Sources: Uber closed round of nearly $1B with Microsoft participating, valuing the company at over $50B and bringing total funding to more than $5B
Uber Valued at More Than $50 Billion — Ride-sharing app, which just closed a funding round, reaches mark faster than Facebook
Japanese Police Arrest Mark Karpelès of Collapsed Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox
Official says police allege he manipulated the company's computer system to inflate its assets — TOKYO—Japanese police on Saturday arrested Mark Karpelès, the head of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. ...
Anonymous Obama administration sources say US will retaliate against China for OPM hack and is weighing options that include breaching the Great Firewall
U.S. Decides to Retaliate Against China's Hacking — The Obama administration has determined that it must retaliate against China …
Hackers find vulnerabilities in Industrial Ethernet Switches used in hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants
How hackers can take over nuclear power plants — The world's most important facilities—think massive hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants—are vulnerable to devastating cyberattacks.
88,000 Nvidia Shield tablets recalled due to heat risk
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Yahoo Will Acquire Fashion Startup Polyvore
Yahoo just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire style-focused community Polyvore. — In a blog post about the deal, Yahoo's senior vice president of publisher products Simon Khalaf h...
Microsoft Said to Invest About $100 Million in Startup Uber
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to invest about $100 million in Uber Technologies Inc. at a valuation of approximately $50 billion, a person with knowledge of the matter said. — The deal was finalized ea...
Kim Dotcom no longer involved with Mega, plans to create open-source, non-profit competitor
Kim Dotcom: 'I don't think your data is safe on Mega anymore' — In a Q&A session with Slashdot users this week, Kim Dotcom, the infamous former millionaire at the center of a US court case against M...
Xiaoice, Microsoft's Chinese chatbot, has a sense of humor, good listening skills, and 20M registered users
For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program — She is known as Xiaoice, and millions of young Chinese pick up their smartphones every day to exchange messages with her …
Trevor O'Brien, the Product Lead Running All Twitter Apps, Is Departing
Another key product exec is leaving Twitter. — Trevor O'Brien, who joined Twitter a year and a half ago from YouTube and oversees product for Twitter's iOS and Android apps, is departing the company...
4th Amendment Lives: Court Tells US Government Get A Warrant If It Wants Mobile Phone Location Info
A potentially big ruling came out of the courtroom of Judge Lucy Koh yesterday, in which she affirmed a magistrate judge's decision to tell the government to get a warrant if it wants …
Lyft forgoes global expansion in favor of U.S. market domination
SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft has walked back years of promises about a global expansion, and instead the car-booking company is doubling down on the U.S. market, hoping to beat its biggest foe here at home. T...
Japan's Sharp to stop making TVs for the North American market after worse-than-expected quarterly loss of $274m
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Lawsuit forces Samsung to issue software patch allowing users to delete bloatware, but only in China
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Dropbox Arrives On Roku With An App For Viewing Your Personal Photos And Movies
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Frontback announces they will not shut down, after signing an agreement with a new partner
Frontback, the once-hot startup that rejected a $40 million Twitter acquisition, is back from the dead — The selfie app Frontback has found a new partner and narrowly avoided shutting down.
Early Apple Designer Susan Kare Joins Pinterest's Creative Team
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LinkedIn asks its top 500 “Influencers” for blanket permission to syndicate posts, with no money changing hands
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Snapchat Revenue Could Hit $50 Million This Year — But It Still Needs a CFO
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