Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.'s Bulk Data Collection  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency's once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that — if approved by Congress …

Box Files For $250M IPO On Full-Year Revenue Of $124M, Net Loss Of $168M  —  The Box S-1 is out at last.  The cloud storage company is looking to raise up $250 million in the flotation.  That sum is less than its competitor Dropbox recently raised from the private markets.

Exclusive: Disney to buy YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million  —  (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co has agreed to buy Maker Studios for $500 million, becoming a major online video distributor through the purchase of one of YouTube's largest networks, according to a person familiar with the deal.

YC-Backed Gbatteries Launches BatteryBox, A 50Whr Backup Battery For MacBooks & Other Gadgets  —  Over the years, users of portable consumer electronics have just come to accept that battery life gets worse over time.  But it doesn't have to: Gbatteries, which is in the current batch …

NPR to be iTunes Radio's first news station  —  Apple's iTunes Radio Adds NPR News Channel  —  When iTunes Radio launched last fall, the service was designed for music fans (and music labels).  Now it is branching out: National Public Radio is adding the first news channel to Apple's audio streaming service, with more on the way.

Coursera Brings In Longtime Yale President Rick Levin as CEO  —  Coursera, the massive-open-online-course provider with the most funding and the most students in the space, is shaking up its leadership.  —  The company has named Rick Levin, formerly president of Yale University for two decades, as CEO.

Hugo Barra on Xiaomi culture, commitment to Android, and plans to enter the Indian market  —  Xiaomi's Hugo Barra: True world phones in 2 years, Android all the way  —  The Xiaomi global vice president, and former Google VP, sits down for a chat with CNET in Beijing to talk …

Hortonworks raises $100M to scale its Hadoop business  —  Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has raised $100 million in a new round of venture capital led by BlackRock and Passport Capital.  The company's existing investors — Dragoneer, Tenaya Capital, Benchmark, Index Ventures and Yahoo — also participated in the latest round.

How tech, an object of protest in 1999 San Francisco, reemerged as a convenient target in 2014  —  How tech became the enemy - then and now  —  The flyer tucked on the windshield of a tech worker's car on South Van Ness didn't mince words: “The Mission has been colonized by pigs with money. ...

Mobile apps eclipse file-sharing services, digital lockers as most widely used source for pirated music  —  Music Piracy Goes Mobile  —  The music industry faces a new front in its long-running battle against piracy: The smartphone.  —  Mobile applications have eclipsed file-sharing services …

Tumblr Gets More Secure With Addition Of Two-Factor Authentication  —  Tumblr today added a very important security feature to its service, with the addition of two-factor authentication - an option available within the blogging service's “Settings” section as of now.

10,000 GitHub users inadvertently reveal their AWS secret access keys  —  GitHub developers who are also Amazon Web Services users are advised to check the code they made public on their project pages and to delete secret access keys for their AWS account they may have posted inadvertently.

National Bitcoin Alternative Auroracoin Launches To Save Iceland's Economy  —  As many of you read this, all the good people of Iceland will have just become about 30 Auroracoin richer, which translates to nearly $350 if current prices hold.  —  Auroracoin is among the first serious attempts …

Malicious apps can hose Android phones, erase data, researchers warn  —  Security researchers said they have uncovered bugs in Google's Android operating system that could allow malicious apps to send vulnerable devices into a spiral of endlessly looping crashes and possibly delete all data stored on them.

Google Deal With Luxottica Will Bring Glass to Ray-Ban, Oakley  —  Google Inc. has won a powerful ally in its fight to make Google Glass cool.  —  Italian eyewear maker Luxottica Group SpA, owner of the Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglass brands, said Monday it had agreed to design …

Seattle-area taxi association sues Uber for ‘unlawful and deceptive business practice’  —  The Western Washington Taxi Cab Operators Association is suing Uber, the app-based transportation company, for operating illegally in Seattle and King County.  The lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court …

Dell acquires StatSoft, adds analytics to software stack  —  Summary: StatSoft's flagship software is Statistica Enterprise, which filters and analyzes data from multiple repositories.  —  Dell on Monday said it acquired StatSoft, a company that specializes in analytics and data visualization software.

Google Now arrives in Chrome for Windows and Mac  —  Google Now has finally arrived on the desktop.  Google today announced Google Now is being pushed to the Chrome stable channel for Windows and Mac “starting today and rolling out over the next few weeks.”