Leaked ‘Windows 9’ screenshots offer a closer look at the new Start Menu
An early look at Microsoft's next version of Windows — Microsoft provided an early look at its new Start Menu for a future version of Windows earlier this year, but freshly leaked screenshots are of...
Yahoo to Acquire Flurry to Strengthen Mobile Products
Over the past couple of years, Yahoo has been focused on re-imagining our users' daily habits, and mobile is at the center of everything we do. Today, I'm excited to announce the next step in our vis...
Apple asks manufacturers to supply between 70M-80M 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones by December 30
Next iPhone Will Offer Bigger Screens — Apple Tells Suppliers to Gear Up for 4.7-inch and 5.5-Inch Screen Sizes — Apple Inc. is preparing for its largest initial production run of iPhones …
Source: Yahoo is paying $200M-$300M for Flurry
Yahoo Buys Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of $200M — Yahoo has made no secret of its ambitions and advances in mobile, earlier this month reporting 450 million monthly active users and searc...
Forensic scientist identifies suspicious ‘back doors’ running on every iOS device
Summary: During his talk at HOPE/X Jonathan Zdziarski details several undocumented services (with names like “lockdownd,” “pcapd,” “mobile.file_relay,” and “house_arrest") that run in the background o...
Seoul city government moves to ban Uber, plans similar app for official city taxis
Seoul Moves to Ban Uber, Plans Own App — UPDATE: Uber Monday evening called Seoul city government's earlier statement a sign that it lags behind in adopting what it called an innovation in transport...
NBA star Carmelo Anthony launches venture capital firm called M7 Tech Partners
Knicks Star Carmelo Anthony Launches Venture Firm — After scoring a new contract worth over $122 million with the N.Y. Knicks, NBA star Carmelo Anthony is looking to take a different kind of shot — ...
Microsoft consolidates its IT pro tradeshows into one
Summary: Microsoft is consolidating a number of its standalone IT pro-focused tradeshows into a single unified event, slated to kick off in May 2015 in Chicago. — Microsoft is consolidating its Tech...
Facebook Launches Save, A Read-It-Later List For Links, Places, And Media Pages
Two years after acqhiring read-it-later startup Spool, Facebook today launched a basic Pocket competitor called Save. It's a feature for iOS, Android, and web that lets you store links from News Feed...
Urban Compass raises $40M at $360M valuation after increasing revenues 10x over past year
Urban Compass Raises Money at $360 Million Valuation — Urban Compass Inc., the New York marketplace for renting and buying apartments, will expand to more U.S. cities after raising $40 million from ...
Mobileye, Israeli maker of driving assist systems, starts road show for $500M NYSE IPO
Israel's Mobileye starts road show for $500 million NYSE IPO — (Reuters) - Mobileye N.V., which makes software and cameras that help cars avoid accidents, said on Monday it has launched a road show ...
BlackBerry Names New COO, Marty Beard, ex-CEO Of Enterprise Cloud Startup LiveOps
On the heels of news that Apple would be significantly ramping up its mobile enterprise push in a partnership with IBM, BlackBerry is also looking to step up its game. Today, the company announced th...
The story of WebP: How Google wants to speed up the web, one image at a time
Tired of slow web pages? So is Google, and the company thinks it has the key to speed up the web: smaller image files. Google's WebP image format aims to replace existing image file formats like JPE...
Blockchain Android app updated with new features simplying transactions, map view of merchants
Blockchain Releases New Android Wallet App To Put Bitcoin Into Everyone's Hands — Popular bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info is releasing a major new version of its Android app …
Verizon FiOS, facing slowing growth, plans symmetrical upload speeds at no additional charge
Verizon FiOS Enhances Bandwidth for Uploads — Company Is Seeking to Race Ahead of Cable Industry in Its Internet Speeds — Verizon Communications Inc. 's FiOS TV and broadband service …