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Twitter Drawing Attention for ‘Secret IPO’
The social network is the most prominent company yet to use a controversial provision in the JOBS Act.
iPhone 5S Will Turn Your Fingertip Into a Credit Card
Will Apple’s latest smartphone bring so-called biometrics into the mainstream?
Google May Owe You Money
If Google put your house on Street View between 2007 and 2010, the company might (eventually) owe you money.
36 Years After Elvis Presley’s Death, Could the King’s Popularity Be Dying?
Long live the King? By some indication, tourist interest in Elvis Presley is on the decline—which would make sense given that fewer and fewer people with firsthand memories of the King of Rock ‘n Roll in action are around. Yet …
Coming Soon to America: Bitcoin ATMs
You could be buying the digital currency on an Atlanta street by year’s end
What Dell’s $24.9 Billion Vote Really Means
The computer maker’s struggle to take itself private shows just how much corporate raiding has changed
Court: Google Not Off the Hook for Its Street View Data Grab
Circuit Judge Jay Bybee wrote that this collection violated the Wiretap Act, and that privacy protections do not depend on whether or not the network is secure.
Want to Know About Twitter’s IPO? Look at Its Acquisitions
The social network’s buys in engineering, advertising and television-related firms preview its forthcoming roadshow for investors
Apple Unveils Two New iPhones
A colorful iPhone 5C and a more powerful iPhone 5S.
Tech Titans Press Feds in Battle Over NSA Transparency
Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft are asking for permission to publish statistics about U.S. national security orders
Why Apple Is in No Hurry to Release a Smartwatch
It would not surprise me if Apple creates the smartwatch that actually drives this category into the mainstream. I just don’t expect it to happen anytime soon.