Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Strong iPhone Sales Drive Record March Quarter Revenue and 15 Percent EPS Growth — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended March 29, 2014. The Company post...
iOS 7.1 code indicates Apple working on Siri for Apple TV
Code found within the iOS 7.1 SDK suggests that Siri is headed to the Apple TV in future. Pierre Blazquez first found the reference on Friday. 9to5Mac has since confirmed that the code does exist in ...
Mark Pincus Steps Down From All Operational Roles at Zynga: “Ultimately a Ship Is Better With One Captain”
Mark Pincus is stepping down from all operational duties at Zynga, the social gaming company that he founded in 2007. As part of the change, he will shift to non-executive chairman …
Facebook Reports First Quarter 2014 Results
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FCC to propose net neutrality rules on Thursday that would let broadband providers give some traffic preferential treatment
FCC to Propose New ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules — Proposal Would Allow Broadband Providers to Charge Content Companies for Consumer Access
CEO of digital ad platform RadiumOne avoids felony domestic abuse charges after video evidence thrown out
Tech CEO Dodges Felony Charge Despite Horrifying Abuse Video — RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh “G” Chahal pled guilty to two misdemeanors for domestic violence and battery last week.
Etsy buys Grand St.
The handmade marketplace has acquired Grand St., a marketplace for indie electronics. — FORTUNE — Etsy, the operator of a handmade marketplaces, has acquired Grand St. — Grand St., which sells ind...
Amazon's Prime Pantry service lets you ship 45 pounds of groceries for a $6 fee
Amazon's dead-set killing off the grocery store, with a same-day delivery service and even a Dash gadget for restocking items around the house. Now the retailer's going one step further …
Apple patched critical WebKit vulnerabilities on OS X three weeks before iOS, exposing users
Apple + Patching = You're Doing It Wrong :( — Apple just released iOS 7.1.1, which contains a bunch of security fixes for a wide range of things. Of particular interest is the list of issues they f...
FCC proposes sharing 150MHz of federal spectrum with wireless broadband
“HetNet demo.” Small cells like the ones in this image could be used to augment carrier service in areas where shared spectrum is available. — Ericsson — The FCC today released a proposal to make...
Meet the One, OnePlus' $299 Nexus killer
Rarely do we see a tech startup spending five months actively hyping up an unborn product; and when we do, most of them end up being vaporware. Luckily, that's not the case with OnePlus. Today, the ...
Amazon adds HBO shows to Prime Instant Video; HBO Go coming to Fire TV at some point
Amazon now has streaming rights to a number of HBO series and will make them available through Prime Instant Video starting May 21, the company said Wednesday. — In addition, Amazon said that it wil...
Google Maps ‘Time Machine’ Lets You Stroll the Streets of the Past
Ever wish you could travel back in time? A new feature on Google Maps Street View, rolling out world-wide today, lets users zip through imagery dating back to Street View's beginning in 2007.
Glass marketing head addresses criticism from Scoble, others: backlash is a sign of disruption
Does Google Glass Have An Optics Problem? And Does Google Care? — It's hard to judge the success of a product launch before the product is even really out in the market.
Xiaomi simplifies its Web domain to Mi.com to appeal to an international audience
Popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has ambitious plans to expand beyond Asia, and as part of its efforts to do so, it has simplified its website domain to Mi.com.
AOL Launches Free Streaming Movies in Pact with Miramax
AOL is now playing in the movie biz. — The Internet media company inked a deal with Miramax to deliver a selection of its full-length films to U.S. users, available to watch for free (with ads) acro...
David Einhorn warns of “second tech bubble in 15 years”, shorts undisclosed tech stocks
David Einhorn Just Cried Bubble And Let Slip The Shorts Of War — David Einhorn, a hedge fund manager worth north of a billion dollars, isn't bullish on technology stocks.
Pure Storage Raises $225 Million at a $3 Billion Valuation
Pure Storage, the company shaking up the enterprise storage market with a data storage array based solely on flash memory, has raised $225 million in a late-stage round of venture capital funding at p...
Stipple Shuts Down; VC Backers Included Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins
Image-tagging advertising startup Stipple Inc. has called it quits, shutting its doors less than 18 months after raising capital at a valuation just south of $25 million. — Backed by investors inclu...
Apple expected to post flat year over year revenue as iPhone and iPad sales plateau
Why Apple has stopped growing — Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer predicted in January that Apple will generate the same amount of revenue this past quarter—the company releases its financials today—as it...
Christopher Mims Named New WSJ Tech Columnist
We are delighted to announce that Christopher Mims is the new technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal and WSJD.com, the Journal's online and mobile home for tech coverage. — Mims, 34 years ...
New CrunchBase has card-based redesign, social logins for faster edits without approvals
Meet The New CrunchBase — Since it was first launched in 2007, CrunchBase has been an invaluable source of information about major companies, startups, investors and executives in the tech ecosystem...
NIST Finally Removes NSA-Compromised Crypto Algorithm From Random Number Generator Recommendations
Back in December, it was revealed that the NSA had given RSA $10 million to push weakened crypto. Specifically, RSA took $10 million to make Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator …
IBM Opens Chip Architecture, in Strategy of Sharing and Self-Interest
IBM's chip business needs help. So the company has opened up the technology of its Power microprocessors, inviting others to modify and manufacture Power-based designs pretty much as they see fit.
PSA: Sprint Is Planning To Make All Its Devices From February 11, 2015 Onward Domestically Unlockable
The US mobile market is weird in that almost all the phones floating around here are locked to one carrier or another. You can usually request an unlock code from the carrier …
Brazilian Congress passes Internet bill of rights
(Reuters) - Brazil's Senate unanimously approved groundbreaking legislation on Tuesday that guarantees equal access to the Internet and protects the privacy of Brazilian users in the wake of U.S. spyi...
Delivery Hero Gobbles Another $85M To Fuel A Price War With Just-Eat
On the heels of online food delivery company Just-Eat's successful IPO in London earlier this month, its big, still-private rival Delivery Hero has raised another mammoth round of funding: a Series F ...
Study: Samsung's Apps Are Ubiquitous but Unloved
As Samsung Electronics's best-selling smartphones face increasing competition from a horde of Chinese lookalikes, one of the South Korean giant's key goals has been to translate demand for its devices...
VMware delivers strong Q1
Summary: VMware had a busy first quarter after it completed the acquisition of AirWatch, which gave the company a mobile strategy. The company also launched virtual storage software. — VMware deliv...
Music video hub Vevo monthly viewership up nearly 50 percent to 6 billion
(Reuters) - Vevo, the online music video hub that is a joint venture of two of the world's biggest music labels, has seen a nearly 50 percent increase in the number of music videos streamed each month...
Conversnitch lamp listens to nearby conversations and posts transcribed audio to Twitter
An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations — As former NSA director Michael Hayden learned on an Amtrak train last year, anyone with a smartphone instantly can become a livetweeting...
Facebook gets U.S. antitrust approval to buy Oculus
(Reuters) - Social network giant Facebook Inc has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy Oculus VR Inc, a two-year-old maker of virtual reality goggles, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. — ...