executive Role Swap
So now is the time for top execs at middle-stage technology companies to trade titles with each other apparently: GitHub has just announced that co-founder Tom Preston-Werner will be taking over the r...
Courtesy Of Punchfork Acquisition, Pinterest Launches A Recipe Search Engine
Pinterest today is announcing a new feature designed to make it easier for those who use the site to discover, save and share recipes with each other: recipe search. Effectively turning Pinterest …
iOS Jailbreak Rate in China Decreased Sharply in 2013
As you can see from the graph above, the iOS Jailbreak rate in China decreased from above 30% to 12.7% as of the end of 2013, according to mobile analytics and service provider Umeng. — The causes, ...
While Dropbox leads in consumer adoption, Box's early focus on enterprise sales a key strength
Battle of the Box — The problem with the old thin client model was the assumption that processing power was scarce. In fact, Moore's Law and the rise of ARM has made the exact opposite the case - p...
Beats Music creates satisfying playlists by relying more on human curation than artist and genre matching algorithms
Beats Music Streams With a Human Touch — For years and years, people have predicted that subscription streaming music services would eventually overtake paid download services in the hearts of avera...
On WeChat's phenomenal rise, which may doom Facebook's chances for market leadership in China
A Popular Chinese Social Networking App Blazes Its Own Path — SHANGHAI — Every half-hour or so, Jenny Zhao, young and wired, unlocks her iPhone 5 to connect with friends using Weixin, China's wildly...
Color by Numbers: A new valuation framework for the Ad Tech sector
Ad-Tech Valuation: Color by Numbers — This past summer, trade press commentary focused on the impending doom of the ad-tech space, pointing to the industry's fragmentation and noting the underperfor...
Andreessen Horowitz Brings On Londoner Benedict Evans
Andreessen Horowitz is widening its talent pool once again. Today the company is adding Benedit Evans, a long-time mobile analyst and pundit, to its team. He is currently based in London but will be...
Verizon posts Q4 profit of $7.9B, adds 1.7M net connections
Verizon swung to a fourth-quarter profit as it continued to add wireless customers at a healthy clip. — The New York company on Tuesday posted a net income of $7.9 billion, or $1.77 a share, compare...
Airbnb Design May Lead Black Hosts to Charge Less, Say Researchers
Airbnb's prominent and large profile photos may facilitate discrimination against home-rental hosts who are black, according to a study conducted by two Harvard Business School professors.
Expedia Lost 25% Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over Unnatural Links
The major travel website, Expedia, seems to have lost 25% of their search visibility in Google according to Search Metrics. It appears that drop was due to an unnatural link penalty …
Twitter Users' Diversity Becomes an Ad Selling Point
Microblogging Social-Media Site Trying to Capitalize on Its Demographics — For most of its rather short life, Twitter Inc. rarely mentioned that its user base is more racially diverse than U.S. Inte...
Microsoft Research adopts Open Access policy for publications
In a recent interview with Scientific American, Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research, discussed three main motivations for basic research at Microsoft. The first relates to an aspiration to advance ...