Dropbox unveils Carousel for organizing your photos and videos
Dropbox today announced Carousel, a product to store and manage your photos and videos. It incorporates features from Snapjoy, a photo startup that Dropbox acquired in December 2012. The launch of C...
Jony Ive shakes up Apple's software design group, iPhone interface creator Greg Christie departing
Following friction between top Apple Human Interface Vice President Greg Christie and Senior Vice President Jony Ive, Apple's hardware and software design is being dramatically shaken up, according to...
KGI forecast: iWatch at multiple price points, two iPhone models, 12" high resolution MacBook Air, 12.9" iPad Pro, more
Apple's 2014 Product Roadmap: New iWatch, iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, and MacBooks Coming — Apple is set to release a slew of new products during the third quarter …
Franken: Comcast called Time Warner Cable a competitor until they wanted to merge
Comcast has repeatedly said the biggest reason US regulators should approve its $45.2 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable (TWC) is that the two companies do not compete against each other.
Google is testing new UI and features for Google Calendar
Much in the same way that Google is currently testing features out for Gmail, we are now seeing updated UI and new features for the Google Calendar Android app. — Like many other companies, Google t...
Facebook Is Forcing All Users To Download Messenger By Ripping Chat Out Of Its Main Apps
Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to an extreme new level today. It's starting to notify users they'll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook for iOS and Andr...
Automattic, Steward of Wordpress, Snaps up Longreads
In the desert of short news bites and unsatisfying blog posts, the website and weekly email Longreads is a refreshing anomaly. Since 2009, the small Oakland-based company has been linking to stories ...
One Kings Lane CEO Doug Mack Departs to Run Fanatics
According to an internal memo just sent out at online home decor site One Kings Lane, CEO Doug Mack is departing the company to become CEO of Fanatics, a sports site. The interim CEO will be Dinesh L...
Apple nabs senior RF engineers from Broadcom amid rumors of new in-house baseband team
At least two high-level baseband hardware engineers have left wireless semiconductor company Broadcom for new positions at Apple this year, adding weight to speculation that the iPhone maker is planni...
BlackBerry may consider exiting handsets, eyes investments
(Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd would consider exiting its handset business if it remains unprofitable, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday, as the technology company looks to expand its corporat...
Sources: Apple not interested in acquiring Square, Jack Dorsey not keen on selling it to Google
A Sale or IPO or More Funding? Here's What Might Be Next for Square. — Of all the many high-profile Internet companies, perhaps none has attracted more speculation than Square. It makes sense.
Mingleton Is Tinder For Strangers In The Room With You
A startup called Mingleton is introducing a new mobile dating application that uses iBeacon technology to help you connect only with people you can see around you, or, as one of the founders puts it, ...
On a catastrophic scale of 1 to 10, the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug is an 11
Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: … Basically, an attacker can grab 64K of memory from a server. The attack leaves no trace, and can be done multiple times to grab a different random 64K o...
Quora Raises $80M Led by Tiger Global, Now Valued at $900M
Q&A startup Quora, while not quite the buzzy Silicon Valley startup it was when it first started, has nonetheless joined the club of extremely richly valued startups raising money from East Coast hedg...
Report: Amazon tops Hulu and Apple to become third largest video streaming service after Netflix and YouTube
Amazon Rising - Amazon's Streaming Video Surpasses Hulu and Apple — “Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider.
Intel closes Costa Rica operation, cuts 1,500 jobs
(Reuters) - Chipmaker Intel, struggling with a shrinking personal computer market, is shutting its assembly and test operation in Costa Rica and eliminating 1,500 jobs, a spokesman said on Tuesday. —...
Startup Prodea offers operating system for the ‘smart’ home
Imagine a system that unlocks the doors and turns on the lights when your adolescent son arrives home and doesn't allow him to watch anything on the TV until after he watches an educational video and ...
Intel, SGI team up on proof-of-concept supercomputer using 3M's dielectric Novec coolant
Intel, 3M, SGI eye new data center coolant — Summary: 3M's Novec fluid combined with two-phase immersion cooling could shrink data center footprints and consume a lot less energy.
Mailbox's Auto-swipe feature intelligently predicts which messages to archive and snooze
Inbox hero: inside Mailbox's master plan to make email suck less — Mailbox introduced the world to snoozing messages for later. Now it's introducing a way to predict what you'll archive next