Google+ head Vic Gundotra to leave company after 8 years, with VP of engineering David Besbris replacing him
Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company — Vic Gundotra, who aggressively led Google into the social world with the creation of Google+, is leaving the company.
Comcast: Neflix degraded its Comcast streams, seeks to shift its costs onto all Internet users
Comcast Response to Netflix — Netflix's argument is a House of Cards. But there is no need for us to engage in a point-counterpoint with Netflix to demonstrate the continued distortions and inaccur...
FCC chairman to have net neutrality “enforceable rules” by the end of the year, mandate that ISPs “not act in a commercially unreasonable manner”
Setting the Record Straight on the FCC's Open Internet Rules — There has been a great deal of misinformation …
Facebook partners with Storyful to launch FB Newswire, a news feed for journalists on Facebook and Twitter
Announcing FB Newswire, Powered by Storyful — Every day, news is made on Facebook. More than one billion people use our platform to discover, explore and participate in news-making events around th...
Moves joins Facebook, will continue as standalone app, will not “commingle data with Facebook”
Moves joins Facebook! — 24 April 2014 - Today, we're delighted to announce that Facebook has acquired our company and the Moves app. Since we launched Moves …
Ex-Anonymous hacker Sabu launched cyberattacks on Iran, Syria, Brazil, and Pakistan while an FBI informant
F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad — WASHINGTON — An informant working for the F.B.I. coordinated a 2012 campaign of hundreds of cyberattacks on foreign websites …
Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe agree to pay $324M to settle hiring conspiracy lawsuit
Exclusive: Apple, Google agree to pay over $300 million to settle conspiracy lawsuit — (Reuters) - Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to ...
CEO Nadella Promises Microsoft Will Deliver “Courage in the Face of Reality”
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella praised his company's recent efforts to both grow where it is strong, but also to bulk up in areas where it has been weaker. — “I sum up this quarter in two words, execut...
Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, others pledge $3.9M for open source projects to avoid the next HeartBleed
Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL — IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others pledge millions to open source.
Google Glass now available to anyone, may be prepping for public launch
Google offered Glass to the public as part of a one day sale not long ago. Now it seems that anyone can order one again without an invite. There's been no announcement so far, no fan fair — a few Re...
Google tells 34 candidate cities for Google Fiber that it's considering deploying Wi-Fi as well
Exclusive: Google may offer Wi-Fi for cities with its Google Fiber — Cities getting gigabit-speed fiber Internet could also gain Wi-Fi networks — Google is considering deploying Wi-Fi networks …
Tim Cook: nobody's figured out mobile payments yet, and Apple won't rush out new products
Apple's Cook on New Products: ‘Take the Time to Get It Right’ — Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said its strong fiscal second-quarter might silence chatter that the company is in decline.
Amazon reports $19.7B in quarterly revenue, earnings in line with expectations at 23 cents a share
Amazon reported today that it made in $19.74 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2014, up almost 23 percent from almost $16.1 billion in the year-ago quarter.
Amazon accelerates plans for its own delivery network, following last winter's shipping woes
Amazon Tests Its Own Delivery Network — Alternative to FedEx, UPS Could Deliver Goods the Same Day They Are Purchased — The future of Amazon.com Inc. is hiding in plain sight in a San Francisco pa...
Pinterest Hits 30 Billion Total Pins, Up 50% In 6 Months
Tonight at an event in the company's San Francisco headquarters, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann announced that users had contributed more than 30 billion Pins since the service was founded, a number tha...
Internet Glue Service IFTTT Launches On Android With Deeper Integration Than iOS
The Internet connection and automation service IFTTT is launching on Android today, and it offers a deeper set of integrations with the OS than their iOS offering. This, of course, is due to Android'...
Lyft Launches In 24 New Markets, Cuts Fares By Another 10%
On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft is expanding aggressively in the U.S., announcing the launch of service in 24 new markets today. Along with the expansion, Lyft company will be offering free rides...
87% of electronic spying is conducted by governments, with cyber espionage accounting for 22% of data breaches
Governments were responsible for over three quarters (87 per cent) of the 511 spying incidents recorded, the latest Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon Communications has found.
Rumoured Microsoft Surface Mini Tablet Crops Up In Amazon Listings
Although it hasn't happened yet, it's clearly only a matter of time before Microsoft officially unboxes a smaller form-factor version of its Surface tablet. A Surface Mini has been rumoured for well ...
Google+ to become more a platform than product, with key staff members moving to Android team, and fewer product integrations
Google+ Is Walking Dead — Today, Google's Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years. The first obvious question …
Feds Beg Supreme Court to Let Them Search Phones Without a Warrant
American law enforcement has long advocated for universal “kill switches” in cellphones to cut down on mobile device thefts. Now the Department of Justice argues that the same remote locking and data...
UPDATE A debit card for bitcoin: Xapo solves the payment problem with MasterCard tie-in
This story was updated at 12:52pm ET to reflect the fact that Xapo does not have a formal relationship with MasterCard, but only that it hopes to have one through a partner bank.
Facebook, Gmail, Skype face Russia ban under ‘anti-terror’ data snooping plan
Summary: The Russian parliament's latest play could see major Western technology firms banned from the country if they don't store data on its soil — a move that would allow Russian authorities to eas...
California shoots down ‘kill switch’ legislation for smartphones
Legislators rejected a bill requiring device makers like Apple to include antitheft software on smartphones sold in the state. Their reason: It would be bad for business. — The senate chambers at t...
A look at the demographics of “mobile addicts” who launch apps over 60 times per day
The Rise of the Mobile Addict — In May of 2013, KPCB's Partner and world-renowned analyst Mary Meeker shared her latest Internet Trends Report. In that report, Ms. Meeker shared an interesting stat...
ShopKeep's Point Of Sale Software Rings Up $25 Million
With its latest $25 million financing, ShopKeep POS has come a long way from being the cobbled together point of sale software service for a single wine shop in Brooklyn's leafy Ft. Greene neighborhoo...
Microsoft delivers Remote Desktop app preview for Windows Phone 8.1
Summary: Microsoft has made available for download a preview version of its Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1. — On April 23, Microsoft quietly made available for download a preview of its Re...
Moving your apps to the cloud gets easier as Amazon adds Docker support
The biggest public cloud provider is finally waking up to one of the hottest enabling technologies around for shipping applications to the cloud. — Today public cloud market leader Amazon Web Servic...
Codecademy Moves To Be A One-Stop-Shop For Programming Education
Since its launch two years ago Codecademy has become synonymous with online education for basic computer programming. — In that time, the company says it's learned a few things itself and today laun...
Ondot Raises $18M To Let You Take Complete Control Of Your Credit Card Via Your Mobile Phone
Managing credit and debit cards is still a relatively complicated process. You can control some elements of your cards like accessing your balances and transferring money online …
Qualcomm's quarterly revenue growth dwindles, shares fall
(Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) on Wednesday posted its smallest quarterly revenue increase since 2010 as it wrestles with a smartphone market that is losing steam and shifting to China, sending its...
Google Releases XE 16.11, Offers To Replace Bricked Glass Units
Google has come up with a two-pronged approach to fixing the woes caused this week by the XE 16 and XE 16.1 software updates. — As you likely know, Explorers began reporting problems with XE 16 shor...
Microsoft delivers Remote Desktop app preview for Windows Phone 8.1
Summary: Microsoft has made available for download a preview version of its Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1. — On April 23, Microsoft quietly made available for download a preview of its Re...
Quip issues API for mobile word processor, aims it at enterprise IT
Quip has released an API for its browser-based word processor that it hopes enterprise developers will use to make the application do more jobs in workplaces. — Quip, which is led by former Facebook...