Markus “Notch” Persson on selling and leaving Mojang: “It's not about the money. It's about my sanity.”
I'm leaving Mojang — September 15th, 2014 I don't see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it's fun, and because I love games and I love to program …
Apple Announces Record Pre-orders for iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Top Four Million in First 24 Hours
Available in More Than 20 Additional Countries on Friday, September 26 — Apple® today announced a record number of first day pre-orders of iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus …
Microsoft announces Windows 9 event in San Francisco on September 30th
Microsoft is preparing to detail its next major version of Windows. We had been expecting the company to hold a press event later this month, and now it's official. Microsoft will hold a “Windows ev...
Paypal attacks Apple Pay security with full-page ad in NYT referencing recent iCloud celebrity photo hack
“We the people want our money safer than our selfies.” PayPal goes after Apple in a full page NYT ad — As the rumors of an Apple payments platform swirled leading up to last week's keynote …
Panasonic puts a 1-inch sensor and a Leica lens on new CM1 smartphone
Seeking to set a new benchmark for the cameraphone category — Panasonic has made the biggest news of Photokina so far with the announcement of its new Lumix CM1 Android smartphone.
Apple makes it easier to delete the new U2 album from iTunes libraries
Responds to controversy around ‘Songs of Innocence’ being pushed to people's devices with new web removal tool — Apple has responded to criticism of its deal to give away U2's new album to iTunes us...
Bill Gurley says Silicon Valley is taking on the most risk since 1999, will see high-profile failures in the next year or two
Venture Capitalist Sounds Alarm on Startup Investing — Silicon Valley Has Taken on Too Much Risk, Gurley Says — Silicon Valley is a risk-driven place.
Silicon Valley's view of Alibaba: a competitor only for investments, and a potential acquirer
How Silicon Valley sees Alibaba — Wall Street is seeing green this week regarding the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. It hopes to raise more than $20 billion.
Stanford, Duke University hospitals to launch HealthKit trials with diabetics, other patients
Exclusive: Two Apple medical trials shed light on how HealthKit will work — (Reuters) - Two prominent U.S. hospitals are preparing to launch trials with diabetics and chronic disease patients …
WikiLeaks releases copies of FinFisher malware governments reportedly use to spy on journalists, political dissidents, and others
SpyFiles 4 — Today, 15 September 2014, WikiLeaks releases previously unseen copies of weaponised German surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around …
Facebook launches an open source organization and releases new routing tech
Facebook is upping the ante in the open source world, announcing on Monday a new open source technology for routing data across server caches, and also a new open organization (along with other big-na...
Spotify launches on Amazon Fire TV in US, available to premium subscribers only
Spotify fires up on Amazon Fire TV — Amazon's streaming-media box adds support for the music service with more than 20 million songs. To use Spotify Connect, you'll need a premium subscription.
The FBI just finished building its facial recognition system
The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is now fully operational, after more than three years of development. The bureau announced today that development on the project was complete, an...
Transparency Report: Government demands for user info have risen 150% over the last five years
Today, we're updating our Transparency Report for the tenth time. This update details the number of government demands we received for user information in criminal investigations during the first hal...
Apple Watch Privacy Questioned by Connecticut AG Jepsen
Apple Inc. (AAPL) faces questions by Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen over privacy protections for users of the company's watch, which includes features such as health tracking, unveiled las...
500px Co-Founder And Former CEO Ousted From The Startup
Toronto's 500px photo portfolio site and marketplace is undergoing some major changes, as co-founder Oleg Gutsol is out from the company he started. The executive shared the information on Facebook o...
Macy's rolls out retail's largest beacon installation
Summary: Macy's expects to complete the installation by early fall, just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season. — Following a test run during last year's holiday shopping season at its fl...
Recruitment Trainwreck BranchOut In Talks To Be Acquired, May Sell Mobile Team To Hearst
BranchOut's story is a brutal lesson about the risk of derailment when you build on someone else's platform. After raising $49 million and growing to 33 million users, Facebook changed its viral chan...
Mojang's founders Markus “Notch” Persson, Carl Manneh, and Jakob Porsér to leave the company after Microsoft acquisition
Yes, we're being bought by Microsoft — Yes, the deal is real. Mojang is being bought by Microsoft. — It was reassuring to see how many of …
Apple Pay cements NFC as the industry standard, accelerates the shift toward ubiquitous mobile payments
Africa, ApplePay and the iPhone 6: Resistance is futile — If you've followed my bullish ramblings on mobile payments here at Finextra, you'll know that talk of the coming ubiquitousness …
Google launches Android One smartphones for around $105 in India, supports seven local languages and offline YouTube playback
Android One smartphones released in India by three companies — The three new smartphones feature the Android One branding on their backs
Several Massachusetts libraries installing Tor on all public PCs, coordinating privacy classes
Radical Librarianship: how ninja librarians are ensuring patrons' electronic privacy … It's no secret that libraries are among our most democratic institutions.
T-Mobile to Upgrade iPhone “Test-Drive” Units to iOS 8, With iPhone 6 Coming
T-Mobile, which has been letting potential customers try out an iPhone 5s for free, says it wants to incorporate Apple's latest technology into its program. — The carrier told Re/code that it will s...
Netflix makes its much-anticipated debut in France
Netflix has finally said ‘bonjour’ to France after the video-on-demand site marked its long-awaited arrival in the country, another part of its ambitious European expansion program. — Announced via ...