Google plans to spend over $1B to deploy low altitude satellites for internet access in remote areas
Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access — Company Projects Spending More Than $1 Billion to Connect Unwired Reaches of the Globe — Google Inc. plans to spend …
Median net income for UberX drivers is decent: over $75k a year in NYC
The economics of “everyone's private driver” — What happens when cab drivers stop being employees and start being sole proprietors — Uber, the car service which launched as “everyone's private dri...
Some educators believe gaming can get girls interested in coding, and mentors can be key
How to Get Girls Into Coding — WHEN I was 7 years old, I knew the capitals of most major countries and their currencies. I had to, if I wanted to track down a devious criminal mastermind in the com...
Iranian hackers posed as former UN ambassador John Bolton to extract information on LinkedIn
Iran Is Using a Neocon to Hack Its Foes — John Bolton, the former U.N. ambassador under George W. Bush, is playing an unexpectedly prominent role in an Iranian cyberspying campaign.
Micah Lee: the man hired to keep First Look Media and the NSA documents secure
Meet the Man Hired to Make Sure the Snowden Docs Aren't Hacked — In early January, Micah Lee worried journalist Glenn Greenwald's computer would get hacked, perhaps by the NSA, perhaps by foreign sp...
Apple's Beats Deal Sealed by Ex-Banker Adrian Perica
Apple (AAPL) is arguably the most famous company in the world, but its top dealmaker prefers to stay in the shadows. Adrian Perica, a former Goldman Sachs (GS) banker, sometimes holds meetings with e...
Amazon should be viewed as a fierce competitor in its dispute with publisher Hachette
Amazon should be viewed as a fierce competitor in its dispute with publisher Hachette. — FORTUNE - As a fight over ebook pricing intensifies between French book publisher Hachette and online retaile...
Exclusive: Inside the FBI's Fight Against Chinese Cyber-Espionage
SolarWorld was fighting a losing battle. The U.S. subsidiary of the German solar panel manufacturer knew that its Chinese competitors, backed by generous government subsidies, were flooding the Ameri...
Making Glass cool: Google can learn from Beats by making endorsement deals with athletes
Why Only Beats Can Teach Google Glass How to Be Cool — When Apple dropped $3 billion on Beats this week, it was pretty clear Cupertino was more interested in the software and people than the hardwar...
Comcast's Internet Essentials program barely impacts broadband adoption rates among the poor
Comcast-Time Warner deal may hinge on anemic low-cost Internet plan — Merger conditions poor substitute for national strategy — As Comcast Corp. tries to convince the federal government …
Silicon Valley's Laundry-App Race
Silicon Valley is in a bubbly race to wash your clothes better, faster, and cooler. This is not a metaphor. Unless, you know, it is. — T — here was a problem with the cookies. — When Jordan Me...
Brands can now set up shop inside Chinese messaging app WeChat
Popular messaging app WeChat has taken a step forward in evolving as a platform after it opened up an option on Weixin — the version of WeChat offered in China — for official account owners to set up ...
Apple expected to reveal more iBeacon plans at WWDC amid growing adoption in retail
Apple's Latest Offering Explores the Great Indoors — Tech Giant Will Provide iBeacon Plans at San Francisco Developers Conference — Apple Inc. 's latest product to carry the “i” prefix …
Secret Launches In China With A ‘Secret’ Partner, Adds Language Preferences As It Blows Up In Russia
Anonymous social sharing app Secret opened up to new users around the globe a few weeks ago, becoming available pretty much everywhere except China. The company corrected that this weekend …
MOG Is Dead, Corpse Now Points To Its Acquirer Beats
After 9 years in the game, MOG has completely shut down its streaming music service and now directs users to Beats, which acquired it in July 2012 for $14 million...and which was itself acquired by Ap...
Rumor: Google Exploring ‘KITT’ For Eyes-Free Functionality In The Car, Always-On Listening
A while ago, we posted about information we'd received indicating that sometime soon, Google's search functionality (and other actions) would be expanding beyond the Search app …