Certificate Revocation Lists increase sharply in size in the wake of Heartbleed, hogging bandwidth
Heartbleed Bug Sends Bandwidth Costs Skyrocketing — The exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability last week had a number of repercussions, one of which was to set off a mad scramble …
Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware
The sportswear company has decided that only software has a future in the company's technology vision. That means cutting the FuelBand, and those who helped make it.
Facebook's Paper for iOS updated with birthdays, events, photo comments, group updates, and more
Facebook today released the first major update to its Paper for iOS app, adding a slew of new features just 10 weeks after the initial launch. You can download the new version now directly from Apple...
HTC hints at DSLR-like optical zoom in the next 18-24 months, “wants to own the selfie market”
HTC talks camera tech: DSLR-destroying optical zooming ‘18 months’ away — The HTC One (M8) is here, and even though we're only in April, it's already a strong contender for phone of the year.
LinkedIn hits 300M members, 100M in US, says mobile traffic will overtake desktop later this year
The Next Three Billion [INFOGRAPHIC] — We are excited to announce that we reached a big milestone today: there are now more than 300 million LinkedIn members in the world!
Airbnb closes TPG-led $450M-500M funding round valuing company at $10B
Airbnb Has Closed Its $500M Round Of Funding At A $10B Valuation, Led By TPG — TechCrunch has learned that Airbnb, the fast-growing site that lets people become hoteliers by renting out sofas, rooms...
TPG-Led Group Closes $450 Million Investment in Airbnb
Funding Values Home-Rental Site at $10 Billion — A group led by private-equity firm TPG has finalized an agreement to invest $450 million in Airbnb Inc., valuing the home-rental site at $10 billion,...
Webvan founder Louis Borders is working on a new grocery delivery business
Webvan's Founder Is Back and He's Building Another Grocery Delivery Business — Two years after his high-flying online grocery business collapsed into bankruptcy, Webvan founder Louis Borders was quo...
Beats Bites the Bullet, and Starts Selling Subscriptions From Apple's App
Apple has a crazily powerful digital store, used by hundreds of millions of customers. But if you want to sell something there it will cost you: In almost every case, Apple keeps 30 percent of the pu...
Heartbleed exploits expand to VPN devices: attackers hijack user sessions, bypassing multifactor authentication
Heartbleed maliciously exploited to hack network with multifactor authentication — Demonstrating yet another way the catastrophic Heartbleed vulnerability threatens users …
Apple reaching out to developers who didn't win WWDC lottery, offering chance to buy unclaimed tickets
If you didn't get a chance to buy a WWDC ticket in the lottery last week, you might just get another chance soon. Developers who won were given until April 14 to buy a slot at the conference …
Court rules Apple-backed Rockstar must fight case against Google in California, not Texas
Google wins a game of “Escape from East Texas,” linking Rockstar to Apple — A federal judge issued an order today decreeing that Google's court battle against a “patent troll” …
Record Labels Sue Pandora Over Pre-1972 Recordings
As expected, the three major labels, ABKCO, and the RIAA filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in New York state court against Pandora for playing pre-Feb. 15, 1972 recordings without making any roya...
Google Trends Debuts Email Notifications For Search Topics, Hot Searches And More
Google Trends, the informative resource that shows you what's currently popular around the web right now in and in the recent past, now offers email subscriptions, Google announced this morning.
HTC hires former Samsung marketing chief Paul Golden, who helped create the Galaxy brand
HTC Hires Former Samsung Marketing Chief — Paul Golden Helped Create Galaxy Brand at South Korean Company — HTC Corp. is hoping to nab a bit of that Samsung shine, as it has hired …
YC's new president suggests several solutions to key issues in employee stock compensation
Employee Equity — Startup employees often do not get treated very well when it comes to stock compensation. New ideas float around occasionally, but lawyers are usually averse to trying new things ...
Heartbleed status scan: 0.52% of top 10K sites, 2% of top 1M sites still vulnerable
HeartBleed in the Wild — As most of you probably already know, ten days ago security Researchers disclosed a very serious vulnerability in the OpenSSL library, which is used to power HTTPS on most w...
Connected device companies like Nest And Fitbit start side businesses selling data to utilities and health insurers
The Quantified Other: Nest And Fitbit Chase A Lucrative Side Business — The real value in smart gadgets may be not in what they tell you but in what they say to your doctor, insurance company and ut...
Samsung hints that Milk Music will ‘soon’ include ads, and offer a $3.99/month premium service
When Samsung introduced its first Internet radio service Milk Music in March, one of the things that stood out was that it was available free and without ads. That may change soon, according to infor...
King Resolves Trademark Disputes With Two Independent Developers
Candy Crush Saga maker King has resolved its trademark disputes with the developers of two independent games, The Banner Saga and CandySwipe. — The mobile gaming giant had initially opposed Stoic's ...
Facebook not currently using location data from Nearby Friends for ads, will in the future
Facebook ‘Nearby Friends’ Will Track Your Location History To Target You With Ads — Facebook says it's not using its new Nearby Friends feature to target ads yet, but after I asked why it's tracking...
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Globalfoundries to adopt Samsung's 14nm chip production process as the companies try to woo customers away from TSMC
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Sam Altman and Marissa Mayer co-hosting Obama fundraiser for DNC at Y Combinator HQ on May 8
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Comcast and Time Warner may sell 3-5M subscribers for up to $20B to Charter before merger
Ahead of its TWC merger, Comcast may sell 5M subscribers to Charter — Comcast and Time Warner Cable are in discussions with smaller cable provider Charter to sell up to $20 billion worth of assets, ...
Apache OpenOffice hits major 100 million downloads milestone in under 2 years
Microsoft's Office may be the go-to productivity suite in the business world, but there's apparently plenty of room out there for challengers to thrive: On Thursday, the Apache Software Foundation ann...