Businesses Stories for 2013

The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 193
Safeway Suspends Worker For Sci-Fi Parody of His Firing 191
Intel Releases 5,000 Pages of Open-Source Haswell Documentation 111
Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? 321
Tech Startup Buffer Publishes Every Employee's Salary, Right Up To the CEO 229
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
Website Checkout Glitches: Two Very Different Corporate Responses 303
France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook 314
Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up 156
PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES 564
Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes 293
What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? 804
Apple Fined In Taiwan For iPhone Price Fixing 74
Google Sues Consortium Backed By Apple and Microsoft to Protect Android 150
Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs 397
Italy Approves 'Google Tax' On Internet Companies 236
Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers 64
Upload a Spoof Video, Go To Jail (In Dubai) 107
Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change 552
Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob 399
Percentage of Self-Employed IT Workers Increasing 138
Why Snapchat and Its Ilk Face a Revenue Conundrum 104
Apple Forges Agreement With China Mobile 79
RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money 291
Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP 829
Overstock.com Plans To Accept Bitcoin 202
Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split 489
90 Percent of Businesses Say IP Is "Not Important" 185
Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California 653
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA 464
Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware 149
What Sci-Fi Movies Teach Us About Project Management Skills 186
Cyanogen Mod Raises $23 Million Funding All Set To Become Major Android Player 133
Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code 225
US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil 439
Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit 72
Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars 238
Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player 80
Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA 312
Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov 214
Google Nabs Bing Maps Architect 94
The Case For a Global, Compulsory Bug Bounty 81
Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak 606
Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines 413
EdX Drops Plans To Connect MOOC Students With Employers 59
Playstation 4 Vs Xbox One: Which Shares Better? 174
Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data 195
SpaceX Wins Use of NASA's Launch Pad 39A 99
Investor Lawsuit Blames NSA For $12B Loss In IBM Value 204
Google Acquires Boston Dynamics 104
Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage 213
Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd 191
YouTube Expands Live Streaming To All Channels 71
Indian Government Lifts Nokia's Asset Freeze, Factory Can Transfer To Microsoft 53
Google Brings AmigaOS to Chrome Via Native Client Emulation 157
UK Retailer Mistakenly Sends PS Vitas, Threatens Legal Action To Get Them Back 617
A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? 288
Google Opens Asian Data Centers But Shuns China and India 75
Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India 226
High-Frequency Trading For Your Private Data 75
Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads 120
US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors 425
Factory-In-a-Day Project Aims To Deploy Work-Ready Robots Within 24 Hours 157
Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA 293
eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy 189
The Yin and Yang of Hour of Code & Immigration Reform 220
Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users 129
Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 183
German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent 192
Europol, Microsoft Target 2-Million Strong ZeroAccess Click Fraud Botnet 44
Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off 370
FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement 174
Microsoft's NSA 'Transparency' Push Remains Pretty Opaque 90
China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading 333
Retail Radeon R9 290X Graphics Cards Slower Than AMD's Press Samples 111
AMD A10 Kaveri APU Details Emerge, Combining Steamroller and Graphics Core Next 105
Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed 244
Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio 214
IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected 393
Inside the War For Top Developer Talent 238
Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes 293
Over 20% of Online Black Friday Sales Came From Mobile Devices 201
Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone 397
Telefonica To Shut Down VoIP Provider Jajah On January 31, 2014 39
Intel Linux Driver Now Nearly As Fast As Windows OpenGL Driver 113
French Court Orders Search Engines, ISPs To Block Pirate Sites 75
Online Shopping: Hazardous To Junk Food's Health 151
The Best Way To Blow the Whistle 141
SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy 182
Ask Slashdot: Top Black Friday Tech Picks? 189
The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu 346
Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? 629
Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought 445
A Co-processor No More, Intel's Xeon Phi Will Be Its Own CPU As Well 53
Is a Postdoc Worth it? 233
The New York Times Has Lessons For Others Making the Slow Transition To Digital 67
FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service 371
BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness" 321
BlackBerry's CFO, CMO, and COO Leave Company 159
Apple Officializes Purchase of Motion-Sensor Firm PrimeSense 65
The Surprising Second Life of the PlayStation Vita 161
Intel Opens Doors To Rivals, Maybe 59
Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? 1216
Intel's 128MB L4 Cache May Be Coming To Broadwell and Other Future CPUs 110
John Carmack Leaves id Software 154
Xbox One Released 310
Microsoft Certifications For High School Credits In Australia 126
Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio 197
Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 400
Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA 343
Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying 239
Xbox One Controller Cost Over $100 Million To Develop 206
AMD To Launch a Windows 8.1 Gaming Tablet 119
How Munich Abandoned Microsoft for Open Source 294
Nokia Shareholders Approve Sale To Microsoft 182
How Snapchat Could March Startups Right Off the Cliff, Lemming-Style 143
NVIDIA Announces Tesla K40 GPU Accelerator and IBM Partnership In Supercomputing 59
Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms 308
Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4 309
Anki Is Not a Toy Company; Has iRobot, Others In Its Sights 19
Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review 519
How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy 330
PlayStation 4 Released 294
IBM To Offer Watson Services In the Cloud 56
Sears To Convert Old Auto Centers Into National Chain of Data Centers 167
SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors 198
Skype Is Evaluating Adding Typing Suppression Feature 77
Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) 307
Google Halts Sales of HP's USB-Charging Chromebook 11 Over Overheating 57
Microsoft Releases Browser-Based IDE, Visual Studio Online 89
SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook 188
Amazon Jumps Into Desktop Virtualization With "WorkSpaces" 92
AMD Continues To Pressure NVIDIA With Lower Cost Radeon R9 270 and BF4 Bundle 142
Pentagon Readies Contingency Plans Due To BlackBerry's Uncertain Future 44
How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix 385
Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4 and SHA-1 92
Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! 702
Microsoft Kills Stack Ranking 204
AMD Confirms Kaveri APU Is a 512-GPU Core Integrated Processor 130
Digital Textbook Startup Kno Was Sold For $15 Million 39
Netflix, Youtube Surpass 50% Mark of Internet Traffic 249
Humble Bundle Launches Online Store For Games 93
Stop Listening and Start Watching If You Want To Understand User Needs 161
US Postal Service To Make Sunday Deliveries For Amazon 258
How Silicon Valley Helped the NSA 163
Construction Firm Balfour Beatty Considers Drone Workers 129
Google Starts Tracking Retail Store Visits On Android and iOS 157
Don't Call It Stack Rank: Yahoo's QPR System For Culling Non-Performers 177
Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? 125
OSHA Wants To Post All Workplace Injury Reports Online 100
Amazon Gets Blow-Back Over Plan To Sell Kindles At Small Bookshops 176
The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks 388
Stephen Elop Would Pull a Nokia On Microsoft 292
Box CEO Talks European Plans, Warns About Meeting BlackBerry's Fate 44
GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads 336
A Playstation 4 Teardown 254
Microsoft and Facebook Launch Internet Bug Bounty Program 57
Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations 224
Microsoft Makes an Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties 304
Amazon Offers Cut of Ebook Sales To Book Stores Selling Kindle 80
Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix 183
HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins 243
Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks 165
AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less 183
As IPO Nears, Do Twitter's Active User Claims Add Up? 73
Silicon Valley Could Be Heading For a New Stock Collapse. 200
How Elon Musk Approaches IT At Tesla 231
BlackBerry Abandons Sale Plans, Will Replace CEO 83
Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix 326
Intel Open-Sources Broadwell GPU Driver & Indicates Major Silicon Changes 103
You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles 195
Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives 40
Surface Pro 2 Gets Significant Battery Boost 157
Microsoft To Can Skype API; Third-Party Products Will Not Work 330
Bill Gates: Internet Will Not Save the World 247
20-Somethings Think It's OK To Text and Answer Calls In Business Meetings 453
Microsoft, Apple and Others Launch Huge Patent Strike at Android 476
The Mile Markers of Moore's Law Are Meaningless 156
Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch 312
Microsoft Research Uses Kinect To Translate Between Spoken and Sign Languages 79
Phone Calls More Dangerous Than Malware To Companies 82
Facebook Testing Screen-Tracking Software For Users 115
Infosys Fined $35M For Illegally Bringing Programmers Into US On Visitor Visas 201
Dell Is Now a Private Company Again 151
HP Sues Seven Optical Drive Makers Over Price-Fixing 91
Hardware Is Now Open (sourced) For Business 42
Anti-Poaching Lawsuit Against Apple, Google and Others Given the Green Light 172
Interview: Jason Calacanis On How His Hackathon Is Helping Create Companies 14
Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Complete Hosting Providers? 178
AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review 212
NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch To YouTube 165
Why Amazon Is Profitless Only By Choice 258
Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters 188
AMD's Radeon R9 290X Launched, Faster Than GeForce GTX 780 For Roughly $100 Less 157
Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure 164
Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results 185
HP Seeks Buyer For WebOS Patents 37
Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling 162
The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested 289
Next-Gen GPU Progress Slowing As It Aims for 20 nm and Beyond 91
Improved Image Quality For HMDs Like Oculus Rift 55
Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising 127
Dell Ad Says Windows 8.1 Apps Will Run On Xbox One 148
Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats 337
Scientists Say Climate Change Is Damaging Iowa Agriculture 444
Teachers Get 1 Week To Test Tech Giants' Hour of Code 81
Windows RT 8.1 Update Pulled From Windows Store 178
How PR Subverts Wikipedia 219
OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs 292
Are Cable Subscribers Subsidizing Internet-Only TV Viewers? 223
When Opting Out of Ad Tracking Doesn't Opt You Out 193
Barbarians At the Gateways 321
Report: Fisker Automotive Sold To Hong Kong Billionaire Richard Li 35
Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? 168
Visual Studio 2013 Released 198
Intel's 14nm Broadwell Delayed Because of Low Yield 96
Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today 398
Google To Support Windows XP Longer Than Microsoft 154
Ask Slashdot: As a Programmer/Geek, Should I Learn Business? 167
For Playstation 4 Owners, Bad News On USB, Bluetooth Headsets 292
Broadcom Laying Off LTE and Modem Design Employees 71
What's Lost When a Meeting Goes Virtual 96
Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads 274
Facebook Buys Israeli Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo 38
Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals 93
Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die 479
Dataland: the Emerging Dystopia 81
NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself 150
Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads 136
Nobel Winners Illustrate Israel's "Brain Drain" 214
Oil Traders Misread Tweet, Oil Prices Spike 91
Who's Getting Pay-By-Phone Right? The Fast Food Industry 153
Would You Secure Personal Data With DRM Tools? 101
BlackBerry Founders May Try To Take Over the Company 118
Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware 146
More From Don Marti About Why Targeted Ads are Bad (Video 2 of 2) 53
Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit 196
In Room With No Cell Service, Verizon Works On Future of Mobile 85
Longtime Linux Advocate Don Marti Tells Why Targeted Ads are Bad (Video 1 of 2) 187
HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You 477
Car Dealers vs the Web: GM Shifts Toward Online Purchasing 160
The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying 318
AMD's New Radeons Revisit Old Silicon, Enable Dormant Features 75
No FiOS In Boston? We'll Make an Ad Anyway 202
Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan" 75
AMD Intentionally Added Artificial Limitations To Their HDMI Adapters 256
Microsoft Hands Out $28k In IE11 Bug Bounty Program 57
How Entrepreneurs Overturned California's Retroactive Tax On Startup Founders 105
Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? 274
Whirlpool Ditches IBM Collaboration Software, Moves To Google Apps 101

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