Tim Cook Says Apple Working on ‘Some Really Great Stuff’ in New Product Categories
Apple will launch products in new categories and the company is working on “really great stuff”, according to an interview with CEO Tim Cook in The Wall Street Journal this evening.
Apple's Tim Cook Discusses Emerging Markets and Plans for Cash
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company's best days are still ahead. It's not a particularly unusual message coming from a CEO. But Apple is facing pointed questions that the iPhone's growth will slow a...
NSA struggles with cellphone coverage, collects only 20% or less of total US call data
NSA Collects 20% or Less of U.S. Call Data — Program Doesn't Cover Records for Most Cellphones — WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's phone-data program, which has been at the center …
Russia bans bitcoins
If you're going to the Sochi Olympics in Russia, don't bring bitcoins. Yesterday the Russian Prosecutor General's office released a statement that clearly prohibits Russians from using the new digita...
California Bill Would Require Antitheft Technology for Cellphones
A smartphone is sleek, compact and valuable, which makes it a perfect target for a thief. Californian lawmakers want to require cellphone companies to fix that problem. — In the last year, official...
LinkedIn kills its Intro email service after less than four months
LinkedIn just announced that it'll be shutting down Intro, a service meant to integrate LinkedIn contact details right into the iOS Mail app, after less than four months. LinkedIn simply said it was ...
GoPro Files For IPO As The Action Camera Maker Prepares To Go Public
Action camera company GoPro has filed the initial documents for its initial public offering, according to a press release from the company this morning and confirmed by GoPro to TechCrunch.
Mastercard and Visa to switch from swipe-and-sign credit cards to PIN based cards by Oct 2015
October 2015: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card … It's a payment ritual as familiar as handing over a $20 bill, and it's soon to go extinct: prepare to say farewell to the swipe-and-sign of a ...
Apple, Google, Microsoft: Where does the money come from?
Summary: If you want to know why big tech companies act the way they do, follow the money. Based on the latest SEC filings, Apple's still a successful hardware company, and Google's still in the adve...
Alleged Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Pleads Not Guilty On All Charges
Last November, Ross Ulbricht's lawyer Joshua Dratel told reporters only hours after first meeting his client that he planned to show that Ulbricht is not the “Dread Pirate Roberts” who created the Sil...
Facebook Now Lets You Edit Your “Look Back” Movie
Earlier this week, we learned that Facebook would soon let you edit the automatically-generated “Look Back” videos the company had made to celebrate Facebook's 10th anniversary. — Sure enough: they ...
Android search update lets you pick video-on-demand providers in Google Now
Little software updates sometimes make a big difference. Google has rolled out an update to Android's search app that's currently listed as a simple bug fix, yet introduces a deluge of new features f...
New Windows 8.1 Update 1 leak reveals boot-to-desktop and UI changes
A near-final version of Windows 8.1 Update 1 has leaked online today, revealing what appear to be final changes that Microsoft is making to its upcoming update. While Microsoft has been testing chang...
Google Asks French Court to Suspend Privacy Notification Order
Order Forces Google to Notify Users of a Privacy Fine on its French Home Page — PARIS—Google Inc. asked a French court Thursday to suspend an order forcing it to notify users of a privacy fine on it...
Police will have ‘backdoor’ access to health records despite opt-out, says MP
David Davis says police would be able to approach central NHS database without a warrant as critics warn of catastrophic breach of trust — The database that will store the entire nation's health rec...
Hackers can use Snapchat to disable iPhones, researcher says
A cyber security researcher has discovered a vulnerability within the Snapchat mobile app that makes it possible for hackers to launch a denial-of-service attack that temporarily freezes a user's iPho...
DOJ ends probe of Samsung's essential patents use after sales ban veto by Obama Administration
U.S. ends probe of Samsung's use of essential patents — (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department will close its investigation into Samsung Electronics' use of a special class of essential patents …
Tech's biggest players hire first NSA lobbyist
Apple, Google, Facebook and five other technology giants that have banded together in their calls for surveillance reform officially registered a Washington lobbyist on Thursday. — The new hire — ta...
Three bitcoin traders charged with money-laundering in Florida after sting involving US Secret Service and local police
Florida Targets High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers — State authorities in Florida on Thursday announced criminal charges targeting three men who allegedly ran illegal …
Rdio teams up with Tesla for its first automotive integration
Music subscription service Rdio is getting into the automotive game, and it's got an interesting partner for its first integration: Tesla is going to use Rdio as its default dashboard audio service in...
Facebook Deploys Robots to Save Blu-ray From Extinction
One day, your Facebook photos will sit in the hands of robots. — Behind the scenes at Mark Zuckerberg's social networking giant, Facebook engineers have already built these robots, and one of them w...
Redbox gets a new president plucked from the studios, former Warner exec Mark Horak
Redbox has gone from fighting the studios to build its video rental (and now streaming) business to having deals with them, and that cozy new relationship is reflected by its choice of a new leader.
Descomplica Lands $5M From Social+Capital
Internet penetration and social media usage are on the rise in every corner of the globe, but few can hold a candle to the level of adoption one finds in Brazil.