Getting called out by the Obama administration wasn’t enough of a deterrent for Unit 61398, the cyberattack unit of the People’s Liberation Army of China, because apparently they’re at it again, working to pilfer information from private company and public government data stores. The New York Times is reporting that Unit 61398 has resumed operations [...]
Who Hates The Yahoo-Tumblr Deal? Tumblrers, That’s Who
The Tumblr acquisition may give Yahoo the young, hip audience it’s always wanted — assuming it can keep them. Because Tumblr users aren’t happy, and they’re letting it all out. “Yahoo is buying Tumblr guys THIS IS NOT OKAY THEY’LL RUIN OUR HOME,” blogged one user in a sentiment repeatedly echoed on the #yahoo, #tumblr, [...]
Flickr Gets A Makeover — It’s Been Supersized And Instagrammed
It wasn’t that long ago that Yahoo stood accused of letting Flickr decay beyond repair. Today, under the guidance of new CEO Marissa Mayer, the company has given the oft maligned image-sharing community a major facelift. Yahoo’s announcement promises a Flickr that’s “more spectacular, much bigger, and one you can take anywhere.” Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the grid. [...]
Congress Whacks Apple With The Tax Avoider Stick
An 18-month congressional investigation turned up evidence that Apple is a major-league tax avoider, the New York Times reports — one that allegedly sheltered billions of dollars from taxation by moving the money through a web of subsidiaries, some of which had no employees and claimed to be exempt from taxes. Apple CEO Tim Cook will [...]
Google Admits Defeat In Its 7-Year Battle With Amazon And PayPal
Google just announced that is it is shutting down Google Checkout, a Web-based payments system it launched to great expectations seven years ago. It will continue to offer Google Wallet and handle transactions for apps, games, music, and movies on the Google Play store. But Google is largely getting out of the business of processing [...]
Minbox Offers Super-Fast File Sharing and Cloud Storage
Mac: Minbox is a new file sharing service that’s fast, free, and lets you upload files of any size and any type so you can send them to friends. Best of all, it does it all without forcing you to wait for the upload to finish before you can share the file and get back [...]
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Stop Quicktime and Preview from Auto-Restoring What You Left Open
OS X: Auto-restore works great when you want to pick back up where you left off working, but how many times do you leave open a photo or video you actually want to see again when you re-open Preview or Quicktime? A couple of terminal commands can disable this annoying—and potentially embarrassing—feature of OSX. Enter [...]
Flickr Offers 1TB of Free Space for Your Photos, $50 Yearly for No Ads
Yahoo, in an attempt to make its photo-hosting service Flickr relevant again, decided to offer 1TB of free space to all users. The downside? Everyone who doesn’t pay $50 per year gets ads. An entire terabyte of space is a generous gift to users who still care about storing tons of high-resolution photos. (For the [...]
BeatDeck’s Free Analytics Show Musicians Who Their Fans Are
Does my music do better on Facebook or Twitter? Where should my next tour be? Is my new song too repetitive? Musicians can get free answers to these questions and more from BeatDeck, a Y Combinator analytics company launching today. BeatDeck plans to license this data to labels and music stores to help them sign [...]
Founders Fund Backs Its First Food Tech Startup, Hampton Creek Foods, With A $1M Investment
Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups). And that description certainly fits Hampton Creek Foods, a startup that wants to move the world from animal-based foods by creating alternatives that are genuinely tastier, [...]