HTC planning an 8.9" Tegra K1 tablet internally referred to as the Nexus 9 for Q4 2014
This Is Volantis, HTC's Nine-Inch Nexus Tablet — With Android Silver rumors brewing, and LG's Ken Hong indicating that the manufacturer doesn't have a Nexus phone in the cards …
Marissa Mayer tries to make Yahoo a “daily habit” with Tumblr-inspired digital magazines
Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too) — Four editors were deep in debate at Yahoo Food's offices in Manhattan: Would Yahoo visitors click on a feature about foods of the ancient Silk Road …
Quirky unveils Wink app and $79 hardware hub to connect smart home devices, partners with Home Depot, expects 60 Wink-enabled products by July
Quirky to Create a Smart-Home Products Company — The repurposed red brick warehouse in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is a bustling hub of modern industrial activity.
Andreessen Horowitz invests $90M in enterprise cybersecurity firm Tanium at $900M valuation
Andreessen Invests in Cybersecurity Firm — Tanium, Which Helps Pinpoint IT Threats, Gets $90 Million — Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is placing its second-biggest bet ever …
Chicago installing sensors in light poles to observe air, weather, sound, and cell phone traffic
New sensors will scoop up ‘big data’ on Chicago … The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture …
300k vulnerable to Heartbleed two months later
When the Heartbleed vulnerability was announced, we found 600k systems vulnerable. A month later, we found that half had been patched, and only 300k were vulnerable. Last night, now slightly over tw...
How public profiles and friending could improve discovery in the App Store and help indie devs
Friending the App Store — How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest. Here's one way to fix it. — I love indie games, and follow the indie game scene pretty closel...
Mozilla Says It's Not Working on a Firefox TV Dongle, but a Partner Could Be
A Twitter posting by a Mozilla developer evangelist has sparked belief that the company was readying its own take on Chromecast, with a dongle based on Firefox OS. — Christian Heilmann's tweet showe...
Q&A With Facebook's Joey Flynn: The Lead Slingshot Designer Wants To Change How 90% Of Us Use Social Networks
Slingshot is the second mobile app to come out of Facebook's new startup-like department, Creative Labs. Like photo messaging tools TapTalk and Snapchat, Slingshot lets users send images …
The Feature Google Killed The + Command For — Direct Connect — Is Now Dead
Direct Connect — Is Now Dead — Cast your mind back to November 2011, only a few months after the launch of Google+. That's when Google made one of its biggest Google+ification moves. It demoted a l...
Twitch Hooks Into YouTube for Live Broadcast Alerts
Extended partnership comes as Google is engaged in acquisition talks with Internet videogame broadcaster — Internet videogame-broadcasting company Twitch extended its partnership with YouTube, under...