Amazon acquiring Twitch for $970M in cash
Amazon.com to Acquire Twitch — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Twitch Interactive, Inc., the leading live video platform for gamers. In J...
Facebook will reduce “click-baiting” headlines and links shared in photo captions in News Feed
News Feed FYI: Click-baiting — Today we're announcing some improvements to News Feed to help people find the posts and links from publishers that are most interesting and relevant …
NSA providing records of 850B calls, locations, emails, and internet chats to 23 US agencies with a Google-like ICREACH search engine
The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google — The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly …
Google releases new Slides app for iOS, updates Sheets and Docs with offline and direct Office file editing
Your iPhone & iPad are ready to get to work with new apps for Docs, Sheets, & Slides — You suddenly remember you need to add “buy milk” to your grocery list, but don't have a pen or paper in sight.
Calif. governor signs smartphone ‘kill switch’ bill into law
Law requires security software to come enabled by default, but other than that, not much will change for most smartphone users. — State Sen. Mark Leno and San Francisco District Attorney George Gasc...
Intel's NUC 2.0 expected in 2015 with Broadwell and Braswell processors, support for 4K output
Intel's NUC 2.0 leaks: The next unit of Steam Machines and home theater PCs — Thanks in large part to the Raspberry Pi, mini PCs are all the rage these days.
TiVo Introduces A $50 Over-The-Air DVR For The Post-Aereo Era
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court killed the Aereo service—which used banks of tiny antennas and a cloud-based DVR to let people redirect over-the-air TV to all their Net-connected devices—by ruling tha...
EXCLUSIVE: Samsung working on circular Gear smartwatch, SIM-enabled Gear coming with Galaxy Note 4
We've known for some time that Samsung is working on various new wearables, including a Gear smartwatch with cellular connectivity and the Gear VR, a virtual reality headset.
HubSpot files for $100 million IPO
Today, HubSpot, the Cambridge-based inbound marketing company, filed the much-awaited plans for its initial public offering. — The company aims to raise $100 million through the offering to expand i...
Huawei CEO: Tizen has “no chance”, and we're putting new Windows Phone releases “on hold”
Huawei Is Shaking Up the Smartphone Market — Richard Yu, head of Chinese firm's consumer business group, talks about competing against Samsung and Apple.
VMware Partners With Docker, Pivotal And Google To Bring Container Support To Its Platform
VMware today announced that it is partnering with Docker, Google and Pivotal to bring support for Docker containers to its platform. In addition, the company said that it will work …
FireChat updated with permanent, unique usernames, preventing impersonation and confusion
Firechat's new update makes it easier for Burners to chat their friends in the WiFi-less desert — FireChat's — the group chatting application that works without cell service …
Yahoo rolls out its native ad network to other publishers, including Vox Media's SB Nation
Here Is Yahoo's Native Ad Network — Content Recommendation Box on Vox Media, CBS Interactive Sites Includes Yahoo's Ads — Yahoo's content recommendation box places its native ads on others' sites.
Mozilla is launching its first Firefox OS smartphone in India this week
Slowly but surely, Mozilla is pushing its Firefox OS mobile operating system into new markets. Although the nonprofit had already discussed its approach for India, today it announced it will be launc...
Companies like Verint monitor cellular communications, offer governments surveillance systems that track callers without carriers' knowledge
For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe — Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across …
John Siracusa's legendary - and lengthy - Apple reviews reach their 15th year
John Siracusa's legendary - and lengthy - Apple reviews reach their 15th year — Though he only writes a major story every year or two, for the last decade and a half John Siracusa has built a reputa...
Xiaomi Mi4 review: China's iPhone killer is unoriginal but amazing
A big iPhone that runs Android ends up being the best of both worlds. — Xiaomi (pronounced SHAO-mee) is a complete mystery in the West. We often hear stories about the “Apple of China” and how exis...
Amazon has been in late-stage talks to acquire video game streaming site Twitch
Amazon Nears Deal to Acquire Twitch — Amazon.com has been in late-stage talks to acquire video site Twitch, according to two people familiar with the matter, after reports that Google had virtually ...
India's Karbonn Mobiles expects to go public by 2016
(Reuters) - Karbonn Mobiles, India's third-largest smartphone maker, expects to go public by 2016 as it bets on sales of Android devices made in partnership with Google Inc. — “Frankly I've been del...
VMware plays nice with OpenStack, unveils a VMware-powered data-center-in-a-box
At this year's VMworld event, the virtualization giant plans to announce a new service that makes OpenStack more compatible with VMware tools and VMware-loaded data centers as well as a new appliance ...
T-Mobile gives ‘Simple Starter’ customers 2 GB of data for $45/month
T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) is quadrupling the amount of data customers on its low-cost “Simple Starter” plans can get per month to 2 GB for $45, just $5 more than the existing plan, which offers 500 MB o...