Following Facebook & Apple hacking, Oracle issues emergency Java update

Oracle has issued an emergency patch for its Java software after a string of high-profile hacking incidents at companies including Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft.

Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, Page, and Brin (but no women) among world’s top 10 tech billionaires

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple are not just engines of technological innovation in America ... they're also the path to Forbes' World's Billionaires list. But there is a little catch -- you gotta be a man.

Why Google needs Facebook for Android to win

In a critical moment, Facebook fixed a huge Android flaw. Here's why Google needs the social network to make Android the worldwide dominant platform.

Why ‘Lean In’ irks successful women — and why you should still read it

I know many women who are irked by Sheryl Sandberg’s dictum to “lean in,” the subject of her new book.

Bootcamp! How Facebook indoctrinates every new engineer it hires

Facebook engineers all go through six weeks of indoctrination and learning the hard way to find the teams they'll be on for years. Here's our look inside the bootcamp process.

Microsoft newsdump includes tablets, translation, and $2.1B in fines

Microsoft had six pieces of news come out today, including the Surface worldwide expansion, Yammer's new translation service, and getting slapped with regulatory fines from the EU.

OpenTable now competing with Facebook Graph with new Facebook app ‘Places I’ve Eaten’

OpenTable has released a Facebook application to help friends connect around food. My question: won't Facebook Graph support this kind of thing natively?

Facebook’s new ‘custom audiences’ tools for advertisers package its product better (that’s you)

Facebook is moving beyond the simple "X liked Coke" to the meaning of that like -- and using more nuanced clues based on what Facebookers have posted and shared on the site to built that characterization.

Here’s what Facebook, Google, & Twitter told the Supreme Court about gay marriage

Here's the brief tech companies filed with the Supreme Court -- and the exact reason these business say they do support same-sex marriage.

Sephora: Our Pinterest followers spend 15X more than our Facebook fans

Pinterest just raised $200 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. But if the company seriously starts to monetize what marketers like Sephora are finding in the social shopping platform, two and a half billion dollars is far too cheap.

Facebook’s amazing disappearing tax trick

Facebook's IPO managed to turn a rather hefty tax bill into a huge tax refund -- retroactively. How? By granting stock options to employees.

Now at 100M users, Instagram shows rumors of its decline are greatly exaggerated

The photo-sharing service has gained 10 million users in the past month alone. Here's what Instagram founder Kevin Systrom has to say about it.

Facebook updates SDK for iOS to help developers know what’s going on (and make more money)

With tracking capabilities like these, the new SDK is almost starting to impinge on dedicated app analytics solutions like App Annie and Flurry, but of course in a purely Facebook-focused manner.

App.net, the pay-to-access social network, adds a free membership tier in ‘curated growth’ experiment

Earlier this month, founder Dalton Caldwell told me that people won't adopt a new social network just because it's good for them -- it needed to be "truly better." That's probably true -- but free is also good.

If Twitter and Facebook users picked Oscar winners … (infographic)

The Oscars are here, and guaranteed, some arty French film with subtitles that no man has voluntarily watched will win one or three. But what if Twitterati and Facebookers chose the winners?

Java-based cyberattack hits developers at Microsoft, Facebook, Apple

Microsoft is the latest company targeted by a sophisticated Java-based cyberattack that focuses on mobile app developers -- particularly those using Macs.

Facebook for iOS now lets you make free calls to friends

Facebook’s mobile app for iOS has been updated with several new features today, including placing free calls over data.

Casual game developer Wooga experiments with new genres and platforms in 2013

It has four games scheduled for release in the next two months: Pearl's Peril, Kingsbridge, Pocket Village, and Monster World mobile.