Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy protection with $63.6M in outstanding debt; loses 750K customers' bitcoins, 100K of its own, worth in total $473M
Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection — A lawyer for Mt. Gox announced at a news conference at the Tokyo District Court that the embattled bitcoin exchange …
IPCom's $2.2 billion lawsuit against Apple thrown out by German court: no infringement found
Two different chambers (panels of judges) of the Mannheim Regional Court just announced a total of three rulings on standard-essential patent (SEP) infringement cases brought by IPCom …
Tim Cook to conservative think tank on sustainability: if you only care about ROI, stop investing in us
Tim Cook Soundly Rejects Politics of the NCPPR, Suggests Group Sell Apple's Stock — In an emotional response to the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) …
How a Hacker Intercepted FBI and Secret Service Calls With Google Maps
Earlier this week, Bryan Seely, a network engineer and one-time Marine, played me recordings of two phone calls (embedded below.) The calls were placed by unwitting citizens to the FBI office in San ...
Comcast deal is beneficial for Netflix but not for true net neutrality
Netflix and Net Neutrality — This article is by definition very US-centric, but the general principles apply broadly — For anyone remotely connected to technology, the idea that net neutrality is ...
Square IPO Postponed Indefinitely
Square, the mobile payments startup created by Twitter (TWTR) founder Jack Dorsey, has postponed its IPO indefinitely, FOX Business has learned. People with knowledge of Square's finances have indica...
Apple will soon charge for out-of-warranty chat support, schedule repairs via new web payment system
Apple is about to begin charging users outside of their warranty for online chat support using a new web payment system it recently developed. Sources familiar with the project say Apple …
Google Adds Full Restaurant Menus To Its Search Results Pages
Here is a small but nifty update to Google Search: if you ask it to find a restaurant menu for you, it will now often just show you the menu right on the search results page. Try this for a search li...
Tor is building an anonymous instant messenger
Forget the $16 billion romance between Facebook and WhatsApp. There's a new messaging tool worth watching. — Tor, the team behind the world's leading online anonymity service, is developing a new a...
UK power companies denied cyberattack insurance because their defences are too weak
Energy firm cyber-defence is ‘too weak’, insurers say — Energy bosses are getting increasingly worried about the risks posed by cyber attack — Power companies are being refused insurance cover …
Struggling Sony Plans Sale of Old Tokyo Headquarters
Sony is now looking to sell its former headquarters and surrounding buildings in central Tokyo in its continuing struggle to stem losses from its consumer electronics business, according to a person f...
Apple Presses Labels For More 'Beyonce'-Type Exclusives In Wake of Downloads' Slide
Apple Inc.'s music chief Robert Kondrk has been pressuring major labels for releases similar to last year's Beyonce exclusive, excluding services like YouTube and Spotify to help shore up slowing down...
IBM laying off up to 25 percent of ‘hardware’ division
IBM has confirmed that it's laying off a portion of its workforce in order to focus on new priority areas, like the cloud, analytics, and cognitive computing. This means certain divisions of the comp...
Now Serving 4M Downloads Daily, The Windows Store Has Grown 135% Since October
Gaming Veterans Start Midverse To Bolster App Marketing, Engagement on Android — Buried in its MWC slides, Microsoft announced that it now serves 4 million application downloads daily from the Windo...
Apple posts design guides and resources to help developers make better apps
Apple has added a new Design Guides and Resources section to their developer center. It includes videos and documentation on user interface design for apps and games, overviews of what's new in iOS 7...
Yahoo's project “Touchdown” will turn part of its homepage into an app promotion platform
Yahoo Sporty Project Codenames Continue With “Touchdown” — Being one of the more sports-impaired people I know, I now have concluded that there is a plot on the part of Yahoo execs …
Apple Stores discounting Apple TV w/ $25 iTunes card ahead of new hardware rumored for spring
Update: Apple has confirmed the promo, and according to the T&C online orders are also eligible. — According to our sources, Apple retail employees were informed this morning that beginning today …
Microsoft experimenting with free version of Windows 8.1
Microsoft is currently experimenting with a free version of Windows 8.1 that could boost the number of people using the operating system. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed to The ...
GrubHub Publicly Files For $100M IPO, Saw $1.3B In Food Sales In 2013 From 3.4M Active Users
Savor Introduces A Personalized Deal Finder & “Flipboard-Like” Coupon Catalog For iPad — GrubHub, which has changed its name from the awkward ‘GrubHub Seamless’ it used since …
Dude, Where's My Phone? Lenovo, Ashton Kutcher to Launch Line of Phones This Year.
Yes, you read that right. — The star of “Two and Half Men” and “Jobs” is designing a line of special edition phones for Lenovo to be launched later this year, according to Lenovo Chief Marketing Off...
Fab's CFO and Chief People Officer Are Latest Exits
The executive departures at troubled design e-commerce company Fab keep coming. Fab's chief financial officer David Lapter and chief people officer Allison Rutledge-Parisi are leaving the company.