Google to launch “YouTube Music Key”, a $10/month, ad-free subscription service with offline support
Exclusive: This Is YouTube Music Key, Google's Upcoming Subscription Service With Offline Support, Background Audio, No Ads, Free Play Music Key — Google has big plans for both YouTube and Google Pl...
Exclusive Hands On With ‘Flappy Bird’ Creator Dong Nguyen's Next Game: ‘Swing Copters’
Looking back on the Flappy Bird phenomenon, and the onslaught of games developer Dong Nguyen inspired with his brutally difficult single-tap gameplay, it's clear what made it so hard to put down.
Hello, HP Stream 14: A $199 Windows laptop aimed squarely at the Chromebook market
Microsoft isn't taking the low-cost Chromebook threat lightly. Instead it's working with partners to create $199 to $249 Windows laptops and it has enlisted HP's help with the HP Stream 14.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it was targeted and hacked by suspected foreign powers
Exclusive: Nuke Regulator Hacked by Suspected Foreign Powers — Nuclear Regulatory Commission computers within the past three years were successfully hacked by foreigners twice …
Google is working to overhaul Web services so it can legally offer them to kids; new features include dashboard for parents, child-safe YouTube, more
Google Seeks New Customers: Kids — Google has been working to overhaul its Web services so it can legally allow children to use them …
Tumblr Partner Will Now Scan Photos for Clues About Brand Affiliation
Every day, users post about 130 million photos on Tumblr. Starting this week, the Yahoo-owned media brand will start to parse all those images for clues to users' brand affiliations.
Sprint Launches New Price War, Debuts $100 Family Plan
Sprint on Monday announced new family rate plans allowing up to 10 lines to share 20GB worth of data for $100 per month. — It's the first move in what is expected to be far more aggressive pricing u...
Nextdoor now adopted by one in four neighborhoods in the US
The anti-Facebook: one in four American neighborhoods are now using this private social network — Neighborhood gossip and community policing thrive on Nextdoor — It was early in the morning when t...
Tech M&A deals increasingly conducted by corporate development teams with less input from investment banks
In Silicon Valley, Mergers Must Meet the Toothbrush Test — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When deciding whether Google should spend millions or even billions of dollars in acquiring a new company …
Chinese Hackers Stole Info on 4.5 Million U.S. Hospital Patients
If you've been to a hospital in a small town or anywhere in the southeastern portion of the United States in the last few years, it's worth keeping an eye on your personal information. — Community H...
U.S. details plans for car-to-car safety communications
SAN FRANCISCO — After more than a decade of research into car-to-car communications, U.S. auto safety regulators took a step forward today by unveiling their plan for requiring cars to have wireless g...
SoftBank picks Sharp as partner for low-cost smartphones, will launch Aquos Crystal on Sprint
SoftBank Picks Sharp as Partner for Low-Cost Smartphones — SoftBank Hopes Aquos Crystal Will Help Differentiate It and Sprint From Rivals — TOKYO— SoftBank Corp. and its U.S. unit …
The team behind webOS TV jumps to Pebble to design the next generation of smartwatches
Pebble is dead-serious about competing in the face of Android Wear and whatever Apple is presumably working on. To that end, the company has just announced that it has hired Itai Vonshak as head …
Symantec to slim Norton line to single security suite
Symantec's widely used and much maligned line of Norton security suites will get a major overhaul in September. — Symantec will be rebranding and streamlining its complicated Norton line of security...
BlackBerry creates new unit for potential high-growth assets like QNX, Project Ion, cryptographic applications, 44K strong patent portfolio, more
BlackBerry creates new unit for potential high-growth assets — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said on Monday it has created a new unit to house …
Kim Dotcom: from playboy entrepreneur to political firebrand
He was the flamboyant founder of the popular Megaupload site. But when the US got New Zealand police to arrest him on charges of internet piracy, Kim Dotcom began a remarkable fightback — There are...
How Verizon lets its copper network decay to force phone customers onto fiber
The shift from copper landlines to fiber-based voice networks is continuing apace, and no one wants it to happen faster than Verizon. — Internet users nationwide are clamoring for fiber, as well …
Telegraph “Forgets” Its Own Stories Documenting Google “Right To Be Forgotten” Removals
The Daily Telegraph's recent campaign to document all its stories that have been removed from Google under the EU's Right To Be Forgotten took an odd turn today when the Telegraph itself mysteriously ...
Algorithmia Raises $2.4M To Connect Academia And App Developers
While communities built around GitHub and Stack Overflow have developers working together more than they ever have before, one group's work is typically seen by too few, considering the impact it coul...
Coinbase Acquires Blockchain Explorer Blockr.io
A small consolidation wave in the Bitcoin space continues as bigger, better-funded companies scoop up teams of talented designers and engineers. — Coinbase, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed Bitcoin wa...