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AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Signed An Unprecedented Deal To Make Smartphones Work...
Ever been in a crowded place and you can't get service on your phone to make a call?Sometimes there are too many phones on your service provider's network. Smartphones have made the situation worse,...
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How Astronauts Wash Their Hands In Space
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield has a great series of videos of random things floating in space and how astronauts cut their nails in zero gravity without making a mess.Hadfield's latest...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Blasts China In New Book (GOOG)
Google has long had a testy relationship with China, with the search giant largely pulling out of the Chinese market after alleging that state-backed hackers had targeted the company's systems and...
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Facebook Warns: Mobile Ads Are A Double-Edged Sword For Us (FB)
Facebook admits in its annual report that its mobile app is underutilized as a source of revenue because it serves fewer ads on mobile than it does on its traditional desktop platform.However, what...
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A Woman Claims Her iPhone Battery Overheated And Melted Into A Black Ooze
A woman says the battery in her iPhone suddenly overheated this week, oozing a dark liquid and destroying the phone. Apple, however, is refusing to replace the phone, according to its owner, Shibani...
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CHART OF THE DAY: 50% Of Startup Exits Last Year Were Valued At Less Than $50...
Some 2,277 private tech companies were acquired in 2012, according to a recent report by M&A database CB Insights. For the 331 startups, which disclosed valuations and financials of the deals,...
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Google Stock Blasts To All-Time High
After a four-year rocket ride following its spectacular 2004 IPO, Google's stock took a multi-year breather.From 2007 to the middle of 2012, as the company's hyper-growth slowed, Google's stock...
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The 18 Biggest Mass Layoffs Of The Past Year
The January U.S. jobs report just came out, and it showed that the unemployment rate climbed to 7.9 percent and companies added just 157k jobs. Despite beginning its recovery in early 2009, the labor...
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THE CRUNCHIES: With Billions At Stake, San Francisco's Tech Elite Take A...
Thursday night, hundreds of members of the technology elite—founders, investors, hustlers, hackers—gathered at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall for the sixth annual Crunchies Awards, a ceremony which...
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Twitter: 250,000 Users Were Hacked
Earlier this week, hackers gained access to Twitter's internal systems and stole information, compromising 250,000 accounts before the breach was stopped.Bob Lord, the company's manager of network...
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HP's Ax Falls On 1,100 Jobs In Germany (HPQ)
HP today said it was shutting down a site in Germany and plans to lay off 1,100 workers—about 9 percent of its workforce in the country.Of those workers, HP said that some 250 will have a chance to...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Calls China The World's 'Most Sophisticated Hacker'
China's state-sanctioned cybercrime is a global "menace" according to Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, as he predicts a revolution in the country in the coming decades in his latest book.Eric...
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You May Have Received An Email Last Night Saying Facebook Owes You $10 (FB)
Many Facebook users received an email notice last night about a class action lawsuit against the company.This is the same email that went out to some Facebook users last week, but we wanted to mention...
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Microsoft Has Already Broken A Key Promise About Yammer's Independence (MSFT)
When Microsoft agreed to buy Yammer for $1.2 billion last summer, the companies emphasized one key point: The enterprise social network's team would stay in San Francisco and continue to report to CEO...
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There Are 70,000 Apps On The New BlackBerry, But Not The Apps You Want (RIMM,...
When BlackBerry announced its new phones this week, it spent a good part of the presentation touting the app selection it'll have at launch. It needed to.No matter how good the new BlackBerry 10...
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20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads Of Money
If you intern for a high-profile tech company, you can make more money than the average US citizen.Facebook, for example, pays its average intern $6,056 per month. That ends up being a base salary of...
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I Never Thought I'd Like This iPhone Case As Much As I Did (AAPL)
I'm a pragmatist when it comes to my personal technology.I like things to be out of the way until I need them and to not scream for attention all the time.So being the guy with a plain unobtrusive...
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The New BlackBerry Phone Is Selling For Thousands On eBay (RIMM, BBRY)
At its big launch event this week for the new BlackBerry 10 operating system, BlackBerry gave hundreds of journalists, analysts, and others in the tech industry its new phone, the Z10, for free. Within...
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If Only All iPad Board Games Were This Good (AAPL)
Stratego, the epic 80-piece board game, has arrived on the iPad.The translation from tabletop war game to self-contained iPad game is, in a word, awesome.It would've been very easy to turn out a...
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The Only Smartphones Worth Buying Right Now [RANKED] (VZ, T, DT, S)
We now have a fourth major competitor in the mobile world.This week, BlackBerry launched BlackBerry 10, a new mobile operating system that will power two of the company's new smartphones. Now you have...
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