Nokia Lumia to become Microsoft Lumia, Nokia branding to continue on entry-level phones
Say hello to Microsoft Lumia — When we announced that the Nokia Devices & Services business would become part of Microsoft, we also shared that Lumia, our smartphone brand, would become part of the ...
Only employees, not Wall Street, can pressure Bezos to slow spending on new Amazon initiatives
Amazon Employees, Not Investors, Will Have to Pressure Jeff Bezos to Slow Down — Thursday's quarterly earnings report from Amazon spooked Wall Street. The 95 cents per share loss …
Larry Page reorgs staff, transfers leadership of core Google products to Sundar Pichai
Exclusive: Google CEO Larry Page Reorgs Staff, Anoints Sundar Pichai as New Product Czar — In a significant reorganization of Google management, CEO Larry Page is transferring leadership …
Microsoft discloses severe Office zero-day flaw, publishes quick fix
Microsoft has published a temporary fix for a new zero-day flaw that affects nearly all versions of Windows and is currently being exploited via PowerPoint. — The flaw affects all Windows releases e...
Deezer Buys Stitcher, Adds 35K Talk Radio Shows And Podcasts To Its Music Platform
Deezer, the Paris-based music streaming service that competes against the likes of Spotify and Rdio, is switching up its game in the battle for more differentiation, more users and a higher profile in...
Apple's music sales down 13% this year; Beats Music to relaunch as part of iTunes in 2015
Apple iTunes Sees Big Drop in Music Sales — Dive of at Least 13% in Download Sales Underscores Music Industry's Fragile Recovery
Study finds VC confidence in Silicon Valley declining for first time in two years
Venture Capitalists' Confidence Is Waning — or So It Seems … A quarterly survey that gauges the confidence level in Silicon Valley shows that venture capitalists downgraded their enthusiasm in the thi...
Google adds information about video games to Knowledge Graph in search results
Google search finally adds information about video games — Google has expanded its search engine with the ability to recognize video games. If your query references a game, a new Knowledge Graph pa...
Tumblr Updates Video Player With Auto Play, Vine-Like Loops, And More
Recently, rumors have circulated about Yahoo's plan to turn Tumblr into a potential YouTube competitor. For that to happen, Tumblr's in-house video player need to be on par with its rivals, and the b...
Ten years of Ubuntu: How Linux's beloved newcomer became its criticized king
It may not be Superman, but Ubuntu has done wonders for Linux. — Nicolás Demarchi — In October of 2004, a new Linux distro appeared on the scene with a curious name—Ubuntu.
Google's New Search Downranking Hits Torrent Sites Hard
In recent years Hollywood and the music industry have taken a rather aggressive approach against Google. The entertainment industry companies have accused the search engine of not doing enough to lim...
Bitcasa drops unlimited storage, upgrades infrastructure, users must migrate data by Nov. 15
Bitcasa nixes unlimited storage plan as it upgrades its infrastructure — As part of the change, users will need to download new Bitcasa apps and then migrate their old data to the new platform …
Amazon Quietly Launches A Functional App Store Within Its Main Android Application
Until recently, if you wanted to install an application from Amazon's own Appstore onto your Android device, you would have to install the Amazon Appstore app separately. And this is a bit of a hassl...
Google bought six Redwood City office buildings totaling about 934,200 square feet for $585M
Google Said to Buy Redwood City Offices for $585 Million — Google Inc. (GOOGL) bought six office buildings northwest of its Silicon Valley headquarters from Starwood Capital Group LLC and Blackstone...
New York City Police to Be Equipped With Smartphones and Tablets
The New York Police Department will begin equipping all of its officers with smartphones and outfitting many police cars with tablet computers in an effort to modernize the nation's largest police for...
Yelp Buys Restaurant-Kritik To Expand Its Presence In Germany
Yelp has boosted its presence in Europe after announcing the acquisition of Restaurant-Kritik, a restaurant review service in Germany. Restaurant-Kritik claims to have over 330,000 reviews of more th...