Twitter Speaks Up With Growth Strategy Intended to Soothe Wall Street

Twitter is finally learning how to go beyond a tweet to explain what it is doing, and Wall Street likes what it hears. On Wednesday,...

Facebook Has Its Own Get Out the Vote Message

Facebook wants its users in the United States to vote this Election Day — and it plans to put a reminder Tuesday at the top of the news fe...

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Prices and details

Apple has unveiled the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, two new devices with a "continuous, seamless design", improved landscape view...

Hello Skype,Viber - WhatsApp set to launch free voice calls?

Facebook it seems is upping the ante as voice messaging services Skype and Viber will soon have to grapple with some stiff competition fro...

Facebook and Instagram approach with Snapchat

That's the approach Facebook (FB, Tech30) and Instagram are taking with Snapchat, the self-destructing photo- and video-sharing app. ...

Apple Denies China Assertions on IPhone as Security Risk

Apple Inc. (AAPL) assured Chinese customers that location tracking on its iPhone can’t be used to identify activity of individuals, a day ...

Google faces German Motorola phone patent ban

Motorola faces the prospect of being forced to remove its handsets from sale in Germany and to recall phones already bought by business cu...

LG Says "Giant rollable TVs on the horizon"

LG has announced the release of two new paper-thin TV panels, with one that is so flexible it can be rolled into a 3cm diameter tube. ...

Complaint over Facebook emotion test

In The study was carried out for one week in 2012 and targeted almost 700,000 users by varying the personalized content sent to their Faceb...

WhatsApp user chats on Android liable to theft due to file system flaw

A newly discovered security flaw in the Android version of WhatsApp allows another application to upload a user’s entire database of chats...

Google Starts Running Consumer Surveys About Select Advertisers, Highlights Data In Search Ads

Google is launching a new feature for advertisers today that highlights data it gathers from its Consumer Surveys in their ads. These so-c...

Yik Yak chat app stirring up trouble in high schools

From Chicago, to Georgia, to Southern California, a new social media application is causing problems on middle school and high school camp...

Apple releases iOS 7 update for iPads and iPhones

Apple released its latest mobile operating system update on Monday, iOS 7.1. The major upgrade packs in an assortment of bug fixes, improv...

Facebook 'in talks to buy drone satellite firm'

Facebook is reportedly in discussions to acquire Titan Aerospace, a manufacturer of drones, for around $60m. Titan Aerospace specialises...

Mobile Phones Are Moving Targets

Two years ago, when he was stuck in traffic, Peter Spriggs of Fresno, Calif., pulled out his iPhone to look for an alternative route. A ...

YouTube PS4 app workaround

Earlier on this month we spoke about the need for Sony to release a native PS4 YouTube app. While we would still like to see this with t...

Yahoo webcam images intercepted and stored

The British surveillance agency GCHQ and the United States National Security Agency (NSA) have intercepted and stored webcam images of mil...

Facebook-WhatsApp Deal Risks Sparking Privacy Probes Across EU

Facebook Inc. (FB)’s plan to buy WhatsApp Inc. for as much as $19 billion risks triggering privacy probes across the European Union as...

Messaging service WhatsApp is down

Messaging service WhatsApp is down and for the past an hour or so users haven’t been able to send messages. The company has confirmed to...

Google's Hangouts blunder helped WhatsApp

Just a few days before WhatsApp founders agreed to sell the company to Facebook, they were reportedly contacted by Google CEO Larry Page...