Netflix Signs Peering Deal With AT&T to Reduce Buffering
This story has been updated to include a statement from AT&T confirming the peering deal. — Netflix has reached an agreement with AT&T to give its streaming service direct access to AT&T's network, ...
Instagram launches Bolt, its one-touch photo and video messaging app, in Singapore, South Africa, and New Zealand
Instagram Launches One-Touch Photo And Video Messaging App Bolt Outside The US — Instagram is taking on Snapchat by turning your best friends' faces into the shutter button …
Twitter Q2 user growth: average of 271M MAUs, up 24% year-over-year; 211M mobile MAUs, making up 78% of all active users
Twitter Picked Up 16M Active Users In Q2 — In its most recent quarter, Twitter didn't just report stronger-than-expected financials.
Microsoft is about to launch a selfie phone and a new ‘high-end’ Windows Phone
Microsoft is planning to launch two new Windows Phone 8.1 devices shortly. Sources familiar with the company's plans tell The Verge that Microsoft devices chief Stephen Elop revealed both handsets du...
Apple's Smartphone Market Share Slips as Huawei, Lenovo Make Gains
Apple's growth in the overall worldwide smartphone market continues to slow as it loses ground to smaller Chinese vendors releasing more affordable devices, even as the smartphone market itself grows ...
Rhapsody tops 2 million paid subscribers, expands music service overseas with mobile deals
Rhapsody — one of the pioneers in the online music arena — said today that it has topped two million paying subscribers for its Rhapsody and Napster music services.
Ford switching 3,300 workers from BlackBerry to iPhone this year
Ford Switching Employees to IPhones From BlackBerries — Ford Motor Co. (F) is deploying iPhones for corporate use to employees worldwide, scoring a win for Apple Inc. (AAPL) as it seeks to lure more...
Report estimates damages of NSA surveillance to US business, foreign policy, global security
Personal Privacy Is Only One of the Costs of NSA Surveillance — There is no doubt the integrity of our communications and the privacy of our online activities have been the biggest casualty …
Former Diapers.com CEO Marc Lore gets $55 million investment for e-commerce startup Jet
CEO Who Sold Diapers.com to Amazon Raises $55 Million to Challenge Amazon Again — If you can't beat 'em, try, try again. — That's the playbook being followed by Marc Lore …
Facebook Is Shutting Down Gifts To Focus On Its Buy Button And Commerce Platform
Facebook wants to help other businesses sell things, so it's done selling its own. Facebook Gifts will shut down on August 12th and stop selling gift cards for businesses like Starbucks and iTunes.
Ubiquitous competition in the app market is hurting the quality and sustainability of iOS apps
App Rot — Look around your iPad for a minute. How are its third-party apps doing? — Are they all being actively updated? Are they all built for iOS 7 yet?
Open Whisper Systems releases Signal iOS app for free encrypted voice calls; encrypted texts coming soon
Free, Encrypted Calling Finally Comes To The iPhone — The encrypted calling app Signal. The two seemingly random words beneath the contact's name are meant to be read …
Uber Gets Down To Business With New Travel Expense Tools And Concur Integration
On-demand ride-hailing service Uber has spent four years building a perfect transportation alternative to taxis and black car services in cities around the world. But until today it's just been focus...
Palantir Acquires Social Polling Startup Poptip
Poptip, a startup that helps companies conduct social media surveys and analyze online conversations, just announced that its team will be joining Palantir Technologies starting on August 1. — A Pal...
Apple Launches Retina MacBook Pros with Faster Haswell Processors, More RAM Standard
As indicated over the weekend and yesterday, Apple today launched refreshed 13-inch and 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros.The new notebooks feature faster versions of Intel's Haswell processors …
Android crypto blunder exposes users to highly privileged malware
A slide from next week's Black Hat talk titled Android Fake ID vulnerability. — Bluebox Security — The majority of devices running Google's Android operating system are susceptible to hacks that a...
UK police start placing anti-piracy warning ads on copyright-infringing websites
Police Begin Placing Warning Adverts on ‘Pirate’ Sites — For a year, City of London Police have been working with the music and movie industries on initiatives to cut down on the consumption of pira...
Flipkart raises $1 billion to strengthen its bid to own India's e-commerce space
It's turning into quite a year for Flipkart. Today the e-commerce company from India has confirmed the much-reported rumor that it has raised $1 billion in fresh investment, as it eyes new verticals ...
BlackBerry acquires mobile security firm SecuSmart, an anti-eavesdropping provider
BlackBerry acquires Secusmart, ups voice security ante — Summary: BlackBerry's acquisition of German software firm Secusmart is aimed at securing voice and data and putting better mobile security in...
“Unread” app sales show how hard it is for indie developers to earn a living from paid-up-front apps
A Candid Look at Unread's First Year — To my knowledge, indie developers don't publish the kind of numbers that you'll find in this post.
Apple TV updated with FOX NOW, CNBC channels
Apple has rolled out some new channel additions to the Apple TV set-top box this morning. Both FOX NOW and CNBC have joined the Apple TV lineup. Both channels appear to require a cable subscription ...
This Is What Tech's Ugly Gender Problem Really Looks Like
Shortly after Kathryn Tucker started Red Rover, an app that showcases local events for kids, she pitched the idea to an angel investor at a New York tech event. But it didn't go over well. When she ...
Microsoft adds another feature to Cortana, Foursquare data now serves up recommendations
Earlier this year, Microsoft invested 15 million dollars into Foursquare and the fruits of that investment are starting to pay off as the data is now being integrated into Cortana.
LinkedIn Redesigns Mobile Profiles to Put Relationships Into Context
LinkedIn's flagship app has gotten a major overhaul. — The company rolled out an update to its app Tuesday morning, unveiling completely redesigned user profiles that focus on adding contextual info...
Ex-NSA head Keith Alexander says his new company IronNet Cybersecurity invented unique technology to detect hackers, will file at least nine patents
The NSA's Cyber-King Goes Corporate — Here's why Keith Alexander thinks he's worth a million dollars a month. — GOOGLE +
U.S. Senate bill proposes sweeping curbs on NSA surveillance
(Reuters) - Senator Patrick Leahy will introduce legislation on Tuesday to ban the U.S. government's bulk collection of Americans' telephone records and Internet data and narrow how much information i...
Enterprise Investments Surge To Over $5.4 Billion
After years of backing headline-grabbing consumer internet deals, it seems that venture capitalists are paying more attention (and more money) to the seemingly staid and stodgy enterprise technology c...
Medium finds a revenue stream with Re:form, a new collection of stories sponsored by BMW
Medium launched its first sponsored “collection,” a term used to describe one of its curated sections or publications, with BMW on its renowned blogging platform today.