April 30, 2015 Video Feature: Astronomy Apps for Getting to Know the Starry Night Skies by KIT EATON By KIT EATON A series of apps fill in information on the darkened sky, from red dwarf stars to the International Space Station. Published:…
April 30, 2015 With Patent Litigation Surging, Creators Turn to Washington for Help by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR A Senate bill introduced on Wednesday was aimed at slowing so-called patent trolls, companies whose principal business is generating suits rather…
April 30, 2015 Legislators Introduce Student Digital Privacy Bill by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER The student digital privacy bill comes at a time of widespread government and industry enthusiasm for education technology, along with mounting…
April 30, 2015 Data Company Unearthed Twitter’s Earnings Early by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC Selerity, a financial analytics firm, tweeted what appeared to be Twitter’s disappointing earnings release before Twitter made it public. Published: April…
April 30, 2015 Twitter Troubles Lie in Marketers’ Reluctance to Buy New Kind of Ad by VINDU GOEL and SYDNEY EMBER By VINDU GOEL and SYDNEY EMBER Twitter’s shares have been punished since it reported its earnings because advertisers and investors are having trouble figuring…
April 30, 2015 Microsoft Takes Steps to Close Its App Gap on Mobile Devices by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Microsoft has steadily lost influence in the technology industry as software developers gravitated to mobile technologies like Google’s Android and Apple’s…
April 30, 2015 A Founder of Secret, the Anonymous Social App, Is Shutting It Down by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC Secret’s rapid rise and fall illustrates the flash-in-the-pan nature of Silicon Valley’s current technology boom. Published: April 29, 2015 at 08:00PM…
April 29, 2015 Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat Is the Luxury You Won’t Want to Live Without by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO A toilet seat that warms and cleans has been used widely abroad for decades, but is just beginning to catch on…
April 29, 2015 Instacart’s Bet on Online Grocery Shopping by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO The company delivers groceries bought by personal shoppers, and its growth may be in the double digits. But deep questions remain….
April 29, 2015 Google Reaches Out to European Publishers, With $165 Million in Hand by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT Google’s efforts come less than two weeks after the European Commission filed antitrust charges against the company and before new potential…