Facebook proposes changes to its terms, data and cookies policies; releases interactive privacy guides; lets users opt out of certain ads on all devices
Updating our Terms and Policies: Helping You Understand How Facebook Works and How to Control Your Information
Reddit CEO Yishan Wong resigns, Ellen Pao to be interim CEO, Alexis Ohanian back full time as executive chairman
Reddit Chief Executive Resigns as Company Shuffles Top Ranks — Reddit, the popular online community message board, wants to grow up into a viable business.
Harry Reid Moves For Senate Vote on NSA Reform
The Senate Majority Leader is hoping to move the bulk data collection bill before his party returns to the minority. — “That sunset could very easily touch off an ugly intra-party battle among both ...
Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS
At its re:invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon today announced its first Docker-centric product: the EC2 Container Service for managing Docker containers on its cloud computing platform.
MPAA launches WhereToWatch site, listing legal movie and TV streams in continued fight against piracy
Here's Another Movie and TV Search Site. This One's From Hollywood. — There are so many places to find movies and TV shows. They're on TV! They're on the Internet!
Nexus 6 review: the best performing Android phone on the market but suffers from poor display calibration and relatively short battery life
The Nexus 6 Review — When consumers think of Google's Nexus devices, they think about the promise of receiving the latest updates for Android essentially as soon as they release.
Apple's A8X features powerful semi-custom 8-core GPU
Apple A8X's GPU - GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought — Working on analyzing various Apple SoCs over the years has become a process of delightful frustrating. Apple's SoC development is consistentl...
Fortune's Businessperson of the Year, Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe
Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe — There's a joke about Larry Page that's been making the rounds at Google X, the “moon shot” factory where Google …
In new agreement with Amazon, Hachette will set prices for its ebooks
Updated: Amazon and Hachette finally reach deal; Hachette will set its ebook prices — Amazon and book publisher Hachette have finally reached a deal in the contentious and public negotiations that...
AngelList rolls out new “Funds”, which allow institutional investors to back portfolios of startups
A disruptor shakes up angel investing — One recent evening a group of institutional money managers was ushered into a backroom at San Francisco brasserie the Cavalier via …
S&P assigns junk rating to Twitter's debt, as 5% stock slide erases most of Thursday's gains
Twitter Is Junk, Says S&P — Twitter shares are down more than 5% in afternoon trade on Thursday, giving up almost all of their gains from yesterday, after the company received a “junk” rating from c...
Mozilla to serve ads on Firefox's new tab page, uses anonymized browsing history instead of cookies for ad personalization, users can opt out
Mozilla Finally Releases Its Browser Ad Product, Hints At Programmatic In 2015 — Mozilla, which makes the Firefox web browser …
Amazon: ARM Chipmakers Aren't Matching Intel's Innovation
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), which operates some of the world's largest data centers, said makers of chips that use ARM Holdings Plc (ARM)'s technology aren't keeping up with Intel Corp. (INTC)'s pace of i...
Facebook makes new privacy policy 70% shorter, includes interactive Privacy Basics tutorials
Facebook Gives Its Privacy Policy a Makeover — Facebook simplified and shortened by two-thirds its description of how it uses data, responding to concerns that users didn't understand its policies.
Secret US DOJ program collecting data from thousands of cellphones through phony communications “towers” deployed on airplanes
Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program — Fake Cellphone Towers on Planes Used to Target Criminals, but Also Sift Through Thousands of Other Phones
Google underwriting quadruples the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, which recognizes contributions to computing, to $1M, now on par with Nobel prize money
Google Lifts the Turing Award Into Nobel Territory — The A.M.Turing Award is often called the Nobel prize of computer science.
Apple downplays Masque threat, ‘not aware’ of any users affected
CUPERTINO — In Apple's first statement since a vulnerability in its popular mobile devices was described by security specialists, the company said Thursday that it was unaware of any user actually bei...
Samsung to invest millions in short-form video for new mobile service; may use pay-per-month revenue model and include music
Samsung Preps New Mobile Video Service — Samsung Electronics is rebooting its mobile video strategy in a test of whether short-form video content can drive mobile revenues just as games have.
Amazon Launches Lambda, An Event-Driven Compute Service
Amazon Web Services announced a new service today called Lambda, a stateless event-driven compute service for dynamic applications that doesn't require provisioning of any compute infrastructure. — ...
Google's Search App For Android Gets Material Design Update And New Smarts
The Google app for Android — the app that handles your voice searches, Google Now Updates and more — is getting an update today that brings Google's new Material Design user interface to the app for d...
Taylor Swift's label says she earned less than $500K for domestic streaming the past 12 months; Spotify claims it paid her $2M for global streaming
Taylor Swift's Spotify Paycheck Mystery — Spotify and Swift's record label provide new figures to defend themselves in the battle over profits from the streaming music service
Big Fish Games to be acquired for $885 million by racetrack operator Churchill Downs
Seattle-based Big Fish Games, one of the largest privately-held tech companies in the Northwest, has agreed to be be acquired by Churchill Downs Inc. for $885 million. Churchill Downs Inc …
Microsoft Buys Israeli Hybrid Cloud Security Startup Aorato In $200M Deal
Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired Aorato, an Israel-based maker of security solutions co-founded by veterans of the Israeli defense forces, which only exited from stealth earlier this yea...
Sony launches PlayStation Vue web-based TV service with all major broadcast and some cable networks, testing in NYC with broad rollout in Q1 2015
Sony to Introduce Web-Based TV Service — Sony is pressing play on a new web-based television service that represents an attempt to transform …