Uber Hires Top Obama Adviser David Plouffe as New “Campaign Manager”
As Re/code had reported in July, Uber has zeroing in on the hiring of a high-profile “campaign manager” to head its policy and communications strategy and fight what its CEO and co-founder Travis Kala...
Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft
As I approach the six month mark of my retirement and your appointment as CEO, I have been reflecting on my life, my ongoing ownership of Microsoft stock, and my involvement with the company. I have ...
HTC One With Windows Phone: Another Great Phone You Won't Buy
The Best-Designed Android Phone Is Being Released With Windows Phone 8.1 — Windows Phone smartphones have gotten quite good, so why doesn't anyone buy them? Personal Tech columnist Joanna Stern tes...
Lyft COO Travis VanderZanden leaves after tensions with founders
Lyft COO Out After Tensions With Founders — According to sources close to the situation, Lyft COO Travis VanderZanden has left his job, after some level of tension with its founders. — Sources clo...
Google Launches Photo Sphere Camera App On iOS
Google has just launched a new photo application for iOS users called Photo Sphere Camera, which allows you to take 360-degree photos, then publish them to Google Maps or other social networks. The a...
Mailbox for Mac Beta: fast, offers drafts, yet buggy
I burned through my inbox with Mailbox for Mac — The king is dead, long live the king — Email, right guys? Some love it. Some hate it. Some are trying to replace it. But the fact is, we all us...
Roku's First Streaming-Video TVs Ready to Hit U.S. Market
Remote controls for TVs from TCL, Hisense include buttons for Netflix, Amazon Video, Rdio and Walmart's Vudu — For years, Apple has been rumored to be developing an integrated, Internet-connected HD...
Microsoft updates OneNote for Android with support for tablets, handwriting, and new formatting options
Microsoft today updated its OneNote app for Android with optimizations specifically for tablets. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.
Uber launches on-demand delivery service “Corner Store” in Washington D.C.
Uber launches on-demand product deliveries in Washington D.C. — Update 6:19 a.m. PT: Uber confirms that the service will launch today. — Uber is set to launch an on-demand product delivery service...
Square expands its cash advance service for small businesses after deal with Victory Park Capital
Square Expands Its Cash Advance Service — Square, the e-commerce start-up, announced on Tuesday that it would broaden the scope of its cash advance program through a multimillion-dollar deal …
Project Tango Tablet Teardown: Everything You Need For Handheld 3D
Google's Project Tango tablet is an amazing bit of hardware that made us finally realize that computer vision could be useful for regular people, too. So now that iFixit has ripped one apart, we're p...
First of its kind reddit experience launching on Xbox One, New MTV app and Twitch update available soon
In June we announced more than 45 new entertainment experiences coming to Xbox One and we continue to deliver on that commitment with additions like ReddX, an app that we are confident …
Netflix is now paying Time Warner Cable for direct access and faster streams
Netflix, the online streaming giant, has signed a paid peering deal with Time Warner Cable, meaning that it now has deals with the four biggest U.S. ISPs. — Time Warner Cable signed a direct interco...
Mesosphere Comes To The Google Cloud Platform, Integrates Google's Open Source Kubernetes Project
Google and Mesosphere today announced a partnership that brings support for Mesos clusters to Google's Compute Engine platform. While the Mesos project and Mesosphere aren't quite household names yet...
PayPal Rolls Out One-Touch Mobile Checkout For Apps
Mobile commerce today is still challenging with complicated checkout flows that see users bouncing between screens, and having to tap out their personal information on tiny screens and keyboards. Pay...
YouTube Music Key's differentiating feature: user uploaded content, like concert recordings and remixes
YouTube Music's Secret Weapon: Music You Can't Get Anywhere Else — You Tube has already said, on the record, that it is launching a music subscription service.
FunPlus Group sells its game subsidiary to Chinese holding company for $960M
FunPlus Group, the creator of mobile-social games like Family Farm, has agreed to sell its game subsidiary to publicly traded Zhongji Holding for $960 million. — Above: Dan Fiden
Thalmic Reveals Its Enterprise Play For the Myo Armband, Including Google Glass Integration
Waterloo's Thalmic Labs has begun shipping the production version of its hardware to pre-order customers already, and now the company is gearing up for its full-scale enterprise play with the help …
Blurb branches out to low-cost trade books, e-books and mass distribution via Ingram
Since its launch in 2006, Blurb, the independent publishing pioneer of print-on-demand artistic tabletop tomes and illustrated magazines, has been popular with the creative community.
Twitter now officially says your timeline is more than just tweets from people you follow
Many Twitter users have noticed that Twitter is now inserting tweets into their timelines that seemingly don't belong. This is not an accident. Twitter has updated its help document, “What's a Twitt...
Sharp's Aquos Crystal: a 5-inch, 720p, edge-to-edge display smartphone lacking premium specs
Sharp's new phone for Sprint looks like something out of a sci-fi fantasy — And it's only $239 — This week, Sharp, Softbank, and Sprint announced a new line of devices called Acquos Crystal …
Delaware becomes first state to give heirs broad digital assets access
Delaware has become the first state in the US to enact a law that ensures families' rights to access the digital assets of loved ones during incapacitation or after death. — Last week, Gov. Jack Mar...