Vita TV becomes PlayStation TV in the US, Europe and Canada for $99 this fall
The Vita TV is coming to America! It's just going to get a bit of an identity change first. Now the micro-console will be called PlayStation TV for North American and European audiences.
Google search results may indicate ‘right to be forgotten’ censorship
Search engine considering alert at bottom of results pages to show links have been removed after landmark EU privacy ruling — Google is planning to flag up search results it has censored following a...
Facebook accidentally launches, then pulls Snapchat competitor Slingshot
After recently killing off Poke, its first Snapchat competitor, Facebook is back with a second shot at ephemeral messaging. The new app, called Slingshot, lets you quickly send photos and videos to f...
Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing
Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that's already one of the hottest new ideas in the world of cloud computing. — This technology is called Docker. You can t...
Lack of Apple Maps updates at WWDC said to be caused by departures and internal politics
Apple's Maps Are Still Lost — Apple, during WWDC last week, delivered some significant updates across various parts of its business. It released, among other things, some 4,000 new APIs …
Time to Monetize Messenger? PayPal's President David Marcus Jumps to Facebook to Run Messaging Unit
David Marcus, who runs the PayPal online payments service for eBay, is moving to Facebook to become head of its messaging products. — This is a very big Silicon Valley poach by Facebook …
Microsoft bets on Kinect-like gestures for the future of Windows Phone
Microsoft is trying to cram Kinect-like features into its future flagship Windows Phone handsets. At least one device, codenamed McLaren, will debut on a range of US carriers later this year with fea...
Amazon to launch online subscription and billing payments for startups, competing with Paypal
Amazon expands middleman role in latest online payments push — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc will start managing subscription payments for start-ups and other companies - the latest in a series …
Tim Cook looks to fill Apple comms VP position with a “friendlier, more approachable face”
Code/red: Apple Looks Outside for New Comms VP — // HAPPENING TODAY — Apple shares split seven-for-one. — E3 begins. — Netflix holds its annual meeting.
iOS 8 randomizes MAC address when scanning for WiFi, deterring location tracking by marketers
A tiny technical change in iOS 8 could stop marketers spying on you — This item has been corrected. — Whenever you walk around a major Western city with your phone's Wi-Fi turned on …
Hackers who held Apple devices to ransom detained in Russia
Russian authorities say they have detained two young hackers who hijacked Apple devices and held them ransom for a sum of money before relinquishing control. — The hackers - aged 17 and 23 - were de...
Shares of Apple stock open at $92.69 as 7-for-1 split takes effect
Apple's much-anticipated 7-for-1 stock split officially went into effect with its new pricing on Monday morning, trading at $92.69 when the NASDAQ Stock Market opened at 9:30 a.m. Eastern in New York.
At E3 2014, Microsoft's Xbox One focus is all about games
Microsoft dedicated its Xbox One press conference to ensuring players that it's not the company that trotted out a controversial console last year. This time, games come first. — Josh Miller/CNET
Apple Begins Rejecting Apps That Offer Rewards For Video Views, Social Sharing
Apple has begun to crack down on tools that app developers use to monetize and grow their applications, including incentivized video viewing and rewarded social sharing, as well as discovery tools tha...
PayPal Co-Founder Max Levchin Raises $45 Million for Startup Affirm
Max Levchin spent a year searching for the perfect person to lead his new online-lending startup until he realized it was him. — Levchin, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded payments company PayPal...
GoDaddy files for IPO
GoDaddy revs up IPO — The Internet domain registrar with a raunchy reputation previously scrapped IPO plans in 2006. GoDaddy Group, an Internet hosting company and domain registrar with a reputatio...
Alleged iPhone 6 Rear Shell Shown From Multiple Angles in New Photos
Back in late May, a single photo of an alleged rear shell from the iPhone 6 surfaced, showing what appeared to be a thin metal part with cutouts on the rear for not only the camera, microphone, and fl...
Skype for iPhone gets ground-up redesign; top designer talks future iPad & iOS 8 updates
A few years ago, Skype was the rockstar of the messaging world, but now with smartphones and mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and iMessage, Skype's iPhone feature-set and appli...
Now Backed By Sir Richard Branson, TransferWise Raises $25M For Cheaper Money Transfers
A couple of months back, European money transfer startup TransferWise hit a major (PR) milestone. Its platform had processed £1 billion of customers' money, an eight-fold increase from the previous y...
Secret Is Taking Its Anonymous Networking App To Schools, Workplaces With New “Secret Dens” Feature
Anonymous social networking app Secret, a popular watercooler for Silicon Valley gossip, and now, much more thanks to recent expansions, has just announced a new feature called “Secret Dens …
Netflix to suspend its controversial ISP error messages
Netflix will stop blaming your ISP when your Orange is the New Black stream starts to stutter, at least for now. The company announced Monday that it will suspend the display of messages that specifi...
Okta Scores $75M In Final Round Of Funding; Hopes To Go Public In A Couple Of Years
Today, Okta, a company that offers Identity as a Service that works across on-premises applications and cloud services, announced $75M in Series E funding. CEO Todd McKinnon told me he expects …