As a part of an effort to ramp up security efforts and keep away hackers, Tumblr is the latest company to add two-step authentication to its social blogging platform.
Before Tuesday, all users were logging into the Tumblr the same way —...
In the most anticipated gaming IPO of the last few years, Candy Crush Saga maker King priced its shares at $22.50 in an offering that will raise $326 million for the company and value it at slightly more than...
It's a testament to Instagram's success that when Mark Zuckerberg revealed the photo-sharing service had crossed the 200-million-user milestone, it barely rated a mention.
The statistic arrived in the middle of an investor-relations phone call explaining why he had just purchased Oculus...
This isn't exactly killing Android, but it's still fun to look at. Apple's latest iteration of iPhone software is on 85% of iPhones, according to Mixpanel data. The latest version of Android, on the other hand, is only on...
David Guttenfelder, the Associated Press' chief photographer in Asia, has been posting pictures documenting life in North Korea.
Last year, North Korea's primary local service provider Koryolink began letting foreigners access the Internet from mobile phones for the first time.
Guttenfelder's images capture various...
Disney has acquired Maker Studios for $500 million, with an additional $450 million waiting for Maker’s founders and backers if certain conditions are met. The acquisition was first reported by Reuters Monday, and followed reports about negotiations between the two companies a few...
Google is now trying even harder to make its Glass headset something really worth wearing. The search engine giant has just announced that it will be working with the Luxottica Group to bring designs from Ray-Ban, Oakley, Vogue Eyewear and other...
We can already 3D print using carbon fiber, fiberglass or chocolate. Now, add carbon nanotubes to the list. Year-old Silicon Valley-based startup Arevo announced today it will offer carbon nanotube-reinforced filament.
Carbon nanotubes are made of rolled-up, atom-thick sheets of carbon (also known as graphene) and can be used as...
The Gazelle Project. That's what Amazon called its initiative to cajole book publishers into giving them better deals. According to The New Yorker, CEO Jeff Bezos said “that Amazon should approach these small publishers the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle.”
A...
Built in secrecy and released in a high-profile swirl of hype just under a year ago, Twitter is finally pulling the plug on it’s #music app. According to a tweet from the company, #music’s iPhone app has been deleted from iTunes as...
Apple is talking to Comcast about using Apple TV as a cable box that streams video, according to a new report from Shalini Ramachandran, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Amol Sharma at the Wall Street Journal.
The talks are still in preliminary stages, and seem uncertain...
In 2013, shipments of smart connected devices passed 35 million in France. Smartphones accounted for 55% of the connected devices shipped, but tablet volumes rose more rapidly, up more than 60%.
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Apps have become an integral part of the mobile experience. We use them to check the weather, plan vacations, play games, and hail a cab, among many other tasks.
The following men and women played a crucial role in the...
Companies will go to great lengths to preserve their trade secrets and keep the competition in the dark, even if it means crossing into the grey area of privacy breaches. According to a March 17 legal document spotted by Business Insider, Microsoft...
Turkey's government shut down access to Twitter in some parts of the country, after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to shut it and other social media sites down.
Twitter responded with instructions for people within the country to continue tweeting,...
YouTube officially announced the winners of the 2014 DoGooder Video Awards last week, recognizing the most creative and inspiring videos from non-profits and individuals over the past year. This year's winners, specifically, showcase the fight against cancer, support of mental health and...
Smart metering, smart car, smart home & building. In 2013 the sales of ‘smart’ products grew by 20% compared with 2012, reaching 6 million units
Digital technologies applied to electric home appliances, cars and other objects of daily use: it’s...
Sony is giving gamers another reason to pick the PS4 over the Xbox One.
The company just announced a virtual reality headset for the next-gen console at this year's annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Called Project Morpheus, the black...
Twitter's refresh button is leaving users wanting more — but not in a good way
That's been the feeling Tuesday from people who noticed that hitting refresh doesn't always surface the most recent tweets in the timeline. If you follow...
If it seems like you just can't stop playing Candy Crush Saga or any other Facebook games, don't worry, you're in good company — a lot of good company
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Wednesday, Facebook revealed some more of the kind of eye-popping stats...
