Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800M
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt that Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800 million globally, including 350 million monthly active users on mobile. Mayer...
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Mark Zuckerberg says U.S. ‘blew it’ on NSA spying
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lashed out at the U.S. government on Wednesday, saying that authorities have hurt Silicon Valley companies by doing a poor job of explaining the online spying efforts of U.S....
Apple shares down despite new iPhone
The unveiling of Apple's two new iPhones have failed to stem a drop in the company's share price. The company released two new phones overnight, including a cheaper $99 version...
Yahoo CEO Mayer: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets
Mark Zuckerberg joins Mayer in hitting back at critics of tech companies, saying US government did 'bad job' of balancing people's privacy and duty to protect. Marissa Mayer, the CEO...
iPhone’s secret flights from China to the Apple Store
The process starts in China, where pallets of iPhones are moved from factories in unmarked containers accompanied by a security detail. The containers are then loaded onto trucks and shipped...
AT&T’s questionable 9/11 tweets
It’s seldom a good idea for brands to use a tragic event to help promote a product, particularly on social media, where the message can easily get lost in translation....
Cyberwar is on: America’s elite hacker army
Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America’s most badass hackers are going to war – working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy drink as...
NSA shares intelligence data with Israel
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data withIsrael without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Details...
Gogo, Virgin America partner for 60 mbps in-flight Internet
Gogo will team up with Virgin America to offer advanced Internet service on its planes via a new ground- and satellite-based system. Gogo's new Ground to Orbit (GTO) service will...
Security facts about the new iPhone’s fingerprint scanner
The new iPhone 5s, unveiled Tuesday and due out in stores later this month, includes a biometric fingertip scanner -- a first for an Apple smartphone. Dubbed Touch ID, the feature...
Apple missed the best use for a fingerprint scanner
What is it? Requiring a fingerprint scan—or even a passcode scan—to turn the iPhone off. Why? It's the one thing that will actually help get your iPhone back. It's so,...
Made in America: inside Motorola’s new Moto X factory
The Moto X is a return to form for Motorola, and it represents the first device it has produced from start to finish as a Google company. But while the...
Google to stand trial for wi-fi data grab
In 2010, Google admitted its Street View cars were collecting too much data. Instead of just getting the bare minimum data needed to map out the locations of Wi-Fi networks,...
Moore’s law still alive: Intel reveals 14 nm PC
IDF13 Intel wants you to know that Moore's Law is not dead. And to prove it, CEO Brian Krzanich rolled out his company's next generation of process shrinkage at theIntel Developer...
Developers force Microsoft to release Windows 8.1 early
An outcry by programmers has forced Microsoft to give them early access to Windows 8.1. The furor came after Microsoft announced that developers would get the new release at the same time as...
Apple’s cheap iPhone is actually pretty expensive
CUPERTINO, CALIF. -- Apple's new "cheap" plastic phone doesn't feel cheap at all. That makes sense when you consider that the colorful iPhone 5C unveiled here this morning actually costs quite a...
Upside down iPhone pricing in China
TOKYO — Apple’s new iPhones took a step closer Wednesday to being offered by the world’s biggest cellphone carrier, China Mobile, when the Chinese government approved the handset to run...
The chart Tim Cook doesn’t want you to see
At Apple’s iPhone presentation today, Tim Cook presented the following chart. At best the chart is misleading; at worst it’s disingenuous. The chart has no scale. It could be showing billions of iPhone...
Do I like the iPhone 5c case? Non
Apple introduced some cases to go along with both the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. The iPhone 5c’s case looks a lot like Crocs shoes. It also makes for one of...
World’s best Star Trek teleportation prank amazes UK mall crowd
The key to a good prank is to get the right people to pull it off. In this case, if you're going to try to fool hundreds of onlookers at...