A small town in Tennessee has the big cable companies terrified

The small, southern city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, boasts Internet speeds up to a whopping gigabit per second, thanks to a local municipal fiber internet network. Continue reading →

eBay’s workforce is almost gender-equal, but women trail in tech and leadership roles

eBay posted diversity numbers today that are, overall, marginally better than its Silicon Valley peers. Continue reading →

Max Levchin’s Affirm speeds online checkouts, has a hunger for data

Levchin said that at the core of Affirm is the idea that there’s a world of data that’s not being used to estimate lending risk. Continue reading →

Snowden faces uncertain future as Russian visa expires

Snowden said he reached out through back channels to U.S. officials about the possibility of returning to the States if he was guaranteed a fair trial. Continue reading →

Facebook faces class action privacy suit in Austria, with most of the world invited to join in

Facebook nemesis Max Schrems is fed up with what he sees as the ineffectiveness of the Irish data protection regulator, so he’s launched a mega-suit in his home country of Austria. Sore points include PRISM, Graph Search and general non-compliance with EU privacy law. Continue reading →

Spaceflight to launch network for communicating with tiny satellites

It’s expensive and difficult to communicate with satellites, especially if an organization is only launching one or two. Spaceflight will allow paying customers to reach their spacecraft wherever they are above Earth. Continue reading →

Do we really need more sites for up-voting viral content? The Independent seems to think so

You might think the market for viral clickbait sites is already saturated, but The Independent newspaper in Britain has launched its own version anyway, called i100 — complete with celebrity gossip, cat photos and large, red “upvote” buttons. Continue reading →

The new Foursquare is all about expertise instead of badges

It’s no secret that the new Foursquare app has eliminated check-ins. But the company still needs users to leave reviews at local joints without getting that pat-on-the-back from badges. Enter: Expertise. People will earn “expertise,” and when they write tips that … Continue reading →

Tesla’s second-quarter earnings: the numbers you should know

Here’s the numbers you should know from the Tesla 2nd quarter earnings report. Continue reading →