Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 20% to $25.59 Billion
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. — Operating cash flow increased 31% to $5.47 billion for the trailing twelve months ...
Meet “Paper,” Facebook's New Answer For Browsing — and Creating — Mobile Media
and Creating — Mobile Media — Facebook wants to be a newspaper. And it wants you to be writing some of its best stories. — To that end, the social giant announced on Thursday it will soon launch P...
Microsoft's board preparing to make Satya Nadella CEO, may replace Gates as chairman
Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO — Microsoft Corp.'s board is preparing to make Satya Nadella, the company's enterprise and cloud chief, chief executive officer …
Snowden documents reveal Canadian spy agency used airport Wi-Fi to track passengers “for days after they left the terminal”
Canadian spy agency used airport Wi-Fi to track passengers for days after they left the terminal — Electronic snooping was part of a trial run for U.S. NSA and other foreign services
Microsoft backpedals: Windows 8.1 update hides tile interface by default
Microsoft is once again planning to alter the way its Start Screen works in Windows 8.1 Update 1. While the software giant originally released Windows 8.1 last year with an option to bypass the “Metr...
Revenue and Profit Rise at Google, but Mobile Struggles Continue
SAN FRANCISCO — There is no denying that Google has become a mobile company. Now, Google — along with shareholders, industry partners and advertisers — is trying to figure out what that means.
Box has secretly filed for an IPO
Box, the online storage company, has secretly filed paperwork for an initial public offering, according to a source. — That means Box could start trading as a public company before its chief rival, ...
SwiftKey gets its predictive keyboard onto iOS, with a little help from Evernote
The popular Android keyboard arrives on iPhone and iPad — Three and a half years after launching on Android, SwiftKey's popular predictive-software keyboard has finally come to iOS. iPhone and iPad ...
Hackers likely exploited insecure, widely used server software on Target's internal network
New Clues in the Target Breach — An examination of the malware used in the Target breach suggests that the attackers may have had help from a poorly secured feature built into a widely-used …
Amazon considering $20 to $40 price hike for Prime service in US
Amazon today said it's “considering” raising the price of its $79 a year Prime service to customers in the US by another $20 to $40. The possible increase, which has not been finalized, was announced...
Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M, Signaling A New Tack For The Gaming Giant
Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong character IP, or intellectual property, in favor of releasing games...
Amazon Wants To Include Peer-to-Peer Payments In Its “Real World” PayPal Competitor
Earlier today, the WSJ published a report on how Amazon is building a Kindle-based point-of-sale payments service for local merchants using technology it picked up via its Gopago acquisition -somethin...
Microsoft may select new CEO next week, Satya Nadella Exec VP Cloud and Enterprise, most likely candidate
Now at 160 Days, Microsoft CEO Search Could Be Nearing Its End With Insiders on Inside Track — According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the ne...
Obama Stays Silent on Reform of NSA's Crypto Subversion
President Barack Obama in his State of the Union on Tuesday failed to address an issue that affects everyone on the internet — the NSA's subversion of cryptographic standards and technologies. — Pri...
The PC may be dying, but tablet growth is slowing as consumer saturation sets in
Summary: If you thought the tablet was the savior to the ailing PC market, we may need a better alternative if the latest tablet growth forecasts are to be believed. — Zack Whittaker
Salesforce CEO Benioff on How to Fix San Francisco
These days, you could call Marc Benioff a kind of anti-Tom Perkins. — The billionaire head of Salesforce.com doesn't have anything personal against the co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers...
Mint integrates with Coinbase, so you can track bitcoin with the rest of your finances
The wild ride of bitcoin's value is slowing down, and we are beginning to see the effects of that stability. — Personal finance app Mint is integrating with bitcoin wallet service Coinbase …
PayPal Wants Role in Apple's Mobile Payments Dreams
Apple may finally appear serious about facilitating the purchase of physical products in retail stores through its devices — and that has gotten the attention of at least one potential major competito...
The FCC is ‘beta testing’ a next-gen telephone network
Federal regulators have taken their first major step in accelerating the country's move toward high-capacity, fiber optic phone networks. In a unanimous vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Comm...
Yahoo Detects Mass Hack Attempt On Yahoo Mail, Resets All Affected Passwords
The details are a bit sparse right now, but Yahoo has just disclosed by way of their Tumblr that they've detected what they're calling a “coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail a...
Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 20% to $25.59 Billion
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. — Operating cash flow increased 31% to $5.47 billion for the trailing twelve months ...
Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he's confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns...
Apple details pressure-sensitive iPhone touchscreen in patent filing
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent describing a device with built-in pressure sensors that work in concert with touchscreen input to provide enhanced UI navigat...
With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water
This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it's much more than just a news reading app — it's a complete reimagining of Facebook itself...
Google's first-ever stock split scheduled for April 2
Google poised to execute long-delayed stock split — SAN FRANCISCO—Google is finally ready to split its stock for the first time, more than three years after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin be...
The PC may be dying, but tablet growth is slowing as consumer saturation sets in
Summary: If you thought the tablet was the savior to the ailing PC market, we may need a better alternative if the latest tablet growth forecasts are to be believed. — Zack Whittaker
Intel Will Shut Down AppUp PC App Store On March 11, Apps Will Stop Working By May 15
So much for Intel's bid to get hip with our app-filled times: the company is shutting down its consumer-facing AppUp, its app store for Windows-based PC apps. “The world's largest app store that nobo...