GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner resigns after investigation finds errors of judgment but no gender-based harassment
Results of the GitHub Investigation — Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner.
Microsoft to complete acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business on Friday
The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date — The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft.
Apple Aims to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint With New Data Centers
On a stunning cloudless day in the Nevada desert, Lisa Jackson stands with her back to an array of advanced solar cells, peering across a low chain link fence at NV Energy's Fort Churchill Power Gener...
Apple Interviewing Job Candidates for Mobile Payments Push
Apple has been interviewing senior payments industry executives to push ahead on a plan to build an electronic payments business, according to two people familiar with the process. — The company has...
Netflix to raise prices for new members $1-2 this quarter, existing members will stay at current pricing “for a generous time period”
Netflix will raise streaming prices for new members this quarter — New Netflix subscribers could soon be forced to pay a bit …
Aereo Case Will Shape TV's Future
Throughout America's business history, the victories and spoils went to the visionaries who made all manner of things — actual things like cars, pharmaceuticals and entertainment. — But more and mor...
Apple and Google offer promotional boost to games in exchange for exclusivity
Apple, Google Vie to Offer Exclusive Game Apps — The Battle for Mobile Dominance Is Spreading to the Most Lucrative Genre of Apps: Videogames — A long-running battle between Apple Inc. and Google ...
AT&T copies Google, names 100 cities where it could offer gigabit fiber
Two months after Google announced that it will try to bring fiber Internet to 34 cities in nine metro areas, AT&T today said it will “expand its ultra-fast fiber network to up to 100 candidate cities ...
Square discussed possible sale to Google, Apple, and PayPal, recorded loss of $100M in 2013
Mobile-Payments Startup Square Discusses Possible Sale — Company Faces Wider Loss, Less Cash; Google Considered Potential Acquisition — With losses widening and cash shrinking …
Airbnb Scrubs Thousands Of Listings From ‘Bad Actor’ Hosts Ahead Of NY Subpoena Hearing
In preparation for oral arguments being held in its New York subpoena case tomorrow, Airbnb is eliminating dozens of listings on its site from hosts who have been accused of being bad actors and runni...
Birchbox raises $60M in Series B round, values beauty e-commerce company at $485M
Exclusive: Birchbox banks $60 million — The Series B round values the beauty ecommerce company at $485 million. — FORTUNE — Two years ago, “stuff in a box” was all the rage among startups.
David Cohen: the Comcast EVP in charge of avoiding antitrust questions raised by TWC merger
Comcast's Real Repairman — One morning late last month, David L. Cohen took a seat in a conference room atop Comcast's corporate headquarters in Philadelphia, the tallest building in the city …
Netflix opposes Comcast-TWC merger over ‘anticompetitive’ concerns
Netflix has come out in opposition of Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable, writing in a letter to shareholders that the merger would give the combined service provider “even more anticomp...
How Ukraine's Readdle built a business on unglamorous apps like Scanner Pro and PDF Expert
The app men of Odessa — How a Ukrainian software firm found success outside Silicon Valley — “Uh guys, I think we took a wrong turn somewhere.” — Denys Zhadanov, the 25-year-old marketing manage...
Google is researching ways to make encryption easier to use in Gmail
Above: A photo composition of National Security Agency headquarters in Maryland, U.S. — In response to Edward Snowden's mass surveillance revelations, Google is working to make complex encryption to...
Samsung expert: Apple should get only $38.4M for infringement, not $2.2B
Assuming Samsung infringed Apple's five patents, Apple should receive $1.75 per device in royalties, not the $40 Apple has requested, a Samsung expert argues. Samsung rested its case after the expert...
Settlement imminent in anti-poaching class action lawsuit against tech companies
In Silicon Valley Thriller, a Settlement May Preclude the Finale — SAN FRANCISCO — After years of legal skirmishes, four leading Silicon Valley companies are scheduled to go on trial next month on c...
Microsoft and Motorola Solutions sign patent licensing agreement covering Android and Chrome OS
Microsoft and Motorola Solutions today announced a patent licensing agreement that will allow the companies to share technology. While the duo didn't reveal too many details …
AdRoll Raises $70M Led By Foundation As Ad Tech And Retargeting Hit The Big Time
AdRoll, a pioneer of online advertising retargeting (the technology that pushes you ads for products that you have viewed online previously), is today announcing a major round of funding: $70 million ...
Beats Music raising another $60-100M; sources estimate subscriber count is “low six figures”
Beats Music's First 100 Days: A Bumpy Start — As Spotify allies with Sprint, labels say Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre's streaming service is off to a slow start.