Box raises $150M more from TPG and Coatue Management at $2.4B valuation, expects IPO after labor day
Web-Storage Startup Box Raises $150 Million as It Awaits IPO — Box Inc. has bought itself some breathing room as it waits for a more suitable time to hold an initial public offering.
Isis mobile wallet will rebrand to avoid sharing name with violent militant group
Isis is facing an identity crisis. The company behind the mobile wallet app has announced it will rebrand to avoid sharing its name with the extremist militant group ISIS, or the Islamic State of Ira...
Apple bolsters iOS 8 Health app with on-device steps counting & caffeine tracking
Apple has made significant enhancements to its upcoming Health application for iOS 8 in the latest beta of the new iPhone operating system. Most notably, the Health application can now utilize …
Samsung Sees Phone Rebound After Earnings Miss Estimates
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) posted second-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates as the world's biggest smartphone maker loses market share to Apple Inc. (AAPL) and less expensive devices...
Oculus Debuts Oculus Connect Developer Conference, Acquires RakNet And Open Sources Its Tech
Oculus made a couple of announcements today, including the acquisition of middleware game-network technology provider RakNet, which powers cross-platform voice chat, SQL logging …
iPhone 6 Front Panel Subjected to Scratch Test, Significant Bending
Earlier today, we shared a video of what appeared to be the front panel of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 subjected to a limited bending stress test, but YouTube user Marques Brownlee has now acquired the same...
Nearly undetectable ATM skimmers threaten regions like the US that haven't adopted more secure “chip & PIN” tech
The Rise of Thin, Mini and Insert Skimmers — Like most electronic gadgets these days, ATM skimmers are getting smaller and thinner, with extended battery life.
LG's G3 and G Watch are coming to AT&T on July 11th
Sprint and T-Mobile may have been the first big US carriers to announce launch plans for LG's G3 smartphone, but they won't be the first to actually carry it. AT&T has revealed that both the G3 and t...
Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities
Specifically, eight …
MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, A Next-Generation Email Platform
Founded by Dropbox and MIT alums, a new startup called Inbox is launching out of stealth today, hoping to power the next generation of email applications. Similar to the newly launched Gmail API, Inb...
Keith Rabois' Homebuying Startup OpenDoor Raises $9.95M From Everyone
Well. — It seems like a lot of Valley investors want to see the process of buying homes become a lot more efficient. — After Khosla Ventures VC and former Square COO Keith Rabois teased that he wa...
Twitter Replaces Media Chief Chloe Sladden with Katie Stanton (Exclusive)
Less than a month after the departure of Twitter Media chief Chloe Sladden, the social media giant has found her replacement. — Katie Stanton, previously vice president of international market devel...
Waze trades aggregate anonymous user data to local governments for sensor and camera data; Moovit and Strava make similar deals
Why Google's Waze Is Helping Local Governments Track Users — In Rio de Janeiro most eyes are on the final, nail-biting matches of the World Cup.
20 armed, disguised men steal $36M worth of Samsung products from Brazil factory; nobody hurt
Samsung suffers massive robbery in Brazil — Summary: Approximately $36m worth of products have been stolen from a São Paulo factory — In an operation that resembled the 1978 Lufthansa heist …
How malicious community edits on Google Maps can destroy a business
How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will — Rene Bertagna blames Google for the death of his restaurant, Serbian Crown. Courtesy Rene Bertagna — Washington DC-area residents with a ha...
Gartner: Device Shipments Break 2.4B Units In 2014, Tablets To Overtake PC Sales In 2015
The gradual decline of the PC industry, spurred on by the rapid rise of mobile computing, continues apace. Today the analysts at Gartner have published their latest forecasts for global PC, tablet …
Skype 5.2 for iPhone: Voice Messaging Support and Profiles Are Back!
We have been reading and listening to your feedback ever since we launched the new remastered Skype for iPhone and have been hard at work incorporating your suggestions. With Skype 5.1 for iPhone we ...
Box's updated S1 shows Q1 sales up 94% and losses up just 11% year-on-year
Pace Quickens Toward Box's IPO as Q2 Sales Nearly Double — Cloud storage and collaboration firm Box nearly doubled in size and revenue in the last quarter, but it did so as losses deepened, albeit a...
Don't expect Microsoft's Surface Mini to debut this summer
Summary: Is Microsoft restarting production of the rumored Surface Mini, with plans to roll it out this summer? My sources say no. — The respected mobile tip leaker Evan Blass, aka @evleaks, has a ...
New Zealand ISP allows its customers to subscribe to the U.S. version of Netflix
Slingshot, a local internet provider in New Zealand, wants to give its subscribers a little extra perk: The ISP just added a new “global mode” to its internet plans that allows its customers to access...
YouTube approaches 300M viewing hrs per day, fell short of estimates w/ $3.5B revenue in 2013
YouTube has established itself as a mainstream platform for streaming video content online, but its ambitious goal of reaching 1 billion “watch time” hours per day through 2016 is reportedly lagging b...
How Twitch's Founders Turned an Aimless Reality Show Into a Video Juggernaut
Broadcasting yourself playing videogames online may not sound like a billion dollar business. But that's just a matter of who you ask. — Twitch, the three-year-old video site is raising eyebrows ac...
Next Bitcoin Core Version to Include ‘Smarter’ Transaction Fees
Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen has outlined the details of new floating transaction fees to be included in the code of the next Bitcoin Core release. — In a new post on the offici...