Pew: most US internet users familiar with common terms like megabyte, captcha, but few understand concepts like Moore's Law, Internet vs. Web
What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web — Before you read the report, test your own Web IQ by taking the interactive knowledge quiz.
With Google's deal expiring in 2015, Yahoo and Microsoft compete to take over as default search engine in Safari for iOS
All Eyes on Apple as Google Search Deal Expires Next Year — Mozilla's decision last week to replace Google with Yahoo as the default search engine for the Firefox browser …
Sony to cut TV, smartphone lineup; sees growth in PlayStation, image sensors
(Reuters) - Japan's loss-making Sony Corp plans to slash its TV and mobile phone product line-ups to cut costs, counting on multi-billion dollar revenue surges for its buoyant PlayStation 4 and image ...
Netflix Sues a Former Exec — Now Yahoo's CIO — For Allegedly Collecting Kickbacks
Now Yahoo's CIO — For Allegedly Collecting Kickbacks — Netflix says a former executive collected kickbacks from vendors he helped connect to the streaming video company. — Now Netflix is suing its ...
Uber Said Close to Raising Funding at Up to $40B Value
Uber Technologies Inc. is close to raising a round of financing that would value the mobile car-booking company at $35 billion to $40 billion, according to people with knowledge of the situation. — ...
Twitter Introduces Offers: Discounts You Claim in Tweets and Redeem in Stores
First, Twitter dipped its toes into e-commerce. Now it wants a piece of bricks-and-mortar retail, too. — The social network today is introducing Twitter Offers, discounts that users can claim right...
Coin beta review: limited utility, confusing setup, doesn't work at ATM, broke after 36 hours
My experience with Coin Beta in the real world — It worked, but then my unit stopped functioning — I don't carry around a traditional wallet. Instead, I've got a pile of cards held together with ...
Twitter declines to release full-archive search API to devs, wounds third-party clients again
New Twitter search API won't be available to third-party clients — This is just the next step in killing third-party apps. Twitter doesn't have the guts to just end them outright …
Betaworks' latest experiment-turned-product is #Homescreen, a simple app that lets users share their iPhone home screens
Homescreen Is Betaworks' Latest Experiment-Turned-Product — When someone picks up their phone to take a peek, I can't help but take a peek, too.
Twitter has talked to Bieber-backed Shots: Source
Twitter has talked about an acquisition of Shots, the selfie app backed by singer Justin Bieber, a source close to Shots told CNBC on Tuesday. — Twitter's acquisition plans became the subject of hot...
Dropbox's integration with Microsoft's Office apps is now live for iOS and Android devices
It was only earlier this month that Dropbox announced a deal with Microsoft to allow document editing capabilities from directly inside Dropbox, and today it's actually rolling out for mobile users.
Microsoft to pay China $140 million for ‘tax evasion’
(Reuters) - China has levied about $140 million in back taxes from Microsoft Corp in the first major case concerning cross-border tax evasion in the country, as regulators ramp up pressure on U.S. cor...
Facebook's AI group hires Vladimir Vapnik, who pioneered statistical learning theory and co-invented the Support Vector Machine method
We are delighted to announce that Vladimir Vapnik has joined Facebook AI Research. — Vladimir is universally known in the machine learning …
Facebook schedules second public Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg for Dec. 11 at 2pm PT
Facebook has scheduled another public Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg — Earlier this month Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted a public Q&A. Attendees and those online could submit questions and the CEO …
StealthGenie CEO ordered to pay $500K fine for selling spyware app, surrender source code to government
Man Pleads Guilty for Selling “StealthGenie” Spyware App and Ordered to Pay $500,000 Fine — A Danish citizen today pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia and was ordered …
Going Out App YPlan Raises $24M As It Lays Off Staff, Plans Pivot Into Long-Tail Events
YPlan — the app that gives people with no plans a curated selection of things to do and the ability to buy tickets to do them — has some big plans of its own. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed …