Target could have stopped theft of 40M credit card numbers after security alarms, but didn't
Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It — The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn't particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success.
Zuckerberg called Obama over spying, says the US should champion, not threaten the internet
As the world becomes more complex and governments everywhere struggle, trust in the internet is more important today than ever. The internet is our shared space. It helps us connect. It spreads opp...
Apple developing Preview and TextEdit apps for iOS to view files stored in iCloud by OS X versions
iOS 8: Apple works to further push iCloud as the future of the file system — When Apple introduced both iOS and iCloud, its goal was to eliminate the classic file system found in Mac OS X …
How Apple's iOS 7.1 finally quelled users' motion sickness
Animations introduced in Apple's new look for its iPhone and iPad interface in September made some feel physically sick. Now, it's fixed them — Apple recently updated its iPhone and iPad software t...
Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites
Russia's government has escalated its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the slimmest excuse of preventing unauthorized protests and enforcing hou...
Clinkle's Still a Hot Mess as Its Big Shot COO Departs (Updated)
Barry McCarthy was supposed to bring stability to the tumultuous environment at Clinkle, the stealth payments startup he joined in the fall as its first chief operating officer. Instead, the former l...
iOS 7.1 Includes Warning Message About 15-Minute In-App Purchase Window
Along with several visual tweaks, CarPlay support, and Touch ID enhancements, iOS 7.1 also brought some changes to the way in-app purchases work. When making an in-app purchase for the first time aft...
Microsoft and Nook redo their agreement; no Microsoft e-reader in the works
Summary: It looks like the Nook Windows 8 app may be superseded by a Microsoft reading app. But the planned Nook Windows Phone app is seemingly tabled. — On March 10, Microsoft and Nook Media updat...
Huawei to release dual OS Android-Windows Phone handset in the US in Q2
Huawei: We are still committed to Windows Phone but dual OS is better — More Huawei Windows Phone handsets are incoming — With the Windows Phone platform continuing to increase its market share …
Satellite Crowdsourcing Adds 2 Million Searchers for Missing Jet
Tomnod.com, a crowdsourcing website run by DigitalGlobe Inc. (DGI), has tapped more than 2 million people to scan through satellite images searching for clues about missing Malaysian Airline Systems B...
Plex opens up Chromecast to everyone, adds automatic camera upload
Media center app maker Plex followed through on a promise Thursday to remove restrictions around its Chromecast implementations, opening up the feature to all of its users including non-subscribers.
Desktop Search to Decline $1.4 Billion as Google Users Shift to Mobile
Overall desktop ad spending set to decline in 2014 while mobile grows 83.0% — Desktop search in the US is poised for a significant decline this year as paid clicks on Google shift toward mobile devi...
FCC approves AT&T's purchase of Leap Wireless, says it's ‘in the public interest’
The Federal Communications Commission has approved AT&T's acquisition of Leap Wireless, the company that operates the popular Cricket brand of prepaid wireless service. Acknowledging that an unchecke...
Google removes underlined links, says goodbye to 1996
Google started life as a research project in 1996 to crawl the internet and create a search engine. 18 years later, Google is now removing the last of the design left over from that era. Starting tod...
Google drops price of all monthly Google Drive plans to $2/100GB, $10/1TB, $100/10TB
Google announced today on its blog that it's lowering the monthly pricing plans it offers for users buying extra storage on Google Drive. Google attributes the changes to “recent infrastructure impro...
Facebook unveils 15-second video ads selling for $1M-$2.5M a day, targets TV marketing budgets
Facebook Unveils Video Ads to Court TV's Market — Facebook Inc. (FB) is releasing its long-awaited video-advertising product today, as the world's largest social network moves to diversify …
Bing's New “Image Match” Button Helps Locate Images Of Varying Resolutions & Sizes
Bing announced today it is launching a new “Image Match” button, a feature that helps users quickly find alternative resolutions and sizes of a desired image. — When viewing an image from the Bing i...
Virgin Media gives customers 5GB of free cloud storage, launches packages for additional space
Virgin Media has launched Virgin Media Cloud, its own cloud storage solution for its broadband customers. The company has teamed with F-Secure, a third-party firm that specialises in digital security...
PayPal mends fences with crowdfunders with revised policies
Image Credit: Illustration by Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat — PayPal and the crowdfunding community have had a rocky relationship — but the eBay-owned payments company has rebuilt that bridge with re...
Lookout Hands CEO Reins to Jim Dolce; Founder John Hering Shifts to Executive Chairman
Having just turned 30, John Hering is hardly ripe for retirement. — But the founder of mobile security firm Lookout does think the time is right for his company to bring in a more experienced hand t...
Unity Acquires Applifier To Bring Shareable Instant Replays To More Games
Your friend takes out his phone. “Duuude — You've gotta see this game,” he says, before showing you a particularly crazy scene. — Is there really any more effective ad for a game? — Unity doesn't...
Amid Bullying & Threats Of Violence, Anonymous Social App Yik Yak Shuts Off Access To U.S. Middle & High School Students
Anonymous communication platforms and the pre-teen-to-teenage brain are two things that don't mix all that well. Just look at Ask.fm, for example …
Fundable bolsters crowdfunding platform with acquisition of LaunchRock
Fundable bolsters crowdfunding platform with acquisition of LaunchRock — In an “awesome” bit of irony, Fundable LLC has acquired LaunchRock, the online platform that helped launch the crowdfunding s...
It's a mobile data world: In 2013 voice stopped being U.S. carriers' main revenue driver
Just like that, in the fourth quarter of 2013 mobile data usage ticked up to reach a crossover point, making data a bigger revenue source for carriers than voice services.
Just a Month After Google Capital Funding, Renaissance Learning Sells for $1.1B
Google Capital valued Renaissance Learning at $1 billion when it put $40 million into the educational assessment company in mid-February. Just a month later, Renaissance Learning is worth $1.1 billio...
Event ticketing platform Eventbrite has raised around $50M in new funding at a valuation of over $1B
Exclusive: Eventbrite joins $1 billion club — Popular event ticketing company raises around $50 million in new round of funding at a big valuation. — FORTUNE — Event ticketing …
Amazon is raising the price of Prime to $99/year, adds same-day Prime Fresh delivery for $299/year
Amazon Prime customers, who have been paying $79 per year for unlimited two-day shipping and other perks, will pay $99 per year when their membership renews. Here's the text I saw on my Prime page th...
Sources: Microsoft makes Windows Phone OS free for two Indian phone makers
MS offers Windows Phone OS free to Indian players — NEW DELHI: Desperate times call for desperate measures. With Windows Phone failing to make a significant dent in the market share of Google's And...
Masayoshi Son on how Softbank scored the deal to become iPhone's exclusive carrier in Japan
How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan — The iPhone, it's safe to say, is big in Japan. Toward the end of last year, three out of every four smartphones sold in Japan were iPhones …
Amazon Eyed Overseas Markets in Smartphone Talks
As Amazon prepares to launch its long-awaited smartphone, opportunities in non-U.S. markets loom large. — Amazon executives last spring held talks with possible hardware partners that included detai...
Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites
Russia's government has escalated its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the slimmest excuse of preventing unauthorized protests and enforcing hou...
Banjo Raises $16M To Grow Its Experiential Real-Time News And Events Platform
Startup Banjo has raised a new $16 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total raised to date to $21 million. The round was led by Balderton Capital, and included participation from BlueRun...
United Airlines introducing iOS-exclusive in-flight movie service in April
United Airline to Intro In-Flight Movie Service Starting in April Exclusively for Apple iDevices — Starting this April, United Airlines will roll out a new personal device entertainment system onboa...
Starbucks Plans to Test Mobile Ordering This Year
Starbucks Corp. (SBUX), the world's largest coffee-shop operator, will test a smartphone service this year that lets customers order items ahead of time at some U.S. cafes, part of a push to promote i...
T-Mobile plans to upgrade its 2G EDGE footprint to 4G LTE by mid-2015
You should be able to bid a final goodbye to that dreaded “E” icon on your T-Mobile handset within the next 15 months. — Celebrating the one-year anniversary of it's LTE network launch on Thursday …
IPO-bound MuleSoft raises $50M and doubles its valuation to $800M as SaaS adoption explodes
Want a recipe for startup success? Identify a category defining trend early - like mobile or the cloud - and then anticipate and solve one of the new problems that trend will create.
Microsoft's Office 365 Personal is limited to two devices, coming this spring for $69.99/year or $6.99/month
Microsoft today announced Office 365 Personal, a new subscription offering of the company's productivity suite in the cloud. Designed for the individual, it is limited to just one PC or Mac …
Bright House cable network to build ultrafast gigabit residential broadband in Tampa, Florida
Bright House to Build Ultrafast Broadband Network — Bright House Networks, part of the Newhouse family's media empire, said it will build an ultrafast gigabit broadband network in Tampa …
Real-Time Economic Data Tracking Platform Premise Raises $11M From Social+Capital Partnership
Exclusive: Premise, a data technology company that is tracking macroeconomic and human development trends in real-time, is announcing an $11 million Series B round led by Social+Capital Partnership …