Mt. Gox's Demise Marks The End of Bitcoin's First Wave Of Entrepreneurs
When I started looking into the Bitcoin startup ecosystem in early 2013, there was something that was just off about half of the founders I met. — “I consider myself psychologically unemployable,” …
The internet is f**ked (but we can fix it)
Here's a simple truth: the internet has radically changed the world. Over the course of the past 20 years, the idea of networking all the world's computers has gone from a research science pipe dream...
I would take $19 billion for BBM: BlackBerry CEO
John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, says if someone offered him $19 billion for BlackBerry's messaging service, he would take it. — The CEO of BlackBerry has told CNBC in an exclusive interview that if th...
Apple Releases iBeacon Specification
Apple has quietly rolled out its iBeacon specification as it starts to certify devices that carry the Bluetooth LE standard. — Under their MFI program, manufacturers can now request that Apple permi...
New iOS flaw makes devices susceptible to covert keylogging, researchers say
Proof-of-concept app in Apple's App Store sent keystrokes to remote server. — Researchers said they have identified a flaw in Apple's iOS that makes it possible for attackers to surreptitiously log ...
For Google Glass, Google lobbying against distracted driving regulation in 3 US states
Exclusive: Google sets roadblocks to stop distracted driver legislation — (Reuters) - Google is lobbying officials in at least three U.S. states to stop proposed restrictions on driving with headset...
Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner
Many of you have been following with interest Naoki Hiroshima's tale of how he was extorted into giving up his valuable @N username on Twitter. The good news is that Hiroshima is back in control of t...
Motorola plans to launch a smartwatch later this year
Motorola is planning to jump back into the wearables market later this year, according to senior vice president Rick Osterloh. The company will launch a smartwatch that Osterloh claims will address “...
The Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came to Rule the World
This is a story about ARM Holdings, the mobile technology company. But before it gets going, there are a few things you need to know. — 1. ARM is a company made up mostly of chip engineers. They d...
Square is Testing a New App for Ordering Food: Square Pickup
Square, the mobile payments startup, is testing a new app called “Square Pickup.” It's a simple app that lets you order food from a Square merchant ahead of time. The app is currently in testing wit...
Pentagon, NSA developed plans for sophisticated cyberattack on Syria, but Obama turned them down
Syria War Stirs New U.S. Debate on Cyberattacks — WASHINGTON — Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody, late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency developed...
Woman Wearing Google Glass Says She Was Attacked In San Francisco Bar
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - A Bay Area woman said she was attacked for wearing the Google Glass wearable computer at a bar in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. — Tech writer Sarah Slocum wrote on her Fac...
Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix, FaceTime Audio, contact blocking, Mail fixes
Following an extensive developer beta process, Apple has just released OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 to end users. The update brings a few new features and enhancements, including:
Cell phone freedom bill passes House
Legislation aimed at letting people use their cell phones with any mobile carrier they wish was narrowly approved by the House today, after several Democrats opposed the bill due to a last minute chan...
Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious ‘Drone 2 Home’ video
Netflix's not-Qwikster DVD-by-mail business doesn't get the same amount of attention as the company's streaming arm, but as this video (embedded after the break) shows, it still has some imagination.
Proof of concept captures all SSL traffic via Apple's goto fail exploit
Summary: A New Zealand security consultant has used a man-in-the-middle proxy to mop up all SSL traffic related to the App store, updates, iCloud data, and traffic from apps that use certificate pinin...
King files to abandon controversial “Candy” trademark in US
Company holding on to acquired “Candy Crusher” trademark for protection. — It seems Candy Crush Saga maker King may have realized it reached too far in trying to claim a trademark on the common dict...
How Facebook is working around poor networks and cheap phones in the developing world
Facebook's Plan to Conquer the World — With Crappy Phones and Bad Networks — Facebook's recon team hit the ground in Nigeria in the dead of night, and right away ran into trouble with the law.
Orange CEO Says in Partnership Talks With Microsoft for Dailymotion
Orange Will Maintain Majority Stake in Dailymotion — PARIS— Orange SA is in talks with U.S. giant Microsoft Corp. over a possible partnership for the French telecommunication company's online-video ...
Exclusive: Sean Parker's Airtime has quietly relaunched as OkHello (and it's actually working)
Airtime has hidden its ties to OkHello. — FORTUNE — We all remember Airtime, the biggest, flashiest startup launch of 2012. Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning had reunited …
Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying
(Reuters) - Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil's reliance on the United States after Washington spied on B...
BlackBerry Introduces The Z3, It's First Foxconn Phone, And The Q20 QWERTY Handset
BlackBerry has a couple of new smartphones in the offing, including the first sourced from new strategic partner Foxconn. The first Foxconn BlackBerry is the Z3, a Nokia-like touchscreen smartphone w...
Uber rolling out new push notification feature to tell you when surge pricing goes down
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick took the stage with Jason Calacanis at the 2014 LAUNCH Festival today to introduce a new feature for his company's app. Rolling out soon is the ability to receive push notifi...
Marc Andreessen says more net neutrality laws are not the answer
The concept of net neutrality — the idea that cable networks should not give preferential treatment to certain kinds of content — often seems somewhat theoretical, which is why many people latched ont...
It's official: TiVo's co-founders start selling $49 QPlay TV streamer
TiVo co-founders Michael Ramsay and Jim Barton are back with a new venture dubbed QPlay that hopes to do for online video what TiVo did for television. The duo unveiled their new QPlay device and ser...
FCC expands mobile broadband speed test to inlcude iOS users
The Federal Communications Commission expanded the scope of its research on US mobile broadband speeds to include iOS users with the launch of a new app Tuesday. — The FCC Speed Test for iOS app, wh...
Connect Debuts A “Living” Address Book That Maps Your Nearby Friends
Connect, a new location-based address book and friend-finder utility launching today for both web and iPhone, will tell you who's nearby, allowing for more “serendipitous” encounters. If that idea so...
GoDaddy Will Take On Shopify With A Simpler E-Commerce Storefront Arriving This Spring
GoDaddy is launching a Shopify competitor aimed at small business customers, TechCrunch learned and the company has confirmed. The “GoDaddy Online Store,” as the new product is being called …
Inside one of Microsoft's biggest and most mysterious teams, the Applications and Services Group
Summary: Since Microsoft reorganized last July, there has been little information about what its new Applications & Services team is doing or how it's organized. Now we know a bit more.
Inside the High-Stakes Battle to Control How You Talk to Friends
Before the scrum — over who will control mobile messaging turned hot last week, with Facebook's $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, things got very, very cold. In December, an ice storm was blowing i...
Reddit embraces its role as a journalistic entity with new live-reporting feature
Some critics may see Reddit as a more restrained version of the online community 4chan — a place for nerds to talk about Star Trek or whatever the latest meme is — but the site has also become a place...