iPhone and “iWatch” NFC payments to use tokenization technology, prefered by banks for its security benefits
Apple to Use NFC, Tokenization in Payments, Sources Say — Apple will be utilizing near field communication (NFC) technology and tokenization technology in the new iPhone 6 …
5.5" ‘iPhone 6’ said to launch in limited quantities on Sept. 19 alongside 4.7" model
Apple fans clamoring for the anticipated 5.5-inch version of Apple's “iPhone 6” may not have to wait long, as a new report claims that the “phablet” model will launch alongside the 4.7-inch version on...
Amazon cuts Fire phone price to $0.99 in the US, opens Germany and UK pre-orders; will ship September 30
Amazon today announced it is cutting the Fire phone's price in the US to $0.99 with a two-year contract. That's not too bad given that one year of Prime is still included in the package.
Home Depot Hit By Same Malware as Target
The apparent credit and debit card breach uncovered last week at Home Depot was aided in part by a new variant of the same malicious software program that stole card account data from cash registers a...
Amazon Fire Phone's $200 price cut is just one more sign of its dismal market performance
Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone's Price to 99 Cents — SAN FRANCISCO — Sixty thousand people vied to attend the unveiling of Amazon's first smartphone in late June.
Apple pilot program to develop partnerships with merchants may be related to a loyalty/rewards program
Apple to Launch Pilot Program For Merchant Partnership — Apple will be launching a pilot program to develop partnerships with merchants, including retailers, according to multiple sources with knowl...
Apple Now Sending Alert Emails When iCloud Accounts Accessed via Web
In an interview last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook noted that Apple would be beefing up iCloud security measures in response to the recent disclosure of compromised celebrity accounts. Among the additiona...
The insane TiVo Mega costs $5,000, can record three years of TV, and looks like a rack server
Running out of room on your DVR sucks, no doubt. Is it enough of a problem for you to throw $5,000 at it? For most people, the answer is no, but in case it's a real issue you need to remedy …
Home Depot confirms retail payment systems breach, says credit cards but not PINs were exposed
Home Depot Finally Confirms Its Payment System Was Hacked For Months — Remember that “suspicious activity” that Home Depot was looking into last week? — Six days later …
Twitter Announces Its First Commerce Product — A “Buy” Button On Mobile
A “Buy” Button On Mobile — After months of reports and rumors, Twitter is announcing its first commerce product. — The company first signaled its interest in this area last year, when it hired form...
Nancy Pelosi urges FCC to reclassify broadband as a utility
A good number of politicians have recently made statements in favor of net neutrality, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is going further than most of them today and asking that the Federal Commu...
Reddit raising over $50M for less than 10% of the company, at a valuation upwards of $500M
Reddit Raising a Big Round, and Some Y Combinator Players Are in the Mix — Reddit, the social news site with a big Web footprint, is raising a big funding round — with help from some of the people …
Microsoft fully revamps its MSN portal, Bing mobile apps to be rebranded MSN too
Microsoft has fully overhauled its MSN portal to make it more deeply integrated with its other services. Alongside this, it will also be introducing a rebrand of its Bing mobile apps for Windows Phon...
Tinder settles sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former executive Whitney Wolfe; Justin Mateen no longer at the company
Tinder Settles Fast With Co-Founder In Sexual Harassment Suit — The shocking lawsuit, which sparked a national conversation around the treatment of women in tech, has been dropped.
As Jawbone Opens API for Up Health Tracker, It Is Also Seeking $100 Million in Additional Funding
San Francisco consumer electronics device maker Jawbone will announce this week that it will be opening up access to its Up app software that will allow it to be used on other smartphones, watches and...
If Reddit is a government, it's a failed state unable to control events within its borders
Reddit is a failed state — The “front page of the internet” is run by warlords — As Reddit trips over itself trying to contain its stolen nude photo problem, CEO Yishan Wong finally addressed …
Uber CEO says company is creating 50K jobs a month, shouldn't be as ruthless now that it's big
Uber CEO Thinks It Needs To Be Kinder And Gentler Now That It's On Top — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says he and his company get a bad rap for being aggressive because he learned to be fierce while run...
Developers rename their Markdown enhancement “CommonMark” after dispute with John Gruber
Standard Markdown Becomes Common Markdown then CommonMark — A group of representatives from Stack Exchange, GitHub, Reddit, and others have started to standardize and enhance Markdown under the name...
Microsoft rebrands Bing suite of apps to MSN, will release them all on iOS and Android
Microsoft rebrands Bing apps to MSN with iOS and Android versions due soon — MSN is back. Microsoft is revamping its MSN brand with the introduction of several Bing-powered apps and a new homepage.
iPhone 5 is still the most popular Apple smartphone, iPad 2 the most used tablet
iPhone 5 and iPad 2 Still Dominate As Apple Prepares for Announcement — Tomorrow, Apple is expected to launch the iPhone 6. With anticipation building for the announcement, one question looms large...
Paypal's Braintree announces One Touch payments and Bitcoin integration for developers
PayPal's Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments — Nearly a year after PayPal acquired it in an all-cash $800 million deal, online and mobile payments platform Braintree is unveiling one-touc...
HP Stream, Microsoft's Chromebook competitor, starts at $299, not the expected $199
HP Stream: A Windows Machine at a (Slightly High) Chromebook Price — Last month, HP gave us a good look at Microsoft's upcoming Chromebook slayer, known as the HP Stream, after temporarily posting i...
SheTaxis, an Uber-like service for women with exclusively women drivers, launches next week in New York State
New Service Offers Taxis Exclusively for Women — New Yorkers can already choose from yellow taxis, green cabs or black livery cars. They can tap a smartphone app for a ride, or simply stick out an ...
Microsoft starts rolling out Delve, its ‘Flipboard for Office 365’
Summary: Microsoft is kicking off its multi-month staged rollout of Delve, a new Office 365 search and presentation application. — Starting Monday, Microsoft is beginning to roll out Office Delve …
Microsoft Removes Image Widget After Getty Lawsuit
Since it was sued by Getty Images last week for copyright infringement, Microsoft has now taken down the beta version of its Bing Image Widget, which helped publishers embed panels of image search res...
Instacart inks deal with Whole Foods for in-store pick-up, speedier grocery delivery
Instacart has struck a formal partnership with Whole Foods Market, one which will allow for grocery delivery in less than an hour and allow customers to pick-up orders directly at selected stores.
Spotify To Let Free Users Get 30 Minutes Uninterrupted Listening In Return For Watching Video Ads
Spotify for Brands, the advertising side of the music streaming service (and one of the ways it generates revenue outside of paid subscriptions), is rolling out two new video ad units that will be see...
First vehicles with Apple's CarPlay hit the road as Ferrari delivers new FF to customers
Vehicles with Apple's new CarPlay functionality are starting to hit the roads with Ferrari announcing today that it's delivered its first batch of Ferrari FF models equipped with the new feature.
Flipboard Buys Photo and Video App Ultravisual, as It Preps for New Fall Products
Flipboard has purchased Ultravisual, a small Brooklyn-based app maker that offers elegant photo and video creation and collaboration software for Apple's iPhone iOS. — Terms of the deal for the seve...
Facebook's Value Tops $200 Billion on Mobile-Ad Optimism
Facebook Inc. (FB)'s market value exceeded $200 billion to put it among the world's biggest corporations, as investors bet on the company to capitalize on the future of mobile advertising. — Faceboo...
Bill Gross launches Idea Market to match startup ideas with prospective founders and investors
With Idea Market, Bill Gross Will Fund You to Bring His Ideas to Life — It requires no stretch of the imagination to say that Bill Gross is an idea guy. He came up with seminal Internet innovations...
Intel wants to modernize data centers with new Xeon server chips
Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize “legacy data centers” by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features. — The Xeon E5-2...
Verizon plans to create a sharing platform for virtually anything — not just cars
not just cars — The “sharing economy” is now moving into the “sharing services economy.” — This morning, Verizon Enterprise Services announced its “Auto Share” service, enabling any car company to ...