An extremely complex virus infecting computers in the Middle East called Flame was made public today, and is likened to the Stuxnet virus, which attacked Iranian nuclear systems in 2010.
“Flame can easily be described as one of the most …
This week’s VBWeekly got a little goofy, while our anchor Jolie O’Dell was traveling to the East Coast. We hit on some serious stories, including more on the Facebook drama unfolding post IPO, and a sexual harassment lawsuit that hit …
Rogue Amoeba, creator of the Airfoil Speakers Touch, an app that lets you send and receive audio from an iPhone to many devices, was removed from Apple’s app store today. The reason? Apple didn’t say.
Airfoil Speakers Touch acted similarly …
Clear is a brave company. It’s trying to solve one of the most frustrating, sometimes stressful, and time-consuming processes we face every year: the airport security line.
Clear uses biometrics to usher flyers through the TSA line quickly and, as …
Given the chance, you would probably turn your iPod Touch into a fully working iPhone, right? TextMe is launching in the U.S. today with an app that will get you close to that dream.
“The real vision is to deliver …
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Leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers got hit with a sexual harassment and gender discrimination suit earlier this month, rocking a firm that has been known for bringing women into the venture capital industry.
The …
Apple shipped 17.2 million mobile PCs in the first quarter of 2012, leading the world in units shipped by 22.5 percent, according to a study by NPD DisplaySearch.
You would think the market would be saturated by now, but Apple …
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Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph has a thing for rental startups. Today he is joining the board of Getable — a company making tablet payments a reality for rentals.
“I do a fair amount of angel investing. It’s natural that I …
Facebook released the amount of shares allocated to each of its underwriters today, following its less-than-stellar IPO day.
The company went public on the Nasdaq to an EKG-like performance, ending in a .38 cent gain today. The update came in …
Is it just me, or does it feel like the “future” we all see in TV shows and movies is getting closer and closer to reality? A team of researchers at MIT have created a small atmosphere, the ZeroN, where …
Groupon is being investigated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority after the company’s stock made a sharp, upward turn Monday, before earnings beating expectations were delivered at the close of business that same day.
Finra, which watches for oddities within …
Looks like it’s not just the newspapers snooping on UK citizens. The government itself has reported internal breaches, according to information released in a Freedom of Information request.
Over 1,000 breaches of personal information have occurred in the last year …
Steve Jobs evidently thought about disrupting everything. From computers, to phones, to televisions … to cars. Apple board member and J. Crew chief executive Mickey Drexler revealed the unfulfilled dream.
“Steve’s dream before he died was to design an iCar, …
The White House is losing its cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt to retirement this year after a tumultuous 2011, often referred to a the year of the hack.
Schmidt served the White House in this role for two and a …
Technology often comes together at the intersection of useful, important, and mind-boggling when it helps someone in need. Today BrainGate announced an invention that encompasses all three — a robotic arm controlled by your brain.
I constantly tried to move …
What a difference a rumor makes. Samsung, which supplies some of Apple’s mobile parts, lost $10 billion off its market cap yesterday after a report surfaced that Apple had taken some of its business elsewhere.
Yesterday, DigiTimes reported that Apple …
Looks like it pays to be in big data. Data analysis company Palantir has raised $56 million in its latest round of funding through two undisclosed investors, according to an SEC filing today.
Palantir seems to have been very successful …
Dan Loeb’s Third Point is bulking up its stake in a few other technology companies besides Yahoo, according to an SEC filing. The firm, which edged Yahoo chief executive Scott Thompson out of office earlier this week, are now gobbling …
We’ve known for a while that spam was jumping on the Pinterest train. Now, security software service McAfee is sending out an official warning to keep an eye out for fraudulent pins.
According to McAfee, hackers have created entire toolkits …
I have a secret. In college, sometimes students pay each other to do their homework. I know! The research takes a lot of time, and in the end often you still don’t have all the information you need. Researching tool …
