Apple trade-in promotion begins: up to $99 for iPhone 4, $199 for 4s towards purchase of 5s, 5c
Apple kicks off its big in-store iPhone upgrade event — In line with our earlier report, Apple has just kicked off a big iPhone trade-in event at its U.S. retail stores …
Oracle wins Android-Java copyright appeal: API code copyrightable, new trial on fair use
The most spectacular decision in the ongoing smartphone IP disputes has been handed down today by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: District Judge William Alsup has been over...
Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest
Lots of people are angry about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's Internet “fast lane” proposal that would let Internet service providers charge Web services for priority access to consumers. But one Web hos...
Apple hires Ari Partinen, senior engineer who worked on Nokia's PureView camera technology
Apple just hired one of Nokia's PureView camera experts — Now that Nokia is out of the smartphone game, many of its key engineers are undoubtedly considering their options.
Beats founder Dr. Dre seemingly confirms Apple acquisition in a now-removed Facebook video, still visible on YouTube
Did Dr. Dre just confirm that Apple is buying Beats for $3.2 billion? [Updated] … Apple is rumored to be acquiring Beats Electronics in a landmark deal worth $3.2 billion.
Netflix price hike is $1 extra per month, £1 in UK and €1 in Europe
The new, higher price only affects new subscribers, the streaming service says, with existing Netflix customers exempt from paying extra for two years. — Netflix — Netflix has issued the first det...
Facebook has pulled Poke and Facebook Camera from the App Store
Facebook Poke is dead — To Facebook, Poke was always “more of a joke” than anything else — so why did the company leave it in the App Store for more than a year after its troubled debut? We may nev...
AT&T claims common carrier rules would ruin the whole Internet
AT&T today urged the Federal Communications Commission to avoid reclassifying broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service, which is something network neutrality advocates are asking the ...
Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine expected to take on senior roles at Apple as part of Beats acquisition
Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine Would Both Join Apple in Beats Deal — Duo Could Help Tim Cook Broker Deals in Music Industry — Music mogul Jimmy Iovine gravitates to the limelight in a way that previously m...
Apple launching 4.7" iPhone 6 in August and larger model in September, claims Taiwanese report
Apple to unveil iPhone 6 in August, earlier than expected -report — Apple Inc will unveil the next incarnation of its popular iPhone series in August, one month earlier than industry watchers …
UK ISPs agree to begin sending out warnings to customers who pirate content from next year
Deal to combat piracy in UK with ‘alerts’ is imminent — Lawyer Steve Kuncewicz: “There's no punitive backstop to any of this” — After years of wrangling, a deal between entertainment industry bodi...
300k servers vulnerable to Heartbleed one month later
It's been a month since the Heartbleed bug was announced, so I thought I'd rescan the Internet (port 443) to see how many systems remain vulnerable. Whereas my previous scan a month ago found 600,000...
Quora, now valued at $900M, to join YC's summer batch, “a new experiment for us”
Quora in the next YC batch — This month, YC will be participating in Quora's most recent investment round and Quora will be joining this summer's YC batch. This is a new experiment for us …
Boom! Google integrates Chrome apps into the Mac OS X Finder
Google's strategy to use the Chrome browser as a desktop replacement took another step forward on Friday. Users of Chrome Canary, an experimental version of Google's browser, can now associate Mac fi...
Winklevoss Twins to List Bitcoin Fund on Nasdaq
Despite cautions and hesitations among regulators about investing in virtual currency, the Winklevoss twins are inching closer to creating the first publicly traded Bitcoin fund. — On Thursday, Came...
EXCLUSIVE: First photos of Galaxy Tab S 10.5, Samsung's AMOLED tablet
We recently published exclusive info on Samsung's upcoming tablet with an AMOLED display, the Galaxy Tab S. The Galaxy Tab S will come in 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch variants and will be Samsung's return t...
Canalys: PC shipments up 5% in Q1 2014, Apple still first as tablets account for 41% and laptops take 38%
In Q1 2014, the worldwide PC market experienced just 5 percent growth year-over-year to 123.7 million units, if you take into consideration desktops, laptops, and tablets.
As Square Struggles, European Payments Rival iZettle Takes Another $55.5M In Funding
As mobile payment startup Square faces down reports that it's delaying an IPO amid growth problems and other pressures, iZettle, the Swedish mobile payments company that has been referred to as the Sq...
Intel Pays Up To $30M For A Personal Assistant Platform From Ginger Software
Apple has Siri, and now Intel has Ginger. The chipmaker has made one more acquisition to bolster its advanced computing and artificial intelligence holdings: it has purchased selected assets, and hir...
Project Morpheus was built into PS4 from the start - we just didn't know it
EXCLUSIVE It's all part of the plan … Sony caused a lot of fuss when it confirmed that there would be no way of turning off the DualShock 4's light bar (the tyranny!), but do you want to know why it w...
Facebook Rolls Out Audience Insights, Expands Targeting Capabilities
Appealing to audience-obsessed advertisers, Facebook just expanded its ability to target users based on their demographic traits, geography, and purchase history. — Unveiled on Thursday, the new Aud...
Kik introduces a virtual currency to encourage engagement and (potentially) make money
Messaging apps are the flavor of this year, as evidenced by Facebook's $19 billion WhatsApp deal, but lately we've barely heard from Kik, the Canadian startup that beats WhatsApp, Snapchat and others ...
Samsung Won't Be Launching Any New Products at May 28 Health Care Tech Event
A lot of people assumed when they saw a teaser invite from Samsung for a May 28 event that the company was looking to launch some new health-care product just ahead of Apple's developer conference the...
Ahead of Swarm's release next week, Foursquare freezes mayors ‘for the time being’ and drops ousting feature
Foursquare today revealed more details about the service split of its existing app and its new Swarm app. The company also revealed Swarm for Android and iOS is coming “next week” …
Several Twitter insiders sold shares after lockup expired, including COO Ali Rowghani
Twitter Insiders Sell After Lockup Expires — Twitter's stock took a beating on Tuesday, the first day that employees and early investors in the company could freely sell their shares after Twitter's...