Alleged Chinese Hacking: Alcoa Breach Relied on Simple Phishing Scam
Email That Purported to Be From Carlos Ghosn Held a Virus That Let Hackers Allegedly Steal Nearly 3,000 Messages, According to Indictment — At first blush, the email appeared to be from Carlos Ghosn...
What Microsoft gets wrong about the tablet-laptop redundancy
While onstage at the Surface Pro 3 event, Microsoft vice president and Surface creator Panos Panay cited a pretty surprising statistic: 96 percent of iPad owners also own a laptop. Tablet and laptop ...
Following Microsoft, Sony's PlayStation business officially enters China
It's only been about a month since Microsoft announced that it'll be bringing the Xbox to China come September, courtesy of the local government lifting its somewhat lax ban on imported video games an...
Apple's Expanded ‘Your Verse’ Campaign Pitches iPad As Mobile Creation Tool
Apple is releasing two new TV spots today, along with companion sections on its website. The spots will continue its ‘Your Verse’ advertising, which attempts to demonstrate the ways that the iPad can...
Spotify lands another hot integration, this time with mixing app Djay
Could Made For Spotify be the new Made For iPod? — Spotify isn't profitable quite yet, but with 10 million paid subscribers, the company is likely closer than anyone else in the on-demand music spac...
Cox will start its gigabit internet rollout in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Omaha
Bandwidth-hungry internet users can register a few new cities as potentially acceptable places to live. Following Google Fiber and AT&T, Cox Communications is one of the first big cable companies to ...
Investor Talk on Uber's Valuation Hits as High as $17 Billion
The bids for Uber's funding round rolled in this past week, and the price for the on-demand car service seems poised to steeply rise. — Several investors have stepped up during the bidding process, ...
Giants behaving badly: Google, Facebook and Amazon show us the downside of monopolies and black-box algorithms
The internet is a wondrous thing — a limitless universe of content and products and information, all of which can be summoned up from the comfort of a chair or the palm of the hand …
U.S. Companies Hacked by Chinese Didn't Tell Investors
Three U.S. public companies identified as Chinese hacking victims didn't report the theft of trade secrets and other data to investors, despite rules designed to disclose significant events. — Two o...
Kakao, behind South Korean messaging service KakaoTalk, to merge with internet portal Daum
Kakao And Daum To Merge, Creating One Of South Korea's Largest Internet Companies — Kakao Corp and Daum announced today that they will merge through an equity swap, creating a company with a 3.4 tri...
An Interview With Walt Mossberg And Kara Swisher, The Most Powerful Media Duo In Silicon Valley
On Tuesday, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher will host the Code Conference. — It's their tech industry conference featuring big-name speakers like Google cofounder Sergey Brin …