Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced his company’s first foray into the smartphone market at a special unveiling this morning in Seattle, confirming recent speculation among the technology community. Bezos will hope the…
Facebook’s messaging mission leads to Snapchat competitor Slingshot
Facebook’s pursuit, rejection, and subsequent mission to bury Snapchat is starting to resemble a teenage courtship gone bad. After Snapchat declined Facebook’s offer to buy the company last year for $3 billion,…
Samsung to launch Tizen smartphones in Russia, India
Samsung is making a push into the mobile software and services market with its Tizen operating system, and plans to launch a new smartphone featuring the system in Russia and India shortly,…
Yahoo’s Alibaba cash windfall puts pressure on CEO Mayer to spend
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has finally filed for a $1 billion IPO – though the final figure raised could make it the world’s largest-ever public offering. The much awaited filing brought with…
Twitter’s slowing user growth continues to worry investors
Twitter’s shares have hit their lowest point since the company’s IPO last year, and critics predict impending doom for the social media site. Is Twitter in danger of being crushed by its…
Apple prepares bond sale worth $17 billion
Apple will again sell billions of dollars worth of bonds this year. The company had previously offloaded $17 billion worth of debt twelve months ago in what was then the biggest-ever sale…
VKontakte CEO Durov departs company
Pavel Durov, the 29-year-old founder of VKontakte, Russia’s biggest social network, has finally left the company less than a month after pretending to resign as part of an apparent April Fool’s joke.…
Heartbleed an ‘existential threat to Internet’ – experts
Over a week since the Heartbleed bug was revealed to the world millions of web users are still at risk of serious identity thefts. This week it was announced that up to…
Paraplegic to kick off World Cup with groundbreaking robotics
The first kick of this year’s FIFA World Cup in Brazil will be performed by a paraplegic teenager, thanks to a robotic exoskeleton that translates brainwaves to actions. The revolutionary device was…
Four of the most left-field Earth-hacks that could combat climate change
A recent UN report on climate change reminded the world of the reality it is facing. Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus that humanity is to blame for rising temperatures and extreme weather,…