A Year in Search: the moments that defined 2014
Every year, we reflect on the moments that made us laugh, smile from ear to ear, or stay gripped to our screens in our annual Year in Search. In 2014, we were struck by the death of a beloved comedia...
Apple Pay now supports 90% of US credit cards in terms of purchase volume
Dozens More Companies Sign Up for Apple Pay — The list of companies working with Apple Pay continues to grow. — On Tuesday, Apple announced that in recent weeks the company had signed up dozens mo...
Samsung in talks with mobile payments startup LoopPay to launch Apple Pay rival in 2015
Samsung in Talks to Launch Apple Pay Competitor — Samsung has discussed a deal with a payments startup that would help the smartphone maker unveil a wireless mobile payments system in 2015 to rival ...
Comcast Will Finally Let Roku Owners Stream HBO, Showtime
Many people who own Roku Web video boxes can use the devices to watch shows from HBO and Showtime. But not Comcast subscribers: A dispute between Roku and America's biggest pay-TV provider has kept t...
Uncarrier 8: T-Mobile lets you store, roll over your data
Summary:The fourth largest cellular giant in the U.S. will now let you “stash” your data, allowing you to store unused data in following months. — T-Mobile launched its eighth round of jabs to its c...
HBO GO is now available on Amazon Fire TV, support for Fire TV Stick coming in spring
HBO GO Now Available on Amazon Fire TV — HBO GO joins a growing list of services that support Amazon Fire TV voice search — customers simply say the name of a movie or TV show to find it on Amazon …
Uber responds to Sen. Al Franken, says it accessed reporters' account because she was late, scales back access to God View; senator still dissatisfied
Uber Said It Accessed BuzzFeed News Reporter's Information Because She Was “Late” — The company, responding to Sen. Al Franken …
Microsoft's ‘Arcadia’ team is building a streaming app and game service
Summary:Microsoft's Operating Systems Group is staffing up a new team that is building an app and game streaming service for the company's ‘core platforms.’ — As Microsoft officials themselves have ...
Microsoft removes waitlist for its Office presentation app Sway, adds slew of new features to the preview
Microsoft today expanded the preview for its content aggregation and presentation application Sway. The waitlist has been axed, meaning anyone with a Microsoft Account can sign up to start creating S...
Russian malware SoakSoak infects 100k+ self-hosted WordPress sites, uses known vulnerability in RevSlider plug-in
Report: Mysterious Russian Malware Is Infecting 100,000+ Wordpress Sites — A Russian malware called SoakSoak has infected over 100,000 Wordpress sites since this Sunday, turning blogs into attack pl...
Xiaomi India import ban lifted until January 8th for smartphones with Qualcomm chipsets
Xiaomi Permitted to Import and Sell Qualcomm-Based Handsets in India — The Delhi High Court on Tuesday has permitted Xiaomi to sell and import Qualcomm chipset-based handsets until January 8 as a te...
Google Ventures invested 36% in healthcare & life sciences startups this year, up from 9% last year; consumer internet down from 66% last year to 8% in 2014
Google Ventures Shifts Focus to Healthcare — Google 's venture-capital arm is moving strongly into healthcare and life-sciences startups …
Microsoft to open source Project Orleans, the cloud framework behind Halo by early 2015
Microsoft open sources cloud framework that powers Halo — Microsoft is continuing its open-source push, this time announcing that it will open source its Project Orleans cloud computing web framewor...
Automation is not only replacing manufacturing jobs, it is displacing knowledge and service workers too
As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep Up — A machine that administers sedatives recently began treating patients at a Seattle hospital. Tweets: @ict4djester and @mathewi Tweets: ...
Google Wallet iOS app now supports Touch ID and lets you split the bill between friends
Apple Pay may be leaving Google Wallet in the dust when it comes to adoption, but Google hasn't given up yet. It's just updated its iOS app to support Touch ID, add optimization for the iPhone 6/Plus...
Apple, Amazon, other tech giants, trade groups, and academics support Microsoft in its case against US Government on overseas search warrants
Business, Media and Civil Society Speak Up in Key Privacy Case — Today represents an important milestone in our litigation concerning …
‘Opera Coast’ Browser for iOS Gains Discover Feature, Turbo Data Compression [iOS Blog]
The Opera Coast webkit-based browser for iOS was today updated to version 4.0, adding Opera Software's Turbo data compression technology to make browsing websites on the iPhone and iPad much faster on...
LA's Upfront Ventures raises $280M for its fifth fund
Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund — Whew! — We've been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the s...
HBO Go not available on Fire TV for Comcast and Charter customers
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Evan Williams: Medium's key advertising sales metric is not page views, but time spent on page
Evan Williams: On billionaire-backed journalism, Shanley Kane, and the problem with vanity ad metrics — Many people use the newish blogging site Medium each day, but almost as many of them are confu...
Netflix updates its Android app with social sharing features, Android Wear integration
Streaming video service Netflix is showing some love for subscribers using the company's Android app with a new social-focused updated released today. — The Netflix Android app update adds a set …
Dots Spins Out Of Betaworks With $10M Series A From Tencent, GreyCroft
Dots, the mobile gaming studio responsible for two dead-simple but beautiful games, is today announcing the close of a $10 million round, as well as the official spinout of Dots as its own company, se...
Flying smartphones, or personal drones with smartphone capabilities, to rise in popularity over the next ten years
The Dawn of the Flying Smartphone — Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, journalist, and author of the novel The Transhumanist Wager. He writes an occasional column for Motherboard … Tweets: @motherboard T...
Clever Gets $30 Million From Lightspeed To Become The Login Layer For Education Apps
It's not often you hear about companies actually disrupting the education market. Conventional wisdom seems to be that due to the bureaucratic nature of the industry, it's nearly impossible to get wi...
Bose May Be Working on Streaming Music Service
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Kik Introduces Hashtags To Bring Mini Social Networks To Its Messaging Service
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Jury begins deliberations in billion-dollar Apple iTunes trial
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Networking company Riverbed Technology to be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $3.6B after activist investor struggle
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Microsoft's Gestures Beta app brings ‘enhanced’ gestures to Lumia Windows Phone devices
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DRM restrictions and copyright laws make e-books less accessible to the visually impaired
E-Book Legal Restrictions Are Screwing Over Blind People — In late 2012, a 14-year-old high school student stood in front of a camera and began to read. Chris Nusbaum's voice was calm and steady.
Apple e-book case enters appeals court; some judges seem sympathetic, citing Amazon dominance
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Google faces up to €15M fine over privacy violations in Holland
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Sony unlikely to prevail in court if it sues media organizations for publishing stolen data
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Pirate Bay admin talks about the raid, copycats, says he's not sure site will be relaunched
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Warner Music's CEO advocates for paid services as streaming revenue rises 74% in last 12 months while download sales dropped by 12%
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Western Digital's enterprise arm HGST to acquire flash array provider Skyera in all cash deal
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Yelp Introduces New App For Business Owners With Push Notifications
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Google is talking to retailers about 1-click “Buy Now” button and an Amazon Prime-like free 2 day shipping program
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Foursquare launches on iPad with emphasis on trip planning
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Google integrates Nest with its iOS and Android apps, enables voice commands, Now cards
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Amazon's Kindle for iOS app updated w/ Goodreads integration, Audible progressive play, more
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.