February 28, 2014 Eat Your Spinach and Win the Game Too by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts and other game companies, is introducing a new game meant to teach players social-emotional…
February 28, 2014 Copycat Business Model Generates Genuine Global Success for Start-Up Incubator by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT Rocket Internet, which funds e-commerce start-ups that mimic proven business models, operates in sharp contrast to Silicon Valley, where originality is…
February 28, 2014 Google Continues With Its Project Ara Modular Smartphone Effort by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Google announced that it would be holding its first Ara Developers’ Conference, on its experimental Project Ara modular smartphone platform. Published:…
February 28, 2014 Google Pays for the Ride by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Google, under fire in San Francisco for not giving back, gave back Thursday, with $6.8 million to fund a city transit…
February 27, 2014 British Spies Said to Have Intercepted Yahoo Webcam Images by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH Accounts based on documents supplied by Edward J. Snowden say images — many pornographic — were collected even of users not…
February 27, 2014 Federal Court Orders YouTube to Take Down Controversial Anti-Islam Video by CLAIRE CAIN MILLER By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER The “Innocence of Muslims” video on YouTube set off a fierce debate over free speech in 2012, but a federal…
February 27, 2014 Finding the Right App to Unblock Those Creative Juices by KIT EATON By KIT EATON When ideas stop flowing easily, it may be time to turn to a smartphone and the apps that can help reset…
February 27, 2014 The Payments Challenge for Mobile Carriers by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT The rise of mobile payments start-ups has raised questions of whether they could be nimble enough to quickly outflank telecommunications carriers,…
February 27, 2014 Handset Makers Go Big on Smartphones by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN The turn to bigger screens is a sharp departure from the dominant strategy of phone makers just a few years…
February 27, 2014 Huawei and ZTE Look to Sell More Smartphones Abroad by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Huawei and ZTE have a lot in common. They both primarily sell networking equipment but want to be bigger in…