Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 includes support for folders and interactive cases
Microsoft is planning to release its first update to Windows Phone 8.1 soon, and the company has started detailing some of the upcoming features to phone manufacturers. One of the main visual changes...
Amazon apparently set to launch Square-competitor in August as it develops biometric payment solutions
Amazon could be preparing to launch its own mobile credit card reading hardware in the coming weeks, according to internal Staples documents hinting at such a launch that we've obtained.
Cable Companies: Google Threatens Net Neutrality, Not Us
Internet service providers are urging the FCC to regulate popular websites. — The real threat to online freedom is from Internet giants like Google and Netflix, according to major cable companies.
Why Minecraft is a phenomenon: it requires its players to co-create it
The secret of Minecraft — And its challenge to the rest of us — It's almost inevitable: I encounter Minecraft somewhere online—it's easy to do, because there's a lot of Minecraft out there—and I e...
How Glu Mobile refit an earlier game to make chart-topping “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood”
Q&A: Keeping up with hit mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood — Reality TV star and actress Kim Kardashian has conquered everything from cable TV to bottled water with some stupendous branding tact...
AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing
AWS doesn't have the public cloud to itself anymore. It faces two gigantic competitors trying to poach reference customers and growing adoption of hybrid cloud. — For many years Amazon Web Services...
Facebook's privacy pivot: Mark Zuckerberg's plan to win back trust
Why Mark Zuckerberg is trying to win back users' trust. — Remember when Mark Zuckerberg didn't believe in privacy? When he argued that it was “no longer a social norm”? When Facebook employees wou...
Apple Stores to soon open up iPhone sales via AT&T Next, T-Mobile JUMP, & Verizon Edge
Apple is preparing a significant expansion of its iPhone sales capabilities in its official retail stores, according to sources. Late in August, many Apple Stores in the United States will kick off …
Watson's first consumer-facing use: advising military members on transition to civilian life
USAA Taps IBM's Watson as Military Veterans Advisor — For the first consumer-facing application of IBM's Watson cognitive computing technology, USAA, the insurance and financial services firm …
Reddit, still unprofitable, looks to grow ad revenues without alienating users
Can Reddit Grow Up? — Since its founding nine years ago, Reddit has stuck to its own weird guns. — The site, where users find, share and talk about web links and photos, has been faithful to an an...
As messages intended for friends increasingly become media fodder, what does “public” mean?
What Is Public? — It's so simple, right? — Someone could make off with all your garbage that's put out on the street, and carefully record how many used condoms or pregnancy tests …
Premium not freemium: Fleksy follows in SwiftKey's footsteps with a new store for themes
Fleksy's regular Android updates continues today with the news that the smart keyboard app is getting a general design refresh alongside a brand new Fleksy Store for premium content.
As broader immigration reform stalls, Y Combinator lobbies for expanding O1A visas to founders accepted into incubators
With immigration reform off the agenda, some in tech turn to plan B — Maybe we can't reform the whole immigration system, but the startup world just wants this one thing.
Researchers demo cheaper resistive random access memory fabrication, raising prospect of terabyte chips for smartphones
Super-Dense Computer Memory — Researchers have discovered a new way to make chips that could pack terabytes into smartphones. — A novel type of computer memory could …
Snapchat stars begin making lucrative advertising deals to create “authentic” branded content
Snaps To Riches: The Rise Of Snapchat Celebrities — Shaun McBride takes no risks when drawing a Snapchat. He takes screenshots instead, to protect his works in progress in case of calamity.
Behind “GoodGoogle”, a service for depleting your competitor's AdWord budget via click fraud
Service Drains Competitors' Online Ad Budget — The longer one lurks in the Internet underground, the more difficult it becomes to ignore the harsh reality that for nearly every …
YC-Backed Kamcord Launches An App For Watching Mobile Game Replays
As reports of Google's interest in buying Twitch continue unabated, it's clear there's an enormous market for video of gameplay. A few players stepped up a couple years ago to tackle the same concept...
Pandora and Spotify face uncertain future with giants Google, Apple, and Amazon encroaching
An epic battle in streaming music is about to begin, and only a few will survive — “One thing is for sure,” declared an influential American critic and record industry analyst, Bob Lefsetz …
Indian startups like Autowale connect auto-rickshaw drivers with riders via SMS
Text and Ride in India — PUNE, India — When Praveen Narayan Dusane first started driving an auto-rickshaw in this crowded college town, he had to hustle for every rupee. He could wait hours at a ri...