Nvidia’s bold plan to conquer new graphics territory: licensing its chips

Seemingly out of nowhere, graphics chip maker Nvidia has announced one of the biggest changes to its business in some time.

FindTheCompany releases data on 30M businesses to clue in consumers

FindTheBest launches sister site FindTheCompany to help consumers make more informed business decisions based off detailed, objective data.

Dish jilts Sprint to focus attention on Clearwire in a sordid saga of spectrum

Dish Network said today that it would not make a new offer to buy Sprint Nextel, in time for the Tuesday deadline. Instead, Dish will focus on its attentions on wireless provider Clearwire. This is the latest event in the never-ending Sprint-Dish-Clearwire-SoftBank saga that is more dramatic than a soap opera.

Facebook now has 1M active advertisers

Facebook announced today that the company now has one million active advertisers -- companies or organizations that have advertised on the social network at least once in the last 28 days.

Google: We have a First Amendment right to disclose FISA request numbers

Google is taking a stand against FISA gag orders with a pretty simple but powerful appeal: free speech.

YC startup Ink raises $1.8M to make software more open-minded

"File system as a service" startup Filepicker.io has rebranded as Ink and announced the close of its $1.8 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz and Highland Capital Partners.

General Electric joins the ‘big data’ party

GE just announced a new "big-data" and analytics platform it calls “Predictivity," and it has some big partners on board to give it reach.

Google Glass is Orwellian, ridiculous, and ‘destroys people,’ Noam Chomsky says

Chomsky makes at least one pretty significant mistake, however. He said that Google Glass has a camera and a recorder, "which means that everything that's going on around you goes up on the Internet."

CareCloud raises $20M to vanquish ‘walking dead’ and ‘dinosaurs’ of health IT

CareCloud offers cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) software that helps doctors improve patient care, increase collections, and streamline operations. It's the latest big deal in a "record year" for digital health.

NSA chief: We do not ‘unilaterally’ obtain data from Google, Facebook, Microsoft servers

Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, and Apple might breathe a little easier today as NSA Director General Keith Alexander lends credibility to their testimony.

Parakweet raises $2M to give you data-driven book recommendations

Parakweet's core product Bookvibe combines natural language processing and social-media analytics to find the books that are right for you.

Elon Musk plans Tesla battery-swapping tech demo for June 20

Electric-car company Tesla is planing to hold a demonstration of its battery-swapping technology, which should enable its vehicles to travel nonstop on long road trips.

Occipital acquires 3D-scanning startup ManCTL to explore future of computer vision

Occipital develops computer-vision products, and the acquisition of ManCTL will make it easier to create 3D models of the real world.

Udemy: Our top 10 instructors together made $5M

The startup said it's closing in on a million students and serves up more than 8,000 courses. But the real stunner is the money earned by the site's top instructors.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander: PRISM saved us 50 times

"Thank you for working to protect America," Rep. Rogers said. "You're doing a very difficult job -- thank you on behalf of America."

Rounds brings together mobile video chat with shared web browsing

Rounds is adding yet another compelling spin to the mobile video-chat formula.