Love was most certainly in the air for digital inspiration board site Pinterest during the month of February.
The newly crowned princess of the Internet was the object of everyone’s attention and saw more than 17.8 million unique visitors in …
Lumosity released impressive growth numbers for its online brain training games. The company has added 6 million additional members since June 2011 for a total of 20 million registered users.
Speaking to VentureBeat, Lumosity chief executive Kunal Sarkar disclosed that …
After the iPad debuted last year, some people predicted e-readers would fade away, becoming at best niche products. But a report from the Pew Internet Project Monday shows a different trend: E-readers like Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Amazon’s Kindle …
On the day before Microsoft’s Office 365 launches, Google has taken steps to preemptively keep customers from choosing 365 over Google Apps. In a blog post, Google Apps Product Manager Shan Sinha listed four reason Office 365 was a weaker …
Apple has added extra security features in iOS 5 that will make it much harder for hackers to safely jailbreak their iPhones, according to the high-profile jailbreakers at Dev-Team Blog. Apple’s changes will make it harder to roll back to …
GSV Capital Corp. has invested a stake in Facebook that values the social network at $70 billion, reports Reuters.
In an official statement Monday, Woodside, California-based GSV Capital said it purchased 225,000 shares in Facebook for a total of $6.6 …
Even though hacker group LulzSec supposedly disbanded on Saturday, its members may simply be joining the Anonymous hacking collective to give it more protection. According to tweets from Anonymous, LulzSec members haven’t gone on hiatus but did drop the LulzSec …
Here’s a breakdown of the arguments that mattered to the Supreme Court in its decision today to strike down California’s law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. The court voted 7-2 in favor of holding the law …
Arguing that video games qualify for First Amendment protection, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that California’s video game violence law is unconstitutional.
The state law restricted the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, but the court …
The Department of Justice on Friday gave the go-ahead to Apple and Intel to bid on Nortel’s highly valued patent portfolio. The two high-profile firms follow Google as potential bidders.
Nortel’s patents relate to all manner of technologies, including Wi-Fi, …
Google on Friday announced that it’s pulling the plug on Google Health and Google PowerMeter, two products in its lineup that haven’t been as popular as services such as Gmail, Chrome, or Maps.
The Federal Trade Commission is about to …
Soluto, winner of TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2010, has raised $10.5 million in a second round funding from Index Ventures. The company’s software specializes in the tangibly intangible: anti-frustration.
The free software detects the nerve pumping in your forehead by …
Location-based social network Foursquare closed a new $50 million round of funding, the company reported today.
Foursquare said it will use the new funding to hire additional engineers, grow its merchant platform and expand internationally.
“The opportunity to build something …
Hewlett-Packard is getting into the magazine business!
Er… sort of.
The hardware giant is preparing to launch Pivot, a monthly digital publication exclusively offered on its forthcoming TouchPad tablet. Rather than running pure advertorial, the hybrid magazine/app guide will offer …
Retro gamers rejoice! Halo publisher Bungie on Friday said it will re-release its 1994 hit game Marathon for the Apple iPad in the coming weeks. On top of that good news, the game will be free.
Bungie is arguably best-known …
WebEx, the Cisco-owned meeting solutions company, is continuing the web conferencing competition with an updated iPad app. The app, WebEx says, is a product of working people becoming more mobile.
“10 years ago, I wasn’t allowed to work from anywhere …
Biofuel producer KiOR has priced its initial public offering at $15 per share, down from $19 to $21 that the company originally announced on Wednesday.
A lot of media and Web 2.0 companies filing to go public, such as LinkedIn …
The Dutch Parliament on Wednesday passed a law that prohibits Internet service providers from slowing down any kind of Internet traffic unless it’s to ease congestion, preserve security, or block spam.
The practice of treating all Internet traffic equally—whether it’s …
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