White House petitions now require 100K signatures for formal response

The White House has raised its requirements to make it more difficult to get a response on user-generated petitions today.

Zettaset nabs $10M to help manage your Hadoop cluster

Zettaset, a company that helps its customers deploy Hadoop, the open source computing framework that can process large data-sets, has closed a $10 million funding round.

Facebook shows off search function to knock out Google, Yelp, LinkedIn, & even Match.com

Speculation has run rampant: It's a phone! It's a plane! Here's what the social network is really announcing today.

MIT president issues statement on Aaron Swartz’s death, appoints investigator

Facing criticism for taking a hard line against accused academic journal downloader Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide Friday, MIT has issued a statement.

Vuzix smart glasses will let you scan apps, emails, updates — beating Google Glass to market

Vuzix, a small company based in Rochester, New York, is about to beat Google to the punch in releasing Internet-enabled smart glasses.

General Assembly aims to match education to market demands

General Assembly aims to teach technology skills that the market needs, not just what professors think you ought to know -- and it's expanding its locations worldwide.

Web pioneer and activist Aaron Swartz dead at 26

Aaron Swartz, the co-creator of RSS 1.0, web.py, and a prominent Internet activist, has committed suicide.

Why Forrst got bought back from Colourlovers, & what its creator is doing next

Once upon a time, a hacker built a product. Then he sold it to a company that treated it poorly. Now, another company bought it back and promises to treat it right.

Tackling tech’s gender problem the right way: Teaching women to code

In San Francisco, two guys are putting women through a 10-week bootcamp in software development. The goal: to change the gender ratio of the tech industry.

Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products

Today Codecademy is launching a new partnership with nine companies to help budding developers learn APIs and create actual functioning sites, projects, and even products.

Kickstarter’s best of 2012: 2.2M backers, $319M raised, 18K projects funded

Kickstarter released it's "best-of" list for 2012, and the numbers are shocking. 2,41 million people funded at least one project, pledging a total of $319 million -- over $600 per minute over the course of the year. And 18,109 projects were successfully funded.

Ford launches mobile developer program, adds new Amazon, Rhapsody, & WSJ apps for Sync

The Ford Developer Program, announced today at CES 2013, specifically aims to create apps that will utilize the Sync system and Ford's AppLink API.

German startup makes payments as easy as eins, zwei, drei

European payments startup Paymill raises double digits round for to faciliate credit card transactions.

Los Alamos goes nuclear on Huawei switches as the Chinese equipment maker is under fire again

Looks like Chinese telecommunications manufacturer Huawei is getting slammed again. Now it's Los Alamos National Laboratory, the facility that is in charge of maintaining the United States's arsenal of nuclear weapons, that has apparently tossed out Huawei network switches.

AT&T’s new platforms to tempt devs: Digital Life, Mobile Payments, Connected Car

AT&T's quest to attract developers (and make you hate it less) is off to a strong start in 2013.

How Apple kept Safari a secret

How Don Melton, Apple's director of Internet technologies, kept the Safari web browser from being leaked to the world.