The major broadcasters, including ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to shut down video startup Aereo
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Jeff Bezos’ Biological Father Didn’t Know His Son Was a Billionaire
The 69-year-old man had no idea who his son was when the Amazon CEO’s biographer found him at an Arizona bike shop
Why Hewlett-Packard Suddenly Doesn’t Look So Bad
Investors cheered an upbeat forecast from H.P. CEO Meg Whitman, who faces a tough turnaround at the tech pioneer
U.S. Shutdown Disrupts NSA Transparency Case, Review Groups
Google, Facebook and Yahoo are waging a legal battle over NSA transparency, but DOJ lawyers can’t work on the case during the shutdown
Twitter’s Brilliantly Short ‘Letter to Shareholders’
The letter to shareholders has long been a staple of the IPO prospectus, although it’s usually been a pro forma affair. Leave it to a few cocky Internet companies to put their own twist on the tradition, starting in 2004 with Google’s “Letter from the Founders,” which it boldly subtitled “An Owner’s Manual for Google …
The Grocery Store May Be on Its Death Bed
So-called ‘click and collect’ may be the future of shopping for groceries
Twitter Is Selling Access to Your Tweets for Millions
Twitter’s quickly growing (but still unprofitable) advertising business has gained lots of attention recently as the company prepares for an initial public offering. But selling promoted tweets is not the only way the social
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Airbnb’s Woes Show How Far the Sharing Economy Has Come
Airbnb, Uber and similar firms are booming, drawing out powerful regulators
London’s Startups Show the Way in Remaking Finance
There’s a conspicuous change underway in London’s financial sector. The British capital, with its well-established reputation as a global center of finance, has played host in recent years to a growing number of fintech—or …
Tech Titans Poised for Showdown With Justice Department Over NSA
The Justice Department argues that greater NSA data-request transparency would harm national security
In Twitter’s IPO Filing, Reasons for Concern
Twitter’s planned initial public offering is among the most anticipated in recent years. Millions of people worldwide use the service to vent about politics, check news headlines and follow Miley Cyrus.
But in a regulatory …
Online Drug Markets Are Alive and Thriving
Silk Road is a black-market website on which buyers and sellers of illicit products, mostly drugs, could come together anonymously using software like Tor, which conceals web browsers’ identity. When the FBI announced this week …