Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role
This interview with Satya Nadella, the new chief executive of Microsoft, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. — Q. What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballme...
New Google WiFi app could automatically log you into Starbucks and other private hotspots
Google is working on a new WiFi app that could take a lot of the drudgery out of accessing wireless hotspots. According to our sources, the search giant has built Android and iOS versions of an app …
Steve Jobs will appear on a US postage stamp in 2015
Many of his creations reduced the need to send physical mail, but late Apple founder Steve Jobs will still get a fitting tribute from the US Postal Service: his likeness will appear on a postage stamp...
Google Was Willing to Beat Facebook's $19B Offer for WhatsApp
Last week, Google CEO Larry Page met with WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum in a last-ditch effort to prevent the rapidly growing messaging app from selling itself to Facebook, according to three people involved ...
Office Web Apps rebranded as Office Online at Office.com
Introducing Office Online at Office.com — Today, you'll notice something new about Office.com and Office Web Apps-now officially called Office Online. An online version of the Office you know and t...
Google Launches Project Tango Smartphone To Experiment With Computer Vision And 3D Sensors
Google today announced Project Tango, an Android-based prototype 5″ phone and developer kit with advanced 3D sensors out of its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) hardware skunkworks group.
4G data: The USA is second-slowest while Australia is fastest
OpenSignal has released a report today looking at the state of LTE coverage and speeds around the world, revealing that, contrary to what you might expect, not all LTE networks perform comparably.
More Cortana details: Siri/Google Now-like virtual assistant to replace Bing search feature in Windows Phone 8.1
Apple has Siri, and Microsoft is about to get Cortana — Microsoft has been in a state of “shut up and ship” with Windows Phone for more than a year now.
Om Malik leaves day-to-day operations at Gigaom, becomes full partner at True Ventures, site raises $8M more
Now that Gigaom is all grown up, it's time for the next chapter — It's a new year (although it's well underway) and I'm excited to talk about the new phase at Gigaom.
HTC to preview Qualcomm-based smartwatch to carriers next week, will not demo publicly
HTC Said to Plan Smartwatch Preview Amid Declining Market Share — HTC Corp. (2498), the Taiwanese smartphone maker struggling with sliding sales, plans to demonstrate the first of three wearable dev...
How One Scammer Manipulated Apple's Top Charts To Earn Tens Of Thousands Daily Using A $10 GameSalad Template
Something fishy has been going on with Apple's App Store top charts. No, I'm not talking about “Flappy Bird” (well, maybe that too), but rather how on earth two different developers used …
Yahoo Gemini Brings Together Mobile Search & Native Ads In Single Ad Marketplace
Yahoo has announced a new ad marketplace that combines mobile search and native ads. — It's called Yahoo Gemini and it's available as part of Yahoo Ad Manager, the company's existing self-service ad...
Inside The Revolutionary 3D Vision Chip At The Heart Of Google's Project Tango Phone
At the core of Google's freshly announced experimental Project Tango smartphone platform is a vision processor called the Myriad 1, manufactured by chip startup Movidius and its CEO Remi El-Ouazzane.
Amazon in talks with brand retailers like Neiman Marcus and Abercrombie to feature their listings as it contemplates Prime rate hike
Amazon Tempts the Anti-Amazons — Offer to Showcase Goods Comes Amid Plan to Boost Price of Prime — Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to bring listings for J. Crew khakis …
“Twitch Plays Pokémon” is so big, it's overloading Twitch's servers
Twitch Plays Pokémon fights a Haunter. Kind of. — We're a little over a week into the phenomenon that is Twitch Plays Pokémon (TPP), and the “social experiment” is still going strong—so strong …
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Arrested By The FBI
Jon Mills, the founder and former CEO of real-world analytics startup Motionloft, has been arrested by the FBI, the bureau has confirmed. The arrest follows allegations that Mills lied to investors a...
Adobe releases emergency Flash update amid new zero-day drive-by attacks
Adobe has released an emergency update for its widely used Flash Player to combat active attacks that exploit a previously unknown security bug that hackers are actively exploiting to surreptitiously ...
Tim Bray leaving Google, cites requirement that he end working remotely from Vancouver
Leaving Google — As of March 17th I'll be an ex-employee. It's an amicable separation in the face of irreconcilable differences: I wouldn't move to California and Google wouldn't open a Vancouver o...
Yahoo Launches $10 Million Research Effort to Invent a Smarter Siri
Academics at CMU will try to extend Yahoo's services with mobile apps that act like personal assistants. — Yahoo's future mobile apps could come with a dash of intelligence that lets them act like p...
Google creates ‘near-real-time’ deforestation tracking tool
Google and several partners have launched Global Forest Watch, a website that makes it possible for users to track global deforestation. — Google is bringing awareness to global deforestation with a...
Grand St Launches Self-Serve Marketplace For Hardware Makers To List Their Goods
Online gadget retailer Grand St wants to be the go-to spot for interesting new hardware to be sold online. But after curating a daily selection of goods, the company is opening up its e-commerce shop...
Nokia considers buying Juniper to expand network unit: report
(Reuters) - Finland's Nokia is considering buying U.S.-based Juniper Networks to merge into its telecommunications network gear business, German's Manager Magazin Online reported, citing unidentified ...
Meg Whitman buys more time as HP beats earnings estimates
Caption: Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman — Hewlett-Packard reported earnings that beat Wall Street's earnings expectations. — Analysts had expected a big drop in quarterly revenue, but...
Birchbox raising $50M Series B
The New York-based subscription and commerce company did $80 million to $100 million in revenue in 2013. — FORTUNE — Birchbox is close to closing a $50 million Series B round of funding, according t...
Online bank Simple acquired by Spain's BBVA for $117M — will focus on international growth
will focus on international growth — Nobody expected this Spanish banking acquisition. — Simple, the online bank devoted to offering a more humane alternative to traditional banking, announced toda...
Acompli Raises $7.3M Series A From Redpoint & Others To Fix Mobile Email
Acompli, a company building a mobile email application which functions as an all-in-one productivity app for iPhone, has raised $7.3 million in Series A funding - a sizable investment that points to t...
Stealthy Security Company Apprity Raises $8 Million
The stealthy business security company Apprity, launched by two former Oracle employees, has raised $8 million in its first institutional financing. — For its first venture round, Apprity turned to ...
Nursing homes exposed to hacker attacks, risking privacy of medical records
Nursing Homes Are Exposed to Hacker Attacks — Cybersecurity Experts Find Trove of Information on File-Sharing Web Site — Computer-security researchers have discovered on a website documents …
Glow Targets Businesses, but Will They Take a Shine to It?
Glow, which launched an app last summer designed to help couples conceive, has lined up partnerships with Domo, Eventbrite and Evernote as it attempts to “redefine the industry standard for employee h...