Bill Gates on technology, surveillance, the future of the planet and God
Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview — The richest man in the world explains how to save the planet — At 58, Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, with a fortune that now exceeds...
iOS 8: Apple considers simpler Notifications Center, inter-app communication, auto-deletion of Messages threads, removal of Game Center, CarPlay over WiFi
iOS 8: Apple considers Notification Center + Messages tweaks, removing Game Center app — Besides adding new Maps, Healthbook …
Leaked photos allegedly show Amazon's bluetooth gaming controller
Amazon Streamer To Feature Bluetooth Gaming Controller — By way of an overseas regulatory agency, similar to our very own FCC, we continue to hone in on the elusive Amazon media streamer.
US Commerce Department prepares to give up oversight of ICANN
U.S. Plans to Give Up Oversight of Web Domain Manager — Move Seen in Response to International Concern About Country's Control Over Internet Structure — The U.S. government is preparing to relinqu...
Asus may drop dual-OS Android-Windows device after facing pressure from Google and Microsoft
Asustek's Dual-OS Devices Hit a Wall — Shelves Plans For Transformer Book Duet TD300 — Plans for a new breed of mobile devices running operating systems from both Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc …
GoDaddy Prepares for IPO
Company to Interview Underwriters in Coming Weeks — GoDaddy Group Inc., the Internet company that helps individuals and businesses create websites, is preparing for an initial public share offering,...
Mozilla scraps Firefox's Windows Metro version, cites less than 1K active daily users for beta
Mozilla scraps Metro version of Firefox, citing low interest — After more than two years of work, Mozilla has scrapped its effort to build a Metro-specific version of Firefox for Windows 8 …
Rate Court Judge Rules Pandora Will Pay ASCAP 1.85% Annual Revenue
In what is being viewed as a defeat for songwriters, the ASCAP/Pandora rate court judge has decided that Pandora will pay the performance rights organization a rate of 1.85% of annual revenue.
Alibaba Said to Plan to File for U.S. IPO as Soon as April
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is preparing to file for an initial public offering in the U.S. as soon as April, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — China's largest e-commerce company is...
Anonymous Social App Secret Confirms $8.6 Million In New Funding
Secret, the anonymous social sharing app popular among the Silicon Valley and tech industry crowd, officially announced today it has raised $8.6 million in outside investment. The round included part...
Supreme Court rejects Nokia appeal over asset transfer to Microsoft
(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Nokia (NOK1V.HE) to give a 35 billion rupee guarantee before it transfers one of its biggest handset plants to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O). — The ruling u...
Sprint launches more prepaid options, including smartphones with no data plans
Prepaid has been very good for Sprint, so good that it runs multiple no-contract services from the Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile brands as well as the Sprint As You Go plans launched last year.
General Colin Powell Joins Salesforce Board Of Directors, As CRM Giant Zeros In On Public Sector
Salesforce today announced an interesting development in its leadership ranks: General Colin Powell is joining its board of directors. He brings the total number of members of the board up to 11.
Google Is Winding Down Wildfire, The Social Media Platform It Bought For $350 Million
In 2012, Google made a huge splash when it bought Wildfire, a social media marketing company that helps advertisers manage their pages on Facebook, for $350 million. The acquisition came after a flur...
Google Play Store update lets you require a password for every purchase
Google has just started rolling out an update to the Play Store app on Android that, among other things, now offers more fine-grained control when making purchases. This change could very well be rel...
Phone call metadata does betray sensitive details about your life - study
Identities of cannabis grower, woman seeking an abortion and MS sufferer inferred in study that confirms danger of widespread access to metadata — Warnings that phone call “metadata” can betray deta...
Uber and Lyft expand insurance coverage after controversy
Uber and Lyft have announced increased insurance coverage for their drivers that will reportedly cover incidents that occur whenever their respective apps are open, not just when drivers have passenge...
Samsung's new smartphone case uses ultrasound to detect people and objects
Samsung's Galaxy S5 may be getting lots of smart new accessories, but the Korean smartphone maker is also making sure its lower-powered phones get some love too. After including various software usab...
Pwn2Own 2014: Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome, Adobe Flash and Reader already hacked
All hacking eyes on the prize money at CanSecWest — VANCOUVER, Canada — When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good. — All four of the major desktop browsers …
Castlight Health prices IPO at $16, above earlier estimates
Castlight Health has priced its impending IPO shares even higher than its recently revised upward estimate. — The health software company priced itself at $16 per share, so it raised $178 million af...
Popcorn Time app shuts down amid threats of video piracy
Popcorn Time, we hardly knew ya. Just a few days after the new app arrived on the scene with its incredibly easy to use interface giving users acces to the entire Internet storehouse of illegally upl...
Toshiba sues South Korean rival SK Hynix over corporate espionage
Asahi Asia Antenna - — THE ASAHI SHIMBUN — Toshiba Corp. has filed a lawsuit against South Korean rival SK Hynix Inc. for compensatory damages, citing the theft of its technological secrets.
Sina Weibo files for $500 million U.S. IPO
A man holds an iPhone as he visits Sina's Weibo microblogging site in Shanghai May 29, 2012. — (Reuters) - Twitter-like messaging service Weibo Corp filed on Friday to raise $500 million via a U.S. ...
Vodafone close to buying Spain's Ono for $10B as Ono's shareholders approve IPO plans
Vodafone close to deal to buy Spain's Ono - sources — (Reuters) - Shareholders of cable company Ono are close to reaching a deal with Britain's Vodafone on an offer to buy the Spanish group …
mSpy sells iPhone 5s and Android smartphones pre-loaded with spyware, ostensibly for use by parents and employers
Starting Today, Jealous Lovers Can Buy NSA-Like Monitoring Powers — Imagine this happy occasion. On his girlfriend's birthday a man announces he has a special gift.
Rdio acquires shuttered Indian music streaming service Dhingana
Exclusive: Rdio buys Dhingana to Enter India — US-based music streaming website Rdio has acquired Indian music streaming website Dhingana, Dhingana has confirmed to MediaNama. MediaNama had heard a...
Twitter Is Adding Promoted Account Tweets, With Follow Buttons, To Desktop Timelines
Twitter will soon add another feature to its Timeline on the desktop to generate revenue: Promoted Accounts, with the option for people to follow them directly with a button embedded in the Tweet.
Phone call metadata does betray sensitive details about your life - study
Identities of cannabis grower, woman seeking an abortion and MS sufferer inferred in study that confirms danger of widespread access to metadata — Warnings that phone call “metadata” can betray deta...
Time Warner Cable Admits Few Have Shown Interest In Usage Caps
After Time Warner Cable took a public relations beating for pushing mandatory low caps (as low as 5 GB) and high per byte overages (as high as $5 per additional gigabyte) on consumers back in 2009, th...
Fundable Acquires LaunchRock To Combine Crowdfunding And User Acquisition
Fundable.com, an equity crowdfunding platform for businesses (including startups), just announced that it has acquired LaunchRock. — LaunchRock, as the name implies, was initially focused on helping...