Who are the investors making 2000X paper gains from Uber's first angel round?
Meet the Uber Rich — Uber's new round of financing values it at $17 billion. So these lucky ones who were in at the start have made 2,000x their initial outlay. The valuation of Uber is poised to ...
Uber could be worth $18B if it greatly expands the size of the paid rides market
Why Uber just might be worth it at $18 billion — Uber, the pioneering taxi-hailing app and ride dispatch service, scored an impressive $18.2 billion valuation last week as it raised $1.2 billion in ...
Interactive notifications in iOS 8 are a new interface frontier
Why Notifications Are About to Rule the Smartphone Interface — When iOS 8 hits, the notification center is going to be the most important screen in your iPhone. Think about it: Notifications alread...
Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA
In January, the math community had its big event of the year — the Joint Mathematics Meeting — where 3,000 mathematicians and math students gathered to talk about new advances in the field and jostle ...
How Google, Facebook, and other tech giants are now more actively impeding government spying
Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Just down the road from Google's main campus here, engineers for the company are accelerating what has become …
Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality
Activists protesting outside FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2014. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images — Consumer advocates everywhere are demanding that the Federal Communication Commis...
Patent troll VirnetX close to winning 0.98% royalty on Apple's iPhone and iPad sales in the US
Patent troll on the verge of winning 1 percent of iPhone revenue — In 2012, Apple won the year's biggest patent verdict—more than $1 billion against Samsung.
After seizure of CryptoLocker botnet, new ransomware Cryptowall spreads through ad networks
We “will be paying no ransom,” vows town hit by Cryptowall ransom malware — The town manager of a hamlet in south eastern New Hampshire has defied demands that he pay a ransom …
Flaw in millions of TVs lets researchers hijack digital broadcasts, inject malicious code
Red Button Flaw Exposes Major Vulnerability In Millions of Smart TVs — It's 9:30 p.m. on a Sunday in New York City. People in their apartments in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan …
Facebook buying 59-acre, 10-building site adjacent to its Menlo Park campus for future growth
Facebook buying 10-building TE Connectivity campus in Menlo Park — Facebook Inc. has struck a deal to buy the 10-building Menlo Park campus of TE Connectivity, located next door …
MPAA Strikes Anti-Piracy Deal With Torrent Client Creator
While BitTorrent Inc.'s uTorrent and Mainline products grab most of the headlines, neither are the world's most popular torrent client. That honor falls to the Chinese-operated Xunlei or ‘Thunder’ so...
Apple's Home Automation Success Rests With Hardware Evangelism
At its WWDC conference this week, Apple unveiled a scaffolding of sorts that allows developers to control smart home devices like light switches, thermostats, garage doors and more. This is called Ho...
Dropbox needs to uncover a winning mobile strategy if it's to score big with consumers
The Dropbox Conundrum — It was supposed to be next high-profile tech IPO, but now it's facing many of the same questions that Facebook faced before going public. — Stephen Lam / Reuters