Technology

And now comes some news about the Facebook (FB) IPO that buyers deserve to be outraged about. Reuters‘ Alistair Barr is reporting that Facebook’s lead underwriters, Morgan Stanley (MS), JP Morgan (JPM), and Goldman Sachs (GS) all cut their earnings forecasts for the company in the middle of the IPO roadshow. This by itself is [...]

  A private space capsule called Dragon soared into the predawn sky Tuesday, riding a pillar of flame like its beastly namesake on a history-making trip to the International Space Station. The unmanned capsule, built by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), is the first non-governmental spacecraft to launch to the space [...]

Skylines are so passé. In an attempt to give travelers better—or at least closer—ocean views, Dubai-based construction company Drydocks World and Swiss consulting, engineering, and brokerage firm BIG InvestConsult will build the Water Discus Hotel, a luxury underwater hotel in Dubai. Poland’s Deep Ocean Technology designed the hotel, surrounded by a coral reef, to have [...]

  Sex.com, the most expensive domain name ever soldat $13 million, has launched Pinterest’s worst nightmare. It’s an exact replica of the photo and video pinning site but with an endless stream of naked women. It even has the red logo and yellow banner at the top telling you what it is, just like Pinterest. [...]

So white people cant wear hoodies either? Facebook has raked in billions and will make a splash when its stock hits the open market next week. So, what are folks on Wall Street concerned about? Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie, apparently. Michael Pachter, an analyst for Wedbush Securities, told Bloomberg that the Facebook CEO’s decision to show [...]

For Two Reasons… 1. 2. In the run up to its IPO, the company Facebook is most often compared to is Google. While they’re both booming Internet companies, from a business perspective, the comparison is terrible. In this chart you can see Facebook’s revenue growth is significantly weaker than Google’s in the four quarters leading [...]

The hottest small startup in the world right now is Pinterest, a photo-collecting site that is adored by several million American women. How hot is it? When Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion on April 9, All Things D reporter Peter Kafka tweeted, “So Pinterest is now worth what – $5b? $10b?” His colleague, Kara [...]

If you feel like you’ve ever been harassed for extra screening by the TSA, or are sick of feeling like the TSA is getting away with targeting you, then you’ll want to download the new FlyRights app. FlyRights is the first smartphone app to give travelers a direct line to file a complaint when you [...]

  Cyber activists linked to Anonymous have called for escalating protests over the controversial CISPA cyber-security bill recently passed by the US Congress. The cyber security legislation – which the Obama administration has vowed to veto – would effectively negate existing privacy laws by allowing companies to share user data with the government without a [...]

The House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite strongly-worded objections and a threat of a veto from the White House. The Republican-controlled chamber passed the act by 248 to 162, although it’s likely to face a tougher rise in the Senate. The bill gives the government permission [...]

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled. The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly-pirated free music and video. Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all prevent their users from accessing the site. “Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in [...]

By: Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D A few days ago while waking up in the morning I found myself automatically drawn to making my morning coffee and checking the email on my phone. There was my 2 year old little boy playing beside me as I sipped my warm drink. A thought popped in my mind, “Why [...]