Windows 8.1 Update 1 leaks on the web ahead of its March release
Microsoft's first update to Windows 8.1 has leaked today on various file sharing websites ahead of its March debut. The early build includes a number of changes that Microsoft is making to improve th...
Facebook declines to change name of upcoming Paper news app at the request of FiftyThree, maker of iPad drawing app Paper
Makers of Paper App Ask Facebook to Change Its New App Name — If you go to Google and type in the word “paper,” the top result doesn't have anything to do with traditional pulpy vellum.
YouTube stars warn of thinning revenues as video uploads and production costs outpace ad rates
Chasing Their Star, on YouTube — It is 3 p.m., and outside another brilliant Los Angeles afternoon beckons. But Olga Kay has drawn her blinds, leaving her living room in a semidarkened haze.
Apple Celebrates 30th Anniversary of the Mac With Movie Shot on iPhones
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Mac, Apple gave its store workers special T-shirts, changed its home page and granted ABC News an interview with CEO Tim Cook. — But its biggest anniversary proje...
Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers
Over the past year, there has been speculation of when or if Apple would build out their own content delivery network for the purpose of delivering content to consumers. To date, all of the CDN deplo...
Gates Seen Taking Bigger Products Role at Microsoft
Even as Bill Gates weighs giving up his title of chairman of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), he's poised to remain involved at the company he co-founded in an area of its deepest need: crafting must-have prod...
Cycloramic hits top of App Store after Shark Tank appearance, $500k investment & 100k downloads in an hour
What happens when your app gets featured on ABC's Shark Tank, the TV show where rich investors listen to pitches from wannabe entrepreneurs looking to raise funds?
72 of the Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures of All Time
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. " - Proverb — For those who've been reading, we've had failure on the brain recently. This is partly because its a good counte...
StumbleUpon and Uber Founder Garrett Camp Is Raising $75 Million For Company-Building Venture Expa
Garrett Camp, co-founder of both StumbleUpon and Uber, is looking for help in funding his new company-building venture Expa. According to an SEC filing, Camp is looking to raise up to $75 million …
Required Reading: The Economist's Special Report On Tech Startups
It's not every day we here at TechCrunch just point to someone else's work and say, “Here, you should go read this.” But today's an exception, because The Economist has put together a 16-page Special...
Paper Now Available For iOS In The US, And It Could Be A Facebook Replacement
Facebook's new standalone app Paper is now available for download on iOS to everyone in the US, and it's more than just a content reader. Paper has messages, notifications, search, and a completely r...
Google Now notifications arrive in Chrome beta for Mac, Windows, and Chromebook computers
Get notifications from Google Now in Chrome — Your friend Steve's flight from New York is delayed by an hour. Your favorite soccer team is up by one point with two minutes left. Your Chromecast ha...
Legendary hacker group CCC files complaint against German government over surveillance
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of the oldest hacker collectives in the world and still Europe's largest, has filed a criminal complaint against the German government and heads of Germany's intelli...