The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.
Like it or not, Lance Armstrong is not a criminal -- or at least he won't be considered one anytime soon. In a late Friday press release, the Department of Justice announced that it was going to drop its case against the seven-time Tour de France winner.
Time's military guy Mark Thompson managed to get ahold of the Excel spreadsheet showing the U.S. military's snack plans for the big game on Sunday.
Now that the media reporters and commentators have had time to dig through The New York Times Company's latest (troubling) quarterly earnings report, it's apparent that its once SEO-friendly traffic-winning Website About.com is becoming a real danger to the company's bottom line.
Following a series of questions and criticisms, "a group of European Union data-protection regulators" is asking Google not to move forward with its new unified privacy policy, according to Bloomberg Businessweek's Aoife White.
After Facebook's initial public offering paper revealed that Zynga accounts for 12 percent of the social network's revenue, ZNGA has been on quite a bull run up at NASDAQ.
Two new patent-related lawsuits in Germany threaten to block sales of all available iPhone models except for the new 4S. Two new patent-related lawsuits in Germany threaten blocked the sale of all available iPhone models except for the new 4S -- for a few hours.
Alexis Ohanian, the dude who co-founded Reddit, helped launch Hipmunk, advocates for free culture, opposes SOPA and serves as an all-around start-up sage, reads a lot of Reddit.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) issued a worrisome warning in the form of a press release on Thursday: MegaUpload used to own all of its users' data, but now the government does.
Twitter's super excited about Super Bowl Sunday, in part, because they've set up a number of forward-thinking social media marketing strategies with big companies like GE and Audi that revolve around sponsored hashtags.
After the Komen Foundation kicked off a controversy by withdrawing its funding from Planned Parenthood, Michael Bloomberg has announced that he'll be donating up to $250,000 towards breast cancer screenings.
With many people furious about the Komen Foundation's decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, 22 Democrats in the Senate are reportedly about to call on the non-profit to reverse its decision.
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek cover -- illustrating the unsexy topic of aviation mergers in perhaps the most sexy way possible -- earned what's becoming familiar praise on Twitter and beyond for the magazine's design staff.
After a much-publicized and pretty pricey departure of its chief executive, The New York Times's profit dropped 12 percent last quarters, according to The New York Times.
In its near 400-page S-1 filing for an initial public offering, Facebook had to reveal not only details about its revenue figures but also the now well-known names that helped build the social network from a dorm room side project into a global company.
It's a sad day at 36 Cooper Square, home of The Village Voice where the decades-old publication is finally giving up its legal battle with Time Out New York over exclusive use of the phrase "Best of NYC."
The latest Facebook initial public offering-related scoop comes from Reuters, which cites a single unnamed source saying that the social network will file for a $5 billion IPO on Wednesday.
A fresh but tough-to-confirm Fox News story claims that WikiLeaks is preparing to move all of its servers to the off-shore, anarchist "micronation" of Sealand.
A gang of carders -- they're the mean hackers who steal your credit card information online -- came up with a pretty creative way to spot federal law enforcement agents embedded in their networks: forced orgies.
The Obama campaign just filed its last quarter's Federal Election Commission report, revealing once again that the president's knack for microfinancing -- often through selling overpriced trinkets on his website -- is providing him with quite the war chest for next year.
Some pretty nasty stats about attack ads are flowing out of Florida, giving more clout to New York Magazine's cover story last week.
Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo, stern-faced and blank-eyed, explained his company's new censorship capabilities defensively on Monday night.
Everybody flipped out on Thursday when Twitter announced it had developed the capability to censor tweets in specific countries, should that country's government require it by law.
Thanks to some close reading of the lyrics in Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day," we now know that when the rapper rapped about his perfect day, he was rapping about January 20, 1991.
The world is suffering from a toilet shortage, and at least one activist wants to do something about it with his non-profit, the World Toilet Organization, or WTO.
As the U.S. government spends billions and billions outfitting the military with sophisticated spy drones, one hacker's taken things into his own hands and built a very cheap but very functional drone-ready surveillance device.
Marco Rubio looks like he's ramping up his let's-talk-about-me game this week.
The specifics of Facebook's massive initial public offering are starting to trickle out of sources in the know, and while the details are more specific than anything we've seen before, many questions still remain.
Janet Robinson, former CEO of The New York Times Company, received over $21 million upon her departure, a solid 40 percent more than previously thought according to Bloomberg.
Even though it seemed like Hollywood's love affair with Barack Obama has cooled, news that Will Ferrell will host a fundraiser for the president's reelection campaign next month in Los Angeles makes us feel warm.
Battery-powered folding cars wouldn't be out of place in an Inspector Gadget cartoon, but pretty soon, they may be commonplace on the streets of Europe.
It's time to fire up the Facebook speculation machine with news that the social network has hired Bloomberg's former social media director Dan Fletcher to be its managing editor.
As part of a broader strategy to take advantage of our nation's natural gas reserves, President Obama announced plans to offer a tax credit for natural gas-burning trucks at a speech in Las Vegas on Thursday.
As expected, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pulled back the curtain on a sweeping set of spending cuts that he says "will be a test of whether reducing the deficit is about talk or action."
A Reuters report from Thursday is not kind to Marco Rubio and his Vice Presidential aspirations, but it also wasn't completely correct when the newswire published it.
A year ago, we probably would've been excited about new reports that the Foxconn is starting to manufacture the new teardrop-shaped iPhone for a midsummer launch, but now we just feel weird about the whole thing.
Now that the armchair activists are doing victory laps, celebrating the (temporary) death of anti-piracy laws SOPA and PIPA in Congress, the years-long protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is getting nasty.
Sitting in what appears to be a Syracuse Orangemen-themed studio at Davos, Reuters' Chrystia Freeland teased some pretty fun quotes out of George Soros on Wednesday.
Now that iMessage has been out for a couple of months, stats are revealing just how much the new service reduces the amount that people send traditional text messages.
It looks like the Obama administration will keep its promise to make sweeping, cost-cutting reductions to combat troops over the next five years, trimming $260 billion from the Pentagon budget.
Sustainability probably isn't the first word that comes to mind when you think about the oil-rich Gulf nations.
It's not surprising that setting up an in-person interview with Brad Pitt, one of Hollywood's most recognizable (and most square-jawed) stars, is kind of a nightmare.
In the hours before the Federal Reserve was scheduled to release its quarterly economic forecast, markets lifted with news that the bank would leave interest rates near zero through at least 2014.
BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti doesn't mind if people are a little bit confused about the site's mix of LOL-friendly content and, more recently, political scooplets.
It's easy to laugh at the just released report from British advertising watchdogs scolding Groupon for selling snake oil after the company helped peddle an anti-aging serum last October.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama talked a lot about bringing back American jobs as well as American ingenuity as represented by Steve Jobs. But talking about them together somehow seems oxymoronic.
It's easy to get upset about Google's newly announced changes to its privacy policy, because as many have now pointed out, despite Google's mission to not be "evil," the changes have some pretty evil implications.
As tech bloggers gawked at Apple's record high earnings report, Google quietly announced that some changes to its privacy policy would kick into effect on March 1 and users will not be able to opt out.
Buoyed by holiday spending, the company's revenue hit a sky high $46 billion and net income of $13.1 billion.This amounts to about $133 million of profit per day during the 14 week-long quarter.
The best thing about the Goosebumps books -- or at least the best thing we remember about reading them 15 years ago -- is how irresistably scary they are.
As news emerged that the Obamas will honor Steve Jobs by inviting his wife Laurene Powell Jobs to sit with the First Lady during the State of the Union address, The Guardian's Charles Authur rolled out a simple timeline tracking the history of the smartphone.
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