Simply browsing the web can open you up to a ton of malware or privacy risks. And let’s not even get started on the dangers of public Wi-Fi.
With 60 million downloads and more than 100 million monthly user sessions, …
GitHub has maintained a long and profitable love affair with all things Apple, but today, the folks behind the most popular code repository site are sullying their allegiance to Cupertino with — get ready to gasp and clutch your pearls …
Tumblr CEO David Karp announced today at that the Michael Arrington-led CrunchFund has joined as an investor in his popular blogging company.
Karp was speaking with CrunchFund partner MG Siegler on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in New York. …
Chris Early, vice president of digital publishing at Ubisoft, explains his company's strategies on Facebook, how they're coordinating three different Ghost Recon products, and most importantly, how they're going to make money on these ambitious plans.
The European Union’s antitrust chief has given Google a final chance to settle matter related to anti-competitiveness with its main search engine, according to a Reuters report.
The EU first opened up an investigation in November 2010 after rival companies …
Fred Wilson, managing partner at Union Square Ventures, shed some light today on why his VC firm invested in search engine startup DuckDuckGo, even as it pales next to Google and Bing.
DuckDuckGo has seen incredible growth in the past …
Websites need to verify that a visitor is a real person and not an automated bot. But the CAPTCHA test that they came up with — where you have to type in the word that you see in a blurry …
It’s rarely a good thing when the country’s biggest cable providers partner up, but subscribers might be okay with today’s news.
Customers of Bright House, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Time Warner will soon be able to connect to each …
Facebook’s shares tumbled this morning to a low of $33.01, well below the company’s initial price of $38 on Friday.
Pre-market trading of Facebook’s stock was already below $38, reports USA Today, but it quickly sank to $33 within the …
The summer season is usually when the lesser-known cable channels debut their own original programing, and this year Hulu is jumping into that game with three original shows and seven exclusives.
Perhaps the most recognizable of the bunch is a …
Google Chrome isn’t just for über-geeks anymore. Google’s minimalist web browser is now the most popular web browser in the world, according to the latest figures from StatCounter.
For the week of May 14th to May 20th, Chrome edged out …
Mixin, a social video startup, is coming out of stealth mode today with a personal video sharing technology and more than 200,000 users.
The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company allows users to mix their personal comments into online videos and then …
Game startup Disruptor Beam has announced today the first Facebook game based on the award-winning novels by George R.R. Martin and the award-winning television show on HBO. Titled Game of Thrones Ascent, it is slated for an unspecified “future release” …
Anyone who has wanted to point their finger at their computer to make something happen will appreciate the Leap, a new motion control peripheral from startup Leap Motion. The small aluminum device uses finger waves and hand gestures to interact …
Yahoo and Alibaba have finally hashed out terms that will see Yahoo sell back half of its stake in the Chinese e-commerce site in a $7 billion deal, according to an AllThingsD report.
Yahoo will sell half of its 40 …
Nasdaq chief exec Robert Greifeld admitted Sunday that the exchange was at fault for some glitches in early trading of Facebook’s IPO but said it had nothing to do with the stock’s uninspired performance.
Social networking service Facebook went public …
Microsoft has officially launched an “experimental” social networking site called So.cl, which combines facets of social networking, search, and media sharing with a user interface resembling Google+.
When we last heard about it, So.cl (pronounced “Social”) was being billed as …
Twitter has been restored in Pakistan after being down for around eight hours. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that Twitter made no changes on its part to become restored and that the decision was purely on the government's end.
As if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t busy enough readying his company to go public this past week, he also somehow found time to marry long-time sweetheart Priscilla Chan yesterday.
Social networking titan Facebook went public Friday in the largest …
The all-computer run NASDAQ could be to blame for a lack of a Facebook stock pop Friday, when the social network started its first day of trading. Orders flooded in for the stock, but overwhelmed computers and glitches slowed trading …
