Facebook to acquire Oculus VR for approximately $2 billion
Facebook to Acquire Oculus — Acquisition positions Facebook to accelerate Oculus' growth in gaming, communications and new social experiences — Facebook today announced that it has reached a defin...
Bitcoin Is Property Not Currency in Tax System, IRS Says
The U.S. government will treat Bitcoin as property for tax purposes, applying rules it uses to govern stocks and barter transactions, the Internal Revenue Service said in its first substantive ruling ...
HTC One (M8) review: a gorgeous, fast, long-lasting phone with a weak, inconsistent camera
The new HTC One review — The best or nothing — My first car was a 1997 Saturn SL1, a tiny black box with headlights that were too close together and a 0-60 time in the neighborhood of three and a ...
Google Announces Massive Price Drops For Its Cloud Computing Services And Storage, Introduces Sustained-Use Discounts
At its Cloud Platform event in San Francisco today, Google announced a number of massive price drops for virtually all of its cloud-computing services.
Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public
The following post is from Roy Levin, distinguished engineer and managing director, Microsoft Research. — On Tuesday, we dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows.
Apple plans to add more diversity to Emoji character set
What Does Apple Think About The Lack Of Diversity In Emojis? We Have Their Response. — When you browse through the emojis on your phone, there are very few non-Caucasian ones to choose from. I mea...
‘Candy Crush’ Maker Prices IPO at $22.50
Unlike Facebook and Twitter, Videogame Maker Hasn't Raised IPO Size — With the shares of videogame maker King Digital Entertainment PLC set to begin trading Wednesday, the central question facing in...
Dorian Nakamoto's neighbor and second Bitcoin user Hal Finney denies helping to invent Bitcoin
Satoshi Nakamoto's Neighbor: The Bitcoin Ghostwriter Who Wasn't — Hal Finney's light brown eyes are pointed down. — I've just asked him if he was involved in the creation of Bitcoin.
Cathy Edwards, Co-Founder Of Chomp, Is Leaving Apple On April 11
A notable personnel departure is coming up in Cupertino: Cathy Edwards, the co-founder and CTO of app search and discovery platform Chomp, is leaving Apple on April 11, TechCrunch has learned.
Marc Andreessen: “My Prediction Is That The Libertarians Will Turn On Bitcoin.”
Marc Andreessen and Balaji Srinivasan, two of bitcoin's biggest bulls in the venture capital industry, stepped up their rhetoric against skeptics of the crypto-currency today at the Coin Summit confer...
Nvidia unveils next-generation graphics processor with 3D memory
Above: Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang with a Pascal chip — Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled his company's latest graphics-processor architecture, code-named Pascal, that will put a “superco...
Intel Completes Purchase Of Basis Science, Which Will Join Intel's Device's Group
Intel has just announced its acquisition of Basis Science, the hot wearable technology company based in San Francisco. As TechCrunch first reported, the startup went to the chipmaker for around $100 ...
Facebook's Open Compute guru Frank Frankovsky leaves to build optical storage startup
Frank Frankovsky, Facebook's vice president of hardware design and supply chain optimization, who helped oversee the development and growth of the company's custom server effort, has left …
Eight years later, 22% of the links at the Million Dollar Homepage point to dead pages
The Million Dollar Homepage still exists, but 22% of it has rotted away — Pixels closer to the top and left sold first milliondollarhomepage.com — Before Kickstarter and Indiegogo …
Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.'s Bulk Data Collection
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency's once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that —...
Apple Testing Related Search Suggestions On The App Store
As first noted by developer Olga Osadcha, Apple is testing a related search suggestion feature on the App Store, which started rolling out earlier today for iPhone users on iOS 7. — The new menu, a ...
Sony won't use Android Wear, will stick with Smartwatch
The head of Sony Mobile's US arm also tells CNET that sales of its Xperia Z1s has exceeded expectations at T-Mobile. — Sony's SmartWatch 2. — Sarah Tew/CNET — ATLANTA—Sony will continue to strik...
Hortonworks raises $100M to scale its Hadoop business
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has raised $100 million in a new round of venture capital led by BlackRock and Passport Capital. The company's existing investors — Dragoneer, Tenaya Capital, Benchmark, Ind...
Spotify Pitches College Kids: Half Off Subscriptions While You're in School
Streaming music services are getting more popular. How much more popular would they be if they were cheaper? — Spotify will start finding out today. The subscription music company is cutting the p...
Instagram now has 200M active monthly users, 20B total photos shared
Instagram Today: 200 Million Strong — Today, we're excited to share that the Instagram community has grown to more than 200 million Instagrammers capturing and sharing their lives every month.
E-book price fixing settlements land in Amazon customers' inboxes
There may be still more money to come from other e-book retailers. — As of Tuesday morning, Amazon has begun issuing account credits to Kindle book buyers as a result of legal settlements with book ...
Nokia schedules press event next week, new Windows Phone 8.1 hardware likely
Nokia is planning to hold a press event next week, alongside Microsoft's Build developers conference. The Finnish smartphone maker started sending invites to the media briefing earlier today …
Instagram Testing Facebook Places Integration To Replace Foursquare
Popular photo-sharing app Instagram is testing integration with Facebook Places, Facebook's venue database. Facebook, of course, owns Instagram. The experiment signals that Instagram may eventually ...
Survey shows people who quit Twitter want more filtering and sorting of relevant content
Why people quit Twitter — In short, it comes down to not knowing who to follow and not having enough followers. — On Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, people are increasingly concerned …
Adobe Expands Its Marketing Cloud With Predictive Tools, iBeacon Support, And More
As Adobe kicks off its Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City, the company is announcing a number of new features and products in the Adobe Marketing Cloud, its suite of products for digital marke...
Attackers get cash out of ATMs by sending SMS messages
Criminals are using SMS messages to get cash out of ATMs, according to Symantec. — The crooks begin by loading ATM malware into the cash machine. In the Monday post, Symantec used Ploutus, a piece ...
Rumr, Group Messaging With An Anonymous Twist, Launches On iOS & Android
Say hey to rumr, a new messaging app that's vying to draw your attention away from all the other ways to say hey already in play. — Rumr has been in the works for around half a year, raising an $800...
Mobile apps eclipse file-sharing services, digital lockers as most widely used source for pirated music
Music Piracy Goes Mobile — The music industry faces a new front in its long-running battle against piracy: The smartphone. — Mobile applications have eclipsed file-sharing services …
Box files IPO: Big losses mask bigger ambitions
Cloud storage and collaboration platform provider Box published its long-awaited IPO filing [1] this afternoon, and the main revelation is how much cash it's burning. — Box's cash burn has long been...