Inside Apple University, the company's highly secretive internal training program
Inside Apple's Internal Training Program — Inside Apple's Internal Training Program — CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple may well be the only tech company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Pi...
Lyft says 177 Uber employees have ordered and cancelled 5,560 Lyft rides since last October
Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides — Uber is using a pattern of aggressive and questionable tactics in its effort to control the car-on-demand market, according to riv...
Apple suppliers begin production of new iPads, 9.7-inch to feature anti-reflective coating
Apple's Suppliers Said to Begin Production of New IPad Tablets — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s suppliers have started manufacturing new iPads, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
Microsoft reignites Mac vs. PC conflict for new Surface Pro 3 ads
Microsoft is bringing the Mac vs. PC battle back with full force today. While the company targeted the MacBook Air at the launch of the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft's latest ads place both devices head-t...
If you ‘like’ everything on Facebook, brands and content mills will quickly replace humans in your News Feed
I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here's What It Did to Me — There's this great Andy Warhol quote you've probably seen before: “I think everybody should like everybody.”
With former Google manager at the helm, the White House launches “US Digital Service” to institutionalize the process that fixed HealthCare.gov
White House launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ with HealthCare.gov fixer at the helm — President Obama participates …
Acer's new Chromebook 13 runs on Nvidia's Tegra K1 CPU, comes with up to 13 hours of battery life, has Full HD display option, and starts from $279
Acer's new Chromebook 13 offers a high-resolution screen and all-day battery life — The first Chromebook with Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor promises …
Possible images of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 leak, show leather-like back and metal frame
Detailed images of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 leak — Here's what the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 may look like. While looking very similar to the front of the current Note 3 the back and sides look new.
Chris Dixon: BuzzFeed will be a new media empire as smartphone access grows; $850M is a bargain
How Jonah Peretti and BuzzFeed Got to $850 Million — We passed the billion dollar mark awhile ago. Today a hot tech company is worth multiple billions of dollars, easily.
Google is backing a new $300 million high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system between the US and Japan
Google has announced it is backing plans to build and operate a new high-speed internet Trans-Pacific cable system called “FASTER” by Q2 2016. In addition to Google …
Inside Square's long-term plan, its quest for non-payments revenue, and the Starbucks disaster
Back To Square One — Jack Dorsey's dazzling startup promised to transform the credit and finance industry with a sweeping, digitized vision of the future. After losing $100 million, has his company...
New Microsoft Project Turns Boring First-Person Videos Into Awesome Hyperlapses
There's barely a mountain biker, climber, skydiver or skier left who doesn't have a GoPro camera attached to his helmet. Nobody really wants to sit through an hour of video of you heading up and down...
Square Targets Small Business With Launch Of Online Booking Tool “Square Appointments”
Continuing its expansion beyond mobile payments, Square this morning has rolled out Square Appointments, an online appointment booking service aimed at small businesses, like beauty and hair salons …
Broadwell is coming: A look at Intel's low-power Core M and its 14nm process
You were fabbed in the long summer; you've never known anything else. — Aurich Lawson — Last week I flew from New Jersey to Portland, Oregon, to get briefed by Intel PR reps and engineers …
Twitter Paid $134 Million for Gnip
Twitter pulled back the curtain on the financial details of its Gnip acquisition on Monday. The total: $134 million in stock and cash for the Boulder, Colorado-based startup. The package, outlined i...
Microsoft isn't out of the entry-level market yet, after announcing a $25 Nokia feature phone
Fresh from a change of direction which will mean an end to Nokia X, Asha and S60 devices, Microsoft has pulled a bit of a surprise with the announcement of a €19 ($25) device aimed squarely at first-t...
Fiverr Raises $30M for Online Services Marketplace
PGP creator: telcos must stop cooperating with governments; special forces use Silent Circle
Father of PGP encryption: Telcos need to get out of bed with governments — Zimmermann's Silent Circle working with Dutch telco to deliver encrypted calls. — LAS VEGAS—Phil Zimmermann …
Yo wants to be a communications protocol, plans ability to send links and connect to RSS feeds
An App Like Yo Could Turn Out to Be Bigger Than Twitter — It Makes Use of Alerts, the Most Valuable Property in the Media Universe — Few apps in history have been as controversial and polarizing a...
Nvidia unveils blazing-fast 64-bit Project Denver processor for Android devices
Graphics chip maker Nvidia revealed the architectural details of its codenamed Project Denver processor for mobile devices. — The custom-designed central processing unit (CPU) combines both processo...
Microsoft teases ‘selfie phone’ Lumia 730 unveiling for September 4th
Microsoft is getting ready to unveil a new Lumia Windows Phone on September 4th. The software maker has started emailing invites to members of the press to tease a “ready for more” announcement.
Skully AR-1 smart motorcycle helmet launches on Indiegogo, with Heads-Up-Display, GPS, rear-view camera, for $1,399
The Skully Smart Motorcycle Helmet Sharpens Your Senses On The Road — The stats around motorcycle safety in the United States are pretty bleak, but the folks at Skully …
OpenTable expands its in-app mobile payments to New York, promises 20 more cities before end of 2014
OpenTable has been gently testing ways to integrate its reservation service more deeply with users' dining experiences by including in-app payment of checks for more than a year already …
IBM whips out its checkbook to buy ID management specialist Lighthouse Security Group
Big Blue has apparently caught identity and access management fever, and is buying its second IAM specialist in three weeks. — Cloud is hot. Security is hot. Identity and access management (IAM) i...
Corporate America hasn't been disrupted: startup rate continues decline as failure rate grows
Corporate America Hasn't Been Disrupted — Talk to anyone in Silicon Valley these days, and it's hard to go more than two minutes without hearing about “disruption.” Uber is disrupting the taxi busi...
IronSource raises up to $100M, hires JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley for IPO at estimated $1.5B valuation
IronSource Closes Pre-IPO Investment Round of Up to $100M — Israel-based IronSource closed an investment round of $80 million to $100 million from a consortium of American …