Twitter releases diversity report: global employees are 70% male; in US 59% white, 29% Asian
Building a Twitter we can be proud of — At Twitter, we have a goal to reach every person on the planet. We believe that goal is more attainable with a team that understands and represents different...
Microsoft to merge three versions of Windows into one converged OS for all screen sizes
Satya Nadella Just Made The Single Best (And Most Obvious) Decision For Microsoft Windows — Satya Nadella just confirmed that the company was going to merge all of its major versions of Windows into...
OS X Yosemite planned for late Oct. as Apple preps 4K desktop & 12-inch Retina MacBook
While iOS 8 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is set for a September launch, Apple is planning to bring its next-generation Mac software, OS X Yosemite, into the wild a month later, in October, acc...
Foursquare moving all check-ins to secondary app Swarm starting Thursday
You Can't Check-In on Foursquare's Main App Starting Tomorrow — You can check out Foursquare's new app starting in the next few weeks, but you can't check-in. — Foursquare said Wednesday that user...
Facebook Beats In Q2 With $2.91 Billion, In Revenue, 62% Of Ad Revenue From Mobile, 1.32B Users
Facebook's earnings beat projections for the 8th quarter straight with $2.91B in revenue and $0.42EPS in Q2 2014 . It now has 1.07 billion mobile monthly users, and 654million daily mobile users.
Microsoft launches $114 Lumia 530 with 4-inch display. Hits Europe next month
Microsoft has today announced a new member of its Lumia range in the form of the low-end Lumia 530, which will arrive from the start of next month in Europe. — Priced at €85 before taxes or local su...
Razer Integrates WeChat Into Its Nabu Wearable, Says It Should Hit U.S. for Under $100
Hardware maker Razer said late Wednesday that it is adding support for WeChat into its forthcoming wearable device, the Nabu smartband. — In addition to getting notifications on the device …
Sense, a New Sleep Tracker with a Kickstarter Campaign, Has Raised at Least $10.5 Million from Investors
James Proud, a former Thiel Fellow who sold his first company, is back with a new company and sleep-tracking product called Sense that's “part-Nest thermostat, part-Fitbit,” as Forbes describes it.
Music label sues YouTube star Michelle Phan for copyright infringement; one artist whose work was apparently infringed defends her
YouTube star Michelle Phan sued over copyright breach — A leading YouTube entrepreneur is facing legal action for alleged copyright infringement in her videos.
LittleBits' new cloudBit device adds your dumb gadgets and household appliances to the Internet of Things
The magnetically connected littleBits electronics library got a new internet-connected addition. The new Internet of Things cloudBit module connects all your projects to internet-scripting service, I...
The history of autocorrect, as explained by its creator Dean Hachamovitch, and its evolution
The Fasinatng ... Frustrating ... Fascinating History of Autocorrect — Invoke the word — autocorrect and most people will think immediately of its hiccups—the sort of hysterical …
Reddit Live is now official, lets anyone create their own breaking news live blog
Today, Reddit officially launched its own live-blogging platform. The company calls it Reddit Live and the feature has actually been in “semi-open beta” for a few months now - you may have stumbled a...
Mike McDerment's FreshBooks Raises $30 Million In First Funding Round
Toronto startup FreshBooks, the online cloud accounting software for freelancers and professionals, has raised a $30 million funding round from Oak Investment Partners with participation from Atlas Ve...
Apple Campus 2 permits show $25M tunnel, $171M underground theater
Eight months after Apple Inc. received final approval from the city of Cupertino to build Apple Campus 2, construction on the Mac maker's new campus is generating the kind of interest usually reserved...
Preview: A closer look at OS X Yosemite, just in time for the public beta
The first public OS X beta in over a decade brings quite a few changes with it. — It's not difficult to get your hands on pre-release Apple software. For a mere $198 a year ($99 each for OS X and i...
Now You Can Unlock Your Moto X with a Digital Tattoo
A phone should be as unique as you are—not only in the design of your device, but how you use it. Last year at the All Things D “D11” conference, Regina Dugan talked about new digital tattoo technolo...
Google Acquires Helsinki Based drawElements for 8 Figures
Yet another exit for the Nordics. The normally slow summer is turning into a shopping spree by the big players as the Helsinki based drawElements is acquired by Google. The exact amount behind the t...
How Code2040 fellowship programs connect blacks and hispanics with Silicon Valley tech firms
In tech, some minorities are too minor. This group wants to change that. — Before Randi Williams spent last summer in San Francisco, the 19-year-old computer-engineering student from Maryland …
YouTube Music's Head Quits, a Setback to Paid Service
The head of YouTube's effort to launch a music subscription service is leaving, marking yet another hurdle for the long-delayed project. — Chris LaRosa, YouTube's product manager in charge of music,...
For Its First Google Glass Effort, EBay Adapts Its RedLaser Product Finder App
Back in March 2013, eBay said it would start to work on applications for Google Glass — the idea being that the Android-powered, head-mounted computer could help consumers shop for things online and i...
Teradata acquires assets of Hadapt, Revelytix for big data
Teradata has bought the assets of Revelytix and Hadapt in a bid to grow out its capabilities for the Hadoop big-data processing framework. — Revelytix developed Loom, a metadata management system co...