Clearwire board recommends shareholders vote yes to Sprint acquisition
Clearwire on Thursday announced that its board of directors is recommending that shareholders vote in favor of Sprint’s recently revised takeover bid. The board’s advisement …
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Facebook’s Instagram announcement puts the Street to sleep
Facebook announced on Thursday that the photo-sharing social network, Instagram, is adding an option to take short, 15-second video clips that can then be modified …
You can watch live streaming video of Samsung’s ‘Galaxy & Ativ’ event right here
Samsung has been announcing new smartphones over the past few weeks like it’s going out of style. The Galaxy S4 mini, Galaxy S4 Zoom, Galaxy …
Facebook is live-streaming today’s event – here’s how to watch
Facebook has a press conference scheduled to take place on Thursday in California, and while there will be plenty of ways to follow along from …
WSJ: Facebook to unveil Vine competitor at today’s event
Facebook doesn’t want to let Twitter have all the fun with short videos in the social media market. The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook …
France gives Google three months to come clean on privacy
The French government is getting tired of waiting for Google to answer questions about its privacy practices. Bloomberg reports that France’s National Commission for Computing …
FTC plans major investigation on patent trolls
Patent trolls’ carefree days of easy money might soon be over. The New York Times reports that the Federal Trade Commission is planning to launch …
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 isn’t shaping up to be the smash hit most expected
Reviewers and critics fawned over Samsung’s Galaxy S4 when it debuted earlier this year. While Samsung undoubtedly has a fantastic flagship smartphone on its hands, …
FCC chairman Wheeler in favor of legalizing unlocking cell phones
At the risk of stating the obvious, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission thinks that it should be legal to unlock your cell …
Kim Dotcom fumes as Megaupload user data gets erased
Kim Dotcom’s old file-hosting website Megaupload has been wiped from the Internet. The website was shut down by the Department of Justice in January of …
Firefox brushes off advertisers, plows ahead with ‘Do Not Track’
Anyone looking to search the web without being tracked by advertisers will soon be able to use Mozilla’s Firefox browser without worries. The Washington Post …
WSJ: Microsoft, Nokia break off ‘advanced’ merger negotiations
Nokia’s devotion to Windows Phone is starting to make sense. Unnamed sources tell The Wall Street Journal that Microsoft and Nokia were until recently in …
Google Reader dies in two weeks – here are all the best alternatives
Google has shown that it most certainly isn’t afraid to pull the plug on services that aren’t making money. More than one out of every …
Verizon accused of throttling Netflix traffic [updated]
Verizon seems to have found itself in a fresh net neutrality controversy. GigaOM reported earlier this week that bandwidth provider Cogent Communications accused Verizon of “allowing …
Why no company will acquire Nokia right now
Huawei, which recently became the No.3 smartphone brand in the world, may be considering a Nokia acquisition. Wall Street reacted violently, prompting an 8% spike in Nokia’s …
SoftBank cleared for Sprint takeover as Dish abandons bid
Efforts to acquire Sprint have been a long and arduous fiasco for SoftBank, but the Japan-based carrier moved one step closer to completing the deal …
Facebook looks to Samsung for help in wake of HTC First disaster
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Samsung president Shin Jong Kyun this week to discuss a potential partnership, Bloomberg reported. Facebook, the world’s largest social …
Texas becomes first state to require warrants before cops can spy on email
Don’t mess with Texans’ email. Ars Technica reports that Texas has become the first state in the United States that requires law enforcement officials to …
Huawei might consider buying Nokia if it dumps Windows Phone
Shares of Nokia surged on Tuesday, mostly because Chinese electronics giant Huawei expressed interest in buying the struggling Finnish smartphone manufacturer. Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei’s …
Tim Cook vs. Jony Ive: Battle of the WWDC tweets
It looks like the initial reaction to Apple’s reworked iOS 7 software might not have been as bad as the loudest naysayers made it out …
LG has a quiet hit on its hands with the Optimus G Pro
Being an Android smartphone vendor isn’t always easy with Samsung stealing the spotlight, but LG has quietly become the only other global vendor in the …
Google’s Kurzweil says humanity is on the brink of achieving immortality
Never one to make conservative predictions, Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil thinks that humans will soon develop technology advanced enough to keep us alive forever. …
Google settles lawsuit over planned stock split
Google has settled a lawsuit brought on by shareholders after the company announced plans for a stock split earlier this year, Reuters reported. Investors were …
Google looks to wipe child porn off the face of the Internet
Google is developing a new technology that will help search engines and other Internet companies collectively remove child pornography from the Web, The Telegraph reported. …
Facebook is trying to crush Vine before it’s too late
Facebook will reportedly be adding Vine-like, short video clips to its Instagram service later this month. This follows an important cross-over moment — earlier in …
Cable companies are pulling punches in fight with Google Fiber
Several cable companies are currently capable of offering Internet service that meets or exceeds the blistering 1Gbps speeds enjoyed by Google Fiber subscribers. In fact, …
Samsung slammed with downgrades as Galaxy S4 ‘marketing charm’ fades
It hasn’t taken long for Wall Street’s earlier irrational exuberance over Samsung’s prospects to turn into pessimistic doomsaying. Reuters reports that many formerly bullish analysts are openly …
Apple now adding half a million new iTunes accounts each day
Apple revealed earlier this week that its iTunes music store is now home to 575 million users. Horace Dediu of Asymco noted that the company …
NSA PRISM scandal gives big boost to little-used, privacy-friendly search engine
Revelations about the National Security Agency’s vast intelligence gathering operations may have been the best thing to happen to lesser known search engine DuckDuckGo. VentureBeat …
Video: Daily Show’s Lewis Black mocks Google Glass, Xbox One over privacy
With all the controversy over the NSA’s massive data mining operations, comedian Lewis Black has turned his eye toward two of the most potentially invasive …
