Apple's worldwide communications VP Katie Cotton retiring after nearly two decades at the company
Code/red: Apple PR Impresario Katie Cotton to Retire — Katie Cotton, Communications VP Who Helped Shape Apple's Story, Retiring — Big news out of Apple today.
USA Freedom Act unanimously clears House Judiciary Committee
Surveillance reform bill designed to prevent collection of US phone data in bulk and is first to proceed onto the House floor — Six months after it was written to restrain the National Security Agen...
Google blesses Uber with iOS, Android Maps integration
In the most recent update to its mobile Maps apps, Google brings integration for the transportation and ride-sharing service, as well as offline map-saving. — Google — Google brought Uber into its...
HP to invest $1B over two years in OpenStack, integrate its cloud services under HP Helion brand
HP Makes $1 Billion Bet on Open Cloud — Hewlett-Packard is making its big bet on cloud computing, with a significant change of its own products and business, and the biggest endorsement yet …
Coalition uniting Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, eBay, others voice support for net neutrality in letter to FCC
Amazon, Netflix and tech giants defend net neutrality in letter to FCC — In a rare public stand for the internet retailer, Amazon has come …
Nintendo reports third consecutive annual loss as Wii U sales fizzle out
Nintendo made an annual operating loss for the third consecutive year in 2013, ending up ¥46.4 billion ($457 million) in the red as Wii U sales failed to pick up following the holiday season.
Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With ‘Bloggers Law’
MOSCOW — Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to register with...
LinkedIn partners with Evernote to scan business cards, will shut down its CardMunch app
Evernote + LinkedIn: Powering Professional Relationships — Business cards are one of the many ways people initiate professional relationships, so it is important to us that our members can quickly …
To Battle Yelp, Google Buys Appetas, A Website Builder For Restaurants
Google today made one more acquisition that points to its interest in building up its relationship with local businesses, and particularly in the restaurant vertical to compete better against the like...
Marissa Mayer Explains Why Yahoo Is Undervalued
On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pushed against the narrative that Yahoo is worth nothing. The company has a market capitalization in the tens of billions, but i...
ARM Expects ~1B Entry Level Smartphones in 2018, $20 Smartphones Coming This Year
When we first started covering mobile, nearly every silicon vendor I spoke with issued the same statement: eventually, all phones are smartphones. Continued scaling on process technology …
Tech Leaders Call on California to Boost Computer Science
High-profile technology executives and investors are asking for a meeting with California Governor Jerry Brown to discuss augmenting computer science education in the state's public schools. — In a ...
Jeff Bezos quietly attacks the $7.2 trillion B2B wholesale market with AmazonSupply
Amazon's Wholesale Slaughter: Jeff Bezos' $8 Trillion B2B Bet — In recent months global Internet retail behemoth Amazon.com has green-lit six new original TV shows, announced an online streaming dea...
UN telecom agency predicts 3B Internet users, 2.3B mobile broadband subscriptions by end of 2014
Internet well on way to 3 billion users, UN telecom agency reports — Releasing new statistics today, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced that by end 2014 …
SAP Fires Cloud Chief Shawn Price and Realigns Company
SAP has fired the head of its cloud business unit Shawn Price, sources familiar with the move tell Re/code, in what appears to be a significant strategic realignment of the German business software gi...
Google Ventures Leads $130M Round For Big Data Medical Software Company Flatiron Health
Google Ventures has made its largest medical software investment yet, providing the bulk of a $130 million financing for Flatiron Health Inc., which aggregates cancer-patient data from a wide variety ...
The Wizard - Meet Alex Pentland, father of the wearable computer
Meet Alex Pentland, father of the wearable computer — It all started with beavers. When Alex Pentland was three years into his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, in 1973, he worked...
LinkedIn eyes major expansion in Mountain View that could add 10,000 workers
MOUNTAIN VIEW — LinkedIn and a developer have submitted proposals to city officials for multiple office buildings in Mountain View where the technology giant could employ at least 10,000 new workers, ...
Apple reportedly stops selling the iPhone 4 in India less than three months after relaunch
Apple withdraws iPhone 4 from Indian market — KOLKATA: Less than four months after relaunching iPhone 4, Apple decided to once again withdraw its only phone below Rs 20,000 …
US patent office ultimately approved 92% of applications in 2013, up from 68% in 2009
Getting patents is preposterously easy under Obama — When Apple first tried to patent the “slide to unlock” feature of its forthcoming iPhone in 2005, the US Patent and Trademark Office …
Snapchat's recent update lets you save chats, which may not match some users' expectations
With Update, Snapchats Get a Little Less Private — Snapchat just released a major update that's been getting a lot of attention. But one less publicized aspect of this update is that Snapchat …
Google snaps up Stackdriver and its cloud analysis expertise
Another small, smart Boston-area startup has been acquired by a Silicon Valley superpower. Google is buying Stackdriver, which specializes in monitoring and honing cloud workload performance.
Whisper CEO Crashes and Burns Over Questions About Gwyneth Paltrow
Michael Arrington is a man who would prefer to keep the things people whisper about him out of the public eye. So the blogging-capitalist, whose “conflicts of interests” run longer than his resume (l...
Former Angry Birds creators raise $3.6M for Boomlagoon game studio
Boomlagoon, a Finnish game studio created by former Angry Birds creators, has raised $3.6 million in funding to build mobile games. — Helsinki-based Boomlagoon is one in a series of Finnish game sta...
Why the Apple-Samsung trial was a waste of time for all but fanboys and lawyers
Apple and Samsung just finished up their third trial in three years and flushed hundreds of millions down a legal rathole. What do they have to show for it? Nothing of substance.
Shares in mobile ad network Millennial Media drop over 40% in after-hours trading following worse than expected earnings
A Once-Hot Mobile Ad Network Is Crashing After Horrible Earnings — This is an eye popper: Millennial Media is down 45% in after hour trading following an earnings report that was worse than expected...
Hands-on Huawei's new flagship Android phone, Ascend P7: 1.8GHz quad-core, 5-inch, 1080p
Huawei's Ascend P7 wants to be the LTE phone of the people — With the Ascend P6, Huawei looked to build a smartphone that emphasized design and material quality over performance.
Tech Stocks Crumble As The Market Demands What They Can't Deliver
It's a nasty day for technology companies in the public markets, as aging giants like AOL are falling right alongside upstarts with larger market caps like Twitter and Groupon that are popping negativ...
Google Play Services 4.4 lets devs detect running & walking, embed StreetView, more
Google announced today that it's rolling out Google Play Services 4.4, the latest release of its suite of tools for Android developers. The update adds a number of notable new features that devs can ...
SEC Publishes Laundry List Of Bitcoin Risks, Cites Governmental Regulation As A Potential Headache
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) doesn't appear to be bitcoin's biggest fan. Today, the government agency published a long list of potential risks that bitcoin presents, and it's qui...
Layer Raises $14.5M From Homebrew, Jerry Yang To Be The Communications Platform For Mobile And Web Apps
Communications platform for mobile and web apps and Disrupt SF 2013 winner Layer has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding from Homebrew, AME Cloud Ventures (Jerry Yang's investment vehicle) …
US Navy-Issue ‘NeRD’ E-Reader Has No Ports or Wi-Fi, But Is Full of Books
TuneIn tries reinventing itself as a social network for audio
What do you do to improve a service with over 50 million active users? Why, totally revamp it of course. It sounds crazy, but that's exactly what TuneIn, an audio service that lets you listen to pod...
Restaurant Reservation Service LaFourchette Gobbled Up By TripAdvisor For ~$140M
European restaurant reservation service LaFourchette — the so-called OpenTable of France — has entered into agreement to be acquired by NASDAQ-listed travel site TripAdvisor, with whom it already had ...
Next Big Thing You Missed: Inside Tindie, a Thriving New Marketplace for DIY Gadgets
By day, Emile Petrone was a web programmer. But in his spare time, he would tinker with the Ardruino and the Raspberry Pi, two inexpensive kits that let you build your own hardware devices.
Andy Baio crowdfunds $30,000 in 90 minutes to relaunch community event site Upcoming
Serial co-founder Andy Baio re-introduced Upcoming, the collaborative events site. Purchased by Yahoo in 2005 and shutdown last year, Baio is relaunching the site via Kickstarter.
Zillow posts record Q1 revenue of $66.2M, but net loss grows as ad spending increases
Zillow continues to invest heavily in its brand — part of an attempt to become the dominant player in online real estate. But that investment is coming with a cost for the Seattle company.
Supply chained: Apple's sapphire production will be hard to copy
Apple opened the door to machined-aluminum electronics, will it do the same for sapphire glass? — Though abundant in nature and everyday items like soda cans, aluminum didn't figure prominently in m...
On average, Americans get 189 cable TV channels and only watch 17
In a blog post on Tuesday, Nielsen reported that on average, US homes receive 189.1 TV channels, but viewers only watch 17.5 of those channels. — The news will appear in Nielsen's forthcoming “Adver...