Surface Pro 3 starts at $799 for Core i3 SKU, i5 SKUs start shipping first to US and Canada on June 20, other configurations in August
Microsoft introduces Surface Pro 3: the tablet that can replace your laptop — Pre-order beginning 12:01 a.m. EDT May 21. — Surface Pro 3
China bans use of Microsoft's Windows 8 on government computers
(Reuters) - China has banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft Corp's latest operating system (OS), in a blow to the U.S. technology company which has long been plagued by sales woes in the count...
Netflix's Neil Hunt Says Personalized Recommendations Will Replace The Navigation Grid
Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt said today that the streaming video service will eventually evolve beyond its current navigation scheme, where users have to browse a seemingly endless grid of ...
New York Taxi commission official joining Uber as head of policy development
Taxi Commission Official Plans to Join Uber — At first, they were adversaries — the taxi agency leery of a smartphone app that could upend decades of street-hailing history and the business that res...
Survey says: Comcast, Time Warner Cable customers are still the angriest
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. — Comcast — Comcast and Time Warner Cable are the most hated companies in each of the three “triple play” markets where they operate, according to an American Customer S...
Mt. Gox, other bitcoin exchanges subpoenaed over possible ties to Silk Road
Bitcoin Exchanges Probed Over Shuttered Drug Market — Mt. Gox Is Among Those Asked For Information; U.S. Prosecutors Search for Transactions Connected to Silk Road — U.S. authorities have opened a...
Apple Negotiating Paid Interconnect Deals With ISPs For Their Own CDN
In February I blogged about a new group formed inside of Apple last year, tasked with building out their own CDN to deliver Apple software updates, apps and other Apple related content.
Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy ...
Apple, Samsung Blame Each Other for Lack of Settlement
Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) blamed each another for blocking progress toward a settlement of their patent disputes in a report to the judge who has presided over their two U...
IBM Watson Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup Cognea
IBM's Watson group has announced a new acquisition today — artificial intelligence company Cognea. IBM confirmed the acquisition via a blog post. — Cognea developed a cognitive computing and conver...
IPO-bound Centrify raises $42M from strategics, hints at upcoming enterprise mobile products from Samsung
When it comes to security, simplicity is often the best approach. The more endpoints a company must secure the harder the task. The same could be said about user credentials.
Shutterstock Introduces Music Licensing Service, Starting With 60K Tracks From Rumblefish
Shutterstock isn't just a place where users can find stock photography and video anymore — today it's launching Shutterstock Music. — Vice President of Product Wyatt Jenkins demonstrated the new ser...
Investors Back Jibe With $20 Million To Fix The Mobile Hiring Process
Jibe Inc. has raised $20 million from a clutch of new investors as it looks to expand its business helping employers fix their hiring processes. — The New York-based company has its roots in the Tec...
Survios, a VR startup described as “Kinect-meets-Oculus”, raises $4M led by Shasta Ventures
The post-Oculus boom: Survios raises $4M for free-moving virtual reality — Oculus VR, the virtual-reality startup that Facebook bought for $2 billion, has some new company.
How the PCCare247 tech support scam netted the company millions, and how the FTC shut it down
Inside the US government's war on tech support scammers — Sitting in front of her PC, the phone in her hand connected to a tech support company half a world away, Sheryl Novick was about to get scam...
Google to take over former Palm HQ in Sunnyvale
Google Inc. has leased the former headquarters of Palm Computing Inc. in Sunnyvale , demonstrating that the No. 1 search advertising company's appetite for real estate showing no signs of abating — an...
Microsoft backed off from debuting smaller Surface today, concerned it lacked differentiation
Microsoft Said to Back Off Plans to Debut Smaller Surface — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), struggling to break into the tablet market, backed off plans to introduce a smaller version …
Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate The 3D Photo Tech Into Its Photo Service
It looks like Dropbox has made another acquisition today in the photo space: it has acquired Bubbli, a startup that has built some innovative ways of incorporating 3D technology into 2D views, and pac...
Indian e-commerce site Snapdeal raises $100M at $1B valuation
Indian E-Commerce Site Snapdeal Lands $1 Billion Valuation — Indian e-commerce site Snapdeal.com has raised $100 million in a round that that values the company at roughly $1 billion, according to t...
Twitter backed out of talks to buy SoundCloud because “the numbers didn't add up”
Twitter Considered Buying German Music-Streaming Service — 'Numbers Didn't Add Up' on Deal That Would Have Been Messaging Company's Largest — Twitter Inc. considered buying German music …
The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became Reality
As he flew from Orange County to Seattle in September 2013, Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus, couldn't envision what the next six months would bring. The rhapsodic crowds at the Consumer Electronics ...
HTC reportedly working on larger, more powerful One M8 ‘Prime’
If leaks are correct, HTC is preparing to launch a bigger, faster version of its flagship One M8. Details about the so-called One M8 Prime have been surfacing in recent weeks, with @evleaks leading t...
Facebook introduces ‘ask’ button for relationship statuses
Facebook has created an ‘ask’ button feature to enquire about your friends' relationship statuses — Facebook stalking has reached a whole new level following the introduction of an ‘ask’ button, all...
Lending Startup Earnest Raises $15 Million to Replace FICO Scores
In 2009, Louis Beryl applied for a private loan to help pay for his tuition at Harvard Business School. Even though he had a good credit score and a resume that included stints as a quant options tra...
Google+ rolls out Stories feature that generates interactive albums from photos and videos
Stories: Google's Way of Organizing Your Digital Life — Let's face it: No one has the time to organize their thousands of digital photos and videos. Some of these files get shared in social network...
Klout for Android Brings Content Creation to Everyone
Yes, it's true: the long-awaited release of Klout for Android is finally here. — Back in February, we revealed #NewKlout, a platform for intelligently recommending content that will strike a chord w...