Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for poorly communicating controversial News Feed study: “We never meant to upset you”
Sandberg: Facebook Study Was ‘Poorly Communicated’ — Facebook 's psychological experiment on nearly 700,000 unwitting users was communicated “poorly …
How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe
Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths — Whitney Wolfe, a former vice president for marketing at Tinder, the wildly popular hookup facilitation app …
Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone
Microsoft + Wearables — Yes, it's real. It's just not a watch — Everyone's doing it, it seems. Samsung jumped in first. Google formalized it on Android just this past week.
EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google
Publishers must fight back against this indirect challenge to press freedom, which allows articles to be ‘disappeared’. Editorial decisions belong with them, not Google — When you Google someone fr...
Developer preview test for Android L's Project Volta shows promise, 2 hours or 35% more battery life on Nexus 5
Examining Project Volta: We put Android L through our battery test — For each Android release, Google likes to have a “Project” that picks an area of weakness and focuses on tuning the whole OS to f...
BlaBlaCar Raises A Massive $100 Million Round To Create A Global Long Distance Ride-Sharing Network
In what is the largest VC round in a French startup of all time, BlaBlaCar just raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures, with existing investors Accel Partners, ISAI and Lead Edge Capital al...
Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU
The EU's Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout. For some searches, you can't find their news stories rel...
Investor Tim Draper wins auction for 29,655 bitcoins seized from Silk Road, partners with Vaurum to leverage the pool as a liquidity source in emerging markets
Famed investor Tim Draper wins auction of Silk Road's 29,655 bitcoins — Draper to partner with Vaurum, which offers “secure storage solutions” to banks.
Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio
Game developers build the apps that hundreds of millions of users play every day across a wide variety of devices, from Xbox and Windows to iOS, Android and the Web. Games are the most popular applic...
Microsoft seeks Office for Android testers as it readies tablet version
Touch-friendly Office Android apps coming before Windows version — Microsoft may have released a basic Office app for Android phones almost a year ago, but the company is now building a suite design...
Facebook acquires video ad tech startup LiveRail for $400-500M, plans to keep it running
Facebook Acquires LiveRail For $400M To $500M To Serve Video Ads Everywhere, Improve Its Own — Facebook has just bought video ad tech startup LiveRail, which connects marketers to publishers …
Google bans porn from its ad network
Google is getting out of the porn advertising business. The changes, which went into effect late Monday, prohibit any promotion of most sexually themed sites, specifically those that feature “graphic...
Thieves in Brazil use malware to hijack online payments, steal billions in aggregate
Brazilian ‘Boleto’ Bandits Bilk Billions — With the eyes of the world trained on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it seems a fitting time to spotlight a growing form of computer fraud that's givi...
Goldman says client data leaked, wants Google to delete email
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc said a contractor emailed confidential client data to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake, and the bank has asked a U.S. judge to order Google Inc to delete the e...
Samsung to end plasma TV production this year
Following in the footsteps of Panasonic, Samsung says it will end production of plasma display panels by the end of this year. — The Samsung PNF8500 is the last great plasma TV. — Sarah Tew/CNET ...
Chumby's smart alarm clock relaunches with 1,000 apps
Remember Chumby? You probably haven't heard much about the snuggly tiny computer/smart alarm clock since its makers' company disbanded, but now it's back from its semi-retired state. Its current own...
Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch review: expensive accessories with promise, but not yet must-haves
Android Wear hardware review: Sometimes promising, often frustrating — Why wear one smartwatch when there's room for two? — We've reviewed most of the major entrants into the smartwatch arena …
Google Play Services 5.0 now available with Android Wear support, security enhancements, more
Google today announced that a major update to Play Services is now rolled out, bumping it from version 4.4 to 5.0. Many of the details in this update were announced at Google I/O last week …
Google announces the first 100 Project Ara beta testers
It appears Google's ambitious modular phone experiment is moving into the next phase. At Google's I/O developer conference, the Advanced Technology and Projects team was able to boot a Project Ara de...
Google Discontinues SMS for Hangouts; Might Integrate Google Voice Soon
Google on Monday has updated that it is discontinuing SMS for Google Hangouts feature for Web from July 2. Up till now the feature was available for India, Pakistan, Israel, Turkey, Ukraine, Congo an...
Yahoo Does A “Summer Cleaning,” Shuts Down Its Xobni Acquisition, Plus Other Under-Performing Products
Yahoo's spring cleanings have extended into the summer months, the company announced today, detailing a series of product changes and closures, many of which are nearly obsolete, obscure, or just unpo...
An Upper Limit For Apps? New Data Suggests Consumers Only Use Around Two Dozen Apps Per Month
There are now well over a million mobile applications in both Google Play and the iTunes App Store alike, and growth of those app marketplaces shows no sign of slowing down.
Nvidia preparing a Shield Tablet successor to its Android game console
The Shield Tablet looks set to be a hybrid 2-in-1 device that will show off the power of the Tegra K1 chip — Best known for designing graphics chips and mobile processors, Nvidia set out on a bold n...
Profile of Del Harvey, Twitter's VP of trust and safety who deals with the worst of Twitter
Meet Del Harvey, Twitter's Troll Patrol — The gala on a recent Thursday evening was typical boom-time San Francisco glitz. Attendees from Google , Yahoo and Facebook traded in jeans and hoodies …
Qualcomm buys Wilocity to put gigabit wireless connections in smartphones
Qualcomm confirmed on Wednesday that it is buying gigabit wireless specialist Wilocity in a move that puts the mobile chipmaker firmly behind the new WiGig standard. At some point next year, we will ...
Microsoft, Google form Ethernet consortium for datacenter networks
Summary: Microsoft, Google and other firms have come together to form the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium with the aim of improving cloud datacenter networks. — Charlie Osborne — Five tech giants, ...
Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don't Store Personal Data In Russia
The Russian government has moved one step closer towards a “China-like” approach towards Internet services. — Last night, the Russian State Duma (parliament) passed the first bill requiring that the...
More experiments on social media users could provide us insights into human behavior
A Bright Side to Facebook's Experiments on Its Users — Facebook's disclosure last week that it had tinkered with about 700,000 users' news feeds as part of a psychology experiment conducted …
First 10K units of Oculus Rift DK2 should be arriving week of July 14
With 45,000 Pre-Orders, The New Oculus Rift Will Start Arriving Around July 14th — Back in March, the second generation of Oculus' work-in-progress virtual reality headset went up for pre-order for ...
Amazon resists FTC request to tighten in-app purchase policy for children
Amazon Resisting FTC on Policy Change for In-App Purchases — Amazon-FTC Dispute Is Over Limiting Children's Purchases — Amazon.com Inc. is bucking a request from the Federal Trade Commission that ...
Google's Smarty Pins map game tests your knowledge about location-based events
Google released another web-based game today called Smarty Pins that will most likely distract you from other things that you should be doing. Powered by Google Maps, this quiz game tests your knowle...
CBS esports site OnGamers fires first employee and senior editor Rod “Slasher” Breslau after Reddit bans the site for vote-rigging
Reddit ban leaves esports site OnGamers fighting for survival — In November, CBS Interactive's flagship esports news site launched with big ambitions.
Custom Analytics Startup Keen IO Raises $11.3M Round From Sequoia And Others
Keen IO, a startup that helps developers build their own analytics products, is announcing that it has raised $11.3 million in Series A funding. — Co-founder and CEO Kyle Wild told me that when the ...
Canadian antispam law goes into effect, resulting in a flurry of ‘please opt in’ emails
Canadian Antispam Law Whips Up a Storm of Last-Minute Messages — OTTAWA — The email has all the markings of malicious spam: an overwrought subject line screaming “Urgent Action Required …
Study: 19% of top 100K most visited websites are blocked by Britain's adult content filters
Internet filters blocking one in five most-popular websites — Jezebel and Guido Fawkes sites among those blocked by at least one mobile or fixed line service provider in UK, campaigners say
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers raises $1.2B: $450M for flagship early-stage fund, $750M for digital growth fund
Exclusive: Kleiner Perkins raises $1.2 billion — Kleiner Perkins has no trouble raising a pair of new venture capital funds. Venerable venture capital firm Kleiner …
Samsung shuts down its Video and Media Hub, transfers users' accounts to M-Go
M-Go to Take Over Samsung's Movie Business — Samsung Electronics has discovered that making great screens and delivering great on-screen entertainment require different skills.
Microsoft joins the AllSeen Alliance as it ramps up connected device efforts
The AllSeen Alliance, the organization pushing for the AllJoyn open standard for connected devices, has netted Microsoft as a member. Microsoft joins members such as Haier, Sears, LG, Panasonic …
Coinbase Announces High-Security ‘Vault’ Bitcoin Accounts
Called ‘Vault’, the new account was designed in response to demand for a more secure type of wallet from Coinbase's growing customer base of institutions and wealthy individuals, according to company ...
Mobile will snag 9.8% of ad spending by end of year, surpassing newspapers, magazines, radio
Total US Ad Spending to See Largest Increase Since 2004 — Mobile advertising leads growth; will surpass radio, magazines and newspapers this year — Total media ad spending in the US …
Inside the Secret Building That's Bringing Cell Service To NYC's Subway
As Hurricane Sandy revealed almost two years ago, New York's 100-year-old subway is not a modern and robust system. In fact, compared to other cities, it's downright dirty, unpredictable and technolo...
Shutterfly Said to Hire Qatalyst to Seek Buyers for Site
Shutterfly Inc. (SFLY), which turns digital photos into printed albums, is working with boutique investment bank Qatalyst Partners to find buyers for the company, according to people familiar with the...