
Facebook Is To Blame For The Outbreak Of Global 'Currency Wars'
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Every once in a while, since the economic crisis started, the phrase "currency wars" pops up.
If the biggest 350,000 web sites on the internet were real places, this is what the map would look like
I like this guy
It's a GIF. Or a video? It's kinda fun, anyway. Get ready to see looped, lightly edited video in your Twitter feed
Twitter has just leapfrogged everyone in the mobile, social video space with Vine, a video-sharing app that’s actually easy to use.
Tech journalists spent Thursday playing with, writing about, and reviewing Twitter’s clever and simple new system for video posts, Vine.
Tech journalists spent Thursday playing with, writing about, and reviewing Twitter’s clever and simple new system for video posts, Vine.
In the past week, Facebook has prevented multiple services from using its Social Graph.
If you grew up in the 90's, you may appreciate a new ad Internet Explorer just posted on YouTube.
Internet company Google complies with requests for user data 88 percent of the time government asks, according to data released today by Google.
An undersea fiber-optic cable that promises to bring Cuban Internet and phone communications into the 21st Century stirred to life this week, two years after it was laid between Venezuela and the Caribbean island.
Mega is a free service just launched by Kim Dotcom, the creator of Megaupload whose mansion was raided over piracy allegations.
Tech giants Microsoft (MSFT, $27) and Google (GOOG, $705) are locked in a multi-front struggle whose outcome will have enormous implications for the shareholders of both companies as well as technology customers around the world.
Maciej Ceglowski, the noted Silicon Valley venture capitalist, spent two weeks deciding how to award his much-anticipated first funding round.
The e-commerce giant has the data that all advertisers want—what millions of people are shopping for—and now it plans to use it.
In a research paper, two security experts at the web giant have outlined a future in which the main way of guaranteeing we are who we say we are online will be possession of a physical token, perhaps embedded in smartphones or even jewellery.
Facebook rolled out a new feature for the Messenger app on iPhone that lets you make free phone calls to your friends using a WiFi or cellular data connection.
Whatever happened to Zuckerberg's Law?
Today, one of our "normal" colleagues approached us about a new app all of her college-age friends and roommates use. It's called Tinder.
A 21-year-old accidentally uploaded a photo of her half naked self on an eBay post.
Putting up with unctuous, commission-crazed salespeople when buying a new car could become a relic
If you’ve always wanted to create your own monthly subscription box, social commerce startup The Fancy will now do the hard work for you. And here’s the beauty part: They pay you a chunk of every sale.
Life would be more secure if we used USB sticks, or even jewelry, to log into computer accounts, suggest Google engineers
Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom will launch a new file-sharing site at his Auckland mansion on Sunday, exactly a year after armed police arrested him at the same venue in the world's largest online piracy case.
Aaron Swartz called me in early May 2011 — I was an editor at Wired then covering privacy, crime, and security – asking if he could give me some information under embargo.
Algorithmic trading, the use of pre-programmed computer codes to place orders and execute trades, is supposed to be the fastest, smartest way to trade in today's stock market.
Google CEO Larry Page paid for flu shots for every child in the Bay Area, Steven Levy at Wired reports.
Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google.
An Ontario judge has refused a US request for unfettered access to the data on Megaupload servers hosted in Canada. The ruling is another sign that overseas courts are not giving US officials the degree of deference they've grown accustomed to in thi
The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'