The Bezos ecommerce behemoth and the Schmidt-Brin-Page juggernaut seem to be on a permanent collision course. But could they, one day, become one?  
Google is set to move operations to King’s Cross – with Amazon hot on their heels from Slough into London.

The NBA season is set to tip off on October 28th and Beats is ready to celebrate with a new epic ad all about King James’ return to Cleveland.

Samsung has released a new version of its Chromebook 2,  but instead of an Exynos processor used in the existing models, the new Chromebook is equipped with an Intel Celeron processor. The new Chromebook 2 features an 11.6-inch FWXGA display, a 2.58GHz Intel Celeron N2840 Bay-Trail processor, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage space. The device features faux leather finish on its back, similar to that of the Galaxy Note 4. There are a couple of USB (3.0 and 2.0) ports and nine hours of battery life under typical usage stress.

As part of the elective course ‘Graphic Language of Products’ a design for a Ferrari bike has been designed. First an analysis on different levels of the Ferrari brand has been made. We have distinguished the difference between graphics (2D), such as the logo, striping and Italian flag; form and shape elements (3D); and everything in-between (2,5D). By dissecting the brand, we’ve incorporated the brand’s most remarkable design features and translated the Ferrari brand values into a new design and averted the bike from becoming another piece of uninspiring red Ferrari merchandise.

Fresh off the hackathon dungeon, Laplock is a nifty little app developed at our TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in London. Martin Saint-Macary and Ivan Maeder worked tirelessly for the past 24 hours to build an easy-to-use software lock for your Mac. Here’s how it works.

If Skype was invented today, what would it look like? This morning, a small team within Skype is attempting to answer that question with the launch of a new video messaging application called Skype Qik, which reimagines how the Skype experience would work if Skype had been built for mobile first.

Following the bell, Intel reported its third quarter financial performance, including revenue of $14.55 billion and earnings per share of $0.66. Analysts and the street had expected that Intel would earn $0.65 per share on total top line of $14.45 billion.

 It has been a tradition at TechCrunch to dedicate an entire week (or, in this case, a truncated week) to bags. Big bags. Small bags. Little bags. Tall bags. All bags, (almost) all the time. With that in mind, we present to you Bag Week 2014, our annual celebration of things that hold things.

Last year, tens of thousands of hackers signed up to receive Hack Design, a newsletter teaching the principles of design so that those used to focusing on how things work behind the scenes could start at a point that also considers aesthetics and user-friendliness.

London-based HighQ is opening a new data center in Australia, growing its bid to provide locally supported enterprise collaboration and file-sharing products. The company has quickly expanding revenues, and a key offering: If you use HighQ, the U.S. government will likely have a harder time than usual getting its hands on your data than if you use a U.S.-based provider.

This is the closest we’ve come to robotic arms and hands that function and feel like the real thing. Two new neuroprosthetic developments, published as a pair of studies in Science Translational Medicine this week, use implanted electrodes to help mimic the control, freedom of movement, and sense of touch that many of us might take for granted. One development restored the ability to discern familiar sensations, and the other recreated reliable motor control—both have been subjected to long-term, real-world use by amputees.

In what amounts to a wake up call directed at a British public generally considered apathetic on privacy issues, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that U.K. spy agencies are using digital technology to conduct mass population surveillance without any checks and balances at all — overreaching and encroaching on privacy rights in a way that he characterized as even worse than the U.S. National Security Agency’s inroads into citizens’ rights.

What a difference a month makes.
In September, it appeared certain that incumbent president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, would struggle in a second round run-off vote with Marina Silva, a petite firebrand and one of the former stars of Dilma’s Workers’ Party.  While this election is likely to go to a second round run-off, and possibly pitting Marina vs Dilma in an ex-Workers’ Party vs Workers’ Party bid for the presidency, Dilma has some power in her corner now.

Rapper Wiz Khalifa performs on stage at the wrap party during AWXI at Webster Hall on October 2, 2014 in New York City.

In several days, the streets of Philly will be roaring with some of the top performers at the Under 30 music festival. Top hip-hop artist Wiz Khalifa, renowned DJ Afrojack, indie rocker LP and Philadelphia’s own OCD: Moosh and Twist will take over the Piazza at Schmidt’s on Sunday, Oct. 19 for a concert that will kick off the first -ever Forbes Under 30 Summit.

Clients who are billionaires— whose bank accounts have crazy levels of zeroes— come to me for help. “It’s like h***,” one said.  “Despite all of my success, I cannot walk into a banker meeting right now. They’ll Google GOOGL -2.67% me and see [insert here].”

Today, I am going to tell you how to earn money online through AVG. I am not talking about AVG Antivirus ; it’s an affiliate program that pays you to sell online. AVG stands for Affiliate Venture Group. Actually, AVG has several sponsors with them. And if you sell their product through your referral, you would be paid commissions as per item sold. The commission usually ranges from $1-$50 even per lead. But for some products, it rises to even $70 too. I have joined AVG recently and so advice you to give it a try atleast. Isn’t it interesting?

Marketers have long been challenged to reach consumers near the point of purchase decision, particularly when those decisions are made impulsively like quick-service restaurants and certain other bricks and mortar retailers.  In fact, QSRs long fought to have presence within a 3-mile radius of their stores, often limited to reaching prospects in their cars with billboards and local radio.  With technology, media channels have proliferated dramatically but the ability to target a message to a very specific geographic region has lagged other advancements.

Mak Money with Hostgator Affiliates program

If there is one thing I still love about the internet among other things, is the ability to pull cash in always.
Making money online is pretty easy when you know your way through and even easier when you have people around to help you get it right.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has purchased two massive, adjacent chunks of land on Kauai’s North Shore in an effort to create a secluded 700-acre sanctuary for his family, sources have confirmed to Forbes. All told, the 30-year-old billionaire has spent in excess of $100 million to acquire the land, and he hasn’t even built a house yet.

Card issuers need to prevent fraud, but customers suffer an abundance of caution

Last week a man was arrested in Fort Lauderdale, FL when his two credit cards were declined after he spent $600 on bottle service at a nightclub.