Apple Officials Said to Consider Stake in Twitter  —  Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed on the matter.  —  While Apple has been hugely successful …

Apple, Google Line Up to Bid for Kodak's Patents  —  Battle lines are forming in Eastman Kodak Co.'s patent sale ahead of Monday's initial bid deadline.  —  At least two groups are expected to bid on Kodak's trove of 1,100 patents, with a bevy of technology and patent heavyweights picking sides …

Apple's Mountain Lion Off to a Roaring Start  —  Thanks to its easy download and low price, Apple's Mountain Lion appears on pace to be one of the most quickly adopted operating systems in history.  —  After just its first 48 hours on the market, Apple's new Mountain Lion already accounts …

RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping  —  In April, one of the RIAA's key employees informed a group of music industry insiders about the upcoming six-strikes anti-piracy scheme in the U.S. TorrentFreak received a copy of the presentation sheets which include …

Google: we failed to delete all Streetview data  —  ‘Human error’ prevented Google from deleting all the data it collected from Streetview snooping, the search giant has admitted.  —  Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commissioner, Google has admitted …

Google+ traffic soars: 66 percent increase in nine months  —  Traffic analytics site ComScore has revealed a large increase in visits to Google+.  According to ComScore, the number of unique visitors to the social network has increased by 66 percent over the last nine months …

Multiple Law Firms Are Now Investigating Zynga For Possible Stock Shenanigans  —  Bad news just got worse for the makers of FarmVille.  It looks like a whole lot of lawyers are about to pounce on one of gaming's biggest companies.  —  Following news that Zynga insiders sold large amounts …

Apple Buys Samsung's Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M  —  Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec …

Far from Silicon Valley, tech industry finds an oracle  —  (Reuters) - Anand Shimpi is one of the most influential tech industry figures you've never heard of.  —  From his start as a teenager building PCs for students and faculty at a college in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina …

Bitly is working on an “Internet attention ranking engine” called Realtime  —  Bitly, the company that basically ushered the world into short links on sites like Twitter, is playing around with a new service, launching it under its “Bitly Labs” umbrella.  —  It's called Realtime, and is available at http://www.rt.ly

Tech Firms Battle to Keep Secrets as Apple vs. Samsung Nears Trial  —  While the primary battle next week in a San Jose courtroom will be between Samsung and Apple, a secondary skirmish is also taking place.  —  Both Apple and Samsung — along with a variety of other tech companies including Intel …

Apple Working on Advanced Display for Future Video Glasses  —  Apple has been toying with a heads-up display or video glasses since 2006 and they've already been granted a patent for their invention.  Then earlier this month Apple's video glasses project won a surprising second patent …

Pinwheel Becomes Findery After Court Injunction  —  What a difference a single letter can make.  —  Two start-ups have been caught in a legal battle over the name Pinweel and Pinwheel since late February.  The subtle difference: the letter “h.”  —  Pinweel, the one without the h, is a photo-sharing app co-founded by Richard Bulman.

VeriFone CEO on Square's Latest Funding Round?  ‘Pets.com’  —  Square is close to raising $200 million, according to reports, for an implied valuation of $3.25 billion — nearly as much as its well-entrenched point of sale competitor VeriFone, which is currently worth about $3.7 billion.