Owen Thomas, Business Insider Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Thursday night, hundreds of members of the technology elite—founders, investors, hustlers, hackers—gathered at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall for the sixth annual Crunchies Awards, a ceremony which celebrates private-stock valuations and product launches instead of box-office scores and film premieres. When a handful of tech...
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Nest is doing very well. The company that makes the eponymous smart thermostat just closed on an $80 million round of funding, according to GigaOm. It’s now shipping 40,000 to 50,000 thermostats every month, which is apparently enough to win the confidence of Google Ventures and Venrock. Call it the iPod of smart home...
Ready to take a break from Facebook, or just want a nice local backup of all the data you’ve uploaded to the social network over the years? Turns out that downloading your stuff from Facebook is a lot easier than it used to be. Even for someone like me, who’s racked up a massive amount...
Add Twitter to the list of this week’s high profile hacks. Friday afternoon Twitter joined the ranks of recently compromised sites like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, disclosing that as many as a quarter of a million Twitter accounts may have been compromised in the intrusion. In a blog post,...
They may still be reluctant, but three of the four major carriers are now willing to entertain the idea of sharing the same airwaves with government users. This week Verizon Wireless, ATT and T-Mobile signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to explore spectrum sharing possibilities on 95 MHz of frequencies currently used by the...
The potential benefits of “big data” have been well described, both by us and others: the ability to spot flu trends earlier and potentially save lives, for example, or to make it easier for companies to provide services in a more personalized way. But these same tools could also be used for more disturbing...
Twitter announced late Friday afternoon that sophisticated hackers might have gained access to data associated with about 250,000 accounts on the site, and that the company believes “this attack was not the work of amateurs.” While the hacks only potentially affected a small percentage of Twitter users, the company urged everyone to change their...
Last night’s Sixth Annual Crunchies Awards show was nothing short of a huge success. With big names like Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg, Ron Conway, and Mayor Ed Lee in attendance, and equally huge companies like Google, Square and Instagram in the house, one wouldn’t expect anything else. But Crunchies tickets can be hard to...