Dylan’s Desk: How apps are chipping away at the open Web

Corporations have found a way to roll back the web's decades-long openness. One of of the most successful? Apple, whose quarterly earnings report lands later today.

Yelp partners with Locu to bring menus into the 21st century

Yelp and Locu announced a partnership that will bring restaurant menus to Yelp in real-time, along with price lists and business information.

Zooz’s people-first payments platform zooms off with $2M

Zooz has raised $2 million to build out its online checkout solutions, which take a consumer-driven approach to powering payments.

Associated Press Twitter account hacked, tweet about White House attack ‘untrue’

The AP Twitter account was breached today. The hackers sent out a bogus tweet about an attack on the White House.

CBS responds to Aereo threat with an investment in streaming video service Syncbak

CBS has had plenty to say about its future if TV startup Aereo is permitted to exist, and now the company is investing some of its resources into a streaming video startup that could help it stay competitive.

HexBright is a hackable, open-source flashlight that will blind your foes (and friends if you point it at them)

Christian Carlberg raised money for the HexBright on Kickstarter and is now shipping it.

Jive adds virtual ‘rooms’ to get workers using email less, integrates with Box

Enterprise social networking business Jive Software has launched its spring 2013 update with new features including "rooms" for collaborating on specific projects, and integration with cloud storage service Box.

Apple stock up $18 in prelude to today’s earnings release

Apple stock has jumped more than $18 since yesterday, adding $17 billion in stock market capitalization to the company's value in the last 24 hours.

Forget thermoplastics — Mcor says the future of 3D printing is in paper

While most 3D printers create objects using different varieties of plastics, Mcor's tech is all about the magic of plain old paper.

More Apple iCloud woes: Apple reports Game Center, iTunes, and AppleID outages

Apple iCloud services for identity, Game Center, account creation and sign-in, iTunes store purchases are experiencing service failures this morning for some users, Apple says on its system status page.

Investor buys $2 billion of MSFT, says Microsoft ‘will win out’ as stock jumps 4%

Microsoft stock, which is down a penny today, jumped from under $30 to over $31 almost immediately overnight, and has climbed almost 11 percent over the last month. That's part of a fairly steady rise over the last three months which has added over $30 billion in value to the company.

Can’t afford Inspirato’s luxury vacation homes? Now you can get your job to pay

With Inspirato's latest product, you may finally get to that ridiculously posh Aspen vacation home. The downside: You could be there with your boss.

How Netflix plans to make more money without raising the price on its $8 plans

Once again, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings struck down questions that suggested the company would raise the price of its standard streaming subscription plans beyond the introductory $7.99 per month fee that's been successful for the few years.