June 11, 2014 With Uber’s Cars, Maybe We Don’t Need Our Own by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Ride-sharing services have the potential to change the way people get around cities — and could help lower emissions and free…
June 11, 2014 Your Personality Type, Defined by the Internet by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY We know that we are watched online, our feelings scanned by Google and Facebook to figure out what next to sell…
June 11, 2014 Oracle’s Ellison Debuts Technology for Faster Databases by REUTERS By REUTERS Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison on Tuesday launched “in-memory” technology for speeding up data analysis in a bid to beef up…
June 11, 2014 P.F. Chang’s Investigating Possible Data Breach by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH The restaurant chain said Tuesday that it was investigating a possible data breach. If confirmed, it will the fifth major retail…
June 11, 2014 Taxi Protests Against Uber in Europe to Snarl Traffic by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT The start-up that digitally links passengers and freelance drivers has expanded beyond the United States to cities including London, Paris and…
June 11, 2014 Microsoft Protests Order for Email Stored Abroad by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR The objection is believed to be the first time a corporation has challenged a domestic search warrant seeking digital information overseas…
June 11, 2014 The Old Is New Again at E3 for Sony and Microsoft by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD The games business is increasingly experimenting with how to get its customers to pay for a game, and then to pay…
June 11, 2014 Oracle’s Database of Youth by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Lawrence J. Ellison, a master salesman, has positioned the new version of his flagship database as a product that continually changes…
June 11, 2014 At E3, Nintendo Unveils a Mario World Designed by You by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON About 30 years after the Super Mario franchise began, Nintendo will allow people to create and play unique courses on the…
June 11, 2014 Amazon Stops Taking Advance Orders for ‘Lego’ and Other Warner Videos by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Amazon, embroiled in a standoff with a book publisher, is using the same hardball techniques with new movies from Warner Home…