Source: Gigaom

UberX, Lyft and Sidecar will need to play by Seattle’s rules if they want to operate in the Emerald City. The Seattle City Council today voted 9-0 to enact new legislation that will limit the...

Twenty-four hours have passed since an explosion claimed several lives and injured dozens in East Harlem. Mayor Bill de Blasio again visited the site where efforts have been underway to rescue folks in...

The rise of Amazon Web Services's hulking infrastructure cloud has turned former rivals Microsoft and Oracle into chums. Redmond announced on Thursday that Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server, and Java were all now...

Google's Chromecast dongle should be slipping into UK TVs very soon. And the reasons for expecting this are many. Firstly, a recent Chromecast app update made it available in 50 new languages,...

Xapo, a provider of secure online storage for Bitcoins, has raised $20 million in a first round of funding led by venture capital firm Benchmark. Ribbit Capital, a Silicon Valley venture...

Google is facing a class action lawsuit filed by parents in the US whose children downloaded a free or modestly-priced game on Google Play, and then chalked up charges for in-app...

Last year, Scanadu caught our attention with Scout, its simple-to-use tricorder-style health monitor. Now a new iPhone case promises to make monitoring your vital signs even easier. Called Wello, the case has...

A number of IBMers are trying on the new identity of "ex-IBMers" today as the company's 2014 downsizing has come to pass. IBM won't say how many people. And you can't...

IBM CEO Ginny Rometty pitched mobile developers on Watson and launched a global competition to promote apps for the cognitive computing platform. In a keynote at the Mobile World Congress in...

The newest, highest-speed incarnation of Wi-Fi networking, 802.11ad, is coming to mobile phones. Wilocity announced Sunday it will show a prototype phone at Mobile World Congress that, with the company's wireless networking chips, can...