Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Women Pay Gaffe: “I Answered That Question Completely Wrong.”
After making an unfortunate gender-related gaffe onstage at a women's tech event today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a memo to employees apologizing for comparing pay issues for women to “karma....
Amazon opening first brick-and-mortar store in Manhattan in time for holidays, will handle pickups and returns
Amazon to Open First Store — The New York City Location to Handle Same-Day-Delivery Inventory, Product Returns — Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to open …
Carl Icahn says Apple is “dramatically undervalued” in open letter to Tim Cook, asks for an accelerated stock repurchase program
Sale: Apple Shares at Half Price — “IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION” — As a large Apple shareholder with approximately 53 million shares …
Q&A with Lenovo product engineer Ashton Kutcher on the creation of the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro
Q&A: Ashton Kutcher, Lenovo ‘Product Engineer,’ Doesn't Fear the iPad … Ashton Kutcher plays the role of Lenovo product engineer well. Really well, almost like Michael Kelso well.
Apple suppliers postpone production of 12.9" iPad from December to early 2015 in order to cope with strong iPhone demand
Larger Apple iPad to Be Delayed — Apple Suppliers Concentrating on Meeting Demand for New iPhones — Apple Inc. suppliers have pushed back plans to mass produce …
Google's plans to release its largest smartphone this month, a 5.9" Nexus code-named Shamu
Google Hopes Whale of a Phone Will Make Splash in Phablet Market — Google this month expects to release its largest smartphone, intensifying competition in the fast-growing market …
Apple's Eddy Cue says U2's free “Songs of Innocence” had 26M complete downloads since September 9
The Download Heard 'Round the World: iTunes Numbers Show 81 Million ‘Experienced’ U2 Album
Jony Ive: companies that copy Apple's style are stealing
It's not flattery — it's theft, Apple's head of design says — When Jony Ive sees designs from other companies that closely mimic Apple's, he isn't flattered. Apple's head of design told the audienc...
Imgur now converts GIF uploads to more compact MP4 format, increases upload limit 10X to 50MB, plans to standardize new “GIFV” container format
Introducing GIFV — GIFs are no longer about .GIFs-the culture of the GIF now trumps the file format.
Snapchat CEO Spiegel Says Untargeted Advertising Is Coming Soon
Snapchat, the popular mobile app for disappearing messages, is close to launching its first disappearing ads as the company sets out to prove its $10 billion valuation. — Evan Spiegel, the startup's...
Google's Eric Schmidt: US spy programs may “end up breaking the internet” if not reformed
US Spy Programs May Break the Internet if Not Reformed, Google Leader Says — PALO ALTO — You own your data. And the government needs to start respecting that.
Uber and Lyft both get an “F” from the Better Business Bureau; so does Yellow Cab
Uber Technologies has received an “F” — the lowest possible grade — from the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern Coastal California Better Business Bureau as a result of a pattern of complaints …
Sony SmartWatch 3 Lands With Verizon This Month At $249.99
Another day and another smartwatch to report on. Today Sony held a special event in New York entitled “Demand Great”. The main purpose of the event was to launch the new Sony Xperia Z3 variant, the ...
Unity, one gaming development platform to unite them all, up for sale
A presentation pitching Unity has been circulating around the games industry, sources say. The potential buyer gets popular software that powers games, large and small.
Microsoft makes slew of commitments to get businesses hooked on Surface
Microsoft today made a slew of announcements as part of a new commitment to Surface for business. — The company says firms have been asking it about a longer-term commitment to Surface for businesse...
Skype's new design on Windows and Mac focuses on messaging
Mobile look and feel reaches the desktop — Microsoft's Skype client has traditionally focused on video and voice calls, but with the rise of mobile it has started to shift to target instant messagin...
Google launches Hangouts app for Chrome on Windows and Chrome OS
Google today launched a new Hangouts app for Chrome on Windows as well as Chrome OS. You can download the app now directly from the Chrome Web Store. — The release brings Google's chat service to t...
Google asks US Supreme Court to overturn lower court in Oracle's Java API copyright case
Google asks Supreme Court to decide Oracle copyright fight — (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to wade into contentious litigation against Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) …
Google releases 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image
Google today released the x86 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image, allowing developers to start testing their 64-bit apps. You can download the emulator image now from the Android NDK p...
Yahoo still wants to poach YouTube stars, hopes to host their new channels on Tumblr
Marissa Mayer's Secret Plan For Tumblr Revealed: Make It YouTube — Just after Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in the spring of 2013, several of Marissa Mayer's top product and media executives ...
Business subscribers of Quip productivity suite can now integrate spreadsheets into documents
Quip: Make Numbers Dynamic, Too — Quip, a fast-moving start-up that makes collaborative software for mobile workers, has an important new addition to its product: Spreadsheets.
The White House Joins Medium
Hello, Medium! It's the White House. — We're really excited to be here. We'll use this account to share ideas and stories from President Obama and his administration—from a look at what's happenin...
Box Acquires Y Combinator-Backed MedXT To Bolster Its Healthcare Push
Box, an enterprise-focused cloud storage and productivity company, announced this morning that it has acquired Y Combinator-backed MedXT, a firm that provides a cloud-based file storage system for med...
Google and Snapchat Veteran Magnusson to Lead Oracle Cloud
Business software giant Oracle is getting serious about cloud computing and has made its first hire demonstrating exactly how serious. — Sources familiar with the move tell Re/code that two weeks ag...
Amazon's DynamoDB Gets Hugely Expanded Free Tier And Native JSON Support
Amazon today announced a large update to its DynamoDB NoSQL database service that introduces a massively expanded free tier and the ability to store entire JSON-formatted documents as single database ...
WeatherSignal, OpenSignal's crowdsourced weather reporting app, comes to iOS 8
OpenSignal brings its crowdsourced weather reporting app to iPhone — In May last year, we brought you news on WeatherSignal, a new crowdsourced weather reporting tool. The Web and Android app came ...
Revealed: How Google engineer Neel Mehta uncovered the Heartbleed security bug
Google engineer Neel Mehta found the Heartbleed bug — The media-shy Google engineer who found the Heartbleed computer security vulnerability has spoken out for the first time, revealing how he found...
Apple outlines Apple Pay, NFC operation in comprehensive patent filing
For a major mobile payment platform on the verge of launch, not much is known about the nuts and bolts behind Apple Pay. A new patent application discovered on Thursday, however, offers a detailed lo...
Thync raises $13M led by Khosla Ventures for mood altering device, expected to ship 2015
Thync Raises $13 Million for Its Brain-Stimulating Electrodes — In a windowless conference room at Thync, a secretive startup in Los Gatos, Calif., I recently tried what may be Silicon Valley's stra...
Weebly unveils drag-and-drop website builder in multiple languages for iPad; operates on freemium model
Weebly Debuts An iPad App For Building And Managing Websites — Website creation startup Weebly has quietly grown to power a large number of publisher and e-commerce sites over the years …
Alibaba Invests $50 Million in TV Remote App Peel
Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, continues to place financial bets outside of its core e-commerce focus, investing $50 million into entertainment app maker Peel. — The Mountain View, Calif.-based st...
MSN's new web design features breaking news Tweets
MSN sees over 425 million visitors each month, many of whom come to get the news from some of the world's most authoritative news organizations. And as the go-to platform for breaking news, legions o...
Google launches Google+ polls, putting its Polar acquisition to use
Today Google announced a new feature for its oft-ignored social network: polls. — The introduction of this feature comes with little surprise, as it closely follows Google's high-profile purchase of...