A marketer's amusing “Breakup Letter” to Facebook over News Feed algorithm changes
A Breakup Letter to Facebook from Eat24 — Hey. It's Eat24. Look, we need to talk. This isn't easy to say since we've been together so long, but we need to break up.
Of the three main NSA reform proposals, the USA Freedom Act limits the NSA powers the most
The Best NSA Fix Comes From the Patriot Act's Author — The White House would stop NSA's phone dragnet, but leave the power behind it intact. An unlikely Republican's bill does better.
Big data's challenge: gain new insight without making the same old statistical mistakes
Big data: are we making a big mistake? — Big data is a vague term for a massive phenomenon that has rapidly become an obsession with entrepreneurs, scientists, governments and the media
Airbnb to collect hotel taxes for San Francisco rentals
Airbnb, the fast-growing website that lets people rent out their homes or rooms to travelers, took a giant step toward legalizing itself in San Francisco with an announcement Monday evening that it wi...
Alibaba Will Pay $692M For 35% Stake In Retail Operator Intime
Alibaba has agreed to pay $692 million for a 35% stake in Intime Retail, which operates department stores throughout China. The two companies will form a joint initiative to focus on offline-to-onlin...
Tesla's website allows weak passwords and brute-force attacks, easing remote unlocking and location tracking for attackers
Cursory Evaluation of the Tesla Model S: We Can't Protect Our Cars Like We Protect Our Workstations — The innovation behind Tesla's electric vehicles has set us …
Yahoo in talks to acquire online video service News Distribution Network for close to $300M
Yahoo in Talks to Buy Online-Video Service NDN — Sources — Deal Would Help Yahoo Compete With Google's YouTube — Yahoo Inc. is in preliminary talks to acquire online-video service News …
Cisco facing federal investigation for possible bribery violations on massive scale in Russia
Former Cisco Execs Allege Vast Kickback Scheme In Russia — One day in 2010 a team of Westerners arrived at the Krylatsky Hills industrial park in Moscow, near the old 1980 Olympic bicycle track.
Online learning company Coursera launches an Android app
Online learning company Coursera has finally come to Android after launching an app for the Google-owned mobile platform. The launch comes just over three months after Coursera debuted its iOS app, i...
Cloudera raises $900 million, plots expansion
With virtualized servers and private clouds gaining popularity, your power and cooling requirements have probably changed. Check out this white paper to learn more about optimizing your power and coo...
ClearStory Raises $21M From DAG Ventures, KPCB, A16Z To Bring Data Intelligence To The Masses
ClearStory Data, a company that wants to bring data intelligence to the masses, has raised $21 million in Series B funding led by DAG Ventures with Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures …
Microsoft CEO makes Scott Guthrie and Stephen Elop EVPs, consolidates Xbox under Phil Spencer
Satya Nadella email to employees on tuning our organization — Today marks the start of another big week for Microsoft as we gear up for the Build conference in San Francisco.
China's Huawei aims to double last year's record revenue by 2018
(Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has targeted 2018 revenue almost double the record reaped last year when the company booked 34 percent profit growth and became the world's third-biggest...
YouTube seeks more TV ad dollars, offering audience guarantees and placement on top shows
YouTube to Offer Advertisers Some Guarantees — YouTube Also Will Reserve Space for Advertisers That Commit to Buying in Top Shows — Google Inc. is ramping up its assault on traditional television'...
Why the NSA targets Huawei: it's displacing western-built networking equipment in many regions
How a Chinese Tech Firm Became the NSA's Surveillance Nightmare — The NSA's global spy operation may seem unstoppable, but there's at least one target that has proven to be a formidable obstacle …
Exclusive: NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought - study
(Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some...
Galaxy S5's OLED display is the “best performing smartphone display that we have ever tested”
Samsung Galaxy S5 Display Technology Shoot-Out — Introduction The Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series of Smartphones are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest …
Big data's challenge: gain new insight without making the same old statistical mistakes
Big data: are we making a big mistake? — Big data is a vague term for a massive phenomenon that has rapidly become an obsession with entrepreneurs, scientists, governments and the media
Cloudera raises $900 million, plots expansion
With virtualized servers and private clouds gaining popularity, your power and cooling requirements have probably changed. Check out this white paper to learn more about optimizing your power and coo...
Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed
The most challenging part of last year's iPhone 5s review was piecing together details about Apple's A7 without any internal Apple assistance. I had less than a week to turn the review around and lim...
OpenText Seeks $268 Million in Patent Claims From Box
Firm Seeks to Block Online Storage Company From Selling Infringing Products — OpenText Corp. on Monday said it is seeking $268 million in damages from online storage company Box Inc. over 200 claims...
OKCupid shows Firefox users a full-page interstitial suggesting alternate browsers in protest of Mozilla's CEO
OKCupid asks users to boycott Firefox because of CEO's gay rights stance — Anyone accessing the popular dating site OKCupid with Firefox today is in for a surprise.
Microsoft chops Azure prices to match Amazon's latest reductions
Summary: Microsoft is cutting prices for a number of its Azure services to match (and in some cases, beat) Amazon's latest pricing. — The cloud price wars are continuing to wage on. — A week after...
Google+ now shows the total number of profile, post and photo views on pages
In an effort to shrug off its “ghost town” reputation, Google today updated Google+ with total content views for profiles and pages. — On any page, you'll notice the new figure underneath the user's...