United States of Secrets
How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? — In United States of Secrets, a two-part series airing May 13 and 20, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside ...
FCC votes for Internet “fast lanes,” but could change its mind later
The Federal Communications Commission today voted in favor of a preliminary proposal to allow Internet “fast lanes,” while asking the public for comment on whether the commission should change the pro...
Pinterest Raises A $200 Million Warchest To Do Battle With Google
Pinterest has raised $200 million from investors in a deal that values the company at $5 billion, a source close to the company told ReadWrite. (Update: The company is now confirming its financing.)
Most tech giants now score well in EFF's first post-Snowden “Who Has Your Back?” report
Who Has Your Back? — Protecting Your Data from Government Requests — We entrust our most sensitive, private, and important information to technology companies like Google, Facebook, and Verizon.
Google Play now accepting PayPal, opens carrier billing and gift cards sales to more countries
Helping You Go Global with More Seamless Google Play Payments — By Ibrahim Elbouchikhi, Google Play Product Manager — Sales of apps and games on Google Play are up by more than 300 percent over th...
Internal NYT report on digital publishing: weak support systems, neglect of social promotion, editors “unfamiliar with the web”, more
Exclusive: New York Times Internal Report Painted Dire Digital Picture — “Our journalism advantage is shrinking,” a committee led by the publisher's son warned.
Developers Now Able to Provide Promo Codes for In-App Purchases
Apple appears to be allowing developers to create promo codes for in-app purchases, a useful feature that makes it far easier to test and promote freemium games and apps with content that can only be ...
Zendesk stock soars 49 percent on first trading day
Zendesk stock leaped 49 percent ong Thursday as the San Francisco-based cloud-based customer service software provider debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ZEN), to close at $13.43 per share,...
Apple Releases OS X 10.9.3 With Enhanced Support for 4K Displays, Syncing Improvements
Apple today released OS X 10.9.3, after two months of developer testing. The last 10.9.3 developer beta, build 13D61, was released just over a week ago. — The update, which is recommended for all M...
Apple's Beats Deal May Not Be Finalized Until Next Week
More time for people to speculate about what it all means: Apple's planned deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion may not be finalized until next week, according to people familiar with the tr...
Uber Said to Be in Funding Talks for More Than $10B Value
Uber Technologies Inc. is seeking to join the $10 billion-plus club. — The San Francisco-based startup, which makes a mobile application for car-service booking, is in talks to raise new financing i...
AT&T announces rollout of voice-over-LTE ahead of likely iPhone 6/iOS 8 integration this fall
United States-based carrier AT&T today officially announced its rollout of voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) calls. The VoLTE rollout comes in tandem with AT&T HD Voice launch, which provides better sounding ph...
Foursquare's Swarm And The Rise Of The Invisible App
Swarm is a new app from Foursquare out today that chisels off the check-in and proximity features of the main app and places them in a sparse, focus-driven new home. The app is nicely done, though it...
Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options
Rackspace Hosting Inc. (RAX), a provider of cloud-computing services, hired Morgan Stanley to seek strategic options that could include teaming up with bigger technology companies. — The company enl...
Google Glass Aims To Entice Travelers With New TripIt, Foursquare, And OpenTable Integrations
A day after Google announced that it will sell Google Glass to anyone in the United States, the company is unveiling some new “Glassware” (basically, Google Glass apps) that's supposed to be particula...
AT&T's GigaPower plans cost double the advertised rate if you include TV and retain privacy
AT&T's GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose — If you sign up for AT&T's GigaPower fiber-to-the-home internet service in Austin, Texas, you can expect to pay …
OpenDNS raises $35M for its security and content-filtering servers
How can big data and smart analytics ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. There are les...
Politician and paedophile ask Google to ‘be forgotten’
The right-to-be-forgotten ruling set a precedent for the removal of search results in Europe — Google has received fresh takedown requests after a European court ruled that an individual could force...
Xiaomi Mi Pad is a $240 plastic iPad Mini lookalike
Xiaomi's first slate sports a 7.9-inch display with resolution equal to Apple's Retina Display of 2,048x1,536-pixels and is powered by Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor. — Aloysius Low/CNET — BEIJING, C...
2013 Founders' Letter
Sergey and I started Google because we wanted “to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible” (Founders' IPO Letter, 2004). We've stayed true to that mission,...
Backed By Google Ventures And Eric Schmidt, Urban Engines Wants To Solve Urban Congestion Using Data Intelligence
It's no secret that as our population grows, buses, trains and other transportation infrastructure in cities are becoming more congested. Public transportation departments …
Foursquare Launches Swarm Check-in App for iOS and Android
Foursquare was founded on check-ins. When the original app emerged in 2009, it blossomed on the idea that you could broadcast your location and see where your friends were, all while earning playful ...
OnePlus One is only $299 because it's sold at cost, says CEO Peter Lau
Revealed: the reason the OnePlus One is so cheap — EXCLUSIVE New brand relying on word of mouth over marketing … OnePlus CEO Peter Lau has revealed to TechRadar how the company is able to offer its ...
HTC's One Mini 2 is an awkwardly named, cut-down version of the excellent One M8
There's a lot riding on today's announcement. A smaller, cheaper, perhaps more mainstream version of the lovely (but long) HTC One M8 could be a good thing not only for phone buyers, but also for HTC...
Warner, Universal, Sony Buy Stakes in Music App Shazam
Shazam Entertainment, the music-identification app, landed small investments from the world's biggest record companies, according to people familiar with the matter. — Warner Music Group owner Acces...
Samsung says Galaxy S5 sales reached 11M since launch in early April, outpacing S4 sales
Samsung Says New Galaxy S5 Is Off to Strong Start — Early Sales Suggest Samsung's Smartphone Business Is Regaining Momentum — SUWON, South Korea—In a sign that Samsung Electronics Co.'s smartphone...
First smartphone ‘kill switch’ law signed in Minnesota
On July 1st, 2015, it will be illegal to sell a smartphone in Minnesota without antitheft software preinstalled. That's because Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton just signed the first so-called “kill sw...
Zendesk Sees A 27% Pop On Its First Day Of Trading After Raising $100M In IPO
Riding what has been a tumultuous wave for publicly-traded technology stocks, today the cloud-based help desk business Zendesk debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. Setting its pricing at $9 per sh...
Google Glass handed out to all medical students at UC Irvine
Becoming the first medical school to fully incorporate the wearable tech into its curriculum, the California school thinks the device will help students with anatomy, clinical skills, and hospital rot...
Target, The Gap and others form group to share cyberthreat data
Some of the biggest U.S. retailers have banded together to share information about cyberthreats, in a bid to avert breaches like that suffered by Target last holiday season. — Target, The Gap, Walgr...
A profile of federal judge Lucy Koh, who oversees the patent battle between Apple and Samsung
Apple, Google Shaped by Silicon Valley Judge Koh's Gavel — Lucy H. Koh's fingerprints are on your Gmail account, your smartphone, and, if you're a Silicon Valley engineer, possibly your prospects fo...