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Today Microsoft confirmed the raft of executive changes that leaked yesterday. Senior executives Tony Bates and Tami Reller will exit the company, Mark Penn will move to a more ‘strategic’ role away from advertising, and the company’s ad efforts will be headed by Chris Capossela, who will be the executive vice president of marketing. Eric Rudder will take Bates’ job on an interim basis

The European Commission announced plans on Thursday to tackle one of the scourges of the modern age - games on tablets and mobile phones that allow adults and children to rack up vast credit card bills by making "in-app" purchases

Nikola Hu is running wrong. He’s loping along, leaning back as he goes. Suddenly a voice emerges from his phone: "Your cadence is low. Try swinging your arms legs and arms faster." Hu’s phone knows hes has running injuries before, so it’s hypersensitive to how his feet land on the ground. "Lean forward and land mid-foot to soften your impact," it tells him. He obliges, and the voice comes back immediately. "Good job!"

Google did not bid for WhatsApp, the company revealed yesterday. Suggestions that Facebook’s $19bn purchase of the instant messaging service outbid a $10 billion offer from Google are “simply untrue,” the company’s Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai said.

Apple filed papers on Tuesday telling a federal appeals court in New York that a judge's finding it violated antitrust laws by manipulating electronic book prices "is a radical departure" from modern antitrust law that will "chill competition and harm consumers" if allowed to stand

Ray Markovich started driving a taxi in Chicago three years ago after shuttering his struggling wireless phone store. Driving a cab wasn’t particularly gratifying or lucrative—he had to pay $400 a week just to lease his 2011 white Ford Escape. It was predictable if monotonous work

Amazon is rolling together its Prime and Lovefilm Instant video services in the U.K. and Germany. That means the cost of an annual Prime membership in the U.K. will rise to £79 per year from £49

As wearable technology begins to take off, Samsung hopes to avoid giving Google's Android operating system the same boost it got in the smartphone and tablet market

Several Microsoft Connector shuttles were reportedly blocked for a total of 45 minutes in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood this morning by protesters handing out flyers and carrying signs that read, “Gentrification Stops Here.”

From Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to a "secret millionaire," the country's 50 biggest donors were far more generous last year. This crew donated a total of $7.7 billion in 2013, 4% more than in 2012, according to a new report from The Chronicle of Philanthropy. That brought the median donation to $86.1 million, up from $49.6 million in 2012.

Billioniare investor Carl Icahn says that there's no reason to persist with his Apple buyback proposal, according to new letter.

Google Glass may soon become a favored tool for law enforcement agencies in the United States

The search for a new Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.88% leader was taking its toll. It had been five months since Steve Ballmer announced he was stepping down as chief executive, and more than a year since the company's board had directed faster change at the once dominant technology giant.

For those who’ve been reading, we’ve had failure on the brain recently.  This is partly because its a good counterbalance to the typical survivorship bias laden stories we read and also because understanding failure is critical to the algorithms underlying our product.

It is 3 p.m., and outside another brilliant Los Angeles afternoon beckons. But Olga Kay has drawn her blinds, leaving her living room in a semidarkened haze

According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the next week.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he’s confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May. It’s also been a decade since his first date with Priscilla Chan, now his wife, whom he first met in line for the bathroom at a Harvard fraternity party

"Amazon.com is reportedly planning to offer small and mid-size retail businesses a checkout system that would use the company's Kindle tablets to process payments."

"A handful of California coding bootcamps are fighting for survival after receiving a stern warning from regulators."

Google continues to invest in wind power for its data centers — this time in Finland

Months of tension around the use of  San Francisco’s public bus stops by Silicon Valley companies to transport workers finally led to action on Tuesday night, as the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority SFMTA moved forward with its previously outlined plans to charge each bus $1 per stop, according to The Verge.

After publicly announcing and failing to follow through with a big plan to launch a set-top box, Intel is selling the project to Verizon. The telecoms company will purchase assets of Intel Media, a division set up to develop "over the top" TV services. Details of the transaction have not been disclosed, but Intel was previously rumored to be seeking $500 million.

Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers won clearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc, Google Inc and other companies of conspiring to drive down pay by not poaching each other's staff, after a federal appeals court refused to let the defendants appeal a class certification order

A deal to sell iPhones on China Mobile's vast network is a "watershed" moment, Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC on Wednesda

ources tell Valleywag that after housing and transportation, the latest slice of public infrastructure to get the VIP, front-of-the-line treatment is healthcare. We hear Oscar Salazar, an Uber cofounder who helped design and implement the e-hailing prototype, is working on a startup that will offer personalized house calls from doctors. It plans to launch imminently

Link-sharing service Branch and sister service Potluck have agreed to be acquired by Facebook for around $15 million, sources familiar with the deal told The Verge

Fixing the HealthCare.gov site will fall to Accenture ACN -0.95% LLP, a widely known consulting giant tapped to replace an embattled contractor that was largely responsible for creating the health portal, launched in October. Accenture faces a tough task as the new lead contractor: repairing the online insurance marketplace quickly enough to enroll millions more consumers under the Affordable Care Act

The right to protest has always been powerfully upheld in France – whether it’s protesting an immigrant’s right to healthcare, the closing of a factory, or even Taxis, who have perfected the art of making their voice heard; however, how much is too much?

As technology shifts from personal computers to smartphones and tablets, Apple Inc. is expanding its reach into a lucrative customer base: companies

Google Inc. (GOOG)’s top privacy official said the European Union’s “flawed” attempt to overhaul data-protection rules is “dead” and urged politicians to go back to the drawing board

Barnes & Noble, the nation’s last remaining major bookstore chain, experienced steep sales declines in its digital division during the nine-week holiday period, the company announced on Thursday

In fulfilling online orders, Amazon.com Inc. Amazon is all about expediency. The fewer people involved the better. But when it comes to filling higher-level jobs, the e-commerce giant is in no rush—and it has a gantlet of people, dubbed "bar raisers," who must sign off on would-be hires

When I first visited Mark Zuckerberg in September for our profile on the FacebookFB +0.56% CEO, what initially struck me were all the parts of “Zuck” that seemed resistant to change

In its latest attempt to boost China sales, Apple Inc. opened an official store on Tmall, a major online marketplace run by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

It’s safe to assume that Evan Spiegel and Mark Zuckerberg are not best buds. Spiegel, the Snapchat CEO, Monday tweeted a screenshot of an e-mail exchange from November 2012 with the Facebook chief. The exchange, confirmed as authentic by a Snapchat spokeswoman, offers a window into Facebook’s initial flirting with the ephemeral messaging service

Mark Zuckerberg needed help. Facebook Inc. FB +0.72% s initial public offering in May 2012 had been a mess. And after turning a website born in his college dorm room into a company valued at $100 billion, the young chief executive was under pressure to prove he could sell lots of ads on smartphones

Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly violating its members' right to privacy. The social network is being sued by members who claim that the company intercepts private messages, without consent, to mine the data for its own profit

For those who no longer trust Snapchat, but want that same vaporizing-message functionality, some alternatives exist, including Silent Circle which offers a messaging app, for a subscription fee, that forces messages to self-destruct after a set period of time and Wickr features military-grade encryption — AES256, ECDH521, RSA4096, TLS — and the app-builders claim they dont have the keys to decrypt; messages vaporize after a set time.

Dogecoin users are in a minor panic after a popular coin storage service, Dogewallet, was apparently hacked. So far about 30 million coins seem to have been lost, together worth between $10,000 and $20,000

Sources tell AllThingsD that Calxeda, the Austin-based chip design startup that had raised somewhere north of $90 million in venture capital funding, has effectively ceased operations today