With 36M subscribers & 4B hours watched, Netflix investors are pleased with its Q1

Netflix investors have given the company quite a hard time as it continued to grow its subscriber base and expand into new territories, but for its first quarter of the year that doesn't seem to be the case.

T-Mobile could be first to offer ’5G’ LTE Advanced, thanks to late LTE rollout

Even though it's been late to the party so far, T-Mobile could be one of the first to offer the 5G wireless technology LTE Advanced.

Netflix says more members watched ‘Hemlock Grove’ on first weekend than ‘House of Cards’

Netflix's newest original series Hemlock Grove debuted this past weekend, and it looks like members are biting, with more people watching the new supernatural show on opening weekend than recent hit House of Cards.

Reddit owns up to its part in spreading misinformation about the Boston bombings

A legion of armchair warriors pulled together to provide a detailed account of all the information available on last week's horrific bombings during the Boston Marathon, but not all of that effort turned out to be good.

Kik Messenger raises $19.5M as it aims to lead the HTML5 revolution

Only a few weeks after hitting 50 million users, the popular mobile messaging service Kik has received a new chunk of funding to fuel its impressive growth.

Apple: earnings, stock price, innovation … and what the company needs to do now

"iPhone 5 sales have failed to impress. There's been a lack of innovation over the past few years to come up with the next great device, and consumers have filed to see any differentiation. Samsung has captured the market."

Amazon original pilots see big viewing stats over the weekend

If you're a fan of original TV shows that are exclusively available online, you had quite a bit to watch over the weekend, and according to Amazon you really liked what you saw, too.

Now booking: Your flight to space

Meet the elite group of accredited "space agents" selling Virgin Galactic tickets at a starting price of $200,000.

SkimLinks helps publishers nail affiliate marketing, no wooing required

Skimlinks has raised a round of growth financing from Greycroft Partners for its suite of solutions that automatically turn digital content into affiliate links.

Video is the new audio, as videoconferencing contender Vidyo grows 68% and raises $17M to grow even faster

"We want to price equivalent to a voice call," Shapiro says. "Our competitors offer an inferior product for more money: Blue Jeans 15 time more, and other competitors 300 times more."

Google Earth gets Leap Motion, now your hand can fly over the world like Superman

This morning Google announced that the next major version of Google Earth, available today, will support input from Leap Motion's innovative new gesture control technology. In other words, you'll be able to fly virtually around the planet, using your hand to guide and direct the software.

‘The startup is you!’ Upstart gets $5.9M to help investors back college grads

Upstart, the startup that can help recent graduates step off the treadmill of a corporate career, just closed its first round of funding.

IBM buys UrbanCode to help companies push out software updates faster

IBM has acquired software delivery startup UrbanCode to better help businesses push out updates of mobile, cloud, social, and big data applications.

Windows 8.1 likely to bring back Start button, but it’ll be useless

Microsoft will likely bring back the Start button in the next version of Windows, but it won't be the Start button users have known for years.

Google Now for the web: Google testing a much more data-heavy home page

In the early 2000's, then-Google VP of user experience Marissa Mayer used to get mysterious emails from a complete stranger, each containing only a single number: 45, 52, 56.

Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer ad campaign insists it wants to protect your privacy (video)

Microsoft has launched a new ad campaign for Internet Explorer that emphasizes IE's inclusion of the "Do Not Track" setting that helps protect users' privacy.

Germany fines Google a tiny $190,000 over its Street View Wi-Fi snooping ‘mistake’

Google's Street View Wi-Fi data snooping has cost it $190,000 in Germany. Some, however, aren't quite convinced that that's enough money.