Exclusive: Snowden Swiped Password From NSA Coworker
A civilian NSA employee recently resigned after being stripped of his security clearance for allowing former agency contractor Edward Snowden to use his pers...
Google working on 10 gigabit Internet speeds
Project to develop ‘next generation’ of the Internet is part of Google's broader obsession with speed, CFO says — SAN FRANCISCO - Google is working on technology that will provide data transfer spee...
Peering could replace net neutrality as one of the key issues in Comcast-Time Warner review
Sleeper Issue Peers Around the Corner of Comcast-Time Warner Deal — Comcast executives scored big points three years ago with the Federal Communications Commission by volunteering to abide …
Facebook Opens Up LGBTQ-Friendly Gender Identity And Pronoun Options
Facebook has just updated to let users choose the gender pronoun they associate with. Aside from the usual “male” and “female” options, users can choose up to 10 different gender definitions to descr...
New Android OEM licensing terms leak; “Open” comes with a lot of restrictions
The least understood area of the Android ecosystem has always been the highly secretive Google Play Apps licensing process. While Android is open source, the Google applications, like the Play Store,...
Taco Bell testing mobile ordering for in-store pickup, will roll out nationally this year
Taco Bell to offer mobile ordering nationwide — Taco Bell is preparing to roll out mobile ordering nationwide later this year, a move that will likely fuel a trend expected to shake up the quick-ser...
Silk Road 2.0 ‘Hack’ Blamed On Bitcoin Bug, All Funds Stolen
The same bug that has plagued several of the biggest players in the Bitcoin economy may have just bitten the Silk Road. — On Thursday, one of the recently-reincarnated drug-selling black market site...
Apple set to discontinue legacy, non-Retina iPad 2
After nearly three years on the market, Apple's second-generation iPad, which sports an A5 processor and non-Retina display, is now on the chopping block, and is expected to be discontinued in the nea...
Windows 8 passes 200 million license sales
Microsoft has been rather quiet about its risky Windows 8 bet. The company passed 100 million license sales of Windows 8 after around six months, but a year on the market came and went without any re...
To avoid obsolescence, buy Apple's hardware, use Google's services, and buy Amazon's media
How to Survive the Next Wave of Technology Extinction — Don't mock the beleaguered Nook owner. That could have been you. — Five years ago, when the nation's largest chain of bookstores released …
Yahoo Acquires Technical Recruiting Startup Distill
Yahoo just acquired a San Francisco-based startup called Distill, which was working on a way to make technical recruiting easier by pairing video interviews and programming challenges. They had raise...
Lenovo Projects End to Motorola Losses With China Phone
Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), which posted a 29 percent surge in profit today, expects to end losses at Motorola Mobility within quarters of completing a deal as it reintroduces the smartphone brand to Chi...
Phil Schiller up again in next round of Apple-Samsung battle
The Apple executive is one of a handful of people Samsung said it will call to the court — Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller is among the witnesses that lawyers for Samsung plan to call when the t...
PlayStation 4 beat Xbox One for January console sales, but Xbox One sold more games
Sony and Microsoft are both trumpeting market share wins from NPD's January US gaming data. Sony declared its PlayStation 4 the top-selling console last month, while Microsoft took credit for selling...
Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent application describing a system that thwarts spam mail by automatically generating and handling “disposable” email addresses,...
Pandora to let advertisers target listeners based on its sense of their political leanings starting next week
Internet Radio Service Builds Profiles of Its Audience — Pandora Hopes to Build Ad Revenue by Pinpointing Likely Voting Preferences — Next time you listen to a Bob Marley channel …
Study indicates 2/3 of Airbnb's 19.5K NYC listings have offsite owners, violating city law
Airbnb in NYC: The Real Numbers Behind the Sharing Story — The five biggest neighborhoods for Airbnb are in parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan with few hotels. Skift / Mapbox
Rizvi Traverse to Lead $250 Million Investment in Jawbone at $3.3 Billion Valuation
Jawbone, the maker of innovative consumer electronic devices such as the activity-tracking Up wristband, is poised to complete a new $250 million round of funding that values the company at $3.3 billi...
Pando Spikes a Post Critical of a Company It Shares Investors With
The crookedest little bloghouse in Silicon Valley just hit a new low, it appears: A negative story about Birchbox, a beauty-product site with which Pando shares investors, was deleted shortly after be...
NYC's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing
New York subway riders first were promised futuristic touchscreen wayfinding maps a year ago. But the plan to install the futuristic infrastructure stalled as the design team took a step back to impr...
Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Cutting Five Percent of Workforce
Intellectual Ventures, the invention house and patent consolidator run by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, is cutting five percent of its workforce. — “We continue to refine our business ...
Microsoft signs Android patent deal with Voxx Electronics
Summary: Microsoft has added Voxx Electronics to its list of Android patent licensees. — Microsoft may be considering ways to entice Android developers and handset makers to join the Windows world, ...
Open source OS Tizen gains 15 more allies; Sprint rejoins the list
In the world of mobile platforms, Tizen's but a new entry that's been through some tough times since its inception. The circle of 36 companies (aptly called the Tizen Association) backing up the open...
Apple TV's scaled-back plans would rely on cable providers to acquire programming rights
Apple in Talks to Revamp Set-Top Box — Scaled-Back Plans Would Rely on Cable Providers to Acquire Programming Rights — Apple Inc. appears to be scaling back its lofty TV industry plans.
Lenovo 3Q profits hit $321M, but Motorola buy may impact future earnings
Summary: Chinese hardware manufacturer clocks a 30 percent climb in profits on US$10.8 billion revenue for its fiscal third quarter, but warns its recent Motorola handset deal could hurt the company's...
Aerohive Networks files for $750M IPO
Breaking: Wireless Company Aerohive Networks Publicly Files For IPO — Aerohive Networks is going public. — The wireless access point maker based in Sunnyvale, CA submitted a public S-1 form to the...
Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 Billion
Comcast Corp. agreed to acquire Time Warner Cable Inc. for $45.2 billion, combining the two largest U.S. cable companies in an all-stock transaction. — Investors of New York-based Time Warner Cable ...
Apple talks to media and pay-TV companies including TWC about revamped set-top box
Apple is talking to media companies and pay TV distributors including Time Warner Cable about launching a revamped Apple-branded TV set-top box.
NYC's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing
New York subway riders first were promised futuristic touchscreen wayfinding maps a year ago. But the plan to install the futuristic infrastructure stalled as the design team took a step back to impr...
Google's requirements from Android device makers draw EU antitrust scrutiny
Android's ‘Open’ System Has Limits — To Get Access to Key Google Apps, Device Makers Abide by Company's Strict Terms — Google Inc. says its Android mobile operating system is “open.”
LG's extra-large G Pro 2 packs a 4K video camera and knock code unlock feature
Looks like LG wants to get out ahead of all the smartphone news soon to come from Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, as the South Korean company has officially announced the G Pro 2.
Storage provider Tintri raises $75M, plans $1B-plus IPO next year
Tintri, a startup that provides storage for virtualization and cloud customers, has raised a $75 million Series E funding on its way to what it hopes will be a $1B-plus IPO in 2015. — CEO Ken Klein ...
Square Cash makes requesting money from friends as easy as CC'ing request@square.com
Square Cash now lets you request money from friends — Square Cash's sheer simplicity has made it my go-to service for sending money to friends, and now Square's hoping to make requesting money just ...
Verizon's More Everything plan takes on T-Mobile with increased data, unlimited international messaging from the US
Yesterday Verizon hinted that something “More” was coming, and that's just what the carrier detailed this morning. Its new More Everything plans will replace current Share …
Meet Rise, The Diet App That Helped Me Lose 20 Pounds (And Keep It Off During The Holidays)
Dieting isn't easy. In fact, it's pretty damn hard. Most diet plans have strict guidelines that are difficult to stand by. Hiring a nutritionist can be effective, but the cost is generally out of r...
Linking to a website doesn't infringe copyright, Europe's Court of Justice says
The owner of a website does not require authorization of the copyright holder to link to freely accessible copyright works on another site, even if Internet users get the impression that the work is a...
BBM Update Adds Voice Calls, Channels, Dropbox And Location Sharing For iOS And Android Users
A new update to the BBM apps for iOS and Android add a laundry list of anticipated features to the messaging platform. BBM Voice makes its first appearance on the Android and iPhone clients …
Apple says supplies of tantalum do not come from war zones, pushes other suppliers for conflict-free minerals
Apple Says Supplies Don't Come From War Zones — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple published on Thursday its supplier responsibility report, an annual audit of the contract workers …
A look at Apple's R&D expenditures from 1995-2013
For a company that makes as much money as Apple, you might be surprised to learn that it spends far less on Research and Development (R&D) than many of its competitors, including bigwigs like Google, ...
Microsoft finally fixes Skype's message sync problems
Microsoft started forcing Windows Live Messenger users over to Skype nearly a year ago, and it has been a painful experience. If you use Skype frequently for messaging then the missed messages, out-o...
ISP lobby has already won limits on public broadband in 20 states
We must stop the proliferation of Internet! — South Park Studios — It's no secret that private Internet service providers hate when cities and towns decide to enter the telecommunications business...
Learning site Curious lands $15M, starts monetizing
GSV Asset Management leads round; Teachers can now charge and get tips from student — Curious, an online marketplace for life-long learning, just raised $15 million in its second round of financing,...
Google, Microsoft, Comcast, others to announce WifiForward coalition to expand access to Wi-Fi
Tech Companies Push for Greater Wi-Fi Access — Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter, Google, Microsoft Set to Announce Coalition — As mobile data traffic continues to skyrocket, Wi-Fi is getting a ...