Chitika and comScore data suggests Amazon unlikely to have sold more than 35,000 Fire phones
Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests — Amazon doesn't give sales data for its devices, but figures from comScore and Chitika suggest only modest sales so far
Apple Said to Prepare New 12.9-Inch IPad for Early 2015
Apple Inc.'s suppliers are preparing to manufacture the company's largest-ever iPad, with production scheduled to commence by the first quarter of next year, according to people with knowledge of the ...
Documents and interviews reveal Uber's sophisticated, nationwide scheme to poach Lyft drivers
This is Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft — ‘Brand ambassadors’ with burner phones and credit cards attempt to #shavethestache — Uber is arming teams of independent contractors …
Instagram releases Hyperlapse iOS app for creating fast, smooth time-lapse videos
Hyperlapse, Instagram's New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand — Today, Instagram is lifting the veil on Hyperlapse, the company's first-ever app outside of Instagram itself.
LA suspends iPad program for schools amid accusations that officials had close ties with Apple and Pearson
L.A. Unified halts contract for iPads — L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy suspended future use of a contract with Apple on Monday that was to provide iPads to all students …
Kleiner Perkins investing up to $20M in Snapchat's next round at nearly $10B valuation; DST Global invested earlier this year at $7B valuation
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Agrees to Invest in Snapchat — Ephemeral Messaging Service Gets a Venture-Capital Shot in the Arm
HP recalls 6 million laptop power cords over fire, burn risk
Hewlett-Packard has recalled more than 6 million laptop power cords that could pose fire and burn hazards. — HP is recalling LS-15 AC power cords used with HP and Compaq branded laptops. The compan...
Lurie named CEO of AT&T Mobility, de la Vega to oversee mobile and enterprise
AT&T (NYSE: T) promoted Glenn Lurie to president and CEO of AT&T Mobility. Lurie was previously the president of AT&T Mobility's Emerging Enterprises and Partnerships business.
Square Cash 2.0 Adds Free Money Transfer By Text Message, Payment Notes And More
Square has a new update out for its Cash app that lets users send cash by text, greatly improving the versatility of the mobile payment app. The update also improves the user interface for sending …
Uber Begins Testing Lunch Delivery With UberFRESH
Uber isn't done producing variations on the theme of on-demand wheels - the startup has now begun testing uberFRESH, a service that provides lunch between 11:30 AM and 2:30 PM to customers in the Sant...
Netflix says 99 percent of its links with ISPs are unpaid
Netflix hates writing checks to Internet service providers—and luckily enough, it usually doesn't have to.Though the streaming video company has complained bitterly about having to pay Comcast, AT&T, ...
Automattic acquires security plugin BruteProtect, will build its functionality into Jetpack, retire standalone product
Automattic Acquires BruteProtect — I'm excited to announce that Automattic has acquired BruteProtect, a plugin and service that protects your sites from malicious logins …
Windows Threshold moving to regular incremental updates; ARM-based preview due next year
Windows ‘Threshold’ and cadence: How fast is too fast? — Summary: With an enterprise technical preview coming in a few weeks, and an ARM-based test version due early next year, the next version of W...
CloudFlare's global connectivity costs suggest telco consolidation increases bandwidth prices for companies
The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World — Over the last few months, there's been increased attention on networks and how they interconnect.
T-Mobile expands family plan, bulks up tablet data offer
The wireless war between Sprint and T-Mobile heats up as T-Mobile fires yet another salvo for a second consecutive day. — T-Mobile CEO John Legere at CES 2014. Legere has been eager to fire back at...
ArcSoft launches Simplicam, a home-monitoring camera with facial recognition for $150, one-day cloud recording an additional $50/year
Simplicam gives Dropcam a run for less money — Arcsoft is a company you've probably never heard of, but you've likely got some of its technology in your pocket.
Google getting into cloud-based visual effects with Zync buy
Summary: Previously a proud Amazon EC2 customer, the visual effects provider is also moving over to Google Cloud Platform. — Google is acquiring Zync Inc., bolstering the Internet giant's cloud-base...
Facebook hires team behind WaveGroup for in-house sound design
Facebook didn't actually acquire a sound studio, but it did hire audio engineers — Part of Facebook's overall strategy appears to include creating original audio content, as evident by a handful of ...
Exclusive: Galaxy Note 4 to sport Synaptics' Natural ID tech, New fingerprint features
Since the beginning of the month, we have been exclusively revealing details about Samsung's upcoming flagship phablet device, the Galaxy Note 4, bit by bit. Last week, we spilled the beans …
Robo Brain: a repository of information mined from the internet, for robots to draw on
‘Robo Brain’ mines the Internet to teach robots — To serve as helpers in our homes, offices and factories, robots will need to understand how the world works and how the humans around them behave.
Netflix hand-delivers petition to FCC against Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger
Netflix today announced it has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against the proposed Comcast/Time Warner Cable (TWC) merger. — If successful, the combined companies ...
Microsoft cuts Surface 2 price by $100, hinting at successor or discontinuation
Surface 2 prices slashed, hinting at discontinuation or replacement — Microsoft has cut $100 off the price of its Surface 2 Windows RT tablets. This puts the cheapest 32GB unit at $349, the 64GB un...
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
In the wake of Facebook's purchase of Oculus VR, can this revolutionary technology triumph anew? Seeing is Believing: The State of Virtual Reality By Matthew Schnipper The promise of virtual reality ...
Google getting into cloud-based visual effects with Zync buy
Summary: Previously a proud Amazon EC2 customer, the visual effects provider is also moving over to Google Cloud Platform. — Google is acquiring Zync Inc., bolstering the Internet giant's cloud-base...
Exclusive: Chipmaker Qualcomm may face EU antitrust probe
(Reuters) - Qualcomm, the world's No. 1 mobile chipmaker, may face a European antitrust investigation in relation to a four-year-old complaint by a subsidiary of rival Nvidia Corp, three people famili...
Box Taps Former LifeLock and Salesforce Dealmaker Iltchev for New SVP Slot
Box, the IPO-bound Silicon Valley cloud-storage and collaboration company has hired Villi Iltchev, the executive who led LifeLock's acquisition of Lemon, to head up its corporate development and acqui...
Twitter expands its advertising network in Europe with 12 countries, mainly in the CEE region
Twitter this morning announced on its blog that it is significantly broadening its ad network in Europe, more than doubling the number of countries on the continent it is available in today.