Newsweek stands behind its Satoshi Nakamoto story
Newsweek's Statement on the Bitcoin Story — Leah McGrath Goodman's recent cover story for Newsweek, investigating the identity of Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, has generated an immense amount of...
comScore: Apple starts 2014 with 41.6% US smartphone share, Samsung at 26.7%; BlackBerry falls below Windows Phone
Apple's dominance as the top smartphone OEM in the US has started off strong in the first month of this year: 41.6 percent share. Samsung is once again gaining share faster …
Online home-furnishing retailer Wayfair raises $157M on way to IPO, at a valuation of over $2B
Wayfair, Speeding Towards IPO, Lands $2 Billion Valuation — Wayfair, an online purveyor of home goods, says it raised $157 million from a group that includes T. Rowe Price and other mutual funds …
Microsoft is using your data to target political ads on Xbox Live
Microsoft is trying to persuade politicians to take out targeted ads on Xbox Live, Skype, MSN and other company platforms as midterm elections begin heating up around the country. To plug the idea, M...
Samsung's Milk Music internet radio service is only for Galaxy devices (video)
Do we need yet another online music service? Samsung certainly thinks so, as it's just introduced its very own internet radio service called, weirdly enough, Milk Music. So named for its supposed “f...
Instagram Inks Ad Deal With Omnicom Worth up to $100 Million
Deal Gives Omnicom Media and Creative Agencies Access to Instagram Paid Ad Program — Instagram has inked its first major ad deal with an agency, and it's big. — The photo- and video-sharing site i...
Under Marissa Mayer, 31 of Yahoo's 38 startup acquisitions have closed their services
Yahoo: Destroyer Of Startups — Another day, another Yahoo acquisition. — Yesterday the search giant swiped up the five-man Vizify team, a data visualization startup that turns your social media po...
Beats Music opens up, making its API public
Streaming-music service Beats Music is opening up some of its programming to outsiders, with the goal of proliferating the new $120-a-year subscription player in the broader online universe. — “If y...
Japan Government Says Bitcoin Not a Currency
Government Also Says Commercial Banks Not Allowed to Provide Bitcoin as a Product — TOKYO—The Japanese government officially said Friday that bitcoin is not a currency and will not be regulated as a...
Tablet slowdown seen after years of breakthrough growth
The rate of increase in tablet shipments is expected to slow this year after unabated growth during the product category's first three years of existence. — Research firm IDC is projecting tablet sh...
Twitter Paid $36 Million for IBM Patents to Avoid Suits
Twitter Inc. (TWTR), the microblogging service that held an initial public offering last year, paid $36 million to acquire 900 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), according to a ...
Secret Set to Raise Nearly $10 Million at $40 Million Valuation
Google Ventures is leading the round, which will include previous investor Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, these people said. The more than $40 million valuation includes the investment, which one...
Spotify Acquired Music Tech Company The Echo Nest In A $100M Deal
On the heels of the news yesterday that Spotify had acquired music discovery technology company Echo Nest, we now have a price for the deal: it was $100 million, with 90% of that in Spotify equity.
Now with 100K+ students, digital trade school General Assembly raises $35 million, led by IVP
Service to Aid Start-Ups Raises $35 Million in New Round of Financing — With more people harboring hopes of building the next hot Web or mobile start-up — and perhaps reaping a big payday …
Surveillance by Algorithm
Increasingly, we are watched not by people but by algorithms. Amazon and Netflix track the books we buy and the movies we stream, and suggest other books and movies based on our habits. Google and F...
Tumblr Now Lets You Dial A Toll-Free Number To Post Audio To Your Blog
Tumblr today added a new audio posting feature which lets you dial a toll-free number with your phone in order to post a short recording directly to your blog. We nearly missed the news of the additi...
Coupons.com raises $168M in IPO, stock surges in early trading
Coupons.com Shares Nearly Double in Debut — The Coupon-Providing Website Now Valued at About $2.2 Billion, Similar to Rival RetailMeNot — Shares of Coupons.com Inc. surged after making their publi...
Box projects revenue to double this year to $200M, may make IPO prospectus public within weeks
Box Said to Project $200 Million in Revenue as IPO Nears — Box Inc., the cloud storage and collaboration company that's headed for an initial public offering, projects revenue this year …