Cue and Iovine talk about Beats acquisition, competing streaming services, Apple TV, more
Apple Shows Off its Newest Product, and Promises Much More to Come — Apple just agreed to pay $3 billion for Beats Music and Beats Electronics. Tim Cook says one of the primary reasons …
Snowden on lax NSA security, the “dirty” business of spying, wanting to go home, his training as a spy, and more
Edward Snowden's Motive Revealed: He Can ‘Sleep at Night’ — In the wide-ranging and provocative interview, Snowden: — Suggested that a deal could be reached …
London's transport authority believes Uber is legal, leaves final decision to London's High Court
Uber app taxi row referred to London's High Court — London's transport authority has announced it does not believe Uber's car service is breaking the law by using an app to determine charges.
Snapchat CEO ‘Mortified’ by Leaked Stanford Frat E-Mails
Snapchat Inc. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel apologized for e-mails he sent during his fraternity days that celebrated getting drunk and convincing sorority women to perform sexual acts. — The...
YouTube starts rating U.S. ISPs, puts its weight behind settlement-free peering
Google released an U.S.-focused version of its video quality report Tuesday, which offers users a way to check which of their local ISPs deliver the best-looking YouTube streams.
Real estate crowdfunding website Fundrise raises $31M led by Chinese social media giant Renren
Fundrise lands $31 million in financing, led by Chinese social media firm — Fundrise has gone from an ambitious Dupont Circle start-up to probably the country's leading real estate crowd-funding pla...
Dish Network to Accept BitCoin Payments for Pay-TV Service
Charlie Ergen has always been a gambler. Now the Dish Network CEO is taking a flier on accepting the Internet currency bitcoin as payment for pay-TV bills. — Dish trumpeted its decision in a news r...
Iranian hackers use fake Facebook accounts to spy on U.S., others
(Reuters) - In an unprecedented, three-year cyber espionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social networking accounts and a fake news website to spy on military and political leaders in the U...
Microsoft, Salesforce Said to Discuss Cloud Partnership
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) are close to an agreement that will enable customers of Microsoft's cloud computing service to use Salesforce's customer management programs, said ...
IDC: Smartphone growth to continue, reach 1.2 billion in 2014
Summary: It seems everyone has a smartphone today, but there are still millions of potential customers and it is in these emerging markets where we will see continued steady growth. — Matthew Miller
Apple's Eddy Cue touts ‘best product pipeline’ in 25 years coming this year
Apple's iCloud and iTunes chief Eddy Cue says the products the company plans to show off later this year are the best he's seen in 25 years at the company. — “Later this year, we've got the best pro...
SoftBank's Son acknowledges Sprint lags in LTE, voices admiration for T-Mobile's Legere
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said that Sprint (NYSE: S) needs “greater scale” if it is going to effectively compete in the U.S. wireless market, laying yet more groundwork for a potential combination be...
ExtraHop looks to build business analytics powerhouse, lands $41 million from early Splunk investor
ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein doesn't think his business analytics startup is simply creating a great product. The pony-tailed entrepreneur — who prior to co-founding ExtraHop worked …
Data cleaner Trifacta raises a $25M series C round
Trifacta, a startup focused on getting raw data into shape so data scientists, analysts or whomever can get started analyzing it, has raised $25 million in series C financing. Ignition Partners is a ...
OpenSSL to get a security audit and two full-time developers
A Linux Foundation project inspired by the Heartbleed security flaw announced that it will fund a security audit for the OpenSSL code base and the salaries of two full-time developers. — The Heartbl...