Apple's iTunes Radio Adds NPR News Channel
When iTunes Radio launched last fall, the service was designed for music fans (and music labels). Now it is branching out: National Public Radio is adding the first news channel to Apple's audio stre...
Microsoft's $7.2B Nokia deal is officially delayed until April
Nokia and Microsoft will have to wait a little longer to press the Start button. — Microsoft's $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business, originally expected to close this qu...
Box Files For $250M IPO On Full-Year Revenue Of $124M, Net Loss Of $168M
The Box S-1 is out at last. The cloud storage company is looking to raise up $250 million in the flotation. That sum is less than its competitor Dropbox recently raised from the private markets.
Exclusive: Disney to buy YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million
(Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co has agreed to buy Maker Studios for $500 million, becoming a major online video distributor through the purchase of one of YouTube's largest networks, according to a per...
Google's new Photowall app turns your Chromecast-connected TV into an interactive photo frame
Adding to the capabilities of the Chromecast HDMI streaming stick, Google is out with a new app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users called Photowall that lets you turn your Chromecast-connected TV ...
Coursera Brings In Longtime Yale President Rick Levin as CEO
Coursera, the massive-open-online-course provider with the most funding and the most students in the space, is shaking up its leadership. — The company has named Rick Levin, formerly president of Ya...
Nilay Patel, No Longer Managing Editor of The Verge, Moves to Vox.com
Nilay Patel, the well-known and highly regarded managing editor of The Verge, which he founded with editor-in-chief Josh Topolsky, has left that high-profile job, according to several sources.
Cisco to invest $1B in new “Cisco Cloud Services” effort aimed at large corporate customers
Cisco Joins Race to Offer Cloud Services — Firm to Spend $1 billion in Next Two Years to Enter Market — Cisco Systems Inc. plans to begin offering “cloud” …
ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP
End support for XP is prompting them to seek out Windows alternatives — Some financial services companies are looking to migrate their ATM fleets from Windows to Linux in a bid to have better contro...
Tumblr Gets More Secure With Addition Of Two-Factor Authentication
Tumblr today added a very important security feature to its service, with the addition of two-factor authentication - an option available within the blogging service's “Settings” section as of now.
Change In UK Tax Law Could Raise The Price Of Music And Apps In The Country
A change in UK tax law that may take force at the start of 2015 would push the price of apps, music and other downloads and “e-services” higher in the United Kingdom. — The legal shift would see dow...
Google Now arrives in Chrome for Windows and Mac
Google Now has finally arrived on the desktop. Google today announced Google Now is being pushed to the Chrome stable channel for Windows and Mac “starting today and rolling out over the next few wee...
10,000 GitHub users inadvertently reveal their AWS secret access keys
GitHub developers who are also Amazon Web Services users are advised to check the code they made public on their project pages and to delete secret access keys for their AWS account they may have post...
Bill Would Remove Phone Database From NSA
Agency No Longer Would Store Records but Request Them From Phone Firms — WASHINGTON—Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee are set to unveil Tuesday a proposal overhauling the National Security...
Microsoft to rebrand ‘Windows Azure’ as ‘Microsoft Azure’
Summary: Microsoft will rebrand its cloud platform from ‘Windows Azure’ to ‘Microsoft Azure’ as part of the company's push to emphasize its cross-platform services prowess. — Microsoft will announce...
Link Bubble loads web pages in the background, represents them with chat head-like bubble icon
[New App] Chris Lacy's Link Bubble Makes Browsing The Web On A Mobile Device Suck A Lot Less (Hands-On) — We're lucky to have capable mobile browsers on Android these days …
Google Deal With Luxottica Will Bring Glass to Ray-Ban, Oakley
Google Inc. has won a powerful ally in its fight to make Google Glass cool. — Italian eyewear maker Luxottica Group SpA, owner of the Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglass brands, said Monday it had agreed to...
Malicious apps can hose Android phones, erase data, researchers warn
Security researchers said they have uncovered bugs in Google's Android operating system that could allow malicious apps to send vulnerable devices into a spiral of endlessly looping crashes and possib...
Dell acquires StatSoft, adds analytics to software stack
Summary: StatSoft's flagship software is Statistica Enterprise, which filters and analyzes data from multiple repositories. — Dell on Monday said it acquired StatSoft, a company that specializes in ...
Mozilla Appoints JavaScript Creator Brendan Eich As Its New CEO
Last April, Mozilla announced that Gary Kovacs was stepping down as the organization's CEO and that it would start looking for a replacement. At the time, Jay Sullivan took over as acting CEO in the ...
Grubhub's IPO could value online food delivery firm at $1.72 bln
(Reuters) - GrubHub Inc said it expects to price its initial public offering of 7.03 million shares at $20-$22 per share, valuing the largest U.S. online food delivery services provider at up to $1.72...
As Digital Advertising Climbs Toward $50 Billion This Year, Marketers Battle Fraudulent Visitors
As Digital Advertising Climbs Toward $50 Billion This Year, Marketers Battle Fraudulent Visitors — Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising.
A ‘Crisis’ in Online Ads: One-Third of Traffic Is Bogus
As Digital Advertising Climbs Toward $50 Billion This Year, Marketers Battle Fraudulent Visitors — Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising. But marketers also are confronting an unc...
Popcorn Time is doing for distribution of pirated movies what the movie industry needs to do for itself
The Sweet Irony Of Popcorn Time — So the big fun story of last week was this streaming movie app called Popcorn Time. Essentially, it aggregated torrent links and packaged …
Justice Department lands first ever convictions against mobile app pirates
Two men accused of operating a popular Android piracy website have pleaded guilty to charges filed by the Department of Justice. It's the first time the US government has secured convictions for the ...
Pinterest preparing for Q2 launch of paid promoted pins with select marketers
Pinterest makes play for advertising sales with artful ‘promoted pins’ — Digital scrapbooking site Pinterest is preparing to launch ad sales in the second quarter with a bold pitch.
Seattle-area taxi association sues Uber for ‘unlawful and deceptive business practice’
The Western Washington Taxi Cab Operators Association is suing Uber, the app-based transportation company, for operating illegally in Seattle and King County. The lawsuit, filed in King County Superi...
YC-Backed Gbatteries Launches BatteryBox, A 50Whr Backup Battery For MacBooks & Other Gadgets
Over the years, users of portable consumer electronics have just come to accept that battery life gets worse over time. But it doesn't have to: Gbatteries, which is in the current batch …