FBI claims security researcher Chris Roberts told them he was able to hack in-flight entertainment system during a flight and issue commands to engines
Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane — A security researcher kicked off a United Airlines flight last month …
Sources: Google to place buy buttons for products sold by some retailers alongside paid search results on mobile in coming weeks
Can Google Outsell Amazon and eBay? — Company will launch buy buttons on its search-results pages in coming weeks — Google Inc. will launch buy buttons …
Microsoft says it's taking control of updates for Windows 10 Mobile devices, bypassing carriers
Microsoft says it's taking over updates for Windows 10 Mobile devices — Summary:It's not exactly Android-style fragmentation, but Windows Phone users are perennially frustrated …
Apple Appears to Have Acquired GPS Firm Coherent Navigation
In one of its latest efforts to bolster its mapping capabilities, Apple appears to have acquired Coherent Navigation, a Bay Area GPS-related firm founded in 2008 by engineers from Stanford and Cornell...
US-based Bitcoin storage company Xapo is moving its headquarters to Switzerland citing customer privacy concerns, will keep small presence in Palo Alto
Xapo Moves to Switzerland Citing Customer Privacy Concerns — Xapo has officially relocated its corporate headquarters to Zurich …
Inside Zappos' switch to Holacracy, a manager-free operating structure, which led 14% of employees to quit
Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit — On March 24, Zappos' 1,500 or so employees got a memo from CEO Tony Hsieh.
Profile of Fan Bao, investment banker behind some of the biggest Chinese tech deals, like the $6B Didi Dache-Kuaidi Dache merger, and JD.com's $2B IPO
Searching for the Next Jack Ma — Fan Bao and his ‘Alpha Team’ of investment bankers are scouring China's startup scene to uncover a new wave of technology giants.
LG returns to Windows Phone with a budget Verizon handset
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Xiaomi's Mi Store ‘beta’ to open in US, UK, France and Germany on May 19th
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Samsung tells users Samsung Wallet will be discontinued June 30 as it prepares to launch Samsung Pay
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Alibaba sued in US by Kering, owner of Gucci and other luxury brands, over counterfeit goods
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Pandora should pay 2.5% of revenue to BMI instead of 1.75%, court rules
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How Microsoft is making the machine learning capabilities behind Cortana accessible to any app with Project Oxford
Cortana for all: Microsoft's plan to put voice recognition behind anything — Microsoft and co. make computer vision, voice, and text processing a Web request away. Tweets: @timoreilly Tweets: Tim O'...
Anonymously run music service using “Grooveshark” name is sued by record labels, loses domains, then moves to new domain
and another one pops up Napier Lopez / The Next Web : Revived ‘Grooveshark’ domain seized, new lawsuit filed
Survey of 100 women tech entrepreneurs shows 84% not from STEM background, 67% perceived bias in workplace, mentorship from men key for most, more
Tech Women Choose Possibility — When I came to Silicon Valley 18 years ago, I stayed. — I found the place that fanned the flames … Tweets: @sukhindersingh and @sukhindersingh Tweets: Sukhinder Sin...
Penn State's College of Engineering hires Mandiant, cuts Internet connection after FBI warns of two breaches, one linked to state-sponsored hackers in China
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Inside the almost-adult, insular lives of ambitious teenagers flooding into Silicon Valley to join tech startups
The Real Teens of Silicon Valley … “Do you know Zach Latta?” asked Fouad Matin, 19, on the roof of San Francisco's unofficial tech teenager headquarters one recent night. Tweets: @calebgarling , @prof...
Former Google PR employees now run communications at Silicon Valley companies like Facebook, Twitter, Uber, and Sequoia Capital
As Google Spins, So Does Silicon Valley — Google's influence on Silicon Valley's culture and business is unmatched. The free lunches, the shuttle buses … Tweets: @darcyday and @dannysullivan Tweets...
Security researchers publish Google App Engine exploits 3 weeks after private disclosure to company with no response; Google now says it's mitigating the issues
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The fall of Silk Road: how the FBI closed in on Dread Pirate Roberts
The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall — “I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life and it would be — good to have a detailed account of it. journal/2012/q1/january...
Razer Nabu X review: a $50 comfortable smartband with fairly accurate step counting but has useless LED user interface and adds no functionality to phones
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Interview with SoftBank's Nikesh Arora on working alongside Masayoshi Son, investment plans, and Sprint
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.