Twitter chooses NYSE
The reports from last week that turned out to be false about Twitter going to the NYSE as TWTR came through into reality this week. It's official. Twitter has amended...
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Path drops 20% of employees
On the corporate scale, 20% is a lot of people. With a company like path, it's 13. Still, it's significant. Dave Morin's social networking app Path laid off 13 employees...
Intel hitting a ton of tablets next month
The processor that once dominated the segment completely is making its way back into the top spot with a batch of tablets carrying their chips next month. Intel's recently introduced...
Gaming college still going strong after a quarter of a century
If you really want to learn how to build video games, the first gaming college in North America just hit a nice milestone. In my teenage years, I knew with...
Siri to hit Chevrolets and make interaction “eye-free”
Hands-free is so 2010. Now, you don't even have to look at your screen to get information you need from you cars, at least as soon as Chevy gets their...
Flickr bumps picture sizes up 25%
When Flickr first started showing photographs, there was a challenge with bandwidth. 3G wasn't really a thing at the time, let alone 4G, so images had to be able to...
GoDaddy buys MediaTemple
A few years ago, Media Temple was the darling of the social media world with the claims of being able to withstand a "Digg front page". With Digg all but...
Now, anyone can spam your Twitter direct message box if you let them
There was a time when the friendship had to be mutual in order to send and receive a direct message on Twitter. Those days are behind us if you opt...
Yahoo finally catches up on SSL encryption for email
Yahoo is excited to announce that their email is going to be on a secure https URL... four years after Gmail did it. Beginning Jan. 8, Yahoo will enable encryption...
The death of link rot
Over time, important research, findings, and even laws rely on links on the internet that simply cease to exist. There's a plan in motion to stop that from happening. Imagine...
The scale of the NSA’s email collections
Is the National Security Agency targeting thousands? Are they collecting tens, even hundreds of thousands of emails around the world? How about millions? The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds...
“Nothing to worry about here” – BlackBerry
Don't listen to the news reports. Don't listen to the rumors. Don't pay attention to the layoffs, the cutbacks, the trends, or anything that has to do with numbers. BlackBerry...
Netflix gets in bed with Sony
No, there's no buyout in the works. However, in the entertainment world, the deals are important even if they're only for production purposes. Stalwart Sony and resilient Netflix have worked...
Snapchat may give your posts to the authorities
Nothing is safe. If it's online, on your mobile device, or in any way attached to technology, pretend like you can be implicated by it even if you're not breaking...
HTC brings fingerprint scanners to their smartphones
Move over, Apple. HTC is coming. Okay, so they probably aren't worried about HTC. Heck, HTC is probably not worried about HTC. Still, the technology is spreading as everyone knew...
VR glasses getting kickstarted by an ex-Valver
What you see is what you get. Of course, in the world of virtual reality, what you see is often far from what you get, but that's not stopping a...
Twitter ads are getting fancy
Twitter has more data than they know what to do with from an advertising perspective. Now, it seems they are going to make a play for ad dollars using targeting....
Rockstar wants to make amends for its GTA Online launch with a “Stimulus Package”
Grand Theft Auto has been on a roller coaster the last month. They started off by releasing a game that was widely heralded and that broke records. Then, the released...
Foursquare ads are (finally) coming
It hasn't been the easiest path to revenue. In social media, it's hard enough to get advertisers to come in while not making users go out. Foursquare thinks they may...
You’re email is safer in the US than Europe
With so many allegations and news stories about American email being vulnerable to the watchful eye of Big Brother, many are starting to flock to other areas for their email....