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Just because they have two completely different business models doesn’t mean that comparisons between Netflix and HBO are irrelevant. They’re going for the same people – those willing to pay extra for more television entertainment. Netflix Inc. (NFLX) is poised to pass HBO in paid
The sale of massive amounts of personal data by Experian brings up bigger challenges for the whole industry and they all circle around one word: trust. An identity theft service that prosecutors say illegally sold social security numbers, birth dates, driver license numbers, and other sensitive data
It was a great console in its time, one that far exceeded the excitement, buzz, and sales of its successor. Now, the Wii will no longer be built. Nintendo is no longer manufacturing the original Wii system. The company updated the Wii’s Japanese website yesterday to reveal that it ceased production
It’s a common practice in the world of business to find tax havens somewhere in the world. Ireland is a favorite and Twitter is in the same game. If Twitter’s transformation from “that micro-blogging service” to publicly traded advertising titan works out, it’s going to
The NSA just can’t stop spying. That is, of course, their job, but it’s discouraging that they spy on allies as well. The future will perhaps tell us one day why France has remained so discreet in comparison with Germany or Brazil, for example, after the first revelations about the exten
It’s common knowledge that companies sell our data to other companies, but it’s assumed that they take the time to make sure they’re not selling our data to someone with nefarious intentions. Experian did not take the time. An identity theft service that sold Social Security and dr
As announced on their newly acquired Tumblr property, David Pogue is now with Yahoo. I am thrilled to announce that award-winning columnist, best-selling author, and TV host David Pogue will be joining Yahoo. David will lead a major expansion of consumer tech coverage on Yahoo and will publish colum
If you ask Apple, iMessage is completely secure. If you ask hackers, security specialists, bloggers, competitors, consumers, or the NSA, it’s child’s play. Hackers this week showed security conference attendees findings and demonstrations directly contradicting Apple’s public claim
All it has is its credibility. The crowdsourced hub for human knowledge has challenges in the form of PR firms bent on making things more correct for their clients than others. We all know that Wikipedia can be subverted—it’s an inevitability of an open platform that some people will seek to abuse i
Here’s a look back to the past of the world of technology cash… Earlier today, PricewaterhouseCoopers and National Venture Capital Association released a report showing that total venture capital spending in the U.S. rose 12 percent to $7.8 billion compared to $7 billion for the previous
The fear of an intruder taking your gun can be alleviated with this fingerprint scanning lock box… unless they chop off your hand first, of course. When guns fall into the wrong hands, tragedies can happen. The makers of The Gun Box want to change that with a high-tech box that can only be ope
You can’t keep a good spammer down. That’s the unofficial motto of those who are using Twitter’s crackdown on Direct Message link spam. When sending Twitter direct messages with links stopped working for some users earlier this week, speculation arose that it was a new feature inte
