UK court rules GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, breached human rights law
GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, rules court — Access to intercepted information obtained by the NSA breached human rights laws, according to the Investigative Powers Tribunal
Tesla has hired 150+ Apple employees, more than from any other company; Apple tries poaching Tesla employees with $250,000 signing bonuses but recruits few
Apple Abduction — Tesla has hired more workers from Apple than from anyplace else — Doug Field never considered leaving Apple.
Google's advisory council on the Right to be Forgotten suggests limiting it to Europe
Limit ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ to Europe, Panel Tells Google — LONDON — Europe's so-called right to be forgotten should apply only in Europe. — That was the recommendation published on Friday …
First Ubuntu phone, a repurposed mid-range BQ Android phone, goes on flash sale in EU next week for $195
The first Ubuntu phone arrives next week, but there's a catch — It's been a long time coming, but finally Canonical is ready to release its first Ubuntu phone.
Study finds music labels take 73.1% of profits from streaming services; artists get 10.9%
Yes, Major Record Labels Are Keeping Nearly All The Money They Get From Spotify, Rather Than Giving It To Artists — A small group of very vocal musicians has decided that the new target of their ang...
Signs of China-Sponsored Hackers Seen in Anthem Attack
(Bloomberg) — Investigators of Anthem Inc.'s data breach are pursuing evidence that points to Chinese state-sponsored hackers who are stealing personal information from health-care companies for purpo...
HTC reports profits of $15.9M from revenue of $1.5B for Q4, its third consecutive profitable quarter
HTC reports slim profit for third consecutive quarter — HTC is looking beyond smartphones to grow its business as the company reports slim profit margins in its latest quarterly earnings.
Rocket Internet Puts $586M Into Delivery Hero, Buys 9 Other Food Startups
Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based e-commerce group that went public last year, is making some major consolidation moves in the food delivery business. It has acquired a 30% stake in Delivery Hero …
Farmers seek DMCA exemption to modify or repair high-tech proprietary agriculture equipment that is making DIY repairs impossible
New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers — A central Illinois corn farmer, on top of his combine, is silhouetted against the setting sun in Pleasant Plains, Illinois on Sept. 27, 2014...
ClusterHQ raises $12M Series A led by Accel Partners to expand its container data management tool, Flocker
ClusterHQ Raises $12M Series A Round To Expand Its Container Data Management Service — ClusterHQ today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A round led by Accel Partners London …
WhatsApp voice calling tested in India, works as well on Edge networks as on 3G
Exclusive: We tried WhatsApp Call and it is a winner! — Around 11PM last night, we got a surprise call from WhatsApps's Neeraj Arora. It wasn't any ordinary call but one he made from within WhatsAp...
Twitter Q4 user count grew 1.4%, down from 4.8% in Q3, company blames bug in iOS 8 integration
Twitter Blames Slow User Growth On iOS 8 Bug, But Predicts Strong Q1 2015 — Twitter's user count grew a measly 1.4% this quarter, down from 4.8% in Q3 2014, but CFO Anthony Noto said things are turn...
Uber Will Add Panic Button And Location/Journey Sharing In India On February 11
Late last year, Uber announced plans for tighter safety measures in India following the rape of a passenger using its service in December. Now it has confirmed that two major features …
Announcing The Winners Of The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards
Today at The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards TechCrunch and VentureBeat came together to celebrate the best of technology in 2014. It was a night for the ages. The Davies Symphony Hall was packed and Si...
Picsart, A Photo Editing App With 200M Downloads, Lands $10M From Sequoia
Picsart, a mobile photo editing app and community that claims 60 million monthly users, has closed $10 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. — This is the first outside investment that Picsart ha...
WordPress and Drupal plugin Amber aims to prevent linkrot by storing a mirror of every link on a website as a fallback
Amber, a new tool to prevent linkrot on websites, is out in beta — Ever seen a news story from a few years back — or maybe even just a few weeks back …
Obama to tap VMware's Tony Scott as federal CIO
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Twitter beats Q4 revenue expectations with $479M, nets just 4M new monthly users
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Facebook's Dedicated App For The Famous Gains Twitter Sharing, Topics In Timeline
Not all Facebooks are created equal: Facebook Mentions is an app the company released last year that lets celebrities use the social network in a way that's gear for filtering out noise and making fan...
RadioShack files for bankruptcy, will sell 2,400 of 4,000 stores; Sprint may create retail outlets in up to 1,750 stores
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Uber competitor Gett to launch corporate service in New York within weeks as company shifts global marketing budget to the city
Uber's Massive European Competitor Gett Shifts Focus To New York — As Uber doubles down on its investment in Europe and Southeast Asia, Gett is reinvesting its international profits into New York.
IBM Watson branches out into speech, text, visuals, and analysis
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GoPro gets closer to becoming a media company with its new Roku channel
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A first look at Photos for OS X, Apple's iPhoto replacement, now available as a developer seed
Introducing Photos for OS X. Featuring … Eric Slivka / MacRumors : OS X 10.10.3 Puts More Focus on Emoji, Lays Groundwork for Skin Tone Modifiers Jason Snell / Six Colors : New Apple Photos app contai...
Mattel and Google send out invites to 'view what's possible' at event on February 13
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Madonna premieres first music video from her new album Rebel Heart on Snapchat Discover, the first established artist to do so
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SwiftKey brings its Flow swipe-typing feature to iPad, and now supports emojis across iOS
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Yelp Achieves Profitability For First Time, Announces 72 Million Mobile Users
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Verizon sells landlines in CA, FL, TX, including 2.2M broadband subscriptions, to Frontier for $10.54B, wireless towers to American Towers for $5B
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Oracle paid north of $1.2B for Datalogix, says WSJ
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GrubHub moves into delivery, acquires DiningIn and agrees to buy Restaurants on the Run, for a total of $80M
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LinkedIn Q4 revenue $643M, up 44% YoY, $26M above analysts' projections; stock hits new peak of $257.80 in extended trading
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Pandora plunges more than 20% after missing estimates with $268M in revenue
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Twitter restricts employee access to MAU metrics, making them only available on a need-to-know basis
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Wearable World incubator acquires tech blog ReadWrite
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