White House Releases Climate Data Set, Challenges Developers to Use It
The Obama administration opened up a trove of climate change data on Wednesday as part of its larger drive to open up government data. — The data housed at Data.gov/climate will be contributed by NA...
Burger King to Add Mobile-Phone Payment at U.S. Stores
Burger King Worldwide Inc. (BKW), the second-biggest U.S. burger chain by store count, is introducing an application that will allow customers to pay for Whoppers with their smartphones as it races ri...
Accel Partners Raises New Funds Totaling Over $1 Billion As Facebook Investor Jim Breyer Reduces Role
Accel Partners, a leading venture capital and growth equity firm, has raised two new funds totaling $1.475 billion as one of its most prominent figures looks to decrease his role.
Ex-Microsoft employee charged with passing journalist trade secrets
Prosecutors: Angry worker sent blogger Windows 8 code, internal documents — Workers removing the products from the stage after the Microsoft Windows 8 and Surface event in New York, Oct. 25, 2012.
Google's Larry Page on Internet Privacy: Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater
James Duncan Davidson/Flickr/TedConference — Google CEO Larry Page was hesitant to tell the world about the medical condition that was hurting his ability to speak, but publicly sharing his voice tr...
Dong Nguyen says Flappy Bird will return to the App Store, but not soon
Enjoy Your Life While You Can, Because Flappy Bird is Coming Back — The most addictive, dangerous new drug of 2014 is about to come back on the market. Game developer Dong Nguyen has announced that...
PlayStation 4 update to add rich video editor, 720p Twitch streaming, HDCP off option, and more
The Xbox One has already received a few firmware updates and it would seem the PlayStation 4 is about to follow suit. — Sony today detailed an upcoming patch for its new console …
In-depth with Android Wear, Google's quantum leap of a smartwatch OS
We take a look at how Android Wear works, and even manage to break some stuff. — Yesterday, Google announced Android Wear, its wearable device platform for smartwatches. Android Wear is a shrunken-...
Facebook sends 735 million referrals to games every day
Today at GDC, Facebook revealed new statistics around its user base that show that developers who create games for both mobile — using Facebook to drive community engagement — and also deploy them to ...
Twitter gives up on encrypting direct messages, at least for now
Twitter has shelved a project that would have made it more difficult for the government to intercept users' private messages without a court order, sources tell The Verge, a sudden reversal for a comp...
Huawei backtracks, won't release a dual-OS Android, Windows Phone smartphone
Huawei said it has no plans to release a dual-OS smartphone running Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android, contradicting earlier statements from a Huawei executive...
Quirky and GE cook up a smarter, prettier air conditioner
Quirky is more than just bendy power strips these days — recently, it's been pushing its vision of the connected home thanks to a multi-million dollar partnership with GE. So far their deal has yield...
Yahoo launches Games Network platform for developers, new Classic Games site for Android, iOS, and the Web
Yahoo today announced a renewed push into games with the launch of its Yahoo Games Network platform and its Yahoo Classic Games site. The company says it already has more improvements …
Want More Privacy In Your App? Wickr Resells Its Encryption, Self-Destructing Tech To Other Apps
Wickr, one of the wave of messaging apps built on the idea of private, encrypted and self-destructing data, has vowed never to make money off its users — with its app remaining free …
Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior Joins Box's Board
Box, the enterprise-focused cloud storage and platform company, named Cisco Systems' CTO and chief strategy officer Padmasree Warrior to its board of directors, taking another step toward an IPO that'...
Google Search Can Now Take Photos, Videos, On Your Android Phone
So you want to take a quick photo or video with your Android phone? It just got a bit easier, at least for those who like to tell their phone what to do. — Google updated its Android Search app tod...
Google sued for data-mining students' email
Google is in hot water for scanning millions of students' email messages and allegedly building “surreptitious” profiles to target advertising at them. — According to Education Week, a “potentially ...
MP3Tunes Founder Michael Robertson Found Liable for Copyright Infringement
A jury finds that the once-popular website willfully blinded itself to thousands of songs being stolen. — On Wednesday, a jury in a New York federal courtroom found MP3Tunes founder Michael Robertso...
Exclusive: Jim Breyer reducing role at Accel Partners
Early Facebook investor Jim Breyer plans to spend more time investing personal capital, and less at the VC firm where he has spent the past 27 years. — FORTUNE — Jim Breyer of Accel Partners is one ...