Microsoft to launch Xbox original TV shows in June, has six series lined up, with more than a dozen projects in development
Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is going Hollywood with a cast including comedians Sarah Silverman and Seth Green …
Uber launching an on-demand courier service in Manhattan on Tuesday
Uber is launching an on-demand courier service tomorrow (exclusive) — Tomorrow, Uber will launch an on-demand courier service in Manhattan, allowing users to request item pickup and delivery via a s...
#1 new paid app in Play Store “Virus Shield” has no functionality, later removed by Google
The #1 New Paid App In The Play Store Costs $4, Has Over 10,000 Downloads, A 4.7-Star Rating... And It's A Total Scam [Updated] — Computer security is important, even if the computer in question fit...
Seagate releases 6TB hard drive, its fastest yet
Seagate has released its first 6TB hard drive, saying that it was able to reach that capacity without using helium like rival Western Digital. — Seagate has released its first 6TB, enterprise-class ...
Everything to know about iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (Roundup + New Details)
While Apple only officially announced its 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last week, we have been reporting all of the known information about what Apple plans to unveil at the event over ...
Heartbleed: Serious OpenSSL zero day vulnerability revealed
Summary: A new OpenSSL vulnerability has shown up and some companies are annoyed that the bug was revealed before patches could be delivered for it. — New security holes are always showing up.
HTC Posts Second Loss in Three Quarters Ahead of M8 Smartphone
HTC Corp. (2498) posted its second loss in three quarters after sales at the Taiwanese maker of smartphones slowed ahead of the release of a new version of its mainstay One device. — First-quarter l...
Twitter Acquires Android Lockscreen App Cover, Moves Deeper Into Mobile Services
A very interesting acquisition announcement from Twitter today: it's buying Cover, an Android lockscreen app that lets you customise what apps you see and when. For now, Cover will remain live in the...
Commenting Platform Disqus Introduces Sponsored Comments
Disqus, which says it powers the comment sections on almost 3 million websites, is announcing a new type of ad unit today — Sponsored Comments. — Since Disqus already runs ads through its Promoted D...
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808/810: 20nm High-End 64-bit SoCs with LTE Category 6/7 Support in 2015
Today Qualcomm is rounding out its 64-bit family with the Snapdragon 808 and 810. Like the previous 64-bit announcements (Snapdragon 410, 610 and 615), the 808 and 810 leverage ARM's own CPU IP …
Jerk.com scammed money to remove Facebook-scraped profiles, says FTC
A typical Jerk.com profile, where visitors can vote on whether a particular person is or is not a jerk as well as fill in supplementary, personally identifying information. — As of Monday, the FTC h...
Raspberry Pi gets more Arduino-y with new open source modular hardware
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module, ready for your custom hardware soon. — Raspberry Pi Foundation — Soon, there could be Pi in just about any device that needs embedded computing power.
The story of Better Place, Shai Agassi's failed electric car startup that raised nearly $1B
A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World — “So this is the car.” I'm standing outside a shopping mall somewhere in Tel Aviv, Israel, as Guy Pross sh...
After Raising $250 Million, Lyft Cuts Prices By Up To 20% In All Markets
Last week, Lyft announced that it had raised a massive $250 million round of funding as part of its effort to compete against other on-demand ride services. Now the company is going on the offensive ...
Microsoft's open sourcing of .Net: The back story
Summary: Microsoft's decision to open source more of its .Net platform didn't happen overnight, or even in the past few weeks. It was a move years in the making. — Microsoft's move to open source k...
Teradata launches QueryGrid, one workflow for big, little data
Summary: The effort behind QueryGrid is part of Teradata's ongoing move to bridge the divide between data warehouses, the core of the company's business, with big data, which is likely to take analyti...
The technology behind Android TV: how Google wants to reinvent apps for the living room
Google is working on yet another platform for the living room, and it doesn't just want to compete on looks alone: The company has come up with a novel way to develop TV apps and make use of their dat...
AOL Appoints William Pence From WebMD As New CTO; Curtis Brown Steps Down
AOL's ongoing push to turn its business around and focus on more ad-tech fuelled media plays continues apace: today the company (which owns TechCrunch) appointed a new CTO, William Pence, who it's hir...
Supreme Court passes on NSA bulk phone surveillance case
Case will head to appeals court first, but will likely end up with the Supremes. — The Supreme Court declined Monday to resolve the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's bulk telephone...
Waze CEO confirms Google paid $1.15B for the company, hints that investors forced the deal
Google completed its acquisition of Waze last June, but only now has the price tag that it paid for the Israel-headquartered social mapping startup and a hint at why the company sold out been revealed...
Thunderbolt 2 Networking enables 10 Gbps Ethernet connection, supports Macs and PCs
Intel's Thunderbolt 2 connectivity standard is getting an update here at NAB 2014 with the addition of Thunderbolt Networking. Put simply, this new feature will let you pair computers with a Thunderb...
Mobile app dominance vs. web will hurt long-term innovation, likely make web a niche product
The decline of the mobile web — People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: — And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: — This is a worrisome trend for the web.
From Sexting to Sacraments: How Mobile Apps Are Taking on Religion
At this point, our entire lives could be boiled down into a series of apps. Schedules, diets, friends, family, play—it's all there in a set of brightly colored, easy-to-digest icons that have come to...
The Micro, A Compact, Consumer-Friendly 3D Printer, Launches On Kickstarter For $199+
High end 3D printers out in the wild already can print some pretty incredible things but at a high cost and commensurate level of complexity. As with any nascent industry, the market's initial focus ...
Vocus to be acquired by GTCR Valor in deal valued at $447M
Vocus Agrees to Be Taken Private by GTCR Valor — Deal Would Take Private the Provider of Cloud-Based Marketing and Public-Relations Software — Vocus Inc. agreed to be acquired by GTCR Valor Cos. i...
Samsung expects Q1 operating profit of $8B, down 4.3 percent
South Korean electronics giant's guidance is largely in line with analyst predictions. — Samsung said Monday it expects to post a decline in first-quarter profit, on slackening demand for its high-e...
StoreDot's Bio-Organic Battery Tech Can Charge From Flat To Full In 30 Seconds
Want to charge your phone from flat to full in 30 seconds? Who doesn't. But don't get too excited yet — Israeli startup StoreDot's bio-organic fast-charging battery tech, which utilizes quantum dot ...
Google takes legal action against Turkey's YouTube ban
Remember how a Turkish court ordered an end to the country's YouTube ban? Well, that decision has already been reversed — and Google has launched an all-out legal assault in response. The search fir...
Microsoft targets broadcasters with the new studio-grade Skype TX
Microsoft is extending its reach into the broadcasting realm with a new product called Skype TX, which it calls “studio grade software that delivers high quality audio and video output to seamlessly c...
Samsung announces the Galaxy Ace Style, a mid-range smartphone running Android KitKat
Last week, Samsung showed off the Galaxy Ace Style, a mid-range smartphone running Android KitKat, and today the device was formally announced by the company. — The Galaxy Ace Style looks …
Another mobile carrier bites the dust: Cincinnati Bell sells its spectrum to Verizon
As I've written before, in a U.S. mobile industry dominated by mega-carriers, it's becoming harder and harder for smaller regional carriers to survive. Cincinnati Bell became the latest case in point...
Documents show Gogo boasted of helping law enforcement agencies spy on in-flight wifi
We already know that there's almost nowhere on earth you can go to escape the warrantless snooping and panoptic surveillance of the US government. Now it turns out you're not even safe 30,000 feet up...