Apple buys sapphire crystal furnaces for AZ plant, capable of producing 100-200M ~5" iPhone displays per year
Exclusive: Apple just procured enough Sapphire Crystal furnaces to make 100-200M ~5-inch iPhone displays in Arizona — Last year, Apple and GT Advanced struck a deal to open …
iWatch time: Apple seeking physiologists to run fitness, energy expenditure tests
Apple has published a job listing on its website seeking physiologists and engineers to run tests related to health and fitness data. This job will require the employees to “design and run user studi...
Sony to exit VAIO PC business, spin off TV business, cut 5000 jobs worldwide
Sony sells its VAIO PC business, makes TV arm its own subsidiary — Sony said it was “addressing various options” as recently as yesterday when it came to its VAIO PC and laptop arm, and while announ...
NBC story on visitors to Sochi Olympics getting hacked is misleading
That NBC story 100% fraudulent — Yesterday (Feb 5 2014) NBC News ran a story claiming that if you bring your mobile phone or laptop to the Sochi Olympics, it'll immediately be hacked the moment you ...
Apple Repurchases $14B of Own Shares in 2 Weeks
CEO Cook Says Company Wanted to Be ‘Aggressive’ and ‘Opportunistic’ — CUPERTINO, Calif. - Apple Inc. has bought $14 billion of its own shares in the two weeks since reporting financial results that ...
Pay Your Check with OpenTable Mobile: Pilot Payment Program Launches in San Francisco
First, OpenTable made it simple to book a restaurant reservation at any time of day or night with just a few clicks. Now, we're pleased to announce that it will soon be just as easy to pay for your m...
Google Changes Homepage to Protest Russia's Anti-Gay Law
As the Winter Olympics kick off in Sochi, groups ranging from Google to human rights organizations are turning to digital media to protest a law that vastly curtails the free speech rights of lesbian,...
LinkedIn to Acquire Job-Seeking Site Bright for $120 Million
LinkedIn announced on Thursday it plans to acquire Bright, a data-driven job search startup, for $120 million. — The buy is LinkedIn's largest acquisition to date, topping the company's earlier majo...
Indie smash hit ‘Flappy Bird’ racks up $50K per day in ad revenue
The enigmatic and oppressively difficult mobile game Flappy Bird has turned into quite the cash cow for Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen. In an interview with The Verge, Nguyen revealed that the game...
How Ben Horowitz Avoided an Options Backdating Scandal
Just by listening to his favorite rappers, Ben Horowitz has absorbed many tales of run-ins and near run-ins with the law. But the prominent Silicon Valley investor also lived one of his own. — Mr. ...
IBM lands deal to make DARPA's self-destructing ‘VAPR’ ware
Summary: DARPA's VAPR project could allow it to blanket vast areas with monitoring sensors without risking the equipment falling into enemy hands. — Liam Tung — IBM has won a US government contrac...
That Secret App Is Becoming Silicon Valley's New Blind Item
“I work at Evernote and we're about to get acquired... Watch this space” — That could be the first big acquisition rumor to have found its way onto Secret, the new “anonymish” sharing app launched l...
Firefox beta brings touch-friendly web browsing to Windows 8
After roughly a year of development, Mozilla has at last released a beta of Firefox for Windows 8. The not-quite-finished browser gives early adopters a full touchscreen interface with finger-friendl...
Ex-Googlers announce Beep, a Pandora-enabled WiFi controller for streaming music to any speaker
A pair of ex-Googlers have launched Beep, a beautiful WiFi-equipped dial that lets you stream music to any speaker with a line-in port. The device will launch this Fall with Pandora integration.
Take a trip down memory lane to Google's first data center
Before Urs Hölzle became Google's first chief engineer, he took a tour of the company's server room at the Exodus data center in Santa Clara, Calif. Not yet a Google employee, Hölzle was taken there b...
Google wants to replace your office's teleconference system with a $999 Chromebox
Google's $35 Chromecast dongle made it cheap and easy to show off YouTube videos on your TV. Now, the company sees another narrow window of opportunity for Chrome: teleconferencing.
Twitter rejects compromise on secret government orders
Twitter's latest transparency report is out, and the company seems furious about what it can't reveal. While Google, Facebook, and others have reached a deal with the US government to break out natio...
Aereo Reopens New York Online-TV Service to New Subscribers
Aereo Inc., the online-television company that's battling broadcasters in the Supreme Court, reopened its service to New York subscribers after regaining enough capacity to handle demand. — People w...
Truecaller Lands $18.8M Series B From Sequoia, Partners With Yelp To Verify Business Numbers
Truecaller, the mobile phone number verification directory with over 45 million users, has today secured an $18.8 million Series B financing round led by Sequoia Capital, alongside existing investor O...
Twitter stock opens down 25%, wiping out about $9.8 billion in market value
Investors dump Twitter stock as results divide Wall Street — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc's shares fell almost 25 percent on Thursday, wiping out about $9.8 billion in market value, after the company rep...
After tripling year-on-year, PayNearMe raises $20M to build out its payments network for cash-only Americans
Entrepreneurs and VCs are falling all over themselves to grab a piece of the next-gen payments ecosystem. But while much of Silicon Valley laments over the future of digital wallets …
Exclusive: Former HP stars Bradley, Donatelli on brink of exit - sources
(Reuters) - Two of Hewlett-Packard Co's most powerful executives, until they were sidelined by CEO Meg Whitman, are preparing to leave the company in the coming weeks, several sources say.
Google's acquisition of Nest wins FTC approval
The US Federal Trade Commission has cleared the way for Google to purchase Nest for $3.2 billion in cash. After Mountain View announced the buyout earlier this year, Google stated it expected the dea...
Don't Like Your Facebook “Look Back”? You'll Be Able To Edit It Soon.
For the past 24 hours, my Facebook newsfeed has been predominantly filled with just two things: — 1) People sharing those cutesy automated “Look Back” videos that Facebook made for most of its users...
Klout evolves into a content creation platform as it seeks to help you become more influential
Klout is evolving from a service that told you how much influence you had in terms of a numerical value, to a service that now tells you why you're influential and how you can improve on that.
PubMatic Raises $13 Million From Nokia Growth Partners
A few days after the Rubicon Project filed for an IPO, one of its competitors in the race to build fast-growing programmatic advertising platforms, PubMatic, said it had raised $13 million in new fund...
FT: IBM has appointed Goldman Sachs to sound out possible buyers for its semiconductor arm
Report: IBM to peddle its chip wing — Big Blue looks at chip division, then chopping block, then chip division, then ... IBM is rumored to have retained Goldman Sachs to help it put a price on its ...