Rarely do you see the CEO of a $180 billion company care much about its warehouse workers. Since 2012, Amazon has offered a program called “Career Choice,” where the company pays 95% of tuition for…
Uber suspends service in Portland
Uber has agreed to stop operating in Portland, Oregon, for three months while city officials create new regulations for taxis. But Uber will keep running cars in the Portland metro area outside the Portland city…
Yahoo to Surpass Twitter in U.S. Mobile Ads
Yahoo is poised to surpass Twitter next year to become the third-biggest company in U.S. mobile advertising, bolstering a key part of CEO Marissa Mayer’s turnaround effort. Underlying the market-share increase is a meeting that…
Lyft Sues Former Exec Who Allegedly Took Company Secrets To Uber
Lyft is accusing a former executive of sharing company secrets with rival Uber, reports The Wall Street Journal’s Douglas MacMillan. Lyft has filed a lawsuit against its former chief operating officer, Travis VanderZanden, whom it alleges downloaded…
Apple Products Are Under Attack By A Vicious New Malware Called ‘WireLurker’
A new family of malware has been discovered, and it’s targeting Apple products. It’s called “WireLurker.” The malware was discovered by cyber security software maker Palo Alto Networks. WireLurker zeroes in on OS X desktop…
6 browser extensions to improve your Facebook experience
With the help of browser extensions, you can read your News Feed, send messages to friends and post status updates from your browser’s toolbar. Extensions can also improve your experience on the Facebook site itself…
Here’s How To (Legally) Download Taylor Swift’s New Album For Just A Dollar
You can get Taylor Swift’s new album for just $0.99. All you’ll need is Windows 8 and Microsoft’s newly launched Music Deals app. The app is offering “1989,” which dropped on Monday, at that low price until…
Facebook Makes It Easier to Share Photos ‘In the Moment’
Facebook rolled out an update to its app on Monday that adds a new way to quickly organize and post small batches of photos from your smartphone. Now, when users upload multiple photos from its iPhone or Android app, the…
15 Must-Have Apps For Your New iPad
When Apple unveiled its new iPads earlier this month, the company boasted that there are now 675,000 apps optimized for the iPad in Apple’s App Store. That’s a lot to choose from. And, of course,…
Google’s New Email App Won’t Have Ads, Will Bundle Brands’ Emails
Google released a new email app called Inbox on Wednesday that can best be described as Gmail-lite. Intended to be less time-consuming than Google‘s original email service, Inbox borrows some of Gmail’s features like prioritizing important…
Getty Images claims to turn away from controversial copyright tactics, but critics remain
What should happen to people who post random pictures to their blog or website? In many cases, the fallout is harsh: Getty Images, relying on software that prowls the web for unauthorized images, identifies those people and then rains down lawsuit…
Spotify launches family plan, offering up to four extra accounts at a 50 percent discount
Spotify will give its Premium subscribers the ability to add up to four accounts for family members, all managed through one billing account. The Spotify Family feature, announced on Monday, doesn’t mean those extra accounts are free – they’re…
A Team Of Kids From Korea Just Won $1 Million For Playing A Video Game
“League of Legends,” one of the most popular e-sports video games in the world, had its pinnacle moment on Saturday night. That’s where people watched two teams face off in the finals of the “League of Legends” World…
Facebook May Be Working With Samsung On A New Smartphone (FB)
It looks like Facebook could still be mulling over a possible Facebook phone — this time without HTC’s help. Facebook is reportedly in talks with Samsung regarding a possible collaboration on a new smartphone, according…
This App Shows You How To Invest Like A Billionaire
When Warren Buffett talks about investing, everyone listens. Now, those listeners can sign up for a constant stream of Buffett’s investing wisdom, along with insight from other major investing names including Carl Icahn, George Soros, and…
Nearly 7 Million Dropbox Passwords Have Been Hacked
Nearly 7 million Dropbox usernames and passwords have been hacked, apparently via third-party services that hackers were able to strip the login information from. The Next Web was the first to notice the leak on…
Google Launches Hangouts Desktop App and Polls for Google+
Google Hangouts users can now chat and make calls from their desktops without opening their browser The company rolled out a new desktop app for Chrome OS and Windows users Thursday and announced new social polling…
26 million iTunes users have downloaded U2’s free album. But how many deleted it again?
26 million users of Apple’s iTunes software have downloaded U2’s free albumSongs of Innocence in its entirety since the rock band released for free it at Apple’s iPhone 6 press event in September, according to a Billboard…
San Francisco’s New Housing Rules Are the Best Thing to Happen to Airbnb
Airbnb has always been illegal in San Francisco. That’s right: the city that gave rise to the $10 billion room-renting site never allowed the service to operate—at least not officially. But that all changed on Tuesday, when…
There Could Be A Very Simple Reason For Why People Aren’t Updating To iOS 8
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the adoption rate of iOS 8, but the reason might lie in the phone’s storage capacity. iOS 8 adoption has increased just 1% since Apple last published stats…