Apple bringing iTunes Festival to the US for the first time at SXSW, for five nights in March
Apple has announced that it is bringing the iTunes Festival to the United States for the first time, after being a UK-only event since it began in 2007. The festival will be held at SXSW …
Facebook to acquire WhatsApp for $4B cash, $12B in Facebook shares, and $3B in restricted stock units, CEO Koum to join Facebook's Board
Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp — Facebook today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WhatsApp, a rapidly growing cross …
Microsoft SkyDrive becomes OneDrive, gets camera backup for Android, real-time co-authoring, and easier video sharing
Microsoft today officially relaunched SkyDrive as OneDrive, giving its existing users access to their files on the new service by simply logging in at onedrive.com.
Apple's smartphone market share in China grows to 7%, now back in top 5 smartphone vendors
Apple Gains Some Ground in China Smartphone Market — Apple seems to be gaining some ground in the world's largest smartphone market. — In China, Apple's market share rose slightly …
Tesla CEO Confirms ‘Conversations’ With Apple, Says Any Acquisition ‘Very Unlikely’
Following a report earlier this week suggesting Apple had considered purchasing Tesla, Tesla CEO Elon Musk today confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg that his company “had conversations” with Appl...
Google Capital Invests $40M In Learning Analytics Firm Renaissance Learning At $1B Valuation
Renaissance Learning, one of the leading cloud-based K-12 assessment and learning analytics companies, today announced that it has raised a $40 million investment from Google Capital.
T-Mobile offers $250 to upgrading BlackBerry users after manufacturer and fan outrage
Carrier also offers $200 to upgrade to from BlackBerry to another manufacturer's phone — BlackBerry users on T-Mobile who want to upgrade will now receive $250 towards any BlackBerry phone …
DHS cancels national license plate tracking plan
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday ordered the cancelation of a plan by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to develop a national license plate tracking system after priva...
HP Explores Settlement of Autonomy Shareholder Lawsuit
Hewlett-Packard has begun talks with a shareholders' group that sued the company and CEO Meg Whitman over the botched 2011 acquisition of the British software firm Autonomy about a possible settlement...
Nokia Treasure Tag is a $30 Lumia accessory to help keep valuables safe - goes on sale in April
Nokia is introducing a new way to keep valuables safe on the go using your smartphone. Nokia Treasure Tag is a smart peripheral that syncs with Lumia devices to help keep track of keys …
Winklevoss brothers launch new Bitcoin price index called Winkdex as their Bitcoin Trust moves closer to regulatory approval
Winklevoss Brothers Offer an Index to Track Price of Bitcoin — Stock traders have the Standard & Poor's 500. Bitcoin bettors will have the Winkdex.
After Raising $10M From USV, SideCar Pivots To Offer A Ride-sharing Marketplace
Peer-to-peer ride-sharing startup SideCar is releasing a brand new version of its app for both passengers and drivers, which will provide more flexibility for drivers and more choice for passengers.
Banking trojan ZeusVM retrieves configurations hidden inside image files
Hiding in plain sight: a story about a sneaky banking Trojan — The Zeus/Zbot Trojan is one the most notorious banking Trojans ever created; it's so popular it gave birth to many offshoots and copyca...
Artemis aims to eliminate congestion, dead zones and unreliable connections in cellular networks using pCell technology
Is pCell the Holy Grail of wireless networking? — Serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman claims that his new patented technology can create the wireless network of our dreams.
In Russia, iPhone sales doubled in 2013 to 1.57M, largest carriers now resuming iPhone sales
Apple Drags Russia's Mobile Carriers Kicking and Screaming Into the iPhone Era — After years of wooing, Russian mobile carriers are finally coming around to the iPhone — not that they have much choi...
This machine kills trolls: how Wikipedia's robots and cyborgs snuff out vandalism
At midnight on February 13th, 2014, a Wikipedia user named Lightningawesome added to the list of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic characters a lengthy biography of Lightning Dash, a capricious, lov...
Opera Opens Pre-Registration For Its Data-Savings Android App
Last December, Opera announced Max, a free app that would use Opera's servers to compress all the non-encrypted data to your Android device. At the time, it opened up sign-ups for a small private alp...
Yandex offers apps-and-services bundle to help others build non-Google Android devices
The Android Open Source Project, or AOSP, allows anyone to build a device using the basic Android operating system, without Google's permission. However, that also means forgoing all of the Google se...
Mayfield raises $108M fund for investments in India
The Mayfield Fund is bullish on India. — Founded in 1969, the global venture capital firm will soon announce the closing of a $108 million fund focused exclusively on investments in India. It filed...
Upsetting the app cart: Asian messaging services challenge mobile order
(Reuters) - Asian chat services KakaoTalk, LINE and WeChat threaten to overturn the mobile order of things, usurping the role of Google Inc, Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and telecoms carrie...
Glove for Android launches in SF and NY to track your mobile usage and recommend the best carrier
If you're unhappy with your current mobile service, the new Glove app for Android wants to find you something better. Launching today in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City …
Inside Target, CEO Gregg Steinhafel Struggles to Contain Giant Cybertheft
How Target Is Working to Manage Crisis After Theft of Credit and Debit Card Numbers From Millions of Customers — When hackers broke into the database of department store Target, it affected an estim...
Wheeler unveils new proposed rules for network neutrality, will try to stop “improper blocking”
The FCC announced its response to an explosive court decision that ended “net neutrality” last month: it will not appeal the decision, but scramble to impose new rules.
LinkedIn Opens Its Publishing Platform To All Members
To date, LinkedIn has allowed a small, editorially selected group of “Influencers” like Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Barack Obama to publish their thoughts and advice to its network as long-form bl...
Amazon takes its virtual ‘Coins’ currency beyond the Kindle Fire and into the wider Android ecosystem
A little more than a year after Amazon first announced Amazon Coins, the e-commerce giant has revealed that the virtual currency can now be used on any Android device.