“Timing is everything” is a piece of wisdom with a number of applications. One of them, of course, is the public markets, something that Box and its CEO Aaron Levie know well…
The top 10 technology stories from 2014
By Anam Alpenia The past 12 months have been more than eventful for the technology industry. From hacking to mega funding rounds to the biggest technology IPO ever, 2014 has certainly not…
Blackberry Classic, Sony pulls The Interview and Apple halts Russia sales
Blackberry returns to roots with Classic model.
Instagram overtakes Twitter, Microsoft accepts bitcoin and Uber’s setbacks
In a blogpost Wednesday, Instagram announced that it reached 300 million active users, eclipsing Twitter’s most recently reported 284 million users.
Sustainable tech hits Europe’s roads, but is wider deployment realistic?
If you ride a bike path at night between Tongelre and Opwetten in the Netherlands, as of a fortnight ago you should have noticed something different. The path, coated with paint that…
Consumers and companies told to learn from 2014’s privacy breaches
Kelsey Finch is policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum, a Washington DC-based think tank seeking to advance best practice in data privacy. She has specialized in wearables, big data, de-identification…
Sony hack worsens, Justice department’s cyber division and Apple’s antitrust lawsuit
Two weeks ago it was revealed hackers had infiltrated Sony Pictures, the latest example in a growing number of corporate cyber invasions.
Google’s Europe problems, Samsung reshuffle and Twitter’s app tracking
The European Parliament voted on Wednesday, by a convincing 384 votes to 174, in favor of unbundling Google’s search business from its advertising and other businesses.
FCC’s mobile broadband spectrum auction hits reported $34bn
The last time the FCC conducted a large-scale auction to sell its airwaves to mobile broadband providers, the iPhone was only a year old. Smartphone adoption has taken off in the six…
BT’s hunt for acquisition of mobile network praised by analysts
U.K. telecoms group BT has announced it is in talks over the purchase of one of two British mobile network operators – O2 and EE. The telecommunications giant, with funds of £2.6…