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The 'Unorthodox' Way PayPal Co-Founder Max Levchin Hired The Best Talent In...
Max Levchin co-founded PayPal and Slide, a startup he sold to Google. He wouldn't have been able to build those companies without an all-star tech team.At First Round Capital's CEO Summit, he revealed...
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Self-Driving Cars Just Got A Huge Vote Of Confidence From The US Government
Google has a grand vision for driverless cars and has already made claims that self-driving cars could save lives.Now, the U.S. Department of Transportation is somewhat backing that claim.In its first...
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Cameras Are About to Get 1000 Times Better At Taking Low-Light Photos
Thanks to a new type of sensor invented at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, all kinds of cameras are going to become 1000 times better at taking pictures at night and in low-light...
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RUMOR: Apple Is Considering Launching An Ad Exchange (AAPL)
Is Apple planning to launch an ad exchange, the way Facebook and Twitter have done?That's the rumor.We heard it from an executive who is one of the biggest players in online advertising.We can't...
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Wearing Google Glass Is A Great Way To Meet Women (But It's Hard To Make Out...
You might think wearing something as awkward as Google Glass on your face would scare potential mates off.You would be wrong, according to Today Show tech reporter Rosa Golijan.She's written an article...
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How The Mobile "Showrooming" Threat Is Changing The Retail Industry
The practice of “showrooming,” or viewing an item in a retail store and then buying it online, has brought the e-commerce threat directly to bricks-and-mortar retailers. Mobile raises the showrooming...
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Facebook COO: Lots Of Our Users Hate Facebook Home, So We're Trying To Fix It...
Facebook made its first major move into mobile with the launch of Facebook Home in April. Home is pseudo mobile operating system that puts Facebook right on your Android home screen. It launched with...
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Elon Musk Says He Quit Mark Zuckerberg's PAC Because It Was Too Cynical (FB,...
In an interview on CNBC this morning, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he left Mark Zuckerberg's political action committee, FWD.us, because the organization became too cynical.FWD.us is a PAC seeking...
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Google Glass Is A Great First Step, But The Execution Needs To Get Way Better...
Dustin Curtis, creator of the Svbtle blogging network, recently got a chance to borrow Google Glass and wrote up a quick review of his thoughts on the device in its current form.While he liked the...
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ELON MUSK: The 'Hyperloop' Would Be 10 Times Cheaper Than High-Speed Rail
In an appearance on CNBC this morning, Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said a "Hyperloop" — a futuristic new kind of mass transit — could be built for just 10% of the cost of the high-speed rail...
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Elon Musk: I'm Not Dating Cameron Diaz
Friday morning on CNBC, billionaire Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shot down rumors that he's dating actress Cameron Diaz.The New York Post reported Thursday that the two had "gotten close"...
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Pinterest Co-founder: 'We’re Probably The Last Big Website'
On the exact day Pinterest released its apps for Android and iPad, its mobile traffic surpassed Web traffic, Liz Gannes of AllThingsD reports.Before Aug. 14, 2012, Pinterest was only available on the...
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Halsey Minor's Company Sold For $1.8 Billion 5 Years Ago But Now He's Broke
The financial troubles of CNET's founder, Halsey Minor, continue to worsen.In 2008, CBS bought CNET Networks for $1.8 billion, netting Minor an estimated $200 million. But just last week, the...
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SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING: Inside The Massive Rise, And Why It Will Continue
The media constellation has become increasingly fractured. The Web produced the initial fissure, but mobile created new cracks in the landscape. Today, no single medium earns more than 45% of our media...
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Sorry, The Idea That You Will Be Able To Get Rid Of Cable And Watch Your...
Microsoft's Ben Thompson has written two posts on his blog explaining why why the so-called "bundled model" of cable programming –– in which we are forced to pay for every channel, instead of picking...
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There's Still One Retail Store Women Desperately Need, And Two Long-Time...
Ask a woman where she buys the following, and she'll probably respond like this:Jeans? Everything from The Gap to Seven.Purse? Coach, Louis Vuitton, etc.Shoes? DSW, Steve Madden, Aldo.Makeup?...
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Researchers Invent A Camera With No Lens That Is Never Out Of Focus
Bell Labs, the New Jersey research and development firm responsible for such technologies as the transistor and the software underlying Apple's Mac and iOS operating systems, has come up with another...
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Zynga Is Laying Off 18% Of Its Staff And Shuttering 3 Offices
Zynga is letting go of 18% of its 2,900-person staff. AllThingsD's Kara Swisher first reported the news.Its Los Angeles, Dallas and New York offices will be shutting down; about 55 people work in the...
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Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: Here's Why We Just Fired 520 People
Today, Zynga said it would be laying off 18% of its staff, or 520 employees, across all departments. The move will save Zynga $70-80 million but it will cost it three offices: its New York, Dallas, and...
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As Soon As Ballmer's Huge Re-Org Goes Through, These Three Executives Will Be...
Microsoft is planning a major management reshuffling that will put three executives into higher profile positions and set up Microsoft to focus more on devices and services, AllThingsD's Kara Swisher...
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