Tech Biz

Sometimes, it’s better to show up late than never at all. Facebook plans to roll out a set of design changes to its News Feed product beginning Thursday morning, nearly a year to the day from when the company first unveiled a drastic overhaul of the product’s interface to the world. But the version you Continue Reading →

The Amazon effect continues to be felt among the brick-and-mortar faithful. On Thursday, office supply superstore Staples announced that it would close 225 stores by 2015, some 10% of its worldwide footprint, as it continues to move more of is business online — now half of its total sales. The news came out in the Continue Reading →

Microsoft has announced that it will be showing the next version of DirectX on March 20th at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The existence of DirectX 12 — the latest in a long-running line of API collections designed to enable Microsoft platforms to handle video game and multimedia tasks — was announced via Continue Reading →

Yahoo on Wednesday acquired visual identity platform startup Vizify for an undisclosed sum, closing a deal that has been in the works for months. Founded by Todd Silverstein, Eli Tucker, and Jeff Cutler-Stamm in 2011, the service will be shutting down for existing Vizify bioholders and accounts. “Since last summer, we’ve been engaged in a Continue Reading →

Facebook on Wednesday unveiled new measures to toughen up its position on firearm sales promoted across its social network. While Facebook doesn’t allow its users to advertize illegal drugs, weapons, prescription medicine and other sensitive items, it’s fairly common for people to post on their timeline offering spare rooms, second-hand cars and increasingly, it would Continue Reading →

RadioShack said Tuesday that it would close up to 1,100 poorly performing stores amid widening losses, or roughly 20% of its locations, as part of an effort to remake itself for a more competitive era of electronic retailing. The store closings will leave about 4,000 locations in the U.S. The company has been trying to Continue Reading →

In February we saw the usual small movements in the browser market. More significantly, however, we didn’t see any significant movements in the operating system market. For the second month in a row, Windows 8.x’s share is basically unaltered… and so is Windows XP’s. The desktop browser space today seems steadier than it has been Continue Reading →

Microsoft has a small obsession with innovating in the living room, so it should come as no surprise that its research arm continues to plough forward with a 3D browser. Called SurroundWeb, the prototype allows Web pages to display content across multiple surfaces in a room. The browser has come a long way, but moving Continue Reading →

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has passed $1 billion in pledges nearly four years after it made its debut on April 28, 2009. More than half of the $1 billion was pledged in the last 12 months alone, a testimony to the rising popularity of crowdfunding. In total, 5.7 million people from 224 countries and territories contributed Continue Reading →

Microsoft is planning to use pop-up warnings to entice Windows XP users to upgrade. The software maker is ending support of XP on April 8th, and will start distributing notices next week to machines running the 12-year-old operating system. Pop-up warnings will appear on March 8th following the monthly patch cycle of Windows Update, and Continue Reading →