After Expanding To Android, Addappt’s CEO Breaks Down Its Growth Plans

Mrinal Desai, founder and CEO of Addappt, is betting that people need a better way to keep their cell phone contact information up to date. ...

Tradeshift Takes Over All The Invoicing For The UK’s Health Service

E-invoicing platform Tradeshift has landed a partnership with a company which processes transactions for the UK’s NHS, one of the biggest pu...

Heartbleed-Weary Tech Firms Show OpenSSL a Little Love

Remember Heartbleed? Several weeks ago, the exposure of this security bug chilled the Internet, highlighting once again that even the seem...

Google Puts Cute Little Rides on the Road

Google this week unveiled a prototype that it will test on California roads to learn more about how to make safe and efficient autonomous ...

What To Expect At Apple’s WWDC 2014

Starting Monday, Apple will be unloading a week’s worth of news and resources for software makers at its annual Worldwide Developers Confere...

The Real Reason Apple Bought Beats: Addiction

I get the sense that a good many Apple enthusiasts are confused by its acquisition of Beats Electronics. Sure, many are nodding their head...

Deepin's Functionality Is a Bit Too Shallow

Deepin Linux is something totally new. It is an Ubuntu-based distribution built around its own desktop environment called "DDE" ...

Iranians Caught Cyber Snooping on High-Value US Targets

A cyberespionage campaign with links to Iran for at least three years has been targeting U.S. military and congressional personnel, journa...

Next on the Open Source Horizon: 3D Printing

3D printing is not yet a mainstream business activity, but the technology has progressed to the point where users can print three-dimensio...

Con Artist Harasses Aussie Apple Customers in Ransomware Attempt

Apple on Tuesday aimed to calm anxiety among its iCloud users with reassurances that the service hadn't been breached in a ransomware-...

Getting Away With Privacy Murder

Snapchat in May agreed to implement a comprehensive privacy program and be audited for the next 20 years to settle U.S. Federal Trade Comm...

Iranian Court Wants a Word With Zuckerberg

Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned by an Iranian court over privacy-violation concerns, according to news report...

Payments Firm Swipely Raises $20M More As Its Processing Tally Crosses The $2B Mark

Payments company Swipely has announced that it raised a Series C round totaling $20 million. This round, led by the Pritzker Group and inclu...

Next on the Open Source Horizon: 3D Printing

3D printing is not yet a mainstream business activity, but the technology has progressed to the point where users can print three-dimensio...

Con Artist Harasses Aussie Apple Customers in Ransomware Attempt

Apple on Tuesday aimed to calm anxiety among its iCloud users with reassurances that the service hadn't been breached in a ransomware-...

Apple May Connect the Smart Home of Your Dreams

The hottest tech rumor of the week is here, and it's only Tuesday: Apple is finally breaking into home automation -- connected lights,...

CENTR Cam Is A GoPro Competitor That Captures Everything Around You

While smartphones have decimated the point-and-shoot camera market, the emergence of GoPro as a $1 billion company has shown that there’s st...

Chinese Media: Cisco Is Playing on US Cyberspy Team

Cisco has been accused of being in bed with U.S. cyberspying efforts, according to a Chinese state media outlet. Cisco "carries on in...

Enterprise Fund Notion Capital Gets Close To Startup Wiseguys Accelerator

London-based and enterprise-focused fund Notion Capital has announced it’s going to back the early stage Startup Wise Guys accelerator based...

China's Payback for US Hacker Indictments Begins

The Department of Justice last week unsealed indictments against five members of the Chinese military who were accused of hacking into the...

Iranian Court Wants a Word With Zuckerberg

Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned by an Iranian court over privacy-violation concerns, according to news report...

Apple May Connect the Smart Home of Your Dreams

The hottest tech rumor of the week is here, and it's only Tuesday: Apple is finally breaking into home automation -- connected lights,...

Tales of Distros Tried and True

Well it was another tempestuous week here in the Linux blogosphere, thanks not just to the ongoing controversy over Systemd, but also the ...

Sony, China Strike PlayStation Deal

Japanese electronics giant Sony has inked a deal in China to manufacture and sell PlayStation consoles in the Middle Kingdom. The partners...

China's Payback for US Hacker Indictments Begins

The Department of Justice last week unsealed indictments against five members of the Chinese military who were accused of hacking into the...

Weev Talks About His Time In Prison And Why He Trolls

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer would like you to try to understand him but doesn’t care if you don’t. He admits he’s a troll, he revels in it, an...

Microsoft Opens .Net, Hops on Devops Bandwagon

Microsoft recently established a .Net foundation and open sourced substantial parts of the popular programming language, continuing to spr...

Fly Or Die: Microsoft Surface Pro 3

Forget everything you thought you knew about the Microsoft Surface tablet, as the latest generation of the Windows-powered Surface Pro is a ...

On The Set Of HBO’s “Silicon Valley”

Thanks to an unlikely series of events, I, a civil/environmental-engineer-turned-tech-media type, found myself on the set of HBO’s Silicon V...

NASA Gives Space Archeologists OK to Put Old Craft Back to Work

A group of scientists and engineers have their sights set on re-establishing communication with a long-abandoned satellite, and NASA has g...

Surface: The Embodiment of Microsoft's Vision

Surface largely was the brainchild of Steve Ballmer, the last CEO of Microsoft, and it resulted from a similar thought process that create...

Minecraft Stakes Next-Gen Claim

Mojang on Thursday announced that its popular game Minecraft soon will be available to users of the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Playstati...

Croatian Incubator ZIP Poised To Raise A Fund Via Seedrs Crowd Equity

ZIP, a start-up programme based in Croatia, has decided to dump the idea of raising a fund via Limited Partners and has turned instead to eq...

Microsoft Opens .Net, Hops on Devops Bandwagon

Microsoft recently established a .Net foundation and open sourced substantial parts of the popular programming language, continuing to spr...

NASA Gives Space Archeologists OK to Put Old Craft Back to Work

A group of scientists and engineers have their sights set on re-establishing communication with a long-abandoned satellite, and NASA has g...

China Calls for Increased Testing of IT Products

The ever-testy cyberstandoff between the U.S. and China got a new twist when Beijing announced that it would start "cybersecurity vet...

The Apple-ization of Microsoft's New Surface

Microsoft is positioning its new Surface Pro 3 tablet as a laptop replacement device -- instead of competing head-to-head with the Apple i...

Minecraft Stakes Next-Gen Claim

Mojang on Thursday announced that its popular game Minecraft soon will be available to users of the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Playstati...

iMessage Flaw Bugs Apple

Apple vowed Tuesday to fix a persistent bug in its iOS mobile operating system that punishes former iPhone users. The flaw, which has been...

Iran Releases Fans Detained Over Music Video

Iran has released at least some of the people who appeared in a music video for a song by American pop artist Pharrell Williams. The video...

Google+ Helps Prolific Photogs Tell Short Stories

Many shutterbugs are familiar with this bugaboo: They shoot scads of photos of a vacation or event, but they never quite get the time to p...

The Apple-ization of Microsoft's New Surface

Microsoft is positioning its new Surface Pro 3 tablet as a laptop replacement device -- instead of competing head-to-head with the Apple i...

All Things Appy: 5 Best Firefox Themes

If you're a daily Internet user, there's a good chance that you're also a daily Internet browser user. If your choice is Firef...

Blue Pup Distro: Pride of the Puppy Linux Litter

It had to happen sooner or later. It turned out to be sooner. It is here. The Blue Pup Linux distro brings the Metro view to the Linux des...

Google+ Helps Prolific Photogs Tell Short Stories

Many shutterbugs are familiar with this bugaboo: They shoot scads of photos of a vacation or event, but they never quite get the time to p...

Facebook Gets Nosier Than Ever

Facebook recently made it even simpler to pry into your friends' private affairs on the social network. Specifically, the Ask button -...

Founder Stories: Wanelo’s Deena Varshavskaya On The Evolution Of Being A CEO

Everyone knows starting a company and building it up into something is very hard. For Deena Varshavskaya, CEO of Wanelo (“wa-ne-lo” for want...

Google's EU Migraine Rears Up

Yeah, about that breakthrough between Google and European antitrust regulators... The European Union's antitrust chief might pursue a ...

Airbnb Agrees To Provide Anonymized Host Data To New York Attorney General

Airbnb and the New York Attorney General’s Office announced this morning that they’ve come to an agreement around the AG’s subpoena seeking ...

All Things Appy: 5 Best Firefox Themes

If you're a daily Internet user, there's a good chance that you're also a daily Internet browser user. If your choice is Firef...

Highland Capital Partners Europe Closes €250M Tech Growth Fund

Highland Capital Partners Europe is perhaps best known for investments including Matchesfashion.com (London), GetYourGuide (Berlin), NewVoic...

The Inescapable Logic of Language Localization

Tailoring language translations for software documentation and GUIs can make or break an open source project. Localizing language is a uni...

A Walk Through The Surface Pro 3, Microsoft’s Ultralight Laplet

To top off our cavalcade of Surface coverage today, I present a very quick walk-through of the Surface Pro 3 with a special guest star. So f...

Facebook Gets Nosier Than Ever

Facebook recently made it even simpler to pry into your friends' private affairs on the social network. Specifically, the Ask button -...

Microsoft Boldly Goes Bigger With Surface Pro 3

Microsoft has unveiled its latest iteration of the Surface tablet at a New York City event. The Surface Pro 3 is slightly larger, with a s...

Hackers Paint Bull's-eyes on Cybercurrencies

Another digital currency was brought to its knees last week when the administrators of Doge Vault had to suspend operations after they dis...

Anonymous Philippines Harasses China

Anonymous Philippines, the Philippines branch of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, defaced more than 200 Chinese websites over a territ...

'I Am Google': Pride Comes Before a Fall

Last week, I observed repercussions from one of the most arrogant moves I've ever seen an executive make. A small uproar occurred when...

US Toughens Stance on Chinese Cyberspying With 5 Criminal Indictments

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday kicked up a notch the Obama administration's efforts to curb China's economic espionage acti...

Survios Snaps Up $4M To Lead The Next Generation Of Virtual Reality Tech

Survios, a San Francisco startup that aims to pioneer the next-generation of virtual reality (VR) technology, has raised $4 million in serie...

Hackers Paint Bull's-eyes on Cybercurrencies

Another digital currency was brought to its knees last week when the administrators of Doge Vault had to suspend operations after they dis...

Russian Rocket, Satellite Don't Quite Make It

A space-bound satellite designed to provide Internet access to remote regions in Russia and neighboring states was destroyed when its ride...

The Neverending Systemd Saga

In the Linux blogosphere, controversies come and go like the wind, leaving a trail of broken chalk and empty whiskey bottles in their wake...

Xiaomi Serves Up Apple-Flavored Mi Pad

Xiaomi fired a new salvo in its attempt to compete with major names like Apple and Samsung as it introduced its first tablet, the Mi Pad. ...

'I Am Google': Pride Comes Before a Fall

Last week, I observed repercussions from one of the most arrogant moves I've ever seen an executive make. A small uproar occurred when...