The New Age Of The Security Startup

The New Age Of The Security Startup

Posted yesterday by Jonathan Shieber (@jshieber)

Last month Apple disclosed and fixed a massive bug in its operating system that left users’ information exposed to theft; faith in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is eroding; and revenues at the retailing giant Target fell 46% on a quarterly basis over the Christmas season last year, all because of security breaches. Read more of this post

How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber And Airbnb Build Trust To Achieve Liquidity

How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber And Airbnb Build Trust To Achieve Liquidity

Posted 23 hours ago by Anand Iyer (@ai)

Editor’s note: Anand Iyer is the Head of Product at Threadflip. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Hitpost, acquired by Yahoo, and managed product at IGN Entertainment and Microsoft. This post also ran on First Round Review. Follow him on Twitter. Read more of this post

The Father Of 3D Printing Is Being Inducted Into The National Inventors Hall Of Fame

The Father Of 3D Printing Is Being Inducted Into The National Inventors Hall Of Fame

Posted 19 hours ago by Greg Kumparak (@grg)

With all the hubbub surrounding 3D printing as of late, it’s easy to think of it as something new. Something that, before 5 or 6 years ago, only existed in Sci-Fi novels. Read more of this post

The PC Market And The 300 Million Mark

The PC Market And The 300 Million Mark

Posted 19 hours ago by Alex Wilhelm (@alex)

Today IDC predicted that the PC market will contract by 6% in 2014, and will continue to decline at least into 2018.

Unit volume according to IDC would slip from 315.1 million units in 2013, to 291.7 in 2018. The figures include traditional PCs — laptops, desktops, and so forth — but exclude Surface devices, Android tablets, and iPads. Read more of this post

Walmart Planning E-Commerce Marketplace To Enter India, Challenge eBay, Amazon

Walmart Planning E-Commerce Marketplace To Enter India, Challenge eBay, Amazon

Posted 12 hours ago by Pankaj Mishra (@pankajontech)

India’s e-commerce industry is on fire. After eBay doubled down on its India play by investing $133 million in Snapdeal a week ago, the world’s biggest retailer, Walmart, is now looking to build a marketplace for tapping into the country’s e-commerce industry, which is expected to grow sevenfold to $22 billion over next five years. Read more of this post

LoginRadius founder sees huge growth opportunity in linking websites to social media

LoginRadius founder sees huge growth opportunity in linking websites to social media

Quentin Casey | February 27, 2014 | Last Updated: Mar 3 11:37 AM ET

Rakesh Soni and Deepak Gupta were fast friends through high school Jaipur, India, before heading in different directions for university. Both pursued master’s degrees in North America — Mr. Gupta at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and Mr. Soni at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. They eventually co-founded a web startup and spent money attempting to bring traffic to it. The effort failed, but the problem inspired LoginRadius, their fast-growing Edmonton-based internet startup founded in 2012. Read more of this post

Wearable device market poised for ‘big bang’

Wearable device market poised for ‘big bang’

Sohn Jae-gwon, Hwang Ji-hye

2014.03.05 17:46:58

Epson Korea, a company well-renowned for color printers and projectors, showcased a smart glasses powered by Android OS at a local movie theater CGV in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, in the morning of Wednesday. The smart glasses’ display can be put on a head and its wearer can watch a movie while lying down.  Read more of this post

The Computer Mouse Still Roars; Like the Madonna of Peripherals, the Mouse keeps Reinventing Itself: The Picks, Pros and Cons

The Computer Mouse Still Roars

Like the Madonna of Peripherals, the Mouse keeps Reinventing Itself: The Picks, Pros and Cons

GEOFFREY A. FOWLER

Updated March 4, 2014 8:22 p.m. ET

Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler thought he could ditch his mouse and go with a touchier interface. Boy, was he wrong. Read more of this post

New Cloud-Software Firms Take Off

New Cloud-Software Firms Take Off

SPENCER E. ANTE

Updated March 4, 2014 7:53 p.m. ET

Salesforce.com Inc. CRM +2.57% pioneered the cloud-software business and is valued at almost $40 billion. Now a second wave of more specialized online software companies is starting to take off and command rich multibillion-dollar valuations that may be hard to sustain. Read more of this post

Wearable Devices Getting More Niche

Mar 4, 2014

Wearable Devices Getting More Niche

EVA DOU

Wearable devices have always been a niche accessory, appealing to the techy and fitness-conscious set. Now as the sector takes off, consumers can expect a wave of even more specific fitness trackers as new competitors try to grab a piece of the market. Read more of this post

Baidu CEO Calls for More Regulation of Online Funds

Baidu CEO Calls for More Regulation of Online Funds

PAUL MOZUR

March 3, 2014 11:56 p.m. ET

BEIJING— Baidu Inc. BIDU +1.57% Chief Executive Robin Li has joined the chorus of Chinese government advisers and banking executives calling for more regulation of the country’s quickly growing Internet finance industry. Read more of this post

How Candy Crush, Angry Birds get your money

How Candy Crush, Angry Birds get your money

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 – 10:00

AFP

They are free to download, fun to play, and fiendishly addictive: mobile games like Candy Crush Saga, Angry Birds and Clash of Clans want to get you hooked, then get your money. Read more of this post

Qualcomm’s new CEO says smartphone innovation still strong

Qualcomm’s new CEO says smartphone innovation still strong

3:48pm EST

By Noel Randewich

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Steve Mollenkopf, the new chief executive of Qualcomm, said on Tuesday that the mobile chipmaker is developing technologies that will drive continued demand for smartphones even as others worry that the smartphone market’s best days are behind it. Read more of this post

Ballmer: Microsoft Missed the Mobile Market Over Last Decade

Mar 4, 2014

Ballmer: Microsoft Missed the Mobile Market Over Last Decade

By Lisa Fleisher

MicrosoftMSFT +1.14% Corp largely missed the mobile market in the last decade, its recently departed chief executive officer said Tuesday. Read more of this post

Buffett’s Newspapers Lose Readers as Bet on Local Awaits Payoff

Buffett’s Newspapers Lose Readers as Bet on Local Awaits Payoff

By Edmund Lee – Mar 4, 2014

Even Warren Buffett can’t escape the sting of the declining newspaper business.

The billionaire’s papers saw a collective 5.6 percent drop in daily readers, according to the latest annual report of his investment firm, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) Readership fell at 26 of the 28 newspapers he’s owned for more than a year, according to a comparison of a chart in the March 1 document and the prior annual report. Read more of this post

XYZprinting Inc. (三緯國際) will be bringing its da Vinci 2.0 3D printer to Taiwan mid-April, the first part of a global roll-out focused on conquering the low-cost 3D printing market

April shipping date set for ‘da Vinci’ 3D printer

March 4, 2014, 12:13 am TWN

TAIPEI, Taiwan — XYZprinting Inc. (三緯國際) will be bringing its da Vinci 2.0 3D printer to Taiwan mid-April, the first part of a global roll-out focused on conquering the low-cost 3D printing market, a company executive said Monday. Read more of this post

Big Data Means Big Questions on How That Information Is Used

MARCH 3, 2014, 3:12 PM  1 Comments

Big Data Means Big Questions on How That Information Is Used

By NATASHA SINGER

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — With the success of its free open online course system, called MITx, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds itself sitting on a wealth of student data that researchers might use to compare the efficacy of virtual teaching methods, and perhaps advance the field of Web-based instruction. Read more of this post

Why Star Silicon Valley Investor Ben Horowitz Is Obsessed With Hip Hop Music

Why Star Silicon Valley Investor Ben Horowitz Is Obsessed With Hip Hop Music

ALYSON SHONTELL TECH  MAR. 3, 2014, 9:07 PM

If you’ve ever read Ben Horowitz’s blog, you know his posts often begin with a few lines from a rap song.

Horowitz is a partner at top Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm, Andreessen Horowitz. He’s frequently seen hanging with celebrities like Kanye West and he led an investment in Hip Hop annotation site Rap Genius. Read more of this post

After Building A Powerful Recommendation System For Netflix, This Guy Wants To Help You Find Your Next Favorite Book

After Building A Powerful Recommendation System For Netflix, This Guy Wants To Help You Find Your Next Favorite Book

DYLAN LOVE TECH  MAR. 4, 2014, 2:34 AM

Nicholas Ampazis builds software that makes recommendations for you. Where it was once making movie recommendations on Netflix, he’s turning it to the book world. Read more of this post

Tech entrepreneur aims to revolutionise shopping

March 4, 2014 12:20 am

Tech entrepreneur aims to revolutionise shopping

By Sally Davies and Andy Bounds

Dan Wagner, one of the most controversial figures of the UK’s dotcom boom and bust, has vowed to save the high street from “tumbleweeds and lawlessness” with the launch of a new digital shopping venture that he claims will change the way everyone shops forever. Read more of this post

3D Print Multiples in Another Dimension

3D Print Multiples in Another Dimension

DAN GALLAGHER

March 3, 2014 4:00 p.m. ET

At first glance, it looks like investors’ enthusiasm for 3-D printing, so strong last year, has worn off.

But the valuations of two of the largest publicly traded companies in the sector by revenue,Stratasys SSYS -2.47% and 3D Systems, DDD -1.45% tell another story. Read more of this post

How Messaging Apps Make Money

Mar 3, 2014

How Messaging Apps Make Money

JURO OSAWA

While WhatsApp has so far kept its messaging service simple and free of advertisements, rival apps like Line, Kakao Talk and WeChat have been scrambling to find ways to make money through additional services like video games and official accounts for corporate users. For those apps, one big challenge is to make sure that those efforts to generate revenue won’t undermine their appeal as communication and social networking tools. Read more of this post

When Start-Ups Don’t Lock the Doors; For new tech companies, developing features and acquiring users tends to be a priority over securing customer data, leaving them vulnerable to security breaches

When Start-Ups Don’t Lock the Doors

By JENNA WORTHAM and NICOLE PERLROTHMARCH 2, 2014

Young tech companies have a long list of to-dos. Signing up users and raising money are usually at the top of the list.

Much further down? Data security. That neglect has recently come back to bite many hot new applications and web services — and their users — and has them rushing to improve their products after breaches and holes were discovered. Read more of this post

Hasso Plattner, SAP’s software pioneer still sailing on; The chairman of the German group says steering change there is harder than setting it up

THE MONDAY INTERVIEW

March 2, 2014 4:11 pm

Hasso Plattner, SAP’s software pioneer still sailing on

By Paul Taylor and Chris Bryant

Database race: Mr Plattner has chosen to pursue his passion for sailing with smaller boats Read more of this post

Web-Enabled Toothbrushes Join the Internet of Things; Devices Link to Smartphones to Record Brushing Habits

Web-Enabled Toothbrushes Join the Internet of Things

Devices Link to Smartphones to Record Brushing Habits

SAM SCHECHNER

March 2, 2014 10:35 p.m. ET

Your trusty toothbrush is the latest household device to be connected to the Internet. Sam Schechner takes a look at two of the latest offerings and what they tell you about your oral hygiene. Read more of this post