Apple targets Watch battery life of 2.5 hours heavy use and 3.5 hours standard use; pure standby battery life likely to be 2-3 days; CPU said to be A5-caliber
Apple targets for Apple Watch battery life revealed, A5-caliber CPU inside — Although Apple has said that the Apple Watch …
Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream With a Regulated Exchange
Bitcoin, the virtual currency that was once the talk of the financial world, has been taking a beating over the last year with the price tumbling downward. — Now two of the biggest boosters of the v...
Box opens at over $20 per share, 44% above IPO price, giving it a valuation of around $2.5B
Box Skyrockets 50% To More Than $21 Per Share In First Minutes As A Public Company — Bam. — Today Box opened at around $20.50, far above its $14 IPO price, giving the company a valuation of around...
Verizon: Don't expect us to offer a data rollover plan
Verizon CFO Fran Shammo says the carrier won't be following AT&T and T-Mobile's lead. — Don't hold your breath for Verizon Wireless to counter AT&T and T-Mobile with a data rollover program. — Tha...
Ulbricht Confessed to Running Silk Road, His College Friend Testifies
In this courtroom sketch, defendant Ross Ulbricht listens to proceedings from the defense table during opening arguments in his criminal trial in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. Elizabeth Wlliams/A...
Ford opens new Silicon Valley research lab to attract tech talent, work on autonomous cars
Ford's new Silicon Valley outpost seeks tech talent — PALO ALTO, Calif. — The earth-toned office building looks like any other here in Silicon Valley, an airy low-rise designed …
Hutchison Says It's In Exclusive Negotiations To Buy UK's O2 For Up To £10.25B
Today, Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa released a statement saying that it is in exclusive negotiations with Telefonica to acquire mobile carrier O2 in the UK, offering to pay up to £10.25 billion (...
Andreessen Horowitz explains 16 tech trends of interest including VR and machine learning
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Tim Cook's compensation doubled to $9.22M in 2014; retail executive Angela Ahrendts received $73.4M
Apple's Cook Gets $9.22 Million in Pay as Stock Reaches High — Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook received compensation valued at $9.22 million last year …
Cover story on the rise of unicorns: 80+ private companies achieve valuations of at least $1B
The Age of Unicorns — Stewart Butterfield had one objective when he set out to raise money for his startup last fall: a billion dollars or nothing. If he couldn't reach a $1 billion valuation for S...
Bill and Melinda Gates annual letter: How the smartphone will lift up the world
Fifteen years after starting their foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates released their 2015 annual letter overnight, laying out their goals for the next 15 years and explaining their “big bet” — that …
Expedia Acquires Travelocity for $280 Million
The Roaming Gnome, Travelocity's mascot, takes part in the company's 16th birthday festivities at its Southlake, Texas headquarters. Max Faulkner / Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT) — Skift Take: Exped...
Apple HomeKit incompatible with home automation accessories not licensed as MFi products that connect over WiFi, like Nest Thermostat
Apple details HomeKit compatibility with competing home automation platforms, rules out rival Wi-Fi gear — Apple will allow its upcoming Siri-controlled …
Uber relaunches in Delhi with radio taxi licence
Over the past few weeks … Joanna Sugden / Wall Street Journal : How Uber Came Back to Delhi Loek Essers / PC World : Dutch authorities fine Uber €10,000 a pop Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune : Box starts t...
Obama quietly abandoned proposal to put phone metadata collected by NSA under non-governmental control
Obama abandons telephone data spying reform proposal: U.S. officials — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration has quietly abandoned a proposal it had been considering …
Sprint targeting T-Mobile customers w/ $200 min. trade-in offer for switchers
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J.Crew CEO Millard Drexler is retiring from Apple's Board of Directors; no replacement named
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Spotify updates iOS app with Touch Preview, a quick way to sample and discover music using gestures
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Google Joins Apple, Others Cutting Off Crimea, Blocks AdWords, AdSense, Google Play
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Apple's Logic Pro X 10.1 adds new sounds and popular musical genres
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Twitter launches Bing translation of tweets on iOS, Android, and web
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Surface devices running Windows RT will not be updated with a full version of Windows 10
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Vimeo launches Publisher Network, where partners can sell VOD titles on their sites; first partners include CBS, Atlantic, and TEN
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Google Suggesting Firefox Users Change Their Search Engine & Home Page
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Sources: Snapchat's Discover feature will include content created by newly hired media team
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Facebook enabling advertisers to target people posting on Super Bowl topics in near real time
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In addition to Project Spartan, Windows 10 will include Internet Explorer for enterprise sites
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Braintree opens private beta allowing US merchants to accept bitcoin via its v.zero SDK and Coinbase integration
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Amazon Agrees to Buy Israel's Annapurna Labs for AWS Cloud Unit
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Ravello raises $28M round led by Qualcomm and SanDisk Ventures for nested cloud virtualization
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