Google's top lawyer describes challenges in implementing EU's Right To Be Forgotten, urges public debate
We need to talk about the right to be forgotten — After the European court ruling, we at Google want to encourage debate on where the public interest lies in restricting web searches
China's state broadcaster calls iPhone's location tracking a “national security concern”
China Calls iPhone a Security Risk — State-run China Central Television has labeled Apple's iPhone location-tracking feature a “national security concern,” in the latest backlash against U.S. techno...
Rap Genius rebrands as “Genius”, raises $40M led by Dan Gilbert, and makes annotations embeddable
The Inside Story Of How Rap Genius Fired A Cofounder — And Just Raised $40 Million (Annotated!) — On May 23 of this year, things were finally coming together for Rap Genius.
Yahoo sued for sexual harrassment, complaint alleges female exec coerced female engineer into sex
Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment — A high-level female Yahoo executive helping to lead the company's mobile-content efforts was named Friday in a state lawsuit filed …
Lyft hit with restraining orders from NY Attorney General, Taxi Commission
The service was set to give free rides to locals starting this week — The New York Attorney General and the Taxi and Limousine Commission filed temporary restraining orders against ridesharing compa...
Lyft reverses under legal pressure, cancels Friday night New York launch
Attorney General insists NY Supreme Court issued injunction—but Lyft denies it. — Facing the weight of the New York Attorney General, Lyft now says it will delay its planned launch in the Big Apple ...
FCC Approves Controversial $2 Billion School Wi-Fi Plan
Schools will soon be able to apply for grants from a $2 billion fund to help pay for Wi-Fi networks in schools under a plan approved Friday by federal regulators. — The Federal Communications Commis...
Apple Spent Over $3B With 7,000 U.S. Small Business Suppliers In 2013
Today, Apple SVP of Operations Jeff Williams attended a meeting with President Obama following the company's adoption of the White House's ‘SupplierPay’ initiative. The program, which also includes a...
How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber's Potential Market Size
On June 18, Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “Uber Isn't Worth $17 Billion.” This post was a shortened version o...
Apple launches new Swift blog, offers Xcode 6 beta for free
Apple's new Swift programming language has attracted a lot of interest from developers since it was announced last month at WWDC, and now the company is looking to get it in the hands of more develope...
SoundCloud in licensing talks with major labels, may give each revenue split and a 3-5% stake at $500-600M valuation
SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels — The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd. …
Jury finds Apple did not push MLB, others to adopt its live video streaming format and cause them to infringe Emblaze patent
Apple Wins Emblaze Patent Trial Over Live Video Streaming — Apple Inc. (AAPL) defeated a lawsuit brought by Emblaze Ltd. (BLZ) claiming the iPhone-maker pushed …
Yahoo Acquires Video Streaming Platform RayV
Following rumors of talks going as far back as May, we'd been hearing whispers all morning that Yahoo had finally acquired the video broadcasting platform RayV. — Sure enough, it's just been made of...
Dropbox updates desktop client with streaming sync: Up to 2x faster via overlapping uploads and downloads
Dropbox today announced its desktop client is getting streaming sync, a new feature that significantly reduces the time needed to synchronize large files.
Google Maps for iOS adds mapped search results and Gmail appointments, more
Google today updated its Maps application for iPhone and iPad to version 3.2 introducing new features and improvements. — The latest version of Google Maps now supports viewing search results with d...
Twitter's analytics dashboard now includes detailed data on all tweets, not just ads
Twitter today announced a new tweet activity analytics dashboard for advertisers, Twitter card publishers and verified users that shows them detailed data on how their organic tweets are doing.
Amazon sidesteps French ban on free shipping by charging a penny
France's “anti-Amazon” law prohibiting free shipping and discounts has now gone into effect, and Amazon quickly announced that it had conformed — technically. Though it no longer ships books for free...
Devices requiring FCC approval that have a screen may now display certification digitally on it
FCC Loosens Device Labeling Restrictions — Move Appears to Mostly Moot Just-announced Legislation to Require That Flexibility — Not even a day after a bill was introduced …
Salesforce Buys Big Data Startup RelateIQ For Up To $390M
The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can't beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com's $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of u...
Judge orders unmasking of Amazon.com “negative” reviewers
A federal judge has granted a nutritional supplement firm's request to help it learn the identities of those who allegedly left “phony negative” reviews of its products on Amazon.com. — The decision...