April 16, 2014 Fast Home Wireless: A Content Weapon? by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Following a recent announcement by Qualcomm, another semiconductor maker announces a huge upgrade in the speed of wireless home routers. The…
April 16, 2014 Google Revises Terms of Its Scans of Gmail by REUTERS By REUTERS The revisions more explicitly detail the manner in which Google software scans users’ emails, an unpopular practice that has been at the…
April 16, 2014 Twitter Acquires Gnip Bringing a Valuable Data Service In-House by ASHWIN SESHAGIRI By ASHWIN SESHAGIRI Twitter on Tuesday announced that it had acquired a provider of real-time data about the service’s user activity, an indication that…
April 16, 2014 Storefront Airbnb for Retail Spaces Raises $7.3 Million by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Storefront enables people to quickly set up a retail location to sell anything and everything. Published: April 14, 2014 at 12:00AM…
April 16, 2014 M.I.T.’s Alex Pentland: Measuring Idea Flows to Accelerate Innovation by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR Alex Pentland says data, sensors and smartphones are opening the door to what he calls social physics. It is the subject…
April 16, 2014 Intels Profit Slips but Investors Are Still Turning Toward Techs Staid Stalwarts by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY With PC sales falling, the semiconductor maker reported a drop in year-over-year quarterly earnings, to $1.95 billion. Published: April 16, 2014…
April 15, 2014 Yahoo Has Flat Sales and Profit but Shares Surge by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL The rise is because Yahoo shareholders are far more excited about what the company owns — namely Alibaba — than anything…
April 15, 2014 Facebook Forces Users to Install Separate Messaging App by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL The social network is removing messaging from its smartphone app, requiring users to install a separate piece of software to restore…
April 15, 2014 Favorite tweets App Search Startup Xyo Scores Deal With Deutsche Telekom To Power App Discovery, Widgets & Instal… http://t.co/MadpUdGDEc by @sarahintampa — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) April 15,…
April 15, 2014 Twitter’s Biggest Shareholders Say They Won’t Sell Stock by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Top officers and directors of the social network, as well as its largest outside shareholder, say they will hang on to…