The much loved game that made everyone want more is coming back. App creator Dong Nguyen today announced plans to return Flappy Bird to the App Store in August in a new interview…
Google is planning to release statistics documenting the diversity of its workforce for the first time amid escalating pressure on the technology industry to hire more minorities and women. The…
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is getting some competition from the Smithsonian Institution in testing personal delivery drones for the future. Smithsonian magazine is hosting its second “The Future is Here”…
Sony Music Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corp, has invested $3 million in music-recognition application maker Shazam Entertainment, a source familiar with the matter said. A Wall Street Journal blog…
Google said Tuesday night it is opening its Explorer Program to the public, allowing anyone who has $1,500 to buy Glass. The announcement follows a one-day sale last month and the…
Yahoo has bought Blink, a mobile messaging startup whose app lets users send messages that will self-destruct at a time set by the sender. The deal, which Blink announced on…
New sunglasses created by the start-up company Tens, allows wearers to see the world through Instagram photo filters. Marty Bell, Kris Reid and Tom Welsh thought of the concept while…
AT&T is in active talks to buy satellite TV provider DirecTV and may complete a deal in the next few weeks that could be worth close to $50 billion, two people…
Google is reportedly testing the biggest redesign to its email service Gmail, which will see new navigation, incorporation of Hangouts and new mobility features. Screenshots of the redesign have been posted…
Mozilla has said it will test a plan that puts ads and sponsored content on the boxes that appear when Firefox users launch a new tab on the browser. Firefox…
Netflix said that it will raise subscription rates for its video streaming service by $1 to $8.99 per month, with the new rates affecting only new subscribers. The new rates…
Apple is close to buying headphone maker BeatsElectronics for $3.2 billion, the Financial Times reported. The purchase of Beats, which also runs a streaming music service, would be Apple’s largest ever acquisition,…
Snapchat has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it deceived customers about the disappearing nature of messages sent through its service and that it collected…
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday dismissed federal wiretap claims against Facebook Inc and Zynga Inc in a civil lawsuit over disclosure of user information to advertisers. In a separate ruling, the…
People are protesting over the proposed changes More than 100 technology companies have written to the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC), opposing potential changes to net neutrality rules. The FCC…
