| DealBook: Users of Citibank Bill-Pay App Charged Twice Citigroup 's effort to become "the world's digital bank" has encountered a snag.A technical bug caused Citi, the nation's fourth largest bank by deposits, to double the... | |
| DealBook: Alibaba.com May Become Part of Deal With Yahoo Jack Ma, Alibaba’s chief executive. The Alibaba Group's publicly traded affiliate, Alibaba.com, has emerged as a potential part of its plan to buy back most of a stake held by Yahoo,... |
| Sony Turning to Medical-Imaging Chips Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Rising rates of cancer, obesity and heart disease may offer a path back to health for Sony Corp., as the ailing Japanese maker of televisions, cameras and game consoles turns... |
| Google Testing New Gadget Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., the world’s largest Internet-search company, is developing an entertainment device that will rely on wireless home networks, according to a filing with the... |
| N.Y. Intel Suit to Be Dropped Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- New York state has ended its more than two-year-old antitrust suit against Intel Corp. without fining the chipmaker or imposing any restrictions on its... |
| Australia Seeks A$3 Billion From Telstra, Optus Spectrum Sales Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Australia expects to get about A$3 billion ($3.2 billion) in the next four years from the renewal of mobile phone spectrum to providers including Telstra Corp., Optus and... |
| Jobs FBI File Notes Drug Use, Tendency to ‘Distort Reality’ Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a decades-old file it kept on Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with people who say... |
| Groupon Hires Taaffe to Improve Coupon Site’s Public Face Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Groupon Inc. hired public-relations executive Paul Taaffe to run communications for the daily-deal site, which has had several publicity mishaps in the last... |
| U.S. Government’s NOAA to Replace BlackBerrys With IPhones Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd. was dealt another setback as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it would supply employees with iPhones, the latest... |
| Facebook Impact on Menlo Park Home Prices Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Eswar Prasad, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and a former International Monetary Fund economist, talks about the potential impact of Europe's... |
| Facebook Should Diversify Board, Calstrs CEO Says Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Keri Nicholas, a Coldwell Banker realtor, talks with Bloomberg's Jon Erlichman about Menlo Park, California's real estate market and the impact of Facebook Inc.'s... |
| David Kirkpatrick Reacts to Steve Jobs FBI File Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Businessweek Senior Editor David Rocks talks about the BBW50, a ranking of top-performing companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. (Source:... |
| Etsy's Funky Brooklyn Headquarters Next As the purveyor of 11 million handmade and vintage items, Etsy has become the Web’s biggest marketplace for arts and crafts. Inside the warehouse, young workers toil in clusters, some... |
| A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 10 Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to... |
| Apple Patent Shows 3-D Interface Calibrated by Eye Positioning In a recent patent application, Apple shows how an immersive, adjustable 3-D user interface could be implemented in future mobile devices. The patent, titled ';Three Dimensional User Interface... |
| Report: Google is Working on a Streaming Music System As the battle for the living room rages with a proliferation of smart TVs and streaming media devices, Google may be entering the fray with a contender of its own. No, it’s not a third version... |
| Protesters Crash Apple Stores, Demand Apple 'Manufacture Different' Sarah Ryan, left, and Shelby Knox, with Change.org arrive at the Apple store at Grand Central to deliver petitions asking Apple to change its manufacturing practices and to address criticism of... |
| Report: Apple Expected to Hold iPad 3 Event First Week of March Those eagerly awaiting the iPad 3 shouldn’t have to wait much longer. By mapping circulating rumors against Apple’s traditional release timeline, it’s becoming easy to divine that... |
| FBI File on Steve Jobs Notes Use of LSD, Dishonesty Notes from an FBI special agent investigating a bomb-threat extortion attempt against Steve Jobs in 1985. The government released Steve Jobs’ FBI file Thursday, including details of a... |
| Cloudscaling set to offer OpenStack private cloud platform Cloudscaling plans to introduce on Monday an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds. This will be the first product offering from Cloudscaling, which built its... |
| Sony's Hirai to extend PlayStation strategy TOKYO (Reuters) - Incoming CEO Kazuo Hirai aims to re-shape Sony Corp by linking hardware and software through online networks -- a model he used at its PlayStation unit -- dismissing any suggestion... |
| U.S. Air Force chief wants affordable new bomber WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Affordability will be a deciding factor in the U.S. Air Force's drive to develop a new long-range bomber, the top general in the service said on Thursday, underscoring... |
| Facebook "defriending" led to double murder, police say NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - A Tennessee couple who "defriended" a woman on Facebook were murdered in their home by the jilted woman's father and another man, police said on... |
| Catholic leaders to use Internet against pedophiles ROME (Reuters) - Roman Catholic Church leaders unveiled an Internet teaching project on Thursday to help clergy around the world root out pedophiles in their ranks and protect children from potential... |
| Activision slows "World of Warcraft" declines (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc's quarterly sales beat Wall Street expectations on Thursday as the video game publisher lost fewer "World of Warcraft" subscribers than it did a... |
| Kickstarter racks up over $2 million for two projects (Credit: Kickstarter) This was one of two projects to hit $1 million in donations today from the crowd-source funding platform Kickstarter. According to Kickstarter, every week, tens of thousands... |
| Tesla Model X: Electric, all-wheel drive, and crazy folding doors (Credit: Wayne Cunningham/CNET) LOS ANGELES--The highlight of the Model X introduction, Tesla's SUV, was not the electric power train, but what the company calls the falcon-wing doors. ... |
| E-mail viruses most likely to appear in the morning (Credit: Trustwave) Eight in the morning is a good time to grab some coffee, but not to check your e-mail. The number of viruses sent out each day peaks between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. EST, according... |
| How much better will the iPad 3 be? rumors are to be believed). I told him he was crazy. In buying his first Apple product, he'd not only broken the cardinal rule of buying Apple products (don't buy within six months of... |
| Google dominated U.S. searches in January (Credit: ComScore) Big surprise, Google continued to reign over all other U.S. search engines in January with 66.2 percent share, according to data released today by market... |
| iTunes customers reportedly under threat from digital thieves A number of iTunes users are reportedly receiving refunds after having their iTunes Store accounts cleaned out by thieves, with the underlying issue of how it happened remaining unresolved. The... |
| Making DDoS prevention a priority Prolexic and Arbor Networks recently reported that distributed-denial-of-service attacks are on the rise. What can we do to make prevention a forethought? According to Prolexic Chief Technology... |
| 3D printing and the future of product design: Inside Quirky (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) How far can you get with a 3D printer and a dream? CNET photographer Sarah Tew and I took a tour of Quirky's new Manhattan offices this morning. As depicted in her... |
| Clear Spot Voyager review: Big deal in tiny package Clear Spot Voyager is tiny, just about the size of a large pebble, but it's in no way a small deal. The mobile hot-spot router offers almost all you can expect from a mobile router including... |
| Jury strikes down Eolas' 'Interactive Web' patent Web companies such as Google and Amazon won a closely watched patent-infringement lawsuit today when a jury ruled that a patent central to the complaint was invalid. A federal jury in Tyler,... |
| Superheroes + math + men's room=wacky shirt Matt Cowan has some tees that fit the bill. His various "mathematics" designs should appeal to nerds who favor comics, "Star Wars," graphic design, and math. The pop-culture... |
| A Kodak moment to forget (Credit: Kodak) "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home," Olsen told a meeting of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977. Though Olsen would later... |
| Alan Moore on Anonymous' rise On Saturday protests are planned across the world against Acta - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The treaty has become the focus of activists associated with the Anonymous hacking network... |
| What's in Steve Jobs' FBI File? iPad , also had a 191-page FBI file that detailed a federal background check, a bomb threat made against him, and second-hand reports of drug use. Released today under a Freedom of Information Act... |
| LinkedIn reports 105% rise in 4th-quarter revenue LinkedIn Corp. on Thursday said fourth-quarter revenue rose 105 percent behind a surge in income from the professional social-networking company's job recruiting services. The Mountain View... |
| Oracle paying $1.9 billion for Taleo's HR software Oracle made its second acquisition in three months, agreeing to buy human-resources software company Taleo Corp. for about $1.9 billion to expand in cloud computing and answer a December deal by SAP... |
| German court nixes Apple bid to ban Samsung tablet German court rejects Apple request to ban Galaxy 10.1N Apple, maker of the iPad and iPhone, failed for the second time to win a ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1N from a... |
| New iPad in March, report says The next iPad will be unveiled the first week of March in San Francisco, according to a report Thursday. Over at All Things D, John Paczkowski wrote: "Sources say the company has chosen the... |
| No regrets on Jeremy Lin, just joy Landry Fields #2 of the New York Knicks and Jeremy Lin #17 celebrate after the Knicks defeated the Washington Wizards at Verizon Center on February 8, 2012 in Washington,... |
| Cops: Newark gunman fantasized about victim's wife (02-09) 21:29 PST NEWARK -- The optician charged with shooting and wounding a federal officer outside his Newark home had a "near obsession" with the victim's wife and fantasized about... |
| Enlarging Shasta Lake feasible, U.S. report says Lake Shasta water flows through five penstocks to the hydroelectric power plant at the base of Shasta Dam. A proposal to raise the dam's height drew approval in a federal report and concern in... |
| LinkedIn's 4Q revenue doubles, stock soars 8 pct LinkedIn added another 14 million profiles during the final three months of last year to bring its total membership to 145 million. Meanwhile, more companies have been paying to get additional access... |
| Brazil files injunction against Twitter SAO PAULO (AP) -- A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take... |
| Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in a move that marks the end of an era for the beleaguered 132-year-old... |
| US video game sales fall 34 percent in January LOS ANGELES (AP) -- U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories fell 34 percent in January from a year earlier to $751 million due to the lack of new game titles, according to... |