Uber sign-ups ‘increase 850%’ as black cab drivers stage London taxi protest
The taxi-booking mobile app company Uber said it experienced an 850 per cent increase new users today as London's black cabs staged a protest that brought gridlock to the city centre.
In another supplier confrontation, Amazon stops taking preorders for forthcoming Warner movies
Amazon Stops Taking Advance Orders for ‘Lego’ and Other Warner Videos — The Everything Store is shrinking again. Amazon customers who want to order forthcoming Warner Home Video features …
HP Labs working on new computer architecture with new OS and memristor-based memory
With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer — If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break.
Banks say credit cards for sale online were used at P.F. Chang's, restaurant investigating
Banks: Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang's — Nationwide chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro said today that it is investigating claims of a data breach involving credit and debit card data reportedly sto...
Powerful worm on Twitter unleashes torrent of out-of-control tweets
Twitter on Wednesday was briefly overrun by a powerful computer worm that caused tens of thousands of users to tweet a message that contained self-propagating code exploiting a bug in the TweetDeck ap...
Oculus expects to sell “north of a million units” for first consumer Rift
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe (left) says he's not expecting “a console-scale market” right out of the gate. — With a recent high-profile buyout to the tune of $2 billion, you might think Facebook and Oc...
Twitter Mulling Shake Up of Top Execs — Including COO Ali Rowghani Shift
Including COO Ali Rowghani Shift — Twitter is undergoing a major reevaluation of its top management, including a possible shift in the duties of its COO Ali Rowghani. — Sources familiar with the co...
Google Wallet's 2-Click Instant Buy Checkout Comes To iOS
About a year ago, Google Wallet launched its Instant Buy API for Android apps, and today it is bringing it to iOS apps. With Instant Buy, developers can integrate Google Wallet's checkout into their ...
Taxi Drivers Plan Big Protests in Europe Against Uber
Planned Demonstrations in London, Madrid, France, Berlin Highlight Challenges Facing Uber and Its Peers — LONDON—Taxi drivers planned to turn a handful of European city centers into giant parking lo...
Google Introduces “Google My Business,” A New One-Stop Shop To Help Business Get Found Online
Google announced a suite of tools this morning for business owners, offering them a one-stop shop to update their business information, add photos, read reviews and, of course, use Google+.
Lytro Partners With 500px, Opens File Format Letting its Pictures Live More Places
One of the big challenges for light-field photography startup Lytro has been dealing with the fact that it has to fit into a world that understands photos and video, but isn't well suited or even inte...
Comcast to test its YouTube competitor by the end of the year
Comcast is looking to test a new platform for the distribution of online videos through its new X1 cable set-top boxes by the end of the year, the company's SVP of Video Matt Strauss confirmed during ...
Wheeler: state laws hurt broadband access in places like Chattanooga; FCC could preempt rules
Removing Barriers to Competitive Community Broadband — If any city understands the power of networks to drive economic growth, it's Chattanooga, Tennessee.
SwiftKey Ditches Paid App, Goes Free With Launch of New Themes Store
SwiftKey, the popular predictive keyboard for Android, is going free today — and not just for a limited time. — The change is part of an update rolling out to the app now, which also includes the la...
Evernote, Feedly servers affected, hit with denial of service attacks
Evernote recovers from multi-hour DDoS attack, Feedly continues to suffer — Two prominent web properties have come under fire from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the last 24 hours.
New social network Fatdoor uses robots to connect neighbors (yes, really)
Fatdoor is the kind of neighborhood social network that would work perfectly in a small, tech-friendly town like Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Founder Raj Abhyanker envisions a day when ...
Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over Directors' Compensation
Facebook Inc. (FB:US) and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg's program of letting company directors set their own pay, capped at stock currently worth $145 million per person, wastes corporate assets, an invest...
Synaptics to buy iPhone display chipmaker for $475 million
(Reuters) - Touchscreen chipmaker Synaptics Inc (SYNA.O) said it would buy the sole supplier of display chips for the iPhone for $475 million, potentially winning back Apple Inc (AAPL.O) as a customer...
Lowercase Capital Is Raising A New $25M Fund, Led By Matt Mazzeo
Lowercase Capital is raising another $25 million, we're hearing. This is notable for a couple of reasons: Due to its Uber investment, Lowercase Capital's very first fund — a modest $8.5 million raise...
CoinLab Agrees to Support Mt. Gox's U.S. Bankruptcy Efforts
Move Marks Change of Course for CoinLab, Which Won't Oppose Bankruptcy Protection for Mt. Gox — Bitcoin company CoinLab Inc. has thrown its support behind Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox's U.S. ba...
Alibaba to buy out UCWeb in China's biggest internet merger
(Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will fully acquire mobile browser firm UCWeb in the biggest merger in Chinese internet history, upping the stakes in its battle with arch-rivals Tencent and Baidu...