Apple Reports First Quarter Results
iPhone and iPad Sales Drive Record Revenue and Operating Profit — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 first quarter ended December 28, 2013. The Company posted record quart...
NSA and GCHQ target ‘leaky’ phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data
GCHQ documents use Angry Birds - reportedly downloaded more than 1.7bn times - as a case study for app data collection. — The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developin...
Uber facing lawsuit after child was struck and killed by an Uber driver waiting for a fare
Uber and a Child's Death — Travis Kalanick, chief executive of the on-demand transportation service Uber, originally used “The Fountainhead” as his Twitter icon.
FBI seized entire TorMail database in Freedom Hosting investigation, now executes search warrants on it for unrelated cases
If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox — While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized …
Perkins: I Regret Using the Word Kristallnacht
In an exclusive interview, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers Co-Founder Tom Perkins discusses his comments comparing the treatment of wealthy Americans to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. He ...
Apple says it received less than 250 National Security Orders in the first half of 2013
Following the terms of an agreement announced today between government agencies and a number of tech companies, Apple has released an updated report on National Security and Law Enforcement requests.
Microsoft contributes cloud server designs to the Open Compute Project
On Tuesday, I will deliver a keynote address to 3,000 attendees at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose, Calif. where I will announce that Microsoft is joining the OCP, a community focuse...
Samsung To Pay Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Settle Patent Dispute with Ericsson
In the second patent deal announced by Samsung in the last 24 hours, the Korean electronics giant and Ericsson announced they have settled a dispute with a cross-licensing deal that will see some big ...
Starwood Hotels tests allowing customers to skip check-in desk, open rooms with smartphone app
Smartphones to Open Doors at Some Hotels — Starwood to Begin Test of Virtual Keys Stored in Apps … Guests arriving at the Aloft Hotel in Manhattan or one in Silicon Valley will soon …
Obama administration reaches tentative deal with tech companies to disclose more details on government data requests
Justice Department reaches deal with tech firms on data requests. — Tentative deal with major Internet companies would allow them to tell the public more details about how the government collects da...
Facebook Is Seeking “Editors” for News App
For years, Facebook has sworn by the power of algorithms to serve users a personalized mix of status updates, stories and photos. It's what makes up the heart of the company's premier product, the Ne...
CEO of Winklevoss-funded BitInstant arrested in Silk Road investigation, charged with money laundering
Winklevoss-Funded Bitcoin Startup's CEO Arrested In Silk Road Investigation — The widening circle of arrests in the investigation of the Silk Road drug market sites just extended into the heart of t...
More on DeepMind: AI Startup to Work Directly With Google's Search Team
Google has been buying a lot of crazy stuff lately. At least eight robot companies, including humanoid robot-maker Boston Dynamics. Nest, the smart home company that designs thermostats and smoke de...
End Of An Era As VKontakte Founder Durov Sells His Stake To Russian Mobile Giant
Pavel Durov, the elusive founder of VKontakt (VK) — at 100 million users Russia's biggest social network — has confirmed that he has sold his 12 percent stake to Ivan Tavrin, the CEO of major Russian ...
Reversing course, Google rejects Adobe Web publishing tech
It can be hard to say no to an idea with some merit — especially after already saying yes. — But that's the position Google is in with an Adobe Systems technology for bringing more sophisticated, ma...
Google Takes Defamation Case to India's Supreme Court
An Indian Supreme Court hearing on whether the local unit of Google Inc. is liable for allegedly defamatory comments posted on its blogging site will help decide how Internet companies do business in ...
Tim Cook admits iPhone 5c share lower than expected, says demand was ‘different than we thought’
Though Apple doesn't break down sales of individual iPhone models, Chief Executive Tim Cook admitted on Monday that sales of the iPhone 5c represented a smaller mix of total handset sales than his com...
Microsoft renames SkyDrive to OneDrive
Microsoft is renaming its SkyDrive cloud storage to OneDrive. The software giant has registered onedrive.com and the company has a promotional video on YouTube announcing the new name. Microsoft say...
Kantar: Android Accounted 70% Of Smartphone Sales In Q4, But Samsung Is Now “Under Real Pressure”
Android continues to be the most popular mobile platform, with its share of smartphone sales climbing in every major market in Q4 2013, now accounting for 69.5% of all sales across 12 key markets vers...
Russia's Megafon signs new iPhone deal with Apple
(Reuters) - Russia's second-biggest mobile phone operator, Megafon, said on Monday it had signed a direct contract with Apple Inc and resumed selling iPhones after a four-year break. — Megafon has n...
Ahead of earnings, analyst estimates put Apple's fiscal Q1 revenues at $58B, up 6.6% YoY
Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's fiscal Q1 2014 — The consensus forecast of 47 analysts: Earnings of $14.36 per share on sales of $58 billion.
3-D Printed Crime Scenes Are Coming to a Courtroom Near You
There's undeniably something captivating about looking at a crime scene. Similar to watching a train wreck, try walking by a block protected by police tape without doing a double-take. As the gargan...
Did Big Internet Companies Handicap Start-Ups in FISA Rule Changes?
SAN FRANCISCO — A small but significant caveat in a new agreement brokered between the Obama administration and Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft could cast a long shadow over America's technology...
AT&T dismisses talk of a Vodafone takeover bid
AT&T might want a piece of the European wireless market, but it's not planning to bid for British firm Vodafone. The US carrier revealed today that it won't make a takeover offer for Vodafone, follow...