All Things D

This is the last day of the All Things Digital site, which began life in April of 2007 as a year-round extension of the D conference we launched in 2003.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

If you’re willing to give a startup access to your financial transactions, there might be some nice side benefits for you and possibly your community.
SaveUp and Mogl are two companies that have figured out formulas for rewards that are byproducts of normal activity.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A feud between Apple Inc. and a lawyer appointed by a federal court judge to monitor the company’s e-book pricing reform became even more acrimonious Monday.
Michael Bromwich, the lawyer picked as Apple’s monitor, said in court documents filed Monday that Apple’s characterization of his team’s activities as a “roving investigation” in fact “bear no relation whatsoever to the activities we have attempted to conduct.”

Over the weekend we learned a lot about the National Security Agency’s Access Network Technology, or ANT, division, that, in the words of Der Spiegel, the German news magazine that first disclosed it based on leaked documents from Edward Snowden, can break pretty much any lock on any computing or network hardware you can think of.

Acer Inc. said Monday that three senior executives had recently left the company and some of them won’t be replaced as the embattled personal-computer maker tries to keep costs low.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

While cellphone networks have managed to cover large swaths of the six most-populated continents, making a call from Antarctica isn’t so easy.

It’s the end of the year, and that means a plethora of stories and lists with a lot of hyperbolic words like “hottest” or “greatest” in the headline rendering some kind of judgment on the prior 12 months.

Another small stumble for BlackBerry. The company has pulled the latest update to its Twitter app for BlackBerry 10 following user complaints.

Another nugget of data from Apple’s latest shareholder proxy: CEO Tim Cook took home a compensation package valued at $4.25 million this year, little changed from the year prior.