Facebook to show AMBER alerts in News Feed to users in targeted search areas to help find missing children
Introducing AMBER Alerts on Facebook — Today, we are announcing a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to send AMBER Alerts to the Facebook community to help find ...
British Prime Minister wants to ban encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and iMessage if security agencies can't access them
British Prime Minister Suggests Banning Some Online Messaging Apps — LONDON — Popular messaging services like Snapchat and WhatsApp are in the cross hairs in Britain.
Apple Maintains Mac Sales Momentum in Holiday Quarter
Apple saw an increase in its U.S. PC shipments during the recent holiday quarter, according to PC shipping estimates from Gartner. Apple shipped over 2.1 million Macs in 4Q14, up from 1.9 million Mac...
Uber gives the city of Boston anonymized trip data to enable smarter city planning, ease traffic congestion; more cities to follow
Uber Offers Trip Data to Cities, Starting With Boston — For the first time, Uber is giving government officials a look inside its rich trove of transportation data.
Neil Young's PonoPlayer promises high-res audio, but with no discernible sound improvement and massive file sizes, it's not worth the $400 price tag
Don't Buy What Neil Young Is Selling — Neil Young's “high resolution” PonoPlayer goes on sale for $400 today. You shouldn't buy it.
8chan domain “seized” over allegations of “child abuse” content
Happened shortly after users doxxed those who'd filed complaints to 8chan's host. — Last week, the imageboard site 8chan.co was brought offline for a sustained period of over five days due to a prol...
App Annie Raises $55 Million Series D, Launches New Product For Tracking App Usage
App Annie, a company whose data on app downloads, rankings, app store trends and more has made it a go-to resource for anyone invested in today's app economy, today announced a new $55 million round o...
Media Streaming App Allcast Is Finally Available For iOS Devices
Impressive mobile streaming service Allcast has been an Android-only affair for some time, much to the delight of those that use the Google mobile platform, but at last it has finally made its way to ...
NoSQL Pioneer Basho Scores $25M To Attempt A Comeback
Basho was once a rising star in the NoSQL space, but over time other vendors began to move in, and it lost a step or two — then came a big turnover of key personnel last year. With the company ready ...
Apple adds Games for Kids sub-section to App Store in ‘5 and under’, '6-8′ and '9-11′ groupings
vetted for privacy Killian Bell / TechnoBuffalo : Apple's App Store Gets New ‘Games for Kids’ Section Nate Swanner / SlashGear : App Store now has sub-section just for kids' games Steven Sande / TUAW ...
EMC to Add 2 Directors in Temporary Truce With Elliott Management
for now Joseph F. Kovar / CRN : EMC, Elliott Management Sign Truce, But VMware, Federation Questions Remain Callum BorchersGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com : EMC works with activist investor, picks 2 new board...
Majority of shuttle drivers for Apple, eBay, Yahoo, and Zynga want to join Teamsters union
More tech shuttle drivers want union — The move to unionize Silicon Valley shuttle bus drivers is spreading. — The Teamsters have contacted the CEOs of six Silicon Valley-area companies …
Huawei Revenue Increases 20% on Sales of Higher-End Smartphones
Huawei Technologies Co.'s revenue gained about 20 percent last year, aided by rising sales of higher-end smartphones. — Revenue increased to at least 287 billion yuan ($46.3 billion) from 239 billio...
Venture funds raised $29.8B in 2014, a 69% increase over 2013 and highest amount since 2007
Venture funds raise $29.8 billion as tech draws eager investors — Venture capital firms are the wealthiest they've been in seven years, as investors from all ends of the globe are eagerly writing …
CNN reaches agreement with FAA to test multiple professional-grade drones for newsgathering
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Top AI experts sign open letter calling for research that maximizes its societal benefit
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Trial begins Tuesday for alleged creator of Silk Road; judge rules prosecutors can introduce evidence of murder plots by Ulbricht
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Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso hands over CEO Role to Sheree Waterson as it focuses on expansion to more physical stores
Latest iOS 8.2 iPhone beta adds Apple Watch Bluetooth support, confirms app
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Teradata Buys App Marketing Platform Appoxee For $20-25M, Sets Up Israeli R&D Center
Teradata, the publicly-traded analytics company, has made another acquisition to beef up its operations in mobile: the company has acquired Appoxee, an Israeli push-messaging startup aimed at publishe...
Google launches Chrome Remote Desktop for iOS
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AMD's Graphics, Marketing, Strategy Execs All Depart
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Tinder acquires Chill, the creators of ephemeral messenger app Tappy, as part of a strategic acquihire; Tappy to shut down
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Sources: Twitter in talks to buy Yo-like startup ZipDial for $30M-$40M, in effort to enter Indian market
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New MDK for Project Ara released ahead of second developer conference
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Augmedix raises $16M Series A for its Google Glass powered health records management solution
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IBM Wins Most Patents — Again — but Google and Apple Climb in Rankings
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Alibaba in talks to buy 30 to 40% stake in One97 Communications, owners of a popular Indian mobile commerce and payments platform Paytm, for $550M
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