A new welcome to Yahoo!  —  Yahoo! first began as Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web, a directory of links created to help organize the Internet during its very early days.  That simple directory evolved through the years into the Yahoo! we know today — a starting point for your daily habits.

Sony announces PlayStation 4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4 controller  —  Today at a gaming event in New York City, Sony announced the PlayStation 4.  Sony's Andy House says that it is the ‘most powerful platform ever’.  —  “The living room is no longer …

Exclusive: Pinterest Completes $200 Million Funding at $2.5 Billion Valuation  —  Pinterest, the popular social scrapbooking site, has completed a massive $200 million funding, which values the company at $2.5 billion, according to sources close to the situation.

New Google Glass UI video shows off search, camera, and voice translation features  —  Google today posted a video preview of its forthcoming Google Glass wearable headset, providing a fresh, and more realistic look at the device's user interface.  The video, embedded below …

Announcing the Twitter Ads API  —  Since we launched Promoted Tweets in April 2010, marketers have come to Twitter to reach new audiences and engage with more than 200 million active Twitter users on the web, on mobile devices, and on tablets.  As interest in Twitter has grown …

Apple iPhone 5 Overtakes Samsung Galaxy S3 to Become World's Best-Selling Smartphone Model in Q4 2012  —  According to the latest research from our Handset Country Share Tracker (CST) service, Apple's iPhone 5 overtook Samsung's Galaxy S3 to become the world's best-selling smartphone model …

Steve Ballmer On the Strategy Behind His Strangest Product  —  Windows 8 is radically different from any previous version of the Windows operating system.  Designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers, laptops, servers, and even supercomputers, Windows 8 presents its users with virtually the same interface on any device.

Art Levinson, Apple's chairman, talks life after Steve Jobs  —  Steve Jobs' close friend and colleague Art Levinson describes what life at Apple has been like over the last 16 months.  —  FORTUNE — “Weird.”  —  That was the one-word answer given by Apple (AAPL) chairman Arthur D. Levinson …

NVIDIA To Build A New Home, 20 Years After Our Founding  —  Twenty years ago this month, we founded NVIDIA.  Our vision that computer graphics would revolutionize computing has propelled us into becoming one of the leading technology companies in the world.

Durango Next-Generation Kinect Sensor  —  Launched in November 2010, the Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor set a world record for the fastest selling consumer electronic device, selling ten million units in its first four months alone.  Natural user interface (NUI) experiences using Kinect have proved …

Preview files in Google Drive  —  (Cross-posted on the Google Drive Blog.)  —  It may sound obvious, but sometimes the best way to find something is to start looking.  Beginning today, Google Drive will let you quickly preview more than 30 file types and quickly flip between files until you find the one you want.

Apple's Jonathan Ive talks design—on a beloved kids' show  —  “Heartwarming” isn't a word you normally associate with industrial design, but I dare you to watch this clip from beloved UK children's show Blue Peter without cracking a smile.  —  When asked how he would design a combination pencil case …

For $19, an Unlimited Phone Plan, Some Flaws  —  A typical smartphone costs around $200, but it's usually shackled to a two-year contract that often costs $70 or more monthly and includes limits on data consumption, voice minutes and texts.  Even prepaid smartphones, without a contract, can cost $30 to $50 a month and carry limits.

Microsoft to tighten further its Yammer-Office ties this summer  —  Summary: Microsoft's SkyDrive Pro and Office Web Apps technologies will be tied more tightly into its Yammer enterprise-social-networking offering as of summer 2013.  —  Buried in a press release on Yammer momentum are a couple …

Qualcomm details Quick Charge 2.0 and Snapdragon Voice Activation: 75 percent faster charging, wake by speaking  —  Qualcomm didn't show all its cards for this year when it unveiled the Snapdragon 600 and 800 at CES.  The company is introducing a second-generation power charging technology …

LivingSocial raises $110 million in fresh capital  —  LivingSocial Inc. has raised a fresh $110 million from a group of current investors that will allow the daily deal giant to “build our reserves, solidify our long-term plans and execute against our vision for the future,” CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy told employees in a memo Wednesday.

Indie booksellers sue Amazon and big publishers over DRM (but have no idea what “DRM” and “open source” mean)  —  A group of independent booksellers have filed a suit against Amazon and the major publishers for their use of DRM, which, the booksellers say, freezes them out of the ebook market:

Xamarin debuts iOS and Android app development inside Visual Studio for C# programmers  —  If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad ... and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets.  And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development environment, Visual Studio.