Interim Mozilla CEO Chris Beard appointed as permanent CEO
Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla — I am pleased to announce that Chris Beard has been appointed CEO of Mozilla Corp. The Mozilla board has reviewed many internal and external candidates - and no one...
Apple to Buy Radio App Swell for $30 Million
Apple is close to buying the Pandora-for-talk-radio app Swell, according to multiple sources. — The deal is worth about $30 million, these sources say. — Swell had raised $7.2 million from investo...
Zillow to Buy Trulia for $3.5 Billion in All-Stock Deal
For much of the last nine years, Zillow and Trulia have competed in the online real estate listings market they helped create. — But after a speedy six-week courtship, the two are set to combine for...
Facebook Forces Users Worldwide To Download Messenger For Mobile Chat
Over the next few days, Facebook will stop allowing messaging in its main iPhone and Android apps, and force all their users around the world to download its standalone Messenger app. Facebook first ...
Most Hilton locations worldwide will let customers unlock rooms with their smartphones by 2017
Hilton Books Upgraded Technology — Hotel Guests Will Be Able to Use Smartphones as Keys or to Choose Rooms at Properties World-Wide — Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is placing …
Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built ‘Iron Dome’ Missile Defense System
Three Israeli defense contractors responsible for building the “Iron Dome” missile shield currently protecting Israel from a barrage of rocket attacks were compromised by hackers and robbed of huge qu...
Microsoft pits Siri against Cortana in new Windows Phone 8.1 ad
Microsoft is focusing on Apple's Siri digital assistant in one of the first Windows Phone 8.1 commercials. It's another return to the Mac vs. PC war, as Microsoft choses to mock Siri in an effort to ...
Microsoft China placed under official investigation as offices in four cities raided
Government investigators have been sent to the company's offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu — The mainland's business authorities are investigating the offices of Microsoft Corp, th...
Yelp for iPhone now lets you add 12-second videos to your reviews, Android to follow soon
While the move isn't exactly surprising, Yelp has announced that it is now opening its mobile apps to user-generated videos to help create more engaging, visual reviews.
Apple drops cross-appeal, forever accepts denial of injunction in first Samsung case
While a global, comprehensive settlement of the patent spat between Apple and Samsung has not materialized yet, the dispute continues to lose steam every month, and noticeably so.
AT&T, Verizon offer HBO with basic cable and internet for $40-50; still no cable-free option
Why HBO and Pay TV Still Aren't Getting Divorced — Reminder: You still can't get HBO without paying for other TV channels, too. — But you can still get a cheapish package that includes HBO …
Bolt, Instagram's photo-messaging app expected to launch this week, may face legal challenge over name
Instagram's Forthcoming Photo Messaging App Bolt Could Face Legal Trouble — The developer behind the mobile voice app Bolt is none too pleased with Instagram's decision to launch …
Most Hilton locations worldwide will let customers unlock rooms with their smartphones by 2017
A New Room Key at the Hilton: Your Smartphone — Hilton is placing a $550 million bet that hotel guests increasingly will use smartphones to choose rooms, check in and even unlock doors.
The Judges Approving the NSA's Surveillance Requests Keep Buying Verizon Stock
Drawing of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court at an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) event in Germany last year. Photo via Flickr user mlcastle, original drawing by Lindsay Young
Fitbit is the first fitness band to support Windows Phone
At the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year it was clear Microsoft had a problem: exciting new hardware like Pebble, Nest, and various fitness bands were not fully supported on Windows. Compan...
OkCupid admits that it experiments on users, just like Facebook
Defending Facebook's experiments, OkCupid admits to some of its own — Facebook received a lot of backlash when news came out that it had manipulated users' news feeds in order to experiment on them,...
NPR One Delivers A Curated Public Radio Stream For The Smartphone Era
Radio is an increasingly perplexing mode of content delivery as we gain access to more and better streaming services with on-demand programming. But the serendipity of radio is still appealing, the a...
Blockchain Returns to Apple iOS with New Bitcoin Wallet
Following Apple's controversial removal of iOS bitcoin apps in January, the first of the big-name wallets relaunches on the App Store today. — Blockchain, which already provides hugely popular walle...
LG launches new Android tablet/netbook hybrid with 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD and an Intel Core i5
Add one more to the list of ridiculous Android tablets. LG has revealed a variant of their Tab Book, a netbook/tablet hybrid that folds down into a tablet while you're on the go and slides …
Amazon Fire Phone Costs $205 To Build, Teardown Shows
The components used to assemble the Amazon Fire phone cost a combined $205, a teardown analysis by the research firm IHS shows. — In a report due to be released Tuesday and seen by Re/code, the rese...
TouchPico lets you project an Android screen onto any wall, control it with a stylus
Here's a novel way to control Android on a projector — A new Indiegogo is selling a Android-equipped pico projector which integrates an infrared pen to approximate a touch interface.
It's Business Time: Airbnb Targets Work Travelers With Concur Partnership
Global hospitality startup Airbnb has spent the last six years trying to get consumers comfortable with the idea of staying in someone else's home when traveling. Now the company is trying to make he...
Windows comes to Raspberry Pi-style board in Microsoft/Intel project
Sharks Cove. — Microsoft — Even Microsoft wants a piece of the development board market made famous by Arduino and Raspberry Pi. — Microsoft has teamed up with Intel and hardware maker CircuitCo...
A history of the undersea cables that carry much of the world's international internet traffic
Messages in the Deep - The Remarkable Story of the Underwater Internet — In October of 1971, in the midst of the Cold War, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Halibut entered heavily guarded Russian w...
Twitter Won't Unveil New Growth Metrics for Q2 Earnings
Twitter reports its Q2 earnings tomorrow afternoon, which means investors will be judging whether Dick Costolo has fixed his growth problem. — One thing they won't see or hear about, though, will be...
A/B Testing Service Leanplum Raises $4.8M Series A Round, Adds Marketing Automation Tools
Leanplum, an A/B testing service for iOS and Android apps, today announced that it has raised a $4.8 million Series A round from Shasta Ventures. Previously, the company had raised an $825,000 angel ...
Multiple reports say Google and Motorola are planning a Nexus phablet
The Nexus line is definitely not dead. Over the weekend, a report from Android Police claimed Google and the soon-to-be Lenovo-owned Motorola are working together on a 5.9-inch Nexus phone.