Amazon Fire TV Teardown  —  Rainy weather got you down?  Stuck inside sitting on the couch eating popcorn?  What better to do whilst eating popcorn than...watch TV.  While on Fire.  Amazon Fire TV.™ Yesterday, Amazon announced a tiny black box that supposedly does everything better than all of the other tiny black boxes.

Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing?  More Competition And Limited Attention  —  Every Page on Facebook wants everything they post shown to everyone.  But people only read a limited amount of News Feed per day.  There simply isn't room for everything, and the competition for feed space is intensifying.

On The 20th Anniversary - An Oral History of Netscape's Founding  —  It Was 20 Years Ago Today...  On April 4th, 1994, Mosaic Communications Corporation was officially incorporated as a going concern.  If you don't recognize the name, that's because the company would eventually change …

“Cuban Twitter” heads to hearings in Congress  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. government agency that secretly created a “Cuban Twitter” communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba is expected to testify next week before a senator who thinks the whole idea was “dumb, dumb, dumb.”

Samsung claims breakthrough in commercializing graphene, of potential use in flexible displays  —  Samsung Claims Progress on the Next Wonder Material  —  A group of researchers supported by Samsung Electronics said Friday that they've developed a technique for synthesizing graphene …

Facebook open sources code for managing A/B tests  —  A/B tests to determine which features or designs work best is a standard tool of the trade for any data scientist working on a web or mobile application.  On Thursday, Facebook released a portion of its A/B testing code, called PlanOut …

T-Mobile CEO Fires Back After Losing BlackBerry Sales Arrangement  —  BlackBerry and T-Mobile executives should read Jordan's #love column.  Breaking up over the Internet is rough on everyone.  —  In a letter released this evening, T-Mobile's outspoken CEO John Legere talked …

Samsung's Ativ SE Windows Phone now available for pre-order from Verizon  —  Ships April 12th without Windows Phone 8.1 update  —  After multiple leaks, the Samsung Ativ SE is now official.  As expected, the device arrives with Windows Phone 8, a 5-inch 1080p display, a 13-megapixel camera …

Car-pricing comparison service TrueCar files to raise up to $125M in IPO  —  Car-comparison website TrueCar files for IPO  —  (Reuters) - TrueCar Inc, which runs a car-pricing comparison website, filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise up to $125 million in an initial public offering of common stock.

Founders under 35 are likely the majority among those who built billion-dollar businesses  —  How Old Are Silicon Valley's Top Founders?  Here's the Data  —  Last week, The New Republic published a lengthy exploration of ageism in Silicon Valley, the idea that venture capitalists discriminate …

Brendan Eich on leaving Mozilla, taking a break and what's next  —  The Next Mission  —  Slides for the brief talk that I gave at a Harvard seminar on privacy and user data organized by John Taysom last week.  —  My talk was really more about the “network problem” than the “protocol problem”.

Kingsoft Subsidiary Cheetah Mobile Files for IPO on the NYSE to Raise $300 million  —  Kingsoft Corporation (SEHK: 3888) announced two months ago that it would spin off a business unit for Internet security and other services and list its shares in the U.S. The spinoff has filed …

GrubHub raises $193M from IPO, shares up 54% in early trading valuing company at more than $3B  —  GrubHub Shares Surge in Early Trading  —  Offering Is Latest Sign of Healthy Appetite for Fast-Growing Internet Stocks  —  Shares of restaurant take-out website GrubHub Inc. rose sharply …

Turkish court rules YouTube ban violates human rights, limits restrictions to 15 videos  —  Turkey court eases YouTube restrictions  —  Court limits restrictions to 15 videos after ruling that blanket ban on social-media site violated human rights.  —  A Turkish court has ruled …

Slysoft DVD Ripper owner fined $30K in criminal action by Antigua & Barbuda court  —  Slysoft DVD Ripper Owner Found Guilty in Criminal Action  —  If one existed, Antigua would hardly head up a list of countries sympathetic to copyright claims originating from the United States.

Confirmed: Sprint to pay up to $650 in ETFs for Framily subscribers, matches T-Mobile offer exactly  —  Sprint (NYSE:S) today launched a new promotion where it will pay up to $650 to subscribers who switch from another carrier to one of Sprint's new Framily family calling plans.

Google pays $1.4 million fine in Italy over StreetView concerns  —  (Reuters) - Google has paid a 1 million euro ($1.4 million) fine imposed by Italy's data protection watchdog over complaints that cars it used to record images on Italian streets in 2010 were not clearly recognizable, the regulator said on Thursday.