Microsoft Is Selling Office 365 Within iPad Apps, and Apple Is Getting Its 30 Percent Cut
While one of the big holdups for Office for iPad was getting the software just right, another was Apple's policy that apps that sell things — including subscriptions — use Apple's in-app purchase mech...
Facebook's Connectivity Lab is building drones, satellites and lasers to deliver Internet access
While Google is experimenting with helium balloons for Internet access, Facebook is working on drones, satellites and lasers. The company today unveiled the Connectivity Lab, which has evolved as par...
Amazon planning free ad-supported TV and music streaming service, no Prime subscription required
Amazon Plans Free Streaming Media Service — Website Said to Drop Strategy of Only Offering Video to Users of Its Prime Service — Amazon.com Inc. plans a free, advertising-supported streaming telev...
WD ships My Passport Pro, dual-drive bus-powered Thunderbolt RAID
Drive features integrated Thunderbolt cable — Drive manufacturer WD today introduced My Passport Pro, the first portable, Thunderbolt-powered dual-drive solution. My Passport Pro is available in du...
Fire hazard forces Lenovo recall of ThinkPad batteries
The company has set up a Web page about the recall — Lenovo is recalling certain ThinkPad battery packs that could be a fire hazard due to overheating, which could ultimately also lead to computer d...
SK Telecom overrides Samsung, releases Galaxy S5 in Korea to comply with regulator imposed ban
Samsung Objections Fail to Stop Early Release of Galaxy S5 — Samsung Electronics Co. failed to keep its new Galaxy S5 smartphone from going on sale early in South Korea today as SK Telecom Co …
The Power of Free: OS X Mavericks Users Generate 40% of Mac Web Traffic Five Months Post-Release
Aside from a number of aesthetic and functional changes Apple included as part of OS X Mavericks, the company also turned heads by releasing the latest OS as a free upgrade for Mac desktop and laptop ...
Save it for a rainy day: Songza will now play you music based on the weather
The two most common factors that affect someone's current mood are music and the weather. Fortunately, there's at least one music service — Songza — that's trying to mesh these two things.
Twitter Said Close to Releasing New Ad Product for Apps
Twitter Inc. (TWTR) is planning to release a mobile-advertising product in the next few weeks that application makers can use to encourage downloads of their programs, according to people with knowled...
Sources: Dropbox Acqui-Hiring Social Reading App Readmill For $8 Million
With fresh capital in its coffers, Dropbox appears to be on somewhat of an acquisition spree, albeit a quiet one. Following the cloud storage company's recent purchase of workplace chat solution Zuli...
Ex-Spotify Engineers Raise $2.2 Million For Lookback, A Mobile App Screen Recorder For User Testing
A team of ex-Spotify engineers has raised $2.2 million in seed funding for Lookback, a platform allowing developers to record onscreen activity within mobile apps - and even record …
Intel to ditch its Hadoop software and support Cloudera instead
How can big data and smart analytics tools ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco. There are only 20 tickets left at the lowest rate! — Intel is set to ca...
Foursquare's New Ads Tap Twitter And Require $100K Commitment
Foursquare has a new ad product that invites users to tweet marketing messages when they check into businesses. The product is called Tap to Tweet and will be available in early April, Adweek learned...
The Inside Story of How Facebook Got Oculus VR
A 19-year-old hacker set out to invent a gaming headset. He ended up reviving a dead technology and creating an idea worth $2 billion — To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who J...
Spotify is planning an IPO for this fall
Spotify could take itself public some time in the fall of 2014. — The popular music-streaming company has participated in informal chats with some of the investment banks likely to fight for a role ...
The Other Facebook News: One Billion Mobile Users
Facebook followers could be forgiven for being fixated by the $2 billion deal to acquire the virtual reality company Oculus. — But another disclosure from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday is ...
Pew Report: 30% of US adults get news from Facebook, 10% from YouTube, 8% from Twitter
STUDY: Facebook's Role In Pew Research Center's ‘State Of The News Media 2014’ — Facebook and other social networks continue to become further intertwined with the media, as the State of the News Me...
Yahoo Japan says to buy eAccess from SoftBank for $3.2 billion
(Reuters) - Yahoo Japan Corp said on Thursday that it would buy mobile and broadband provider eAccess Ltd from its parent SoftBank Corp for 324 billion yen ($3.17 billion) in a bid to expand its servi...
Top EU court says ISPs may have to block copyright infringing websites
Top EU Court Backs Internet Bootlegging Ruling — Decision Could Raise Costs for Internet Service Providers — BRUSSELS—The European Union's highest court said on Thursday that Internet service prov...
Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency
Researchers said they have uncovered two apps that were downloaded from the official Google Play market more than one million times that use Android devices to mine the Litecoin and Dogecoin cryptocur...
New images reveal an overhauled Store for Windows Phone 8.1, includes automatic app updates and more
The Windows Phone 8.1 core has been finished today, so it seems appropriate to take a look at an area that is need of some improvement: the Windows Phone Store.
Russian government officials switch from iPads to Samsung tablets over spying fears
Russian officials dump iPads over spy fears — Moscow — Russian government officials have swapped their iPads for Samsung tablets to ensure tighter security, the telecoms minister told news agencies ...
UK ad watchdog clears Microsoft ad campaign attacking Gmail privacy standards
Microsoft wins battle over ads attacking Google privacy standards — Advertising Standards Authority agrees Gmail's scanning of email contents to target ads sets it apart from Outlook.com