Intel chips will replace Texas Instruments' in a new version of Google Glass coming next year
Google-Glass Deal Thrusts Intel Deeper Into Wearable Tech — Intel Corp. will supply the electronic brains for a new version of Google Inc. 's Glass device expected next year …
Sony hires Mandiant after cyber attack, FBI starts probe
(Reuters) - Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired FireEye Inc's Mandiant forensics unit to clean up a massive cyber attack that knocked out the studio's computer network nearly a week ago, three peopl...
Microsoft Buys Mobile Email Startup Acompli For More than $200 Million
Microsoft is expected to announce later Monday morning that it is indeed buying e-mail start-up Acompli. — There may not be much surprise in this one thanks to an errant blog post, but Microsoft's p...
Obama announces $75M funding for up to 50K police body cameras
Obama announces funding for 50,000 police body cameras — In an announcement today, the White House has pledged $263 million in new federal funding for police training and body cameras, enough to pur...
Google sold more Chromebooks to US schools than Apple did iPads in Q3
According to the latest data from IDC, Google, for the first time ever, has overtaken Apple in United States schools. The research firm claims that Google shipped 715,000 Chromebooks to schools in th...
Amazon Reveals the Robots at the Heart of Its Epic Cyber Monday Operation
Don't tell the kiddies, but Santa's workshop isn't at the North Pole. It's here in Tracy, California, next to a line of rusting, graffiti-covered freight cars, in a building so long that you can't se...
Apple going to trial this week for decade old iTunes DRM lawsuit, faces potential $350M in damages
Star Witness in Apple Suit Is Steve Jobs — SAN FRANCISCO — Three years after his death, Steve Jobs is very much a presence in courtrooms across the country. — And that's not necessarily good news ...
Yahoo is selling Flickr photos licensed for commercial use with Creative Commons but won't share profits with most creators
Fight Over Yahoo's Use of Flickr Photos — Yahoo Starts Selling Canvas Prints From Free Pictures Uploaded to the Internet Sharing Site
Uber hires Goldman Sachs to raise money from bank's high-net-worth clients in a convertible debt offering separate from the reported $1B raise
Exclusive: Uber hires Goldman Sachs to raise money from bank clients — On-demand ride company Uber has hired Goldman Sachs GS to raise money …
Airbnb acquires Pencil Labs, creators of scheduling app Wyth
Airbnb picks up Pencil, Cambridge startup that built scheduling app — Airbnb has quietly acquired a small Cambridge startup, Pencil Labs. Pencil Labs had built a scheduling app called Wyth that was...
Profile of Tobi Lütke, CEO of software maker Shopify, which powers over 120k online stores
Meet our CEO of the Year — Tobi Lütke wears his pink hard hat with pride. “I like it,” he says. “I'm the only person with a pink hard hat in the entire house.” — By “house” he means “building.”
Cypress Semiconductor buys Spansion in $4B Silicon Valley chip deal
Cypress Semiconductors and Spansion, two of the largest chip companies in Silicon Valley, announced Monday that they will merge in a $4 billion deal. The newly formed company will retain the Cypress ...
AOL Adds More Video Help by Buying Content Syndicator Vidible for Around $50 Million
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has spent a lot of time building out his video business. Now he is buying Vidible, a startup that's supposed to make it easier for publishers to get their video on other people'...
Mozilla rolls out Firefox 34 with default Yahoo search for North America, disables support for SSL 3.0 standard
Firefox's latest update makes Yahoo the default search option — That was fast. It was just two weeks ago that Mozilla announced a deal making Yahoo the default search engine in Firefox …
Microsoft does away with Clip Art and replaces it with Bing Images
When was the last time you used Clip Art? If you can't remember, you're not alone: Microsoft's Office team today announced it is doing away with Clip Art's online image library and replacing it wit...
U.S. Thanksgiving, Black Friday Sales Break $1B; Total Holiday Spend Online Will Be $89B
Online retailers use Cyber Monday to extend the first flush of the post-Thanksgiving holiday sales rush, and now analysts are coming out with their first numbers laying out how holiday sales have been...
US, EU officials seize 292 domains for sites allegedly selling counterfeit goods
Officials seize 292 domain names to protect consumers during holiday season — The holiday season is rife with online rip-offs. In a move to protect consumers, law enforcement officials have seized ...
Online Sales for Girl Scout Cookies Are Approved
Girl Scouts are adding digital marketing to their formidable arsenal of charm, cuteness and perseverance to sell millions of boxes of Thin Mints, Samoas and other longtime cookie favorites. — After ...
Hortonworks IPO: 6M shares at $12-$14, valued at approx $600M, less than $1B reported earlier, hopes to raise $96.6M; will debut on Nasdaq under symbol NDP
Hortonworks lowers IPO target a bit, hopes to raise up to $96.6M — Big Data software provider Hortonworks on Monday set price targets …
Video messaging startup Glide Talk raises $20M, now valued at $100M
Video-Messaging Firm Glide Talk Lures $20 Million Funding Round … Jerusalem-based video-messaging startup Glide Talk Ltd. has secured a $20 million investment round, the company said last week, bringi...
Kik founder: young consumers who haven't settled on banking, shopping and gaming services are key to building a WeChat-like platform in developed markets
The Race to Become the WeChat of the West — I remember pitching Kik to investors in 2009. It was the most frustrating experience.
Lending Club sets IPO price range of $10-12 a share, could raise up to $692M at $4B valuation
Lending Club Prices Its Share Offering, Seeking Up to $692 Million in I.P.O. — Lending Club shot to prominence nearly eight years ago by helping borrowers and lenders avoid big banks and find each o...
Amazon Echo speaker review: uneven sound quality, voice control a mere novelty, no iOS integration
Amazon Echo talks the talk, but still needs a little work on walking the walk — The Good The Amazon Echo is an attractively designed speaker and its voice-control system …
Amazon Echo speaker review: uneven sound quality, voice control a mere novelty, no iOS integration
Amazon Echo talks the talk, but still needs a little work on walking the walk — The Good The Amazon Echo is an attractively designed speaker and its voice-control system …
Dropbox For Business Is About To Launch An Enterprise Tools API To Fight Box
Dropbox's frilly consumer brand and lack of hardcore enterprise security features has kept its “For Business” software from scoring more corporate clients. But an internal-only Dropbox launch plan at...