May 6, 2014 Netflix Redesigns Logo Sort Of by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON As Netflix has grown beyond offering physical DVDs and now streams video on screens and shapes of all sizes, the company…
May 6, 2014 VSCO a Digital Photography Company Raises $40 Million From Accel Partners by JENNA WORTHAM By JENNA WORTHAM The company has created an app that has a large following among professional photographers. Published: May 6, 2014 at 12:00AM from…
May 6, 2014 Activision Places $500 Million Bet on Its Next Blockbuster Franchise by REUTERS By REUTERS Activision Blizzard Inc intends to spend $500 million developing and promoting “Destiny,” potentially breaking industry records as it seeks to build the…
May 6, 2014 White House Tech Advisers: Online Privacy Is a ‘Market Failure’ by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR A science and technology advisory group to President Obama described online privacy practices as a “market failure” in a report issued…
May 6, 2014 Daily Report: Independence but Little Revenue Growth for Tumblr After Acquisition by Yahoo by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES While conceding he was “terrified” going into the deal, David Karp says he is happy with the autonomy the…
May 6, 2014 George H. Heilmeier an Inventor of LCDs Dies at 77 by WILLIAM YARDLEY By WILLIAM YARDLEY Mr. Heilmeier in the 1960s helped invent a kind of screen display that used liquid crystals to project images — technology…
May 6, 2014 High-Tech Push Has Board Games Rolling Again by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD With eye-popping graphics, visceral action and an online community, video games should have killed tabletop games, but in fact the opposite…
May 6, 2014 Apple’s New Retail Chief Granted $68 Million in Restricted Stock by REUTERS By REUTERS Apple Inc granted its new retail chief 113,334 restricted stock units, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday, valued at…
May 6, 2014 Apple-Samsung Jury Sticks With Original Total for Damages by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN The federal jury in the latest patent trial involving Apple and Samsung returned to court on Monday to recalculate some…
May 6, 2014 A Red-Hot Rumor About Apple Falls Apart by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON A post about a new Apple product on the anonymous app Secret quickly became a national news item among the tech…